Rachel Platten Has An Odd Thanksgiving Tradition

What's a girl to do if she's Jewish and doesn't celebrate Christmas, but loves Christmas music?  Well, she could listen to that music during a holiday other than Christmas -- like Thanksgiving, for example.  At least, that's what Rachel Platten says she and her family does.

She told ABC Radio:

"Every Thanksgiving my family and I...we're Jewish, but we put on Christmas songs. The whole thing is wrong!...[W]e don't celebrate Christmas, so during Hanukkah, we feel wrong about doing that.  But we love Christmas songs, so we put [them on during Thanksgiving] and we dance around the kitchen."

As for the food, Rachel says, "I make only one thing.  It's the only thing I can't ruin: sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top.  And then I basically play piano the rest of the time and my dad gets annoyed."

Asked to reveal her secret recipe for the sweet potatoes, Rachel 'fesses up: "It's so easy and bad! I always promote healthy living, but OK, I'm just gonna go and tell the truth. It's canned yams – Oh my God, don't kill me! And then it's like orange juice, maple syrup and marshmallows. It's really easy. I think a four-year-old could do it."



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