funny thing, my family has since before I was born had the same menu for all major holidays with very minor changes here and there... I can tell you with 99% certainty what we had any year for Christmas, new years, thanks giving or Easter. However we still have a month long (already started) discussion every year AS IF we were going to change things...I want to type something about the difference between revision and re-envisioning.
In one sense Thanksgiving dinner is meat and starch. More specifically though is it Turkey w/maybe ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing/dressing, sweet potatoes, and maybe mac and cheese? Deep frying the Turkey instead of baking and having pork roast instead of ham for the second seems like a revision. Is Chicken w/maybe venison and baked potatoes, rice, au gratin potatoes, and maybe spaghetti still just a revision because it's a poultry w/maybe non-beef-meat a potato, another starch, another kind of potato, and a noodle dish- or has it re-envisioning or something new. Going for steak and baked potato feels like a totally different game.
(I have no idea why I'm capitalizing poultry types; the ham and mac and cheese aren't at our table, but I've been in the south for a while and it would feel odd to leave them off the list).
My fiancé made the mistake of early in our relationship suggesting real change... a change I might add 3/4 of us would prefer. She wont make that mistake again...