What time does your family eat dinner on Thanksgiving?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Usually about 2pm. And this is the norm for nearly all of my friends and neighbors, which makes me wonder if there is a regional variation to when Thanksgiving dinner is consumed.

(The fact that it's called "dinner" to begin with always seemed weird to me for this reason since I've never observed it being eaten in the evening anywhere other than in Thanksgiving TV sitcom specials.)

For me "dinner" is the big meal of the day, whether it is served at lunch time or supper time.

Our family typically aims for 1pm with the understanding that a turkey that takes longer or shorter than expected to cook will alter the start time.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This Thanksgiving for lunch nonsense is not something I am at all okay with.

The only reason to have it around 1 ish, is there's another opportunity to feast around 6 or 7......ala, Our Dear Friend's family.  Once is plenty, yeah.

The reason to have it 1ish is so that people who had to drive an hour or three to get there can get back home the same day.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

We have officially set 12:30 PM as our dinner time on Thursday.  The turkey will go in the oven around 8:30 am.

That's got to be a rather small turkey.  Even then, you're either not stuffing the bird or giving it time to rest properly before serving.  Oh wait, you said you were doing Stove Top (snicker).