What is it about the contents of a "typical" Thanksgiving dinner (with all the trimmings) that makes you want to lie down on the couch and sleep through your favorite college football game?

No matter how much or how little of the turkey and dressing I eat, my “next stop” after pushing myself away from the dinner table, is either my bed or the living room couch (regardless whose home I am in), where I pass out (for “the duration”) and the next thing I hear is someone waking me with, “It’s Friday night! We need to go home now!”

If I could just “narrow down” what it is that is causing me to get sleepy, I just might avoid it, next time, and if anyone tells me it is the turkey itself, I am going to leap out of my ground-floor window!