Every family has their own Thanksgiving traditions. In the Milano household, it's seeing what will be sculpted out of mashed potatoes.
Greg Milano, 30, has been making mashed potato sculptures at Thanksgiving for 10 or 15 years. With a background in art and architectural history, he likes to challenge himself with topical ideas for the annual tradition.
This year was no different. When his family gathered at his mom's house in Connecticut, Milano got to work turning potato into Elon Musk's odd-looking Cybertruck.
Truly uncanny.
For reference, here's the real thing.
He even added a corn kernel as the ball bearing that was smashed into the truck's windows at its demo.
The windows have been mashed, by popular request.
"In years past I’ve done things that are timely and in the news," Milano told BuzzFeed News. "I’m a lover of technology, and that was obviously a huge thing in the news lately."
Milano's brother, Dan, tweeted the whole process, which picked up thousands of likes on Twitter.
We filled the back with gravy
Milano said this all started when he was a teenager, and with much simpler ideas.
"It started like any other teenager with a volcano and morphed into a pyramid and a couple of other things over the years," he said. "It kind of just became a tradition."
He said he usually started sculpting as everyone sits down to eat, and it takes him up to two hours to get everything just right.
Some have certainly been more complex than others; last year, he recreated the Guggenheim.
In 2016, he made the White House in honor of the election.
Another year, it was the Pantheon.
Once he remade Stonehenge.
Some of his favorites are the simpler designs, like this Lego head.
His most famous creation to date was when he made a Hostess Twinkie and CupCake in 2012.
Milano said he's under a bit of pressure every year; both his family and people who know him on social media are excited to see what he'll make next.
"One or two years I didn’t post it, and people got upset," he said.
As for the sculptures themselves, Milano usually ends the tradition in the only way that makes sense — by dousing them in gravy and chowing down.