Over on the Daily Weekly, they’ve got a list going: “50 Reasons We’re Thankful to Live In Seattle”. It’s a good list, done in the spirit of Thanksgiving, and is very inclusive–containing everything from comments on the terrain (10. You can go from breakfasting in Georgetown to snowboarding on a mountainside in less than 90 minutes) and the music scene (12. Clubs, labels, talent, and rabid music geeks: We’re like a self-sustaining, vertically-integrated, indie-rock paradise) to the weather (1. The inability to handle even a dusting of snow is charming and quirky. Really), the weather (19. Gray weather makes for better naps) and the weather (14. August. Most years).A few loving reminders about Seattle’s food and restaurants even made the cut, including…4. Our waterfront doesn’t just have tony Waterfront restaurants, but actual longshoremen.6. Our beer-belly mayor wants to keep bars open all night. (Gag on that, SF!)11. The biggest tourist attraction in town is a salt-of-the-earth market that locals love too. (And we saved it from New York developers in the 70s! OK, maybe you moved here three decades later, but give yourself a pat on the back anyway–you’d have done the same.)15. You can stumble around the ID drunk and blindfolded, and still be guaranteed to crash through the doors of a first-rate restaurant with cut-rate prices.16. Oh, him? He’s only the best bartender in America.23. An army of fanatical, indie entrepreneurs who could be succeeding at pretty much anything in life are focused on one singular goal: providing you a better cup of coffee.32. To live in a city this hip and be able to get a killer snitter at 45-year-old Nielsen’s Pastries? 37. Grabbing a handful of insanely fresh cheese curds at Beecher’s.43. You can wear a ballcap and sweats to the nicest steakhouse downtown, and no one will look askance.45. Recession be damned; amazing restaurants just keep opening. (How is this possible?)48. A meatball sammy at Salumi. Thanks Armandino.Okay, now that I look at it, that’s actually a lot of loving reminders. But still, I think we can do better. Like what about drinking beers at the Athenian while looking out across the Sound? Or a stand-up lunch at Skillet? The International District alone is reason enough to love this place, and the fact that you can walk to it from the waterfront? That’s just gravy.There’s the fact that it takes no effort at all to eat sustainably here (only to yell at those who don’t), that Seattle produces so much of the food that people all across the country are clamoring for (talking to you Fran’s Chocolates, Beecher’s, Salumi, and all the rest), that you can’t chuck a crab in any direction without it landing in the pot of some cook or chef who really knows what to do with it and that, after nearly a year of eating my way though this city, I am still surprised almost every day by something–a restaurant, a food, an entire micro-neighborhood that I’ve never seen before.So what else is there? What is it about eating in Seattle that makes you folks thankful to have been born here or to have washed up on these strange and windswept shores? I know that a lot of you out there are real champions of this city’s restaurant scene, so tell me what it is that you love about this place more than any other.All answers in the comments section below. Let’s see how many we can gather before things go dark for the actual Thanksgiving holiday.