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Things that might be on a TurkeyDay table that I’d rather not see:

Cranberry sauce1 – what can I say, I’ve never liked the stuff. In my family it was always the canned gel kind, with the can indents still on the… congealed red… stuff. Honestly, I don’t know if I’ve ever tried the “real” kind – and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything. :D

Peas – I. Hate. Peas. I’ve tried them a number of occasions, and I just Do Not Like them. Bleh.

Yams w/ marshmallows – ugh. Just, ugh.

Now.

I don’t care what anybody says, I love green bean casserole made with cream of mushroom soup and French’s fried onions.

So there.

1 sqlrob likes that kind of cranberry sauce, so we do have it for Tday. It’s alllll his though. :D

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7 Comments

  1. I absolutely hate peas also. They creep me out a bit…

  2. I had the same cranberry sauce experience growing up as you did: circular slices, cuts guided by the can grooves. Yecchh. Some time back in the 70s, however, a friend gave Mrs. Merk a recipe for a homemade version, with bits of orange, and walnut, and a smidgeon of Southern Comfort- there’s a world of difference.
    I don’t know who got the idea to put marshmallows on yams. What a stupid idea! I’d dismiss it as “1950’s dreck” but that epithet would probably besmirch the green bean/ French fried onion casserole, which I came to late in life but have learned to love.
    Peas? What can I say? I kind of like them. I’ll eat your peas and you can have my lima beans. Yiccch-o!
    However, as far as “thoroughly disgusting traditional foods,” nothing will top the turnip that my mother baked and mashed once a year. (Thank God that was all.) Bitter and virtually inedible on the plate, the cooking process stunk up the house like a backed-up sewer. I’ve heard that in Europe, turnips are not considered fit for the table, but are fed instead to cows and pigs. Those Europeans have the right idea.

  3. Your description of cranberry sauce from a tin had me howling with laughter and crazily nodding my head in utter sympathy. Indented red stuff, indeed! x

  4. I LOOOOOOOVE cranberry sauce… so much so that I serve three kinds: canned jellied, canned whole berry, and homemade. Sadly, overgrown 7-year-old that I am, I prefer the jellied kind with the can marks. :)

  5. The canned jelled cranberry sauce is not the same thing as the homemade kind. My mother used to buy the canned stuff until she got a recipe using real cranberries and orange marmalade. Now, that cranberry sauce is to die for and gave me new appreciation for cranberries period.
    Personally, I am not a “bean” person. I love green beans, but regular beans are not my thing unless they are black beans or frijoles/charra bean soup. Not even red beans and rice encourage me to eat.

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