s/o: Popular Thanksgiving foods you cannot stand

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand cranberry sauce from a can. I always make it fresh and it takes 5 minutes max. How hard is it?
I also hate casseroles and prefer sauteed veggies.

I love love love cranberry sauce from a can. It's got to be opened on both ends so that it slides out in a red log and then sliced into perfect discs. Yummy on leftover sandwiches! I am a serious foodie and excellent cook. But there is something so nostalgic about the stuff that just transports me back to the Thanksgivings of my childhood in a special way. I can't walk past the supermarket shelves without grabbing a can.

Totally love cranberry from a can too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cherry coke ham? Dear gods. Ick.

I dislike sweet potatoes with marshmallows and such, but pumpkin pie? Try making it without nasty condensed or evaporated milk, in a real butter crust, with real pumpkin that you roast and then purée. So much better!

america's test kitchen and most chefs do not recommend using real pumpkin due to the inconsistencies in size and texture.

[Anonymous]

We always put the stuffing in the turkey, and bake some separately too. Health hazard be damned...I also make salad dressing with raw eggs and eat bloody burgers.

[Anonymous]

Another one who grew up with creamed onions on the table and can't stand them! Actually, no one ever ate them. I once asked my mom about them and she said she and my aunt had grown up with them on the Thanksgving table. They were from Philly.

BTW - my mom never actually cooked them, she bought a box of frozen creamed onions. Matter of fact, most of the meal was convience food: boxed mashed potatoes, frozen green beans, boxed stuffing, packaged gravy, canned cranberry, store bought rolls. I cut her some slack though as she was cooking for 20 and no one but my aunt ever helped in the kitchen cooking.

[Anonymous]

Green bean casserole. Tried it for the first time at a friend's house a couple of years ago and it was a gross mush.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:green bean casserole with the funions on top. Gross!!

+1000

Also can't stand sweet potatoes of any kind.

+10000 Same thing. Oh, and pumpkin pie as well.
I do make cranberry jam (cranberries, orange juice and sugar - boil 5 mins - done)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry coke ham? Dear gods. Ick.

I dislike sweet potatoes with marshmallows and such, but pumpkin pie? Try making it without nasty condensed or evaporated milk, in a real butter crust, with real pumpkin that you roast and then purée. So much better!

america's test kitchen and most chefs do not recommend using real pumpkin due to the inconsistencies in size and texture.

Bullshit. I've been cooking since I could toddle: you watch the consistency of what you are using and adjust the rest of the liquid as needed. Roasting the pumpkin caramelises some of the sugars and it is delicious. Move beyond the lowest common denominator!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cherry coke ham? Dear gods. Ick.

I dislike sweet potatoes with marshmallows and such, but pumpkin pie? Try making it without nasty condensed or evaporated milk, in a real butter crust, with real pumpkin that you roast and then purée. So much better!

yum. I love the "nasty" easy pumpkin pie off the back of the can, but this one sounds delicious too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate yam and sweet potato concoctions. My old WASP family didn't serve them. (Though I like a sweet potato pie.)

One thing I love at Thanksgiving that hardly anyone seems to like is Indian Pudding. We always had that.

What's Indian Pudding?

It's a molasses-flavored pudding with cornmeal. In our family, we also put spices and orange zest in. You've got to really like molasses to like Indian pudding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry coke ham? Dear gods. Ick.

I dislike sweet potatoes with marshmallows and such, but pumpkin pie? Try making it without nasty condensed or evaporated milk, in a real butter crust, with real pumpkin that you roast and then purée. So much better!

america's test kitchen and most chefs do not recommend using real pumpkin due to the inconsistencies in size and texture.

Bullshit. I've been cooking since I could toddle: you watch the consistency of what you are using and adjust the rest of the liquid as needed. Roasting the pumpkin caramelises some of the sugars and it is delicious. Move beyond the lowest common denominator!

I won't get into a cred contest with you, but the mark of an adaptable cook is not being a slave to some sort of self-imposed foodie ethos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate yam and sweet potato concoctions. My old WASP family didn't serve them. (Though I like a sweet potato pie.)

One thing I love at Thanksgiving that hardly anyone seems to like is Indian Pudding. We always had that.

What's Indian Pudding?

It's a molasses-flavored pudding with cornmeal. In our family, we also put spices and orange zest in. You've got to really like molasses to like Indian pudding.

I do that on the stove top for breakfast. I never knew what it was called. I got it out of some cookbook in HS and have been making it ever since.

[Anonymous]

I hate stuffing. Love all the other Thanksgiving foods though.

[Anonymous]

cranberry sauce of any kind, sweet potatoes or yams of any kind, jello mixed with vegetables, and carrot salad yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand cranberry sauce from a can. I always make it fresh and it takes 5 minutes max. How hard is it?
I also hate casseroles and prefer sauteed veggies.

I love love love cranberry sauce from a can. It's got to be opened on both ends so that it slides out in a red log and then sliced into perfect discs. Yummy on leftover sandwiches! I am a serious foodie and excellent cook. But there is something so nostalgic about the stuff that just transports me back to the Thanksgivings of my childhood in a special way. I can't walk past the supermarket shelves without grabbing a can.

Totally love cranberry from a can too.

+1

I grew up on this stuff. It just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving without it.

[Anonymous]

Sweet potatoes with marshmallows, very disgusting.