A pure celebration of foods others sneer at

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Spam cooked on a cast iron skillet until crunchy and, served with fried potatoes and slightly runny scrambled eggs. With ramps when in season.

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Orange hello, cool whip, mandarin oranges all
whipped together as a salad. Stopped making it when I took it to a party and no one scooped it up, to low brow. But dang so simple and tasty!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

I don’t disagree that the boxed stuff is glorious but you need some of those little canned potato balls fried in butter till they are crispy brown next to them.

Thanksgiving is not about choosing between carbs. It’s about ALL the carbs.

What are these? Canned potato balls? Tell me more!

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Anonymous wrote:Orange jello, cool whip, mandarin oranges all
whipped together as a salad. Stopped making it when I took it to a party and no one scooped it up, to low brow. But dang so simple and tasty!

I would love this with real whipped cream. Not that cool whip is low brow, I just personally don't like the flavor. But I love oranges and orange jello. I had a trifle with orange jello that I still think about. So this would be good with cake and custard too!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

I don’t disagree that the boxed stuff is glorious but you need some of those little canned potato balls fried in butter till they are crispy brown next to them.

Thanksgiving is not about choosing between carbs. It’s about ALL the carbs.

What are these? Canned potato balls? Tell me more!

+1!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

I don’t disagree that the boxed stuff is glorious but you need some of those little canned potato balls fried in butter till they are crispy brown next to them.

Thanksgiving is not about choosing between carbs. It’s about ALL the carbs.

What are these? Canned potato balls? Tell me more!

I’m guessing canned new potatoes. We’d have them as kids with lots of butter and parsley s&p. Delish. The texture is really specific.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

I don’t disagree that the boxed stuff is glorious but you need some of those little canned potato balls fried in butter till they are crispy brown next to them.

Thanksgiving is not about choosing between carbs. It’s about ALL the carbs.

What are these? Canned potato balls? Tell me more!

+1!

You’ve never seen small whole potatoes in the canned food aisle? We grew up on these. Not sure what was wrong with a proper potato. Maybe food pantry availability, not sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

My grandma's recipe is Stovetop!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Strawberry pretzel salad. The kind make with jello and - i think? - cool whip. LOVE. This is a traditional family food and I (the hippie nerd salad eater of the family) intend to fall face first into a plate full on Thursday.

Omg, I haven’t had that in years and years! The salty/sweet combo is so good. My aunt who used to make that when I was a kid also made this layered dessert with chocolate pudding and whipped cream (well, probably Cool Whip) with some sort of crushed cookie crust and broken up bits of Heath bars on top. That was good too.

Last year I was feeling nostalgic and made an old layered salad recipe that my mom and aunt used to make in the late 70s, early 80s. Chopped iceberg lettuce, topped with a layer of diced onion, a layer of thawed frozen peas, a layer of diced celery, a dressing layer made of Mayo with a little sugar mixed in, a layer of shredded cheddar on top of the dressing, and crumbled bacon on top. It really took me back to my childhood.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

I don’t disagree that the boxed stuff is glorious but you need some of those little canned potato balls fried in butter till they are crispy brown next to them.

Thanksgiving is not about choosing between carbs. It’s about ALL the carbs.

What are these? Canned potato balls? Tell me more!

+1!

You’ve never seen small whole potatoes in the canned food aisle? We grew up on these. Not sure what was wrong with a proper potato. Maybe food pantry availability, not sure.

That sounds better than what I grew up on: lots and lots of fresh potatoes that have been boiled. I hate boiled potatoes.

Do you need to microwave or parboil the canned potatoes before frying them?

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Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

My grandmother's stuffing is awesome - and I absolutely love Stovetop too. Stuffing has to be really bad for me to not like it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

Why do you have to choose? Stove Top + mashed potatoes is the entire point of Thanksgiving dinner IMO.

You don't actually have to choose, but "Serve Stove Top instead of potatoes" is from an ad campaign (from the 70s, I think?)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

Why do you have to choose? Stove Top + mashed potatoes is the entire point of Thanksgiving dinner IMO.

You can have Stove Top + mashed potatoes every day if you want. Why are people saving them for Thanksgiving?

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I love Stove Top so much I eat it straight from the can.

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Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, my mom would always make a cornflake wreath around Christmas. She hasn’t done that in decades. Maybe I’ll ask her to make one for my kids for the nostalgia. Green teeth be damned!

https://mycasualpantry.com/cornflake-christmas-wreath/

Wow. I've never heard of this.