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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These all sounds lovely and hope everyone enjoyed.

FWIW - I am an American with American parents and we never had sweet potatoes with marshmallows, green bean casserole, or mac and cheese for Thanksgiving (or Christmas or Easter). The marshmallow potatoes and the casserole are things we just never had/have. Mac and cheese was just an occasional side but not for holidays. Not sure if we are in the minority, or if it is regional (my family is NE/Mid-Atlantic).[/quote]

We didn’t either - also mid-Atlantic. My mom wasn’t big on cooking though. So she’d make roasted sweet potatoes in their jackets and consider it fancy if she served them with a stick of butter on a plate. And she usually served steamed asparagus even though that’s as out of season as you can get. She made amazing cranberry sauce and stuffing though. Those plus turkey  were the meal. No gravy by the way.

My mid-Atlantic in-laws did the sweet potato with marshmallow thing but no mac or green beans. Instead they did chopped liver appetizer and matzoh ball soup. [/quote]

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