Anonymous wrote:I hate stuffing. Love all the other Thanksgiving foods though.

The funny thing is there is not one version of stuffing. Do you dislike bread? Or just the stuffing you have experienced? Most people prefer the stuffing that they ate growing up. For me, it was butter, celery, onions, poultry seasoning, chicken broth and bread cubes baked in a loaf pan. For my husband it was sage, sage, sage, butter, celery, sage, bread cubes, sage, onions, broth and sage stuffed into the bird.

Yam & pumpkin pie.
Both have flavors like something you find in a barn... like hay.

green bean casserole
sweet potato with marshmallows thing
cranberry sauce from a can
jello
Mac & cheese

I love the green been casserole and sweet potatoes with marshmallows.

I won't touch anything made with giblets though (no giblet gravy or giblet stuffing).

I love the sweet potato casserole with marshmallows. I put cinnamon and nutmeg in the sweet potatoes, then with the carmelized marshmallows, yum.

Hate the green bean casserole. We always make lightly steamed / sautéed green beans with butter, so much better.

I love pecan pie, but recently discovered that I love pecan bars with a shortbread crust even more.

I wasn't a big fan of pumpkin pie growing up, but MIL's recipe converted me. Add a gingersnap cookie crust, so good!!

Prefer fresh cranberry relish over the canned stuff, but I'll eat either.

Anonymous wrote:Pumpkin pie
Sweet potatoes with the marshmallows
Green bean casserole
Cranberry sauce from a can
pecan pie
a non-brined turkey

Interesting that these are the staples and pretty much every other person on this thread hates them LOL

So wtf DO you eat on Thanksgiving

Never grew up on all these casseroles (sweet potato/marshmallow, green bean/onion) and pass on them now.

Also don't like pie or gravy.

Could take or leave the turkey but I looooove leftover thanksgiving turkey sandwiches. Love love love. So I would never swap out for another meat.

Anonymous wrote:sauerkraut. (Traditional if you are from Baltimore)

The only people who eat it are my mom and her sisters, and I suspect they are doing it out of fondness for their childhoods. Everyone else takes a small spoonful and pushes it around on their plates.

We have lived all over the country and I have NEVER heard of saurkraut for Thianksgiving.

Saurkraut is for brats. Period.

Mashed potatoes.

The texture makes me gag and they taste so bland in my opinion.

Anonymous wrote:Anything with bacon in it. Yuck.

You're obviously not a true American if you hate bacon.

I hate the way most people cook the entire meal. I have to make a meal that is as close to my mom's as possible but it is never as good. No dry turkey. No dry stuffing and there must be lots of eggs and butter and fresh herbs in it. Delicious gravy made with dry sherry and butter. Creamy mashed potatoes. And the pies must be homemade the way she did it. Most pie is total crap. I hate store-bought crusts and condensed milk pumpkin pie. It has to be made with real cream. Pecan pie with a custard and no corn syrup. Yuck. Fresh cranberry sauce with lots of orange peel. And my mom's Southern greens. None of that green bean casserole shit. Why do people eat that? My mom spoiled me for most other home cooking.

I hate Thankgiving-- it is just an added stress going into the holidays. Turkey, pecan or pumpkin anything, sweet potatoes. Don't like any of these things.

None. I love it all.

Anonymous wrote:Pecan pie is so syrupy...thick glutinous nastiness that ruins pecans which are so lovely.

Any sort of sweetness added to savory food is unappealing. Sweet potatoes don't need sugar!

Don't get me started on raspberry vinagrette, cranberries and other fruit in salad. Gah.

I like sweet potato pie but otherwise we can be food besties.

Pumpkin pie
Sweet potatoes with the marshmallows
Green bean casserole
Cranberry sauce from a can
pecan pie
a non-brined turkey

Interesting that these are the staples and pretty much every other person on this thread hates them LOL