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fan_eunice ([personal profile] fan_eunice) wrote2011-11-27 09:06 pm

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A random Thanksgiving type question, on account of this popped up as a point of contention during the holiday.

Do you eat your turkey with cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving? If so, which do you want on the table?

a) the jellied kind that retains the shape of the can
b) the fancier but still comes in a can with berries and stuff
c) homemade

Now, I know this makes me a culinary heathen...but, for me it's gotta be a. Gotta be. On any other day of the year I would balk at a can shaped jelly thing staring at me. But on Thanksgiving, I don't actually care which would taste better because TRADITION. It's just not T-day unless I can identify the ridges of the can in my cranberry sauce.

See also: sweet potato casserole MUST have marshmallows on it (and I already know some of you are grossed out by that, just know that I am judging you right back)

Alternately, what food traditions are must haves at your holiday table (any holiday at all if Thanksgiving is not applicable to you)?

Also, also. I made PIE. It was really good. No, really...please do not judge my pie by my cranberry sauce and marshmallow preferences. This was an objectively tasty pie.
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[personal profile] montanaharper 2011-11-29 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Option A: canberry! It's a holiday necessity in my family.

Thanksgiving tradition when I was growing up varied drastically, depending on where we were living. When we were in the same state as my grandparents, it was a full-on t-day dinner with turkey, a dozen different sides, canberry, and three or four different homemade pies. When it was just me and my mom and dad living fifteen hundred miles away from the grandparents, it was turkey frozen dinners eaten while watching Young Frankenstein. (Don't ask, okay? I have no idea how it got started; it just did. *g*) Both of them are traditions I cherish.

As an adult, I've done everything from the t-day feast for 35 people (zomg, that was insane; what was I thinking?!), to a roasted chicken with a small selection of trimmings for just me and the kids, to the frozen dinner approach, depending on what was going on in my life at the time.