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[fan_eunice]

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.

Comments

[klia]

I've had to become really open to new things since moving away from my family, because a lot depends on who I end up eating with, and what traditions/food prefs they have. The thing I really miss is bread stuffing with sage and pork sausage. No one I've shared a table with makes it (they do wild rice stuffing, which just isn't the same).

I think I've had sweet potato casserole once. I was not a fan, with or without marshmallows. But I love all kinds of cranberry sauce -- I'll eat it pretty much any way. A friend makes homemade cranberry sauce with oranges that's amazing. I got leftovers, and have been eating it with everything.

I made my favorite pumpkin pie -- my grandmother's recipe. My whole family disliked cloves, so it doesn't have any. OMG, PIE. YUM.

[fan_eunice]

I think sweet potato casserole is one of those things that there is a window on acquiring a taste for, and it closes by ten years old. But once you have it, you have it for life :D

I feel ya on missing the family traditional foods. My mother makes these yeast rolls that are a recipe handed down from her mother handed down from her mother and so on, and every year that I've had thanksgiving elsewhere I have felt their absence keenly. Now that I'm baking again I have the recipe on hand so I never have to go without again, but it's not quite the same if I make them :)