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Favorite Thanksgiving Food

What is your favorite Thanksgiving food?

  • green bean casserole

    Votes: 4 4.4%
  • pumpkin/apple pie

    Votes: 20 22.0%
  • stuffin

    Votes: 52 57.1%
  • turkey

    Votes: 23 25.3%
  • cranberry sauce

    Votes: 7 7.7%
  • corn

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • gravy

    Votes: 13 14.3%
  • mashed potatoes

    Votes: 26 28.6%
  • sweet potatoes/yams

    Votes: 7 7.7%
  • other/stuffed shells/Ox tail/McDonalds

    Votes: 8 8.8%

  • Total voters
    91
What blasphemy eats Ox tails on thanksgiving???

Smoked turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy. married a girl from New Orleans who makes jalapeño cheddar cornbread and the best d*mn slice of pecan pie this side of the Mississippi…

Happy thanksgiving everyone!
 
Stuffing…always stuffing. And I will never understand green bean casserole.
As a kid, every thanksgiving my grandmother would prepare a ‘congealed salad’ that nobody wanted but our parents would force us to take a slice.

I’ve still never encountered a worse holiday food than congealed salad. I will never be able to enjoy jello now that I know what it tastes like with carrots, celery, and olives in it…. (I wish I was kidding)
 
Dark meat. Incidentally, the pilgrim Thanksgiving, which is held up erroneously as "the first Thanksgiving"--Thanksgiving had been held in many places--probably also included shellfish, it being New England, and rabbit. I made rabbit once. It did not taste like chicken and I can't say I liked it.
 
Stuffing Preference: Rice vs Croutons (or breadcrumbs). Toss up for me as long as both have Italian sausage. Mother-in-law went with rice and my mom used bread. Loved both versions.
 
Dark meat. Incidentally, the pilgrim Thanksgiving, which is held up erroneously as "the first Thanksgiving"--Thanksgiving had been held in many places--probably also included shellfish, it being New England, and rabbit. I made rabbit once. It did not taste like chicken and I can't say I liked it.
Gotta use Rabbit in a stew only, it’s not good on it’s own.
Granny made excellent Possum Stew
 
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As a kid, every thanksgiving my grandmother would prepare a ‘congealed salad’ that nobody wanted but our parents would force us to take a slice.

I’ve still never encountered a worse holiday food than congealed salad. I will never be able to enjoy jello now that I know what it tastes like with carrots, celery, and olives in it…. (I wish I was kidding)
I was going to add my grandmothers old recipe for a wonderful Date-nut Bread. Smeared with a nice bit of cream cheese. Wonderful day 2 morning with a nice cup of joe.
 
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Gotta use Rabbit in a stew only, it’s not good on it’s own.
Granny made excellent Possum Stew
Rabbit with prunes is a well-known French dish that's decent. I made the rabbit simply like the pilgrims would've though. My fault for being historic. Possum, though, must be inedible unless it was farm raised, if that even exists.
 
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I was going to add my grandmothers old recipe for a wonderful Date-nut Bread. Smeared with a nice bit of cream cheese. Wonderful day 2 morning with a nice cup of joe.
I could get down with some date-nut bread and cream cheese….

Another old holiday ‘favorite’ were red beet eggs…. ‘Purple Fart Bombs’ my cousins and I would call them.
 
I like the combination of turkey covered with mashed potatoes and gravy with a little cranberry sauce.

Basically a WAWA gobbler without the roll
 
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Tough call but I always look forward to my mother's stuffing and homemade pumpkin pie. She lives by the cranberry bogs in the pine barrens and makes her own cranberry sauce too. Way better than the canned high fructose corn syrup crap you buy in stores, which to me now is just cranberry jello.

Hansel 'n Griddle has a Thanksgiving wrap made with the owner's mother's homemade stuffing. Really puts Wawa's Gobbler to shame. They just came out with it last week and it sold out already.
 
Stuffing is #1 always.
But pearl onions in cream sauce should be added to the list.
Also Rutabaga.

And anything with mushroom soup in it (green bean casserole) should be banned.
 
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"Stuffing"? (cooked inside the bird)

or...

"Dressing"? (cooked outside the bird, as in a casserole)

Which does your gathering enjoy/prefer?
 
You better take a look in the mirror…my last post …to your post was… ” calm down my friend just having some fun.” However I should know better with your take on things.
 
You better take a look in the mirror…my last post …to your post was… ” calm down my friend just having some fun.” However I should know better with your take on things.

Sorry, did not see that your post was from last night. No worries.
 
Sorry, did not see that your post was from last night. No worries.
Truthfully was only trying to be funny …sometimes DJ Spanky that doesn’t work… better to stay quiet. Happy Thanksgiving to you and all our Rutgers faithful. May we someday reach what I think we all would love to enjoy again. Another season or 2 or 3 like 2006.
 
When a waiter at a restaurant tells me we have a wonderful sweet orange glaze for your chicken, I tell him I don’t want it anywhere near my plate
 
I make them now and again. LOL.
Never ate one to this day, Lol. could never muster the strength to eat a purple egg that smells like pure fart….

It was always quite the affair at grand mom’s house.. lol
 
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