Thanksgiving food sins thread

[mynameisjonas]

Easily a worse food sin: This has happened to us before, and it’s simply unacceptable. Forgetting to make cranberry sauce.

 

[Kinch]

Forgetting to bring Hawaiian rolls.

 

[MeanDean]

The jello thing was normal fare. I never was a huge jello fan but we rarely had dessert so anything sweet was a plus.

Best jello was strawberry flavor - with fresh (or frozen) strawberries in it with banana slices too.

 

[ketchupnmustard]

My mom used to always make stuffing with oysters in it = BARF

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

Happy Thanksgiving.

Find me a worse food sin than raisins in stuffing. Anyone who does that doesn’t deserve turkey today.

Raisins in anything anytime.

 

[Cyched]

Pumpkin Pie and Sweet Potatoes are garbage.

 

[NorthCyd]

I hate potlucks.

Agreed. I normally don't like to go to them but it was my grandma's funeral and you know small town Iowa. When a member of the community passes its mandatory for the old church ladies to get together and have a town potluck.

 

[dafarmer]

I wasn’t even aware that was a thing. Sounds wretched.

It is sweet dressing with apples and some raisins with bread. It's a palate "cleanser" for the real stuff.

 

[Trice]

Mushrooms in dressing.

Mushrooms in anything.

 

[cyclones500]

My mom (and grandma used to) do lime jello with green olives and celery in it. Want to make me dry heave? That’d do it.

That's a good way to ruin both Jell-o AND green olives.

(And celery is unnecessary in almost every situation).

Is there anything wring with, like, having them available separately?

 

[Trice]

Hamballs.

In general, or for Thanksgiving specifically? Because hamballs done right are fantastic. But I'd agree it's a lot to handle with all the other Thanksgiving food.

 

[isufbcurt]

I'm very excited for smoked ribs today!!

 

[Trice]

My Thanksgiving food sin is when hot foods are not hot and cold foods are not cold - usually because people show up late or they didn't have time to bake the item they're bringing to the meal so everything else gets delayed while that finishes. Everything ends up lukewarm and it's gross.

 

[ISUATC]

I've had all of the jello dishes mentioned growing up. The worst was the lime jello with green olives and celery. And they were dishes my grandparents made, so I would agree that these recipes probably came from the depression era.

 

[JM4CY]

My mom used to always make stuffing with oysters in it = BARF

Oysters make zero sense to me and should not be food.

 

[MLawrence]

Frozen or fresh green beans in green bean casserole. It has to be canned green beans. I once went to a potluck and this lady used pickled green beans from her garden. It was wretched.

Canned green beans seems like that would make too mushy, at least to me.

 

[JP4CY]

Using margarine instead of butter for rolls, bread, taters.

 

[ketchupnmustard]

Oh and that bag of "giblets" that comes with the turkey. Just throw it way. If you try to make "gravy" with those giblets (read as "catfish bait"), I'll know and be forced to mock you.

 

[ianoconnor]

Pumpkin Pie and Sweet Potatoes are garbage.

 

[cowgirl836]

It doesn’t beat the raisins but sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes.

Yes to sweet potatoes over regular. Most of the time.