Thanksgiving food sins thread

[ketchupnmustard]

You should try pickled licorice!

Mind = Blown!!!!

 

[BCClone]

Pea salad. Plus when 60% of the ingredient is mayo, I don't think you can call it a salad.

If you do it right (my moms was the only kind I’ve been able to find this way) the cheese is soft enough that it replaces a good amount of Mayo. She also didn’t have crunchy or mushy peas. They were solid but not like they were just out of the garden.

 

[FerShizzle]

My grandmother used to put pineapple in green bean casserole. Wretched.

Your grandma didn’t like you.

 

[Cyched]

As long as the old people keep showing up to these family holiday gatherings, so does the jar of pickled herring.
I like black licorice so I understand living the life of a degenerate weirdo.
But pickled herring?

Pickled herring, on a Ritz cracker. Solid

 

[cycloner29]

We always have that red, green layer jello with the pineapple mixture in the middle Turkey day and at Christmas.

Thinking I need to start making it but with the Jell-O shot versions red and green jello.

 

[JP4CY]

Methodists do this. At every funeral.

I have written out in my own funeral instructions that all I want served are jellos with different vegetables and carrots in them and Miracle Whip on top, because I am dead and it's my last gift to everyone, let's watch the world burn.

 

[Bipolarcy]

Happy Thanksgiving.

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

I wanted to make my oyster stuffing this year, but got firmly shot down by the fam.

 

[HFCS]

Living in the east coast, people will put clams in their stuffing. That’s fine when you’re making a stuffie app for dinner, but not as a complete side.

My NW Iowa family has always eaten chicken gizzards (usually fried) and you will find them in the thanksgiving stuffing depending on who makes it. Somehow I never got into it.

 

[clonechemist]

Right on! Cooking a turkey is a pain, and most Thanksgiving sides (besides mashed potatoes) are nasty. We are travelling, but our host is having parmesan crusted chicken this year which sounds great to me!

We’ve been doing Thanskgiving for about 15 with the (vegetarian) in-laws in Maine, where the main protein served is lobster in place of turkey

 

[baller21]

Pickled herring, on a Ritz cracker. Solid

I wanted to make my oyster stuffing this year, but got firmly shot down by the fam.

 

[besserheimerphat]

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.

Yes! My wife doesn't even like or eat green bean casserole, but for some reason refuses to buy canned green beans for it. Fresh or frozen only. In basically every other dish I'd agree canned is worse. But dammit, this is MY dish that NOBODY ELSE in the house eats, please make it the way I like.

I know this probably sounds awful, but I do all the cooking every other day of the year and I always make things the way the family wants it rather than the way I want it. So one dish on one day of the year isn't a big ask.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[besserheimerphat]

Started spatchcocking a few years ago and now I have no idea why anyone would make a turkey any other way. So much easier.

Great for chickens too. The whole skin gets crispy rather than just the breast and drumsticks. I like the thighs, and roasting a whole bird puts them on bottom where juices collect and air can't circulate. And you can use the drippings to make a sauce.

 

[BigTurk]

Yes! My wife doesn't even like or eat green bean casserole, but for some reason refuses to buy canned green beans for it. Fresh or frozen only. In basically every other dish I'd agree canned is worse. But dammit, this is MY dish that NOBODY ELSE in the house eats, please make it the way I like.

I know this probably sounds awful, but I do all the cooking every other day of the year and I always make things the way the family wants it rather than the way I want it. So one dish on one day of the year isn't a big ask.

Totally with you. When I make chili and the wife buys the ingredients she always buys no salt added beans. I tell over and over they taste terrible, alters the outcome, but she keeps doing it. And she won’t eat it anyway!

I will say she makes a great green bean casserole from scratch with fresh green beans. And canned is better than frozen.

 

[danvillecyclone]

Spiking drinks of unsuspecting relatives.

Especially the ones that turn their noses up at it.

 

[KnappShack]

Spiking drinks of unsuspecting relatives.

Especially the ones that turn their noses up at it.

Ate a spiked cookie at a party.

It was fantastic, but I really should've been given a heads up.

 

[ghyland7]

Okay pumpkin pie and pumpkin breads are delicious…

But sweet potatoes are the most overrated starch I’ve seen. They’re just worse than regular potatoes.

 

[Cyched]

Okay pumpkin pie and pumpkin breads are delicious…

But sweet potatoes are the most overrated starch I’ve seen. They’re just worse than regular potatoes.

You’re overrated

 

[RagingCloner]

Since my wife was served Welch's sparkling grape juice instead of wine as a kid, she finds it necessary to try to force it into our meal every year because "it's tradition".

I don't mess with it because it's not worth the argument, but I just know I'm gonna be dumping out 3/4 of the bottle of that nasty **** two days later every year.

Mix it with vodka. For you, not the kids

 

[ghyland7]

You’re overrated

Ur mom is overrated