Comments on: My Five Least Favorite Thanksgiving Dishes

By: Honeybeast

Honeybeast — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:34:06 +0000

If you REALLY believe in “Don’t drown your food in ketchup and mustard and goo!” — then how do you explain cranberry sauce? Cranberry sauce is TOTALLY goo. Whereas gravy is not goo. It is gooD.

I love a good Thanksgiving food fight. But I’m with you on the mac and cheese. Unless it has oysters in it, of course. (Joking. Totally joking. I think.)

By: Lisa @ Retro Housewife Goes Green

Lisa @ Retro Housewife Goes Green — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:18:23 +0000

I don’t like gravy and I don’t make pies for Thanksgiving but I LOVE mashed potatoes if done right, by this I mean with whipping cream and lots of butter.

I’m allergic to mushrooms so I make a green bean casserole different. I use green beans (french cut), homemade alfredo sauce, cheese on top and bacon. It’s so good!!! There is never any left.

By: jan

jan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:20:50 +0000

I’m married to an avowed gravy-hater. To me, gravy is a sauce that helps make up for the overly-dry turkey.
One thing I like and don’t get to have is what I call ‘fluff.’ The stuff that gets pistachios from ‘other-people, not me.’ It’s sometimes thought of as food for funeral luncheons.

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:53:20 +0000

I would have to disagree with you on the gravy, however I fully agree with the green bean casserole assessment. I never in my life heard of eating mac and cheese on Thanksgiving! Yikes!!!

By: Kalynskitchen

Kalynskitchen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:36:14 +0000

I can give up the other three, but gravy and pie are essential for Thanksgiving.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:04:51 +0000

Things I might like on Christmas or some other holiday and sometimes appear on Thanksgiving and it gives me the creeps:

1. Ambrosia
2. Green fluffy stuff with pistachios, jell-o, cool whip
3. Cherry Pie

P.S. You might really like a recipe called Pilgrim Pie on the “Mennonite Girls Can Cook” website. It is like a fresh mincemeat pie. It sounds delicious!

By: ClickMichelle

ClickMichelle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:05:25 +0000

Gravy? From a JAR? I’d rather do without. If I didn’t make gravy, my family would riot. But as my mother says, I make a “righteous” gravy.

Leftover gravy goes into the turkey and dressing soup that we have for dinner on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. (The Friday after is traditionally reserved for Chinese take-out.)

I agree with you on the Mac and Cheese. It’s never been a traditional Thanksgiving dish in my family either. But last year when I decreed that everybody needed to cook a dish instead of lazing around and waiting for me to announce that ~~I am completely exhausted~~ dinner is ready, my youngest son decided that he was making Mac and Cheese. Shrug. I’m not cooking it at least.

By: gcarroll

gcarroll — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:39:15 +0000

Okay, I agree with Sharon!! Gravy is the only reason for mashed potatoes, rice, dressing, etc. But I love her “gravy is like liquid salt”. I’m gonna use that somewhere!!
I agree with the mac and cheese. Don’t like it. But I am forced by my fam to make it every year!! They love it!!
Maybe I’ll start putting gravy on it!!

By: Packrat

Packrat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:58:00 +0000

Oooo, I love good mincemeat. Real or otherwise.

I agree with you except on the mashed potatoes and gravy. Nothing better than really good flavorful gravy.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:54:41 +0000

Gravy?! But gravy is like liquid salt. So lovely and delicious. I think the ‘don’t drown your food’ rule can be excepted on Thanksgiving, don’t you?

For us, baked potatoes are everyday food. Mashed is special.

My grandmother would make mincemeat pie. As a result of being born in West Virginia in 1901 she ate some really weird stuff. So between that and Klondike Kat saying, ‘I’ll make mincemeat out of that mouse,’ I always thought mincemeat pie was made from mice. So I’ve never eaten it.