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Fi's sister makes this TERRIBLE broccoli casserole (which I usually love) with cheese, frozen broccoli, and Ritz crackers on top. It's her "specialty" and everyone has to have big scoops of it. I don't know how she manages, but the crackers are always soggy and the broccoli is that weird rubbery texture.
Any other horror stories about turkey day?
My Mom makes this dish called "pink stuff". Essentially, it's cottage cheese, cool whip, and a packet of dry strawberry jello mix..although you could use any flavor you like. I used to love it as a kid, but now the texture completely puts me off. It's chunky and, well, reminds me of puke. YUCK.
Finding out if the stuffing has the gizzards (spelling?) in it. I try to find out before hand by asking politely if it does I wont eat it or get a very small portion
Haha maybe this is a dumb question but if you guys don't like the stuff why not just NOT eat it?
I have always been a really picky eater so I don't like most stuff at Thanksgiving (as in, I like turkey, mashed potatoes no gravy, CANNED cranberry sauce, and rolls. Thats it). I don't eat the stuffing or sweet poato stuff or green beans or homemade cranberry sauce or anything... but I don't really dread it because I just don't eat it. :)
DH's aunt makes this oyster "dressing" (oysters, cheese, butter and breadcrumbs) that everyone in the family loves. Just the smell of it makes me gag. I don't partake, and every year I take a lot of heat for it.
@CorgiTales: Hahaha... good question! I don't want to hurt her feelings! It's something she's especially proud of and she always says "Ta da!" when you puts it on the table.
The first year, I brought a pie for dessert. Last year, I brought the Barefoot Contessa's grownup mac and cheese (that contains about $40 worth of cheese and pancetta). This year, I get to bring TWO things: another mac and cheese (using Tyler Florence's recipe with bacon this time) and green bean casserole (amping it up with Velveeta and bacon). My strategy is to slowwwwly infiltrate the meal with good stuff. *evil laugh*
cranberry sauce especially out of a can! for some reason my mom always makes it but no one eats it (though i learned my husband LOVES cranberry sauce) - i will stay far far away
@Ms. Sea Lion: GAG! AGH!!!!! I would NOT like that!!
I dont like beets. ick. Sometimes mashed potatoes make me gag.
I love everything that my family makes, but when we do Thanksgiving or Christmas with Mr.ND's family, there's always ham (I'm a ham-hater, sorry), and they make 'gravy.' Now, gravy has been a point of contention for Mr.ND and I, LOL. He says my family has 'runny gravy' (so not true, it's delicous). His family makes 'white gravy.' It's milk and flour or other things like that. What's the point of gravy if it doesn't ADD FLAVOR?! And they expect you to pour it over everything...no thank you! Thankfully, my sister joined my Mr.ND gettogether one year and totally backed me up. So at least now they think my family is just weird, not that I'm a gravy snoot :-P
@Miss Longcoat: lol thats kind of funny. I guess maybe since I've been a picky eater since day 1 no one really questions my food choices or gets insulted if I don't eat something because generally it has nothing to do with their cooking, its just that whatever they made isn't on the short list of stuff I eat.
I am a freak for all the casseroles...except that now we do Thanksgiving with FI's family, and his aunt (who hosts and cooks most of the dishes) throws nuts on EVERYTHING. I'm highly allergic to all nuts, so I can't just "pick them off". And being that I'm vegetarian, I don't eat the turkey or stuffing either. So basically now Thanksgiving has turned into eating mashed potatoes, rolls (sometimes, if they're not also covered/filled with nuts), and cranberry sauce. Everything else has nuts or meat in it :( I don't even get to eat dessert, because again...nuts in EVERYTHING.
Needless to say I'm not a big fan of Thanksgiving anymore. I miss doing it with my family, who don't even like nuts, and who make the stuffing separate from the turkey (which means I can eat it!). Unfortunately it's not worth it for us to travel all the way to CT or NC for Thanksgiving, so we stick with his aunt, who lives 20 minutes down the road.
This year I insisted on bringing a casserole that I make myself, so that at least I can eat something besides potatoes and (sometimes) rolls.
Most of the food I dislike are the desserts, especially if they're store bought. Home made chocolate chip cookies I'll eat all day, but the store bought ones make me want to gag. Also pie - I don't really like pie to begin with, but when it's not home made I get really grossed out. I also dislike most of the sweet stuff like the canned cranberry and candied walnuts.
@Kant: OMG my family puts nuts in everything too!! And I'm not allergic and I actually LIKE nuts, but it's so unappetizing to have them piled on so high to everything!
Pumpkin pie. I don't like pie and I don't like pumpkin, so this is double trouble.
@Kant: My cousin is a vegetarian too, and she usually makes herself a 'neatloaf', which is similar I guess to meatloaf but made with rice and veggies. It is soooo good and usually all the non-vegetarians dig in as well!
I used to be so adverse to stuffing because of the fact in was cooked IN the turkey's cavity. My husband would get so upset year after year when I didn't have any because he loooves stuffing. Finally a few years ago I tried some and it is pretty good! But I usually try to go for the vegetarian stuffing if we have some! Something about cooking food INSIDE the turkey's cavity weirds me out.
I also hate cranberry sauce... I'm weird about fruit in things and certain textures, haha. But I'm with @CorgiTales:, if I don't like something I just don't eat it! I have a huge family anyways and there are usually 3 kinds of meat, and maybe 10-15 sides so you couldn't try everything even if you wanted to!
@Kant: Wow, that sucks! Do they know you're allergic? Who just ignores someone's allergies?
I hate nuts but I'm not allergic or anything. I'm a super picky eater so honestly I don't like at least half the foods at Thanksgiving. I LOVE vegetables, but I hate cheese, and usually any veggies are doused in cheese or cooked into a cheesy casserole (yep, that's Wisconsin...). Also, the mashed potatoes have been replaced by cheesy potatoes, lol. So I eat turkey, rolls, corn if it's there, and lots of pumkin and apple pie ;)
@Catherine: Luckily I have a huge family too so there are always lots of options. And I hate the Thanksgiving cranberry stuff too, whatever it even is. It's all about the texture.
The rutabaga! Every time I'm at my mother's for thanksgiving, I have to try some. I've tried some at every thanksgiving at her house I can remember, and I still don't like it!
The only thing I majorly dislike is the canned cranberry sauce. It's so disgusting and DH eats it straight from the can... yuck. I don't really like Jello or other foods that jiggle either. It's a texture thing and I also just don't like food that moves when I go to eat it!
The only dish I can think of is noodle kugel. It's not a THanksgiving dish, but my ILs always include it in their Thanksgiving spread. I just don't eat it anymore. I don't even try to be polite because I just don't like it! Everything else (besides meat) I love.
I'm not a big fan of casseroles. Too many things mixed up into one dish.
But I'm kinda like CorgiTales -- if I don't like it, I just try to avoid it.
I can't stand store bought anything. I think it should be all homemade for Thanksgiving at least! I especially hate the cranberry sauce that you slice. I prefer the chunky stuff.
@Ms. Sea Lion: That sounds disgusting! And I would dread looking at it, even if I didn't have to eat it!
Also, I LOVE the cranberry sauce from a can. Me and my Grandma are the only ones that eat it though.
The only thing I can think of that I don't like is when someone has super super sweet sweet potatoes. We usually put cinnamon, a little butter and nutmeg so I go in expecting that and almost go into a coma at the first bite of some of these dishes.
Last year FSIL made her husband's favorite thanksgiving dish.... which looked great... however upon first bite I knew something was terribly wrong.
It looked like asparagus marinated/sauteed in italian dressing/seasoning... which sounds great in theory... except this was COLD, CANNED ASPARAGUS, that was dunked in italian dressing, like straight from the can to a plate topped with dressing...
As a veggie enthusiast, I can say without a doubt that asparagus should never be canned or served cold. BLECH!!
We spend Thanksgiving with DH's family, and they are great about not pressuring you to eat anything. They serve bbq mutton every now and then (gag!) and I never partake! I am also not a fan of green bean casserole.
My family does an Italian spin on Thanksgiving, so we don't actually have either of these items, but I find both gravy and that green bean casserole to be awful. I can't deal with all that creamy weirdness!
@o0olibelulao0o: Wow, what? That is disgusting!
And saying that she "made" the dish is a bit of an overstatement, isn't it? Pouring dressing over canned asparagus hardly qualifies as "making a dish". It's like saying "I made this bowl of cereal", lol!
I HATE gravy. Hate it. It makes me gag. I'll make it happily for everyone else, but I will not partake.
Also, I hate to say this b/c it sounds really mean, but as much as I absolutely love my grandma with all my heart, her cooking has really taken a turn for the worse. She's a FABULOUS baker, but a cook, she is not. The family has been subjected to such oddities as "meat mix" where she literally threw hotdogs, kelbasa and frozen hamburgers into one of those big black roasters and baked it. Also "microwave madness" where she'll mix together cans of lima beans and baked beans etc and microwave them all together in a tupperware.
@Kant: That is just horrid. I can't imagine tossing nuts into EVERYTHING especially when one of my guests is highly allergic. DH is allergic to every kind of dairy product in existance and I'd be livid if my family tossed milk/cheese into everything.
I will eat just about anything that is put in front of me, so I'll take the other end of this:)
Whenever we have company over for dinner (no family in the state other than immediate, so it's usually friends), they are always wary of the beets and horseradish dish that we have every year. I love it, but most other people that are MN natives give it a wide berth hahaha :)
Being a HUGE Paula Dean fan, and being from Georgia, what I am about to say is sacreligious:
I. HATE. Pecan Pie.
Mostly because I hate Pecans. I LOVE me some Pumpkin Pie and Cool Whip! (Some of the Pittsburgh in me I guess)
I also hate cranberry sauce, of any variety, but I have to eat at least a little to be polite.
I must be one of the lucky ones! I like everything on Thanksgiving... I'm nowhere near a picky eater (I'll try anything once) and everything is usually delish anyways :)
@AprilJo2011: haha exactly! It was awful and apparently when asparagus is canned it turns to a nasty greenish brown color, and it was SO MUSHY... ick. I didn't even know they canned asparagus, I mean, who is that lazy that they can't steam asparagus for two minutes?
@Miss Longcoat: I have the same stretegy of bringing my own food. My MIL's food is so bland and one year for Thanksgiving she did not make any gravy saying she doesn't like it. So there was no way of making her terrible, dry meat tolerable. Luckily my youngest was pretty little so I had to leave the table to take care of her. Ever since then I bring a couple of things I know my kids and I will eat. Usually an appetizer so we aren't starving before the meal is actually served and then some kind of side dish. I have even gone as far as offering to host:)
@mrskesslertobe: Ooooh, girl, you have to figure out a way to smuggle in some gravy! Maybe in a ziplock bag up your sleeve? Hahahaha :)
My mom makes this fruit salad with cool whip and I hate it, the texture is so weird. Can't stand canned cranberries either. I also despise ham, even though that's more of an Easter thing.
I LOVE everything at Thanksgiving. Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, stuffing and pumpkin and apple pie. Yum!! I also like cranberry sauce (yes, even the canned) and jello molds. I love all pies, not just pumpkin and apple. I am not the least bit picky when it comes to Thanksgiving. These are all some of my all-time favorite foods. :)
jello/jiggly food items are a no go. also any "salads" that don't include green leafy vegetables. i lived in the south for 5 years and was amazed at the things people classified as "salad"!
@Eight6Eleven: Your grandmother's cooking sounds, uh, interesting. :) Microwave Madness! haha
@Eight6Eleven: Oh, god, that is horrifying!
My family is pretty minimalist about Thanksgiving and I love the food they make - simple roasted turkey, sweet potatoes, squash, wild rice w/ shiitakes instead of stuffing. Since we moved away and starting doing Thanksgiving on our own, they've been making Thanksgiving food for Christmas dinner. Except my husband HATES turkey and hates sweet potatoes and squash.
We're big on honesty. If someone brings something gross, it is for the benefit of all to inform that that it's gross and we won't eat it rather than trying to choke it down. Likewise, my family knows that my husband hates turkey/squash/sweet potatoes and unless he hates it enough to actually say something, they're going to keep making it.
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