With the Holidaze coming up, there will be traditional foods served and made and whatnot. What foods that are steeped in Holiday tradition (not just the upcoming Holidays, but any) do you not like or find wildly overrated?

On the flip side, is there any doctoring you do to make traditional foods better?


For me; Pumpkin Pie sucks. I'd rather eat me dog's food. Corned beef and cabbage sucks. I like lasagna, but my wife's aunt is a "vegetarian" (she'll eat chicken and hot dogs ) so she makes a vegetable lasagna and a pea salad for xmas day that are quite horrid.

I used to think green bean casserole sucked, but then about two years ago my wife made it with cream of chicken soup and sprinkled some shredded cheese on top along with the crispy onions, and it took the dish to another stratosphere.

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I like pee salad. It's salad with piss dressing.

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Green bean casserole has always been gross to me. Looks bad, smells bad and tastes bad.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

sauerkraut with barley. yuck.

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Absolutely. Terrible

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If you like traditional Irish food, here's a big pile of excrement with some leaves on it.

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A terrible, foul concoction.

I hate turkey

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Try it with cream of chicken soup and cheese. Its like an entirely different dish.

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A terrible, foul concoction.[/quote] Try it with cream of chicken soup and cheese. Its like an entirely different dish.[/quote]

throw a couple of Hershey's Kisses in there too. Trust me on this one.

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I make it with fresh green beans...and some garlic. Much better than the canned nonsense.

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Never done the fresh. That probably helps a lot too.

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Adding cream of chicken would just turn it into a fowl concoction.

I really can’t stand canned veggies and I’m sure every version I’ve had was made with canned beans. My family always did steamed green beans anytime we have them.

I grew up on canned food, so canned beans with canned soup topped with canned onions is fine by me.

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A common traditional Ukrainian holiday dish is vinaigrette which is a beet salad. Simply boil beets, carrots, and potatoes and let it cool. Add pickles and that's the dish. There is no way to save that dish.

I love varenyky and love saurkraut/cabbage. But I do not like cabbage varenyky. Keep it simple with potatoes, cheese or my favorite -- blueberries or cherries.

Frozen isn't bad in a pinch, either. Anything to keep the beans somewhat crisp.

And never use those shitty French cut beans. Just terrible.

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eaten out of a can while sitting on the can.

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What? They have way more flavor than regular green beans.

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You guys are crazy, green bean casserole is great.

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ugh

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Aside from the foul turkey, pumpkin pie & corned beef & cabbage, I've never been subjected to any of the foods you all are talking about. And haven't had the three I mentioned in over thirty years.

But you all are lucky that you were never subjected to chitlins.

In neighborhood stores the frozen 10 lb(?) buckets of them started popping up a couple of weeks ago. The sight of them makes me almost retch.

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All I know is i get to drink a lot of beer this Thanksgiving and I don't have to be around extended family.
Best. Thanksgiving. Ever.
I don't really care what we eat.

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Stuffing and cranberries. Used to love 'em until about 1977. Had the puking flu that Thanksgiving night and have never been able to eat either since.

That's about the same year I was similarly afflicted...with watermelon.

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mental note: no chitlins and watermelon when RR comes to visit.

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And no gluten if Seacrest is coming too.

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My cousin's mother-in-law was a nice old lady from Ireland. Every year she used to bring Irish scones for Christmas. My mom could be so ignorant. One year she said, "No offense, Betty, but those scones are terrible. I don't know how anyone could eat them without breaking a tooth."

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Or chicken wings. I'm busting ALL the stereotypes

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My mother & her youngest sister are in that mold as well. It's not a holiday if they aren't flaming someone like that. Often my mom doesn't realize how hard she's going and backs off when we laugh, my aunt never cares.

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In my own life experience, all the aunt shit-talking happens in Italian, or Greek, or Gaelic. But you know what it is, you don't need subtitles.

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