Mac and cheese is common in the deep south on holidays and reunions...we dont do it but many do
Wifey does turkey...dressing...cranberry sauce homemade..limas and butter beans, yeast rolls, ham with cloves in it, sweet taters...yep with trimmings, green bean horseradish thingie, spinach ...creamed, devil eggs and pickle/olive tray, mashed idahos
I bet our menu is similar to anywhere they grow cotton and catfish
Yep, and when blacks moved north in large numbers decades ago they took the tradition with them, which now also makes it part of their “ethnic” holiday tradition.