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Each state’s favorite Thanksgiving sides, presented just in time to argue at the table
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Posted on 11/04/2021 6:25:22 AM PDT by mylife

The map of favorite Thanksgiving sides, provided by Zippia, is surprisingly varied.

Okay, get your arguin’ pants on, everybody, because we’ve got a Thanksgiving map for you. This one features America’s favorite Thanksgiving sides by state. It’s provided by Zippia, a career resource site which used Google Trends to determine each state’s most-searched side.

The Zippia team based its data on a pre-determined list of classic Thanksgiving side dishes, and they did make some calls that you might consider controversial—for example, labeling gravy a side, because it’s not a main dish (nor a drink, as they joked). The team also analyzed search trends from November of last year, so if any big changes happen in 2021, we won’t know until later.

Keeping those things in mind, here’s the skinny. The top pick? A classic: mashed potatoes. Nine states have crowned mashed potatoes the cream of the Thanksgiving crop: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois (The Takeout’s home state), Massachusetts, Nevada, and Oregon.

Other states chose more non-traditional sides: for example, Alaska’s pick of stuffed mushrooms, Delaware’s choice of mashed cauliflower potatoes, Kentucky’s and Tennessee’s hashbrown casserole, and Minnesota and Missouri’s pick of a charcuterie tray.

(Excerpt) Read more at thetakeout.com ...


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To: Dr. Sivana

Yes, mostly, but the statement was “the first thanksgiving”!

And, no one celebrated that regularly, so it really doesn’t count. Lincoln started up what we think of as TG, and apparently tying it to the MA Pilgrims.

But, the story of the US is not all wrapped up in New England.


101 posted on 11/04/2021 11:49:53 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Yes, this is a bogus misleading map.

Some seem too tired and boring, but then you wonder why not everything is stuffing or mashed potatoes.

Others seem so radical we’ve never heard of it even, at all. Even some of the “natives”.

I guess our family was (emphasis, WAS) unusual. Yes we had a great turkey and great stuffing, but ours always (all holidays, actually) had sauerkraut and sausage meatballs, and “German noodles” (nothing but egg noodles with sauteed bread crumbs). And corn pudding. My mother did great corn pudding too.


102 posted on 11/04/2021 11:56:07 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Yes, mostly, but the statement was “the first thanksgiving”!

The context was the U.S. celebration of Thanksgiving, and most people in the U.S. do tie in their celebration with the one in New England with Indians and Pilgrims eating together, having come after a particularly difficult situation. Part of the evidence of this is the fact that turkey and cranberries ARE the common side dishes.

Recognizing that aspect of U.S. history one day a year is NOT stating that "the story of the US is all wrapped up in New England".
103 posted on 11/04/2021 12:03:59 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: Dr. Sivana

How many have tried horseradish deviled eggs? Good stuff, though I do realize that horseradish is not just everybody’s favorite.


104 posted on 11/04/2021 12:29:21 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: oldtech

I like horseradish just fine. I’ve had deviled eggs with paprika, not horseradish. I could see that more like bar/hors d’oeuvre food rather than Thanksgiving food.


105 posted on 11/04/2021 1:00:04 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Sounds delicious. I would guess that most families probably cook the traditional turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc., and then add some family favorites.


106 posted on 11/04/2021 4:35:13 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Dr. Sivana

Sometimes when you look at history and the culture, you realize some are getting all the credit for things that aren’t really so.

Such is the impression given that Pilgrims were the first whites here, or the first English settlement.

This goes also for the wrong impressions about slavery in the “north” vs. “south”, and that rebels in the Revolution all were taking potshots from trees in guerilla fashion.

It just ain’t so, but it’s been promulgated falsely. As a student and as a regular citizen seeing TV and movies, that’s the impression. Just as we accuse media giving some wrong impression to try to convince people that their commie side is ok and right.


107 posted on 11/04/2021 5:16:32 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Indeed a bogus basis for favorites.

What they should do is get the data from the grocery stores. What stuff disappears from shelves (sans COVID) within the month of November?


108 posted on 11/04/2021 5:18:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: mewzilla

NJ stuffed mushrooms????


109 posted on 11/04/2021 5:19:03 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: mware

Our house... Chestnut stuffing,


110 posted on 11/04/2021 5:22:17 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I think most of us know that St. Augustine and Jamestown and Williamsburg came before the Pilgrims, but the Pilgrims are an important part. Maybe I got more Pilgrim coverage growing up in New England, but the House of Burgesses had as much coverage as the Mayflower Compact.


111 posted on 11/04/2021 6:06:44 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: mylife

It is garbage. Fake news


112 posted on 11/05/2021 4:17:42 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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