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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.
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To: mylife
I’ll argue that mashed potatoes is not a side dish. Turkey and potatoes is the main dish.
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posted on
11/04/2021 6:59:45 AM PDT
by
jimfr
To: Sacajaweau
Cranberries abound in southern Massachusetts, presumably the pilgrims ate them. Ocean Spray is headquartered in Middleborough, one town over from Plymouth.
Tons of cranberry growing bogs in that area still.
To: KMG365
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:01:57 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
To: the OlLine Rebel
The U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday is based on the story of Pilgrims and Indians sharing many of the types of food that are included on the menu, including turkey and cranberries.
Canadian Thanksgiving, and I am sure others, don't have the same backstory, but the U.S. Thanksgiving is based on a particular event that happened in Massachusetts.
You can celebrate Columbus' Caribbean Thanksgiving if you like, then you can skip the cranberries, and probably the turkey as well.
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:03:56 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
To: mewzilla
...with cinnamon and butter. And, in my case, a wee bit of brown sugar... Yes - but try adding a dash of clove powder also. Mmmmmm...
You can thank me after holiday. (:-)
To: mewzilla
The bananas were on the salad. The pizza came from a local pizza place. The non-chain pizza in Rockford tastes like cardboard. Plenty of Italians there, but the large Scandinavian presence deformed the Italian pizza conscience and corrupted it, perhaps irreparably.
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:05:42 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
To: nuconvert
Ah, the “all you can eat buffet” gambit. ;o)
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:07:05 AM PDT
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
To: mylife
Maine the stuffing state. CT the mashed tater state. I'll take both with that turkey and gravy please.
I like the greenbean/cream of mushroom casserole with the crunchy onions on top, too, but it's not a big hit with the rest of the family.
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:08:33 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: Dr. Sivana
I make my own from scratch these days out of self-defense.
Thanks to much trial and error, mine is really good.
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:08:53 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
To: mylife
S.E. Pa — Mushrooms, a lot of them, cooked in butter until they’re black.
To: Sirius Lee
I like the greenbean/cream of mushroom casserole with the crunchy onions on top, too, but it's not a big hit with the rest of the family. Smart family, with good taste :)
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:11:26 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(Let's make crime illegal again!)
To: Born to Conserve
shrooms sautéed in butter and white wine..
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:13:51 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:14:41 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
To: TontoKowalski
I’m from East Texas, right on the border with Louisiana. We always had cornbread stuffing, sometime collard greens, and sweet potato pie.
I still love the cornbread stuffing, but the rest has gone to the wayside. I just love the look of the turkey on the table, all five children and 2 son in laws sitting around our ‘huge’ table, and listening to the conversations.
A big family is the best treat at Thanksgiving and cannot be beat for these festivities.
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:15:54 AM PDT
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: TontoKowalski
You can’t put enough sweet glop on sweet potatoes to make them edible. I’m sorry… that’s how I feel. I yam what I yam
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:19:39 AM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
(20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: mylife
“I love stuffing”
Turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce are not “sides” — they are the one and only legitimate Thanksgiving Dinner. You may not remove anything from this list, you may add anything you like.
To: Born to Conserve
I put it all on a sangwich the next day, Yom!
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:23:24 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
To: mylife
Minnesota and Missouri’s pick of a charcuterie tray.
Had to look that up. Big Hickory Farms box and some fruit on the side. Our families night before Christmas snack fest before bedtime. Great memories and good pictures.
PCSed to Germany just before Christmas with no furniture in the house and little food, but Grandma had sent us the largest Hickory Farms box available and we lay on the floor, picking and eating and laughing most of that first night.
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:23:26 AM PDT
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: wbarmy
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:24:51 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun..)
To: mylife
Oyster stuffing with dinner and Williamsburg Peanut Soup for starter.
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posted on
11/04/2021 7:28:09 AM PDT
by
kalee
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