Most disliked Thanksgiving Day dishes

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[Liz]

LoL.......

[Liz]

Once, on a vacation in Nantucket, I went on a tour of the cranberry bogs.

[ExSafecracker]

I agree. Before they hang me, my last meal request will be greens, black eyed peas and fried okra.

[Albion Wilde]

Cook cranberries in sugar.

I don't even cook the cranberries. I use my grandmother's recipe for "cranberry relish."

I put a bag of cranberries (12 oz) through an old-fashioned meat grinder/food mill with a chopping blade, and then a small juice orange (not navel) through the grinder, rind and all. Stir them together and taste it. With the orange bits and rind, it only requires a little bit of sugar to counteract the tartness of the berries.

It's especially good if you make it ahead one day and put it in the fridge overnight—the tastes blend together so well. The berries stain the orange bits and the white of the rind various shades of red. It's full of Vitamin C. A little bit on your Thanksgiving plate in the mid-afternoon and you'll be peeing a fine stream later that evening.

Here's the old food mill. Put a bowl under the grate and crank that baby:

[mylife]

exactly how I made it as a child.

[SamAdams76]

For quite some time now, I've been keeping my Thanksgivings mostly low carb (with the exception of stuffing).

Around noontime I put out the nuts and cheeses - water crackers for the others. Then a round of scallops wrapped in bacon. Finally out comes the turkey with stuffing. I make the stuffing with a half dozen eggs so it plops out of the turkey cavity in one piece, you can slice it with a knife. I take the dark meat and gizzards, which most others don't want. I never liked the breast meat.

With it I have a sweet potato drenched in butter. That's it. The others can have all the other side dishes. I then go for a nice long walk and spend the rest of the night drinking wine and/or mead.

[Sacajaweau]

everyone knows the taste is in the dark meat...well at least you and i do...

there was a nearby shop that had deep fried gizzards....ummmmm good. also best potato wedges...the trick...roll in seasoned cornstarch...brush most of it off..and fry

[Albion Wilde]

So good! And good for you!

[FamiliarFace]

It’s the worst, isn’t it! I think mucus is an apt description.

[right way right]

Friggin haters.

[Gaffer]

I remember seeing a commercial (Ocean Spray) I think that had two guys standing ankle deep in a bunch of cranberries. Are the ‘bogs’ you’re talking about the same thing?

[Gaffer]

In 1952 Swanson introduced the holiday Turkey TV dinner for $1.09. By 1959 which is when I was talking about they could have been up to a whopping $1.25 or so. Regardless, I AM glad I got what I asked for. The rest of our dinner for my sister and mom was chicken and fixin’s....

A trip back in time:

https://clickamericana.com/topics/food-drink/swanson-frozen-tv-dinners#:~:text=The%20dinner%20weighed%2012%20ounces%20and%20sold%20for,family%E2%80%99s%20poultry%20business%2C%20C.%20A.%20Swanson%20%26%20Sons.

[Liz]

Yes, its very wet.

The low growing cranberry bogs are flooded when the berries ripen. Then the berries are beaten mechanically from the vines.

Cranberries float to the surface, where they are skimmed off, loaded on trucks, and taken to the various processors.

Ocean Spray is a collective that buys the cranberries to make those delicious ridged cans of cranberry sauce.

BTW, New England is noted for growing cranberries....lots of little bogs.

[Vaduz]

Good move