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What's the annual Thanksgiving "bleh" (Original Post) Texasgal Nov 2012 OP
Sweet potatoes with mini marshmallows. geardaddy Nov 2012 #1
sweet potato soufle NightWatcher Nov 2012 #2
Creamed onions. MiddleFingerMom Nov 2012 #3
I'm afraid to ask.. Texasgal Nov 2012 #5
No, no, no, though they ARE saucy little vixens... in the end they'd just leave me crying. MiddleFingerMom Nov 2012 #8
Oh. Wow. Texasgal Nov 2012 #10
Riceballs with bolognese sauce dexterborg Nov 2012 #4
Anything and everything involving sweet potatoes or yams except... Taverner Nov 2012 #6
Sweet potato anything. Gak. sarge43 Nov 2012 #7
Any of those HappyMe Nov 2012 #9
We don't do the "bleh" stuff, but if you want a recipe... HopeHoops Nov 2012 #11
Anything with Kool Whip or marshmellows in or on or near it. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #12
UGH. Texasgal Nov 2012 #14
It has all your Southern food groups: dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #17
None of us eat my mom's candied yams. LWolf Nov 2012 #13
I have an aunt like that... Chan790 Nov 2012 #15
You're right. nt LWolf Nov 2012 #20
I am going to be kicked out of Texas for this but it is pecan pie. texanwitch Nov 2012 #16
That's alright.. Texasgal Nov 2012 #18
This, I have had it for a month strait. I will be having it for thanksgiving. BLEH! Lady Freedom Returns Nov 2012 #19

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. sweet potato soufle
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 01:36 PM
Nov 2012

it's eerily too close to a dessert to be called a side dish. If you like sweet, eat a pie. If you want veggies, eat veggies. Make up your mind and stop trying to have one dish that is all things to all people. My people go crazy for sweet potatoes.

Oh, and that cranberry thing that is shaped like the can.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
7. Sweet potato anything. Gak.
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 01:45 PM
Nov 2012

On the other, loves me some green bean casserole and succotash - like Mom used to make.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
9. Any of those
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 01:53 PM
Nov 2012

sickening sweet side dishes. I will have cake or pie for dessert, keep that sweet crap off of my dinner plate.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
12. Anything with Kool Whip or marshmellows in or on or near it.
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 02:14 PM
Nov 2012

Down here, trifle recipes grow like kudzu.
"All you have to do is take some gelatin, some marshmellows, some cream cheese, blend it all up and pour into a trifle bowl, alternating with Double packed Oreos. Serve with Kool whip on top."

Sorta the universal recipe, far as I can tell.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
17. It has all your Southern food groups:
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 03:37 PM
Nov 2012

sugar and fat.
So far they have not figured out a way to deep fry it, but I suspect it is on the horizon.
Plus, you hardly have to chew, you can kinda just inhale it in.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
13. None of us eat my mom's candied yams.
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 02:37 PM
Nov 2012

She always brings it, reminds us that we forgot it on the menu, and then can't believe that nobody but she wants any.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
15. I have an aunt like that...
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 03:18 PM
Nov 2012

except it's not candied yams, it's my grandmother's recipe for tuna and potato salad.

We all miss and love grandma...but lets just say that those fishy taters were something we were not upset none of us had ever learned the recipe for...until my aunt started bringing them to everything. We started assigning her other things to bring and she brings them anyways.

None of us complain though: they just smell bad, don't get eaten and stay in the kitchen. They remind us of grandma. I dare suggest that someday uneaten as they may be, you'll miss the presence of those infernal yams.

texanwitch

(18,705 posts)
16. I am going to be kicked out of Texas for this but it is pecan pie.
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 03:24 PM
Nov 2012

I do not like pecan pie.

I can pick pecans all day, enjoy doing.

Just don't like what is in the shell.

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