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For Thanksgiving, I do not care for sweet potatoes with marshmellows. Sweet potatoes are ok with cinnamon butter. I really do not care for store bought brown gravy. I do like turkey gravy much better.
For Christmas, I do not care for canned cranberry spread. The real deal or pass on it. I don't like candy canes. Fruitcake is one and done, eggnog is one and done. I am starting not to care for asparagus. Plus, it makes your pee reek.
For New Year's, there is some tradition that I do not value about black eyed peas. I put them up there with lima beans on stuff I do not like.
At this point with today's economy and the fact everything has doubled except my pay check I'm just grateful I have food, a roof and an Oldsmobile
Of course I fend for my self mountain man style and only eat fast food with proper fixins. Fruit cakes of all kinds...hard pass!
Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before we know it, along with all the dee-lishus food associated with them.
However... I know there's bound to be some foods associated with the holidays that you can't stand.
For me it's those damned Danish butter cookies. If I were able to outlaw ONE holiday food, those nasty things would be it.
One of my aunts would give all her in-laws a tin of them for Christmas every year. I can't tell you the times the new tin would come and the last year's hadn't been opened. No one in the house liked them.
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And I still don't.😛
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My MIL has been on a "health food" kick for about 10yrs now. Every Thanksgiving, there's a staple dish that gets modified into something gross. She won't get me this year! For example: yes, avocado brownies are as disgusting as they sound.
I remember the 1st Thanksgiving dinner that my wife cooked for us. We were still just living together at the time. She said one of the sides was going to be candied yams. Now, yams are a personal holiday favorite of mine so I couldn't wait.
Thanksgiving comes around and out comes mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows on them. I'd never seen that before, so I asked her, and she said that that is how they do it where she was from (Texas). I put on a brave face but couldn't stand them.
Needless to say, I took over the candied yam duties from that time forward (35 years and counting).
Another holiday food I can't stand are those decorative peppermint holiday candies. Anyone of a certain age will remember seeing a bowlful of them at their grandmother's house during the holidays. They were all twisted into weird shapes and didn't even taste very good. I'd swear that my Grandmom actually used the same candies every year and just dusted them off before putting them out.
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Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before we know it, along with all the dee-lishus food associated with them.
However... I know there's bound to be some foods associated with the holidays that you can't stand.
For me it's those damned Danish butter cookies. If I were able to outlaw ONE holiday food, those nasty things would be it.
One of my aunts would give all her in-laws a tin of them for Christmas every year. I can't tell you the times the new tin would come and the last year's hadn't been opened. No one in the house liked them.
And I still don't.😛
I hate to admit, I do love those Danish Butter Cookies in the Navy Blue tin!
There is one other thing that I can't stand from the holiday meal standpoint...
When we were kids, my Mom would have us drink 1 glass of wine with our Thanksgiving dinner. I guess if we had a choice or if it was good wine things might be different, but it was Blue Nun.
This turned me off of wine for the rest of my life. I can't stand the stuff.
For special occasions, including Thanksgiving, my Grandmother made Butterscotch Pie from scratch, everything crust thru Meringue topping.
As a kid I turned my nose up at it but everyone in the family that remembers it absolutely raves about it.
Don't recall every trying it, my loss...
Many things are either exported from a country, or made in the destination country and claimed to be exported, that no one in the original country ever uses. Corona beer comes to mind.
Many things are either exported from a country, or made in the destination country and claimed to be exported, that no one in the original country ever uses. Corona beer comes to mind.
Corona - any beer that you have to add something to (limes and lemons) to make it taste OK, is not worth drinking.
But, there's a story behind that lime, the Mexicans put a lime on top of the beer to keep the flies off it. Apparently flies do not like lime and will not land on them. It's the Americans, myself included, who squash it and push it down into the bottle.
I would have to agree with several posters I am not very fond of the sweet potatoes with marshmallow, I can handle a plain baked sweet potato with a little butter or sweet potato fries but that's about it. Other than that there are not many holiday fixins I don't like unless there are lima beans in it.
I have never been a big veggie guy but over the last couple of years for health reasons I have been forced to explore options and I have to admit my daughters can come up with some very creative veggie dishes !! my middle daughter makes a roasted/grilled veggie dish with peppers and goat cheese that is outstanding and I request it for every holiday now .
Hope all your holidays find you and your families well !!
