Many dishes are traditional and some are oldies from our family memories on Thanksgiving (like creamed onions for me). There are, however, some foods many at the table refuse to eat. Two out of three of my kids, even though they are grown, still refuse to try or eat turnips.
Do you have something you just cannot stand to eat but it always turns up (no turnip pun intended) on the Thanksgiving table?
when I was 10 years old, I got into my mom's Watergate Salad the night before thanksgiving. I had the worst stomach ache from eating so much of it, and to this day, I can not stomach even the smell of it.
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the other thing is bacon wrapped fried chicken livers. my uncle HAD to make these every year for appetizers.
I love beets, brussel sprouts, asparagus, fiddleheads and cranberry sauce/jelly. All these, one or more of my kids/grandkids won't eat.
I refuse to eat parsnips, can't even stand the smell of them cooking, and I don't eat liver, kidney or steak and kidney pie.
GA Judy - have you ever tried mashing carrots and turnip together with a little brown sugar? Our kids/grandkids can't get enough of it.
My family had the same can of cranberry sauce for years. We wouldn't even open it, just put the can on the table for the meal and then put it back in the cupboard until next year. We had a guest one year who was like " Oh great, cranberry sauce, I love it." We were like "it is a family joke, that can is at least 5 years old."
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...GA Judy - have you ever tried mashing carrots and turnip together with a little brown sugar? Our kids/grandkids can't get enough of it.
Alex, it's a mental thing with the grown kids! One of my 3 will eat the turnips, DH won't along with the other kids and their spouses. I doubt the mashed carrots and brown sugar would make a difference. They like cooked carrots but don't eat mashed (gooey) stuff much. And they did so well with baby food. 8) I'm enjoying the faces my 6 mo. old twin grandsons make now that they are experiencing different baby foods. They love peas and sweet potatoes so far - maybe not the pears and bananas so much yet - but they share the adults' pinched faces when something "new" comes along. So cute in babies, not so much in adults. ;D
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