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OT - What holiday dish do you LOATHE?

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:05pm

Everyone has their favorite dishes during the holiday season and I confess that I luuuuuurrrrrrvvv the glazed ham I make (skids love it, too, d@mmit). But there is one popular dish that I 110% LOATHE (and a coworker is bringing it in next week...):

GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE

First of all, I utterly detest green beans. The trigger my gag reflex in a HUGE way. And those crunchy onion thingies on top? Blech!! All-in-all, I think it's a terrible thing to do to a can of Cream of Shroom soup.

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Submitted by ProbablyAlready... on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:12pm

I second this. I DON't do all that jello or jello salad crap everyone and their dog tries to make for Christmas!

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Submitted by ProbablyAlready... on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:17pm

It's basically jello cubes, canned fruit, and a whipped cream mixed up into one big mess. Or my grandma used to make a "green jello salad" with broccoli in it that was even worse. lol

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Submitted by mro on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 3:07pm

Isn't that what they call "ambrosia"? I agree. Yuck.

On the other hand, I LOOVE green bean casserole, fried onions and all.

My least fav? Sweet potatoes with sugar and marshmallows added. Love them plain and roasted though. Too sweet for me with all that other stuff.

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 7:10am

Ambrosia in my family's recipe does NOT contain jello. The base is made with sour cream.

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Thu, 12/07/2017 - 8:56am

Ambrosia

11oz can mandarin oranges, drained
8oz can pineapple chunks, drained
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup maraschino cherries, drained and halved
1 cup sour cream

In a large bowl, combine the oranges, pineapple, marshmallows, coconut, and cherries.
Add sour cream and toss to mix.
Cover and refrigerate for several hours.

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Submitted by DPW on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:17pm

I can honestly say that I've never had one of those fancy jello desserts and I plan on dying without ever having tried one! lol

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Submitted by Myss.Tique D'Off on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:29pm

What the hell is jello salad and what sort of demented person makes it? :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop:

Anyone over 8 who eats JELLY is mad.
Impertinent Yanks!!
I had to look up what you renamed once again ... It is called JELLY when you speak English from England. Smile

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Submitted by witch.hazel on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:51pm

My MIL, who is an old, American Jewish woman, makes a barfy spread for each holiday. One time the first course was a wine flavored Jello mold with walnuts inside, served on top of lettuce. That is supposedly something passed on through her family. There's always gefilte fish, sometimes chopped liver, dry chicken breast in this orange, sweet sauce. Her brisket is orange as well. Someone brings a kugel, which is the only palatable food present. I prefer Sephardic Jewish food for the holidays- so much better!

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Submitted by Myss.Tique D'Off on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 2:15pm

Sounds delightful. :jawdrop:

I don't like German or central European food - main dishes. If it isn't boiled to death, it is cabbaged up or vinegared and not spiced or herbed. Often it is not fresh, the vegetables are starchy, potatoes and turnips staring back at you in a steaming pile. And salad?? What's that? Heavy breads that you can smack someone to death with and clear soups that look like it comes out of a drain pipe. Questionable sausages that probably died five years ago. Yuck!
They do make some extra-ordinary delicious cakes and pastries!!

(Traditional British food is as bad. Gross. You can use the same descriptions above for what passes as British food. At least a fried Mars bar shows some flair.)

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Submitted by witch.hazel on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 3:30pm

Ew! Great description, though. Identifying with the old af food. All my MIL's food is old as H*ll. I would like DH to put her in a nursing home before she poisons herself.

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Submitted by DPW on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:09pm

I AGREE!!! I never understood this "fancied-up", green beans from a can, with disgusting onion bits on it and cream sauce dish. Ugh.

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Submitted by Myss.Tique D'Off on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:17pm

Green beans?? OMG - gross!!!!
I swear Satan eats this stuff. Probably invented it too.

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Submitted by Myss.Tique D'Off on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:25pm

Aniki, you have excellent taste in food. As seen in the marvellous recipes you prepare. You are a lady after my own heart too!!

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Submitted by DaizyDuke on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:13pm

Anything with corn. GROSS!!!

Around Thanksgiving time, my BS7 spotted a display of fruitcake at the grocery store. He asked me what it was and if we should get some. I said gross, nobody eats that crap, can't even believe they are selling it. Sunday we were at the same grocery store and BS7 pointed out that the same display of fruitcake was there and not even one was missing. I said "See?? I told you!!!" Smile But seriously does ANYBODY eat fruitcake????

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Submitted by ProbablyAlready... on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:15pm

My great uncle not only eats it but MAKES it in bulk for Christmas... He literally gave us one every year... I tried it once... NEVER AGAIN. However his rum truffles I will inhale.

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Submitted by classyNJ on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:17pm

Um I eat fruitcake. My mom just bought me one yesterday LOL I am the only one in both our families that eat it. My Oma made the best.

I like corn but add cream to it? NOOOOOOO Creamed anything is NASTY

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:18pm

There are 2 places from which I buy AND eat the fruitcake: The Jampot and Wood'n Spoon. Those monks make some LETHAL fruitcake and it is heavenly!!

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:53pm

Blue Moon, I've had some craptastic fruitcake, but now know where to buy it!

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Submitted by Cover1W on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:59pm

I tried some really good fruitcake as an adult - sliced it super, super thin and it was amazing. So good with champagne or port as well. The key is it has to be good and it has to be sliced thin.

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 2:37pm

Agreed - slice fruitcare VERY thinly. The monks' fruitcake is so rich, I think more than one thin slice would make me sick!

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Submitted by mro on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 3:01pm

I have this great corn souffle recipe, frozen corn (never canned, Yuck), Velveeta, eggs, and milk.

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Submitted by mro on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 3:06pm

They say there's really only one fruitcake in the world, it just gets regifted from person to person LOL

But seriously my Dad in Texas sent me this amazing fruitcake one year. None of those glow in the dark green and red fruit bits. It was the real stuff and was incredible.

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Submitted by momjeans on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:14pm

Mmmm. I love green bean casserole. I use Pioneer Woman’s recipe. All real ingredients, none of those funky prepackaged French fried onions. Blech!

I love almost ALL the foods, but I really loathe anything that’s “sugar free”, involves jello, or involves corn flakes cereal baked on top (thinking of a particular southern casserole my ex MIL used to make.)

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:23pm

"Sugar free" usually means it has some vile sugar substitute. That caca all tastes like chemically-laden pool water. Plah!!!

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Submitted by Cover1W on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 2:06pm

LOL.

One of my friends is a super good baker.
She tries a lot of "healthier" sugar free baked goods with various substitutes and I am usually her guinea pig. Because if it's got one iota of fake taste I will taste it.

And that's pretty much everything.
I think she snuck in some agave in a rich chocolate brownie once but that's all I can remember.

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Submitted by momjeans on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 3:14pm

I can taste it too.

Artificial sweeteners are dangerous. Not a fan.

Of course, I’m open to natural sweetener alternatives.

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Submitted by classyNJ on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:15pm

The Jelly cranberry sauce. That stuff that comes out of the can looking like the can. EWWWWWW

But I LOVE homemade cranberry sauce.

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Submitted by Tuff Noogies on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 1:41pm

i don't like most veggies as it is, but boil it or saute it until it's mushy as h3ll, then add mayo and sour cream (cheese optional), top with ritz crackers and bake it down even further? um, i'd have to pass, even if i liked squash...

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Submitted by Cover1W on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 2:07pm

I like green beans. Fresh french green beans sauteed in olive oil, salt/pepper and a bit of garlic are great.

But I loathe, loathe canned green beans in any form.
That casserole? ONLY canned beans. Don't touch them.

I also hate marshmallows. Put a marshmallow of any kind on any thing, in anything, and I'm done with that.

I'll eat any other holiday thing really. Not too picky.

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Submitted by Pear on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 2:25pm

Anything where the chef used Cool Whip. Whipped cream is delicious, the manufactured abomination is not.

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Submitted by Thumper on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 4:43pm

CRANBERRY SAUSE

EWWWW, it sucks my lips together and gives me goose bumps. THAT is no joke.

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 7:18am

StepRightOff, there are countless recipes that people ruin by putting their own "personal spin" on them. Or when people substitute an ingredient that is in NO way comparable to the original ingredient.

How about the people who taste a recipe you've spent years perfecting, claim they can make it BETTER, and actually ruin? A friend of mine shared her Blueberry Bread recipe with another friend, who "improved" it. Oh.Em.Gee. There was so much cinnamon in the damn thing, you could not taste ANYTHING but cinnamon. The wonderful flavor of all of those wild blueberries was smothered under an overwhelming blanket of cinnamon, :O

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Submitted by Acratopotes on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 2:29am

tripe.... :sick: :sick: :sick:

every Christmas day...

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 7:11am

Tripe?! :sick: :sick: :sick:

Although I hear it's good in menudo...

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Submitted by Acratopotes on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 7:13am

I think it might be the wrong name lol...

tribe is stomach.... I'm talking about a real combo here, sheep's head and stomach with hooves... :sick: :sick:

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Submitted by Acratopotes on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 7:31am

}:) }:) }:) when are you coming for a visit lol

dang some people oven bake the whole sheeps head... google... gebakte skaapkop