BRITISH FAMILY REACTS! Regional Thanksgiving Foods in the USA!
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Aidan, Gaynor and Sophie take a look at some of the most popular foods you would find in different states on thanksgiving.
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I'm African American, and I can say baked mac and cheese and collard greens are staple side dishes in most households during any get together. Sweet potatoe pie is another staple. Most families will go all out with way more food than needed. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite traditions.
And chittlings
It isn’t an African American thing tho… those are southerners dishes found at all southerners get togethers
@@fuqnazitube5941 Yeah, so much of what I grew up with in Alabama is called 'soul food' because the yankees were not familiar with them except from black migrants to their areas. But then when I have those foods I grew up with, I am accused of 'cultural appropriation'.
@@fuqnazitube5941 no they’re are African American dishes spread to European people because of slavery. Which is why you find in these food more in the south. For example, yams comes from Africa, and was brought by the slaves, during the slave trade. When they could get a hold of yams they incorporated sweet potatoes as a substitute. George Washington slave who was named Hercules Posey brought mac and cheese to the states when he came from France.
@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 because they’re black influence because of the slave trade. Southern white people and black southern black eat the same thing because are history is intertwined. But yeah it started with the slaves
Aidan and sophie are so sheltered 😂😂
The black bits are wild rice. It has a nutty flavor it's very good!
Love wild rice.
I love the texture of wild rice as well
The major difference with the macaroni cheese for the holidays is that it’s homemade baked macaroni and cheese, which is different than like ready-made box macaroni cheese many people have for a typical dinner. Homemade macaroni and cheese is baked in the oven and uses fresh ingredients whereas the ready-made one is cooked on stove tops with you know the box ingredients. I live in New York State and I have family in the south and we just grew up with it being a staple, a must for holiday events.
This is the second food reaction video of yours that I've watched and whenever Aidan sees a dish he's unfamiliar with he always has this look on his face like he just swallowed a bug. Bet he's a picky eater at home.
Acorn squash baked in the shell with alittle cinnamon brown sugar and butter 😋
Love those in the Fall. A Wisconsin staple
@@MeanLaQueefa Yes it's a fall staple here I look forward to😊
We make it here in the northeast, too. Sometimes, I substitute real maple syrup for the brown sugar.
@@iamme6773 I"m in the northeast too(NY) . I've never tried it with syrup I'll have to try it!
I think the candied yams you remember are the same as what Geography King and would call sweet potatoes. The ones you describe are whole or chunks in a baking dish with the glaze on. I don’t know for sure what’s in that but I guess brown sugar. This is what I remember from MI. I’ve also had the mashed in the pan with marshmallows variety. The best way for me is to just bake like regular potato then add butter. They’re perfectly sweet on their own and a bit of butter sets it off.
When we lived in Mexico City some nights we would buy from the sweet potato vendor in the park some of the baked sweet potatoes he was selling and would put butter and salt on them for supper. Those potatoes were huge. And they tasted better with just butter and salt. I have eaten sweet potatoes like a regular baked potato with butter ,salt , and some sour cream.
Quite a few Mexican- and German- Americans in our area. Maybe that's why I encountered it that way. don't see it much around everywhere.
In my experience, stuffing and dressing are basically the same. Only difference is how it's cooked. Stuffing is cooked in the turkey while dressing is cooked in a separate dish.
Green bean casserole, corn casserole, broccoli and cheese casserole..all of those are top notch if prepared correctly 👌👌
I was married into a Mexican family back in my twenties, and the tamales were the best part of dinner with the in-laws for the holidays. Store-bought tamales can be dry and a little tasteless, but real, authentic, handmade tamales are amazing.
I like putting leftovers on a frying pan and a bit of oil for breakfast! With some sour cream and Valentina hot sauce 😋
I help my family make 50 pounds of fresh tamales every Christmas and they’re amazing. And since I help make them, I get first pickings when they’re cooked and the sooner you can get them after they’re finished, the better they are
For some reason Mississippi has great tamales. Not sure how that happened, but it's a thing.
Lol the craziest thing I've ever seen is tamales in a can
I have live in the North East for over fifty years and eaten Thanksgiving dinner with a wide variety of family and friends from all over the NE. I've never encountered shoofly pie or indian pudding [or even heard them mentioned] and never even heard of grape pie.
One thing we used to eat decades ago was Lima beans. To my knowledge it was one of the crops the native americans taught the Puritans to grow together along with squash and corn/maize - know as the three sisters. No one seems to eat lima beans anymore [I was never a big fan of them].
if you're interested there's a family in New Zealand that makes a real Thanksgiving American dinner and tries it on camera for the first time for all their American subscribers I would love for you to react to them since they did such a fabulous job making each dish and choosing the right dish to try their reactions and description of each thanksgiving dish they try a bit of may help you understand its flavors and what it would taste like if you ate it
the title of that video is called
New Zealand Family Celebrates THANKSGIVING For the First Time! (Never tried turkey or pumpkin pie)
please youtube that title and react to it here! love you guys bye
@@shynobody3191 I 2nd that, GO ATLANTA!!! She’s such a great young cook 🧑🏼🍳 I really hope she goes far with her skills. She has way more knowledge of food than I did at that age. Course the internet wasn’t quite around in the 70s! 😂 ✌🏻
@@cynsi7604 yes! i agree and their family is so joyful goofy and nice to each other they are a great channel!
@@shynobody3191 here! here! I completely agree and I can't wait for them to come to the US I just home when they come they stay together keep a look out where ever they go and make sure to stay safe when they go out and about cuz its getting scary out in public nowadays 😬
Food differs by region, ethnicity, local food availability , and customs. Because the US is culturally diverse, people will add items close to their culture.
Dressing is the same as stuffing.
Some items are starter or appetizers served before dinner is served.
If you visit cooking websites, you'll find diverse dinner menu selections. Not every family serves the same thing.
Not everyone uses marshmallows on candied sweet potatoes. Pecans are found in Georgia and other Southern states where the tree grows.
Yeah, my friend’s family was of Italian heritage and they always had pasta at Thanksgiving
Dressing is cooked separately, stuffing is cooked inside the bird.
Even though Georgia is known as the peach state, South Carolina produces more peaches than any state.
I’m with Gaynor. Green Bean Casserole with the creamy mushroom soups and crunchy fried onions is my favorite Thanksgiving side dish.
It just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving without it.
Yep
Yes a must...i make two kinds since a family member can't eat mushrooms I made one batch with Alfredo sauce and it was amazing..try it
Love green bean casserole!
Me too 🤤🤤🤤
*i always got mashed potates, stuffing, turkey, dinner bread butter rolls, all on 1 plate drenched in gravy*
Tamales are very popular also in Florida. You have to put in an order a couple weeks before Christmas.
"Too much fruit" in the pies! Jeez, never heard of deep dish fruit pies? Absolutely the best way to use the abundance of fruit that happens to grow in your area. Deep dish fresh peach pie, with a lard and butter lattice top crust and a touch of almond extract in the filling, served warm with vanilla ice cream. I used to make huge pie like this from our back yard tree for 4th of July!
When he was covering sweet potatoes, I think he was showing some pictures of candied yams but treating them like sweet potatoes. They aren't the same thing, but they're commonly mistaken for the same thing.
I've noticed lots of British RUclipsrs that have not tried or don't like nuts. I find that interesting. Just had a salad, added almonds to it instead of croutons.
My mother would make dressing with crumbled cornbread, crumbled white bread, drippings from the turkey, sautéed onion and celery, sage and thyme and beaten eggs to bind everything together and bake separate from the turkey, then make a gravy from the giblets from the turkey.
My mom and maw maw never followed a recipe. I tried to learn their recipes, but it was so hard because nothing was written down.
Yes!! Mine too. So good
Deep fried turkey
Baked Ham
Potato salad
Green bean casserole
Macaroni and cheese
Sweet peas
Seafood gumbo
Cornbread/oyster dressing
Cranberry sauce from a can (maybe)
Sweet potato pie
Lemon meringue pie
Corn bread dressing is the best, but no oysters please. My Mama makes a lemon pie every year, without the meringue, so yes your menu sounds good.
Don't forget the dinner rolls and buckets of gravy.
What about Cool Hwip? You can't have pie without Cool Hwip.
@@benjaminodem392 I love frozen cool whip on Graham crackers
No 2 families have the same thanksgiving spread, which is why thanksgiving is so great😊
He left out Pumpkin Pie which is a STAPLE for thanksgiving in almost every state...along with deviled eggs, seven layer salad (best salad ever) and fruit salad along with homemade noodles with turkey broth, mashed potatoes with turkey gravy , stuffing and chocolate pie with cool whip on top. And by the way...most peach pies have very soft peaches after baked and are simply wonderful as they melt in your mouth without chunks as you call them, expecially when the crust is baked just right to a golden brown with a sugar and milk glaze over the to that looks like a winter frost...absolutely amazing
this video was more about regional only dishes
Lately I've been sprinkling crumbled bacon on top of my deviled eggs.
@@jjw1072 if you like olives they are wonderful diced up in deviled eggs also...I usually make some of each kind and put them out for thanksgiving...bacon is so good on them as well. I dont like them as well with paprika on them for some reason.
I am from the southern US and I had only heard about pumpkin pie but had never had it until I moved to the northeastern US. Pumpkin pie is still not popular in the south, where I am from.
@@2436golden You have got to be joking! Pumpkin & Pecan pies are the two most Southern pies for Thanksgiving with Sweet Potato thrown in. You must live in that southern state in lower FL. Really? How old are you? Or as we say “you’re not from around here are you?” 😂 ✌🏻
Huckleberries grow in pine forests, and often in fairly remote areas. They are very difficult to cultivate because of the specific growing conditions that they require. They are also a favored food for Bears. They look like small blueberries, but are more tart. getting enough to make much out of them is a lot of work, While delicious, they are difficult to find, and most people who bother keep their picking spots secret. These are only some of the reasons that they are so limited in availability, which makes them very special.
saying you have too many berries in a pie is like saying you have too much money in the bank
Mashed potatoes and gravy! That's Thanksgiving. Yes you can have it anytime, but that gravy from the turkey drippings, the best.
My house has Turkey, Dressing(Stuffing) Sweet potatoes, Turkey gravy on the turkey and dressing, Cranberry sauce(from the can) and Pumpkin pie or Pecan(usually Pumpkin) We have the same meal at Christmas as well(we love it) Here in California we have a huge Mexican population and they usually have the turkey dinner at Thanksgiving but have Tamales at Christmas and they usually share with us(yummy) ☺ Stuffing is called stuffing if its stuffed in the turkey if its cooked separately its called dressing ☺
Fun reaction. Jeez you guys are picky eaters! Candied yams are delicious. There’s usually turkey and maybe ham and then a ton of sides to choose from. Thanksgiving is meant to be a harvest feast really so you can kind of mix and match what you want. And there are usually at least a couple of desserts to choose from. It can have a pot luck feel to it because guests will usually bring a dish or two. My favorite part of the video is Aiden stating adamantly he’s never tried something and mom saying yes you have. Haha Trust mom she probably remembers more of your life than you do 😂
Turkey/Mashed Potatoes & Gravy/Cream Corn/Green Bean Casserole/Yams/Rolls or Biscuits/Pumpkin & Berry Pie with Whipped Cream or Ice Cream/Glazed Carrots/Brussel Sprouts/Stuffing.
Can't argue with any of that.
If yall skip Georgia you will be missing out, best barbecue, best vegetable, best pecan pie, best low country boil, the best peach cobbler. I could go on but it's up to yall what you want to try
If you buy salted mixed nuts, pecans are typically part of the mix in the US.
Green bean casserole sounds weird but is absolutely delicious
Throw in some fried onions on top count me in. 😊
Really good with Alfredo sauce instead of cream of mushroom soup and topped with Swiss cheese!!
Dressing is stuffing cooked outside of the turkey while stuffing is cooked inside the bird.
Typically pies don’t tend to be chunky but coblers and drop cakes are because the dish is intended to be that way. But for example cherry pie and apple pie even can have a smooth filling without the chunky bits
It is baked Mac n Cheese. A big difference. I’m from Chicago. But, 3 of my grandparents are from Alabama. Also, peach cobbler is delicious.
In one county in very southern Maryland where I am from many people have a stuffed ham along with the turkey. It is a corned ham stuffed with a kale, cabbage and onion stuffing. The vegetable’s are chopped fine with seasonings. You usually have the butcher cut pockets (holes) into the ham where you put the stuffing in. Then you put the ham in a pillow case or wrap it with cheesecloth and you boil it for many hours depending how large your ham is. It’s popular for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. I believe it was developed by the slaves here when they had slaves. It is delicious.
Interesting! We never did that in AA county, but it sounds delicious.
My stuffing consists of cornbread and white bread. I add sausage, onions, celery, red pepper, turkey broth, and seasonings..yummy my favorite food at Thanksgiving!
Mac & cheese is always a winner for families that have kids. My young cousin would only eat Mac & cheese and a hot buttered roll for our Thanksgiving meal. Now I always make it for my picky grandchildren.
I love that Gaynor's sales pitch for that cauliflower dish is that it doesn't taste like cauliflower. That's about right. Nobody wants to eat anything that actually tastes like cauliflower.
It's not just that traditional Thanksgiving dishes vary among regions, they also vary among different ethnic groups, too. That map at 4:00 is misleading because you have to remember that Thanksgiving is not just a dinner, but a feast. There are always multiple side dishes, sweet or mashed potatoes, stuffing or dressing, several vegetables, and several desserts.
Dressing and Stuffing are basically he same thing, Stuffing is baked directly inside the Turkey and Dressing just baked in a Casserole dish. Delicious with gravy on it!
No, they're not. I love dressing but can't stand stuffin'. Two totally different worlds.
@@kikibigbangfan3540 Really ? I didn't know this was an argument.
@@dilbertdoe601 was I commenting to you? No! Not to mention I was stating my opinion on the stuffing/ dressing debate. Next!!!
@@kikibigbangfan3540 Relax ❄️. It's not the end of the world.
@@kikibigbangfan3540 The person you initially responded to wasn't commenting to you either. It's almost like if you comment on a public forum people you weren't talking directly to might respond. Crazy...
Thanksgiving =turkey, Christmas = ham
Green bean casserole is amazing. Sweet potato casserole is great as well.
You don't slice into the turkey to get the stuffing. Stuffing is inside the turkey. They pull the stuffing out of the turkey prior to serving. It is believed that since the interior of the turkey doesn't reach a high temperature, that bacteria can survive. Dressing is prepared outside the Turkey. Normally the same ingredients.
I’m from the northeast part of the US and my family’s thanksgiving meal is typically Mac and cheese, scalloped corn (mixing cream corn and whole corn with different ingredients like sugar, salt, pepper, eggs, and milk and we top it with crushed ritz crackers and bake it), mashed potatoes, green beans with bacon, ham, turkey, broccoli rice and cheese, jellied cranberries, and of course bread rolls. The dessert my family would have is homemade sweet potato pie.
As we like to say in the South, I have a bone to pick with a geography King. I'm not sure how long he's lived in Tennessee but he's definitely not from here. It is never called stuffing if it's made from corn bread. It is called dressing. I've also lived in south Georgia and Florida and it was dressing there too. That's because we don't stuff it in the turkey. We bake it as a side dish and usually mix in some kind of broth from either the turkey or chicken to add flavor and make it a little bit moist.
I make a cranberry side dish that also includes Mandarin oranges, finely chopped peaches and apples.
There is a difference between yams and sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are a little smaller, softer and sweeter. Everyone has their own recipe for sweet potato casserole. Mine is to mash the sweet potatoes after cooking them in the microwave until soft. I add crushed pineapple and a small bit of brown sugar then bake in a casserole dish until bubbly. Finally, put your favorite topping on and brown the topping a little bit in the oven. My family prefers mini marshmallows on top. Don't knock it till you've tried it.😊
THANK YOU!! Over that “lil ol’ mountain” in NC 👋🏻 hey! I’m glad that there is someone else that knows that there’s a difference between Sweet Potato & Yam, texture is one thing. The dressing thing. Half of my family is from the Deep South & the other half Smokey Mountain foothills and we have NEVER stuffed a turkey 🦃!!! It’s always been DRESSING!! But oh YUM 🤤 on the dressing, especially my Mawmaw from MS who died in 1979 (not near around long enough). But no one could/can make it like her. ✌🏻
Aiden, having not had a peach is literally a plot point in an episode of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I am dying laughing, I don’t want to spoil it
Gaynor, I’m with you on the green bean casserole. My wife used to make make it every Thanksgiving before she passed away. I’ve tried to make it (it’s an easy recipe), but it just doesn’t taste the same as hers.
Dressing and stuffing are the same thing. Usually stuffing is just that, it's cooked stuffed inside the bird. Dressing is cooked outside of the bird. The stuffing is taken out of the turkey before carving. It's a food safety issue to leave it in. Also, it's easier to carve after the stuffing is removed.
The poor kids in this video need to expand their culinary horizons.
There are definitely regional and cultural differences of the selections you may get for dinner. In the South you get a lot of everything, that's why you need to take a nap Between the rounds of eating...lol!😂😊
If I'm not mistaken he did mention Candied yams. It's A dish my family has every holiday and in between holidays too...lol!
We always have brocolli casserole here in illinois and its amazing. And lots of stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top. Also yams are pretty common like gaynor said. and bread rolls, you cant forget the bread rolls.
Greenbean casserole is always in the south all states
Yams and sweet potatoes look similar, however, sweet potaties originate in the New World (the Americas). Yams are found in Africa and Asia. The flesh is different in each.
11:31 Yes Sophie, chocolate sprinkles in a Wild Rice hotdish. WOOSH!!!! Somebody wasn't paying attention.
I think with so many different cultures in the US, immigrants tend to add their traditions to the Thanksgiving dinner. My family adds a roast pork, rice and beans to go along with some of the traditional Thanksgiving feast. My husband is Italian so some of his traditions have been added as well. It all depends on who wants to cook what. There's no right or wrong. It's all about family and being thankful for everything you have.
Turducken with roasted potatoes. Yum.
South Carolina and Georgia are the two peach states.Texas is a huge producer of pecans.
This is a VERY broad overview of what can be had but every family does it a bit different. Most Americans are a vast amalgamation of different cultures and people moving from all over the country and world and they bring their family traditions with them. In my family we have a couple of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" and now their families. We have African food items slowly entering our family for get togethers and Holidays. This to go along with our own Swedish and Finnish festive foods. All the food is wonderful though!
Mac and cheese throughout the year is usually more cheap instant versions. On Thanksgiving most foods are prepared from scratch, so it's still unique.
I think nuts are in so many dishes because the trees are full of pecans in the fall. You can go for a walk and pick up a bag full of them in the fall where I live.
Missourian here! Growing up my family always had Baked Turkey, Dressing with Giblet gravy, Green Bean Casserole, Glazed Sweet Potatoes, Homemade Cranberry Sauce, Dinner rolls, and both Pecan and Pumpkin pies with lots of fresh whipped cream for dessert!! Great video
deviled eggs are the bomb. Last Thanksgiving, I was lazy so I made deviled eggs to bring to my brothers house. I made 48. Only 24 actually made it to my brothers house. My mom brought deviled eggs too (4 dozen) wait, to clarify, a dozen is 12 for those of yall on the metric system. lol anyway... There are three dishes that people can duplicate 2 or 3 times and never get to be bought home as leftovers. Deviled eggs, green bean casserole, and augraten potatoes drowning in mac and cheese. If you bring your own dish and leave to go home with the same food in it, that just means you fucked up dont bring it next year. My mom and siblings, know what to bring. Sometimes one will go rouge and bring a varriant of a favoirte dish. Yams, My sister made yams with marshmallow on top but she added a gooey cream to it. It was so gross. Cant eat sweet potatoes anymore...not even in a pie. But add bacon and walnuts to that broccoli casserole wich is normally just rice broccoli, cheese and spices.....compition is open to see who can do the best version for Christmas. lol. Thats just between us brothers and sisters. These younger ones though. I dont know what they did in college to unlearn the tradition of Thanksgiving...but to bring salmon casserole with asparagus and some weird russian goat chesses and have a side of chocolate gravy. Absolutly no. put the foil back on that 13x9 dish. You going home with no room for left overs. Thats how we do it. you bring a dish,,,,,everything gets eaten, wash the dish and load it with ham and turky and stuffing to last a week. If your dish is still full....not alot of room for left overs. sorry dont make that shit next year. Are you coming for Christmas? Ok look for our email on what dishes to bring. lololololol Did any one make a green bean casserole? No one responds....everyone wins. lololol 4th of July too. same shit.
I got a question. In the UK, when you buy a full chicken or duck or turkey etc., does it come with a bag of the bird's organs and neck stuffed inside? The reason I ask is because here they do. You buy a full frozen chicken it has a bag inside the gut that contains the heart, liver and gizzard. One of you asked in another video what a gizzard was. Its the part of the bird that with the help of a few swallowed pebbles or small rocks grinds it's food like our stomach does with bile. They look disgusting and as a child i imagined they would taste disgusting and one thanks giving my Aunt made giblet gravy over biscuits (white gravy with giblets instead of sausage) it was the best damn thing I had. Once she told me what it was I changed my mind about them. Still havent had any of them since cause they look absolutely disgusting. lol
Growing up in Maine, our Thanksgiving Dinner desserts were three pies: one pumpkin, one apple, and one blueberry. Served with ice cream or whipped cream.
I would love to see you guys cook some American foods and definitely southern staple dishes!! I think even though Aiden is a picky eater like myself he’d like some of them!
It is so funny to me that Aidan can recognize more states than most people in the US, I'm so serious about that too lol
Sweet Potato Pie is goated!
Turkeys arent normally stuffed anymore, for health and sanitation reasons. @6:57 yams are synonymous with sweet potatoes.
The native Americans were the reason the pilgrims survived. They taught them which crops to grow and when/how to plant them. They also taught them how to hunt the native animals that the pilgrims were unfamiliar with. The first Thanksgiving was to give thanks to the native Americans for everything they'd done for them.
My mother always made Lefsa for thanksgiving. She grew up in Colorado and I grew up in Alaska so I have no idea where it started in the family.
We always have a big Thanksgiving dinner, usually for more than 14 people. Our most recent dinner consisted of:
22 lb turkey
8lb Smoked Ham
Deviled eggs
Spinach and artichoke dip
Green bean casserole
Sweet potatoe casserole with toasted marshmallows
Corn on the cob
Mac and cheese
Pasta salad (not traditional, but we all love it)
Mashed potatoes
Turkey gravy
Stuffing
Collard Greens with ham hock (and vinegar on the side)
2 pumpkin pies (100% homemade, from fresh pie pumpkins)
Pecan pie
Banana nut bread
Crescent rolls
And, finally, 1 Key Lime Pie for the family members originally from Florida 😀
Dressing is similar to stuffing. The dressing we always made it was with cornbread(crumbled up), biscuits(southern buttermilk biscuits, also crumbled up), pulled chicken, strained chicken stock(from the chicken you just cooked/pulled apart), onions, celery, sage, thyme, eggs and melted butter, mixed all in a large mixing bowl, then poured into a large glass casserole dish and baked until golden brown.
Candied yams, at least ours are just sweet potatoes, cut into wedges(like home fries), covered in melted butter, sprinkled with brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, then baked in a casserole dish.
Alabama born and raised.
Green bean casserole is my favorite!
Funeral potatoes are actually really good, they are usually served after a funeral at the church.
I live in the Midwest and candied yams are served as well as turkey, stuffing green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, creamed corn casserole, baked beans mash potatoes, gravy, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, apple pie, and pecan pie. Some people also have carrot salad made with jello and some serve ham as well alongside the turkey. I have never ate wild rice in my life.
Mom’s right again.. right off that bat. Green bean casserole is a staple 👌🏻 great video
A great stuffing is always the best part of any holiday meal
Dressing and stuffing are the same thing. A highly seasoned, savory, soft bread crumb side dish. It’s called stuffing when it’s baked inside the bird of choice (Turkey, chicken, or duck). When baked and served separately, it’s referred to as dressing. Otherwise there’s no difference, and it frankly it tastes the same either way.
I'm a Scandinavian American from Minnesota. I can confirm that lutefisk is absolutely disgusting. lol but lefse, mashed potatos, swedish meatballs, turkey gravy, wild rice potato soup with corn, cranberry sauce and stuffing was at every Thanksgiving growing up. Its a lovely and cozy meal. Feels like reading a book by a wam fire on a cold winter evening.
Italian Americans tend to also make lasagna along with turkey. My step mother used to make it, and I would switch from one to the other and I would be stuffed afterwards
We make lasagna for Christmas day and we have Italian sausage on Christmas Eve.
You've never had a true, American, *baked* mac-n-cheese. I promise it's so much better than what you think lol Cranberry sauce is also extremely popular in the midwest. I hated it as a kid, but love it now.
Cornbread Dressing with Giblet Gravy, Mac n Cheese and Collard Greens are mandatory! Most folks just smash the sides and desserts in Michigan...in my experience.
Gaynor and I share the same favorite Thanksgiving dish. 👍
It's called Green Bean Casserole.
Dressing and stuffing are the same. It's basically soft bread in tiny cubes with spices. Stove Top is a nationwide favorite.
Another meat that is sometimes served is lamb. Yum!
Finally, we have the turducken. It's actually pretty tasty.
Egg Nog with spiced Rum and a lil cinnamon spinkled on top🥂
When I was a kid in Alabama we never had candy in the house . My mom would buy peaches by the bushel in season and whenever I wanted something sweet , I would walk through the kitchen and grab a couple of peaches out of the basket .
I feel you on the chunks of fruit, the main reason why I won't eat yogurt besides vanilla 🙃Also why pecan pie is my go to on Thanksgiving. We do love our casseroles in the Midwest, we have about 3 to 4 on Thanksgiving. They are usually corn, potato (funeral potatoes but we don't do the cornflakes we use breadcrumbs instead), green bean, and sweet potato.
Edit: Also I believe stuffing is made with bread and dressing is made with cornbread, two completely different textures and taste in my opinion.
Texan here, the tamales are mostly part of the Hispanic culture although I've had them for Christmas but not on Thanksgiving. The difference between dressing (made in a casserole dish) and stuffing ( stuffed inside the Turkey). Our traditional Thanksgiving consist of course turkey, giblet gravy, ham, cornbread dressing, au'gratin potatoes, candied yams, roasted cauliflower, deviled eggs, cranberry sauce, rolls, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie, cherry pie, mincemeat pie. In Texas fried turkey is very popular and we've had a few and they are delicious!! So many choices!
In North Texas, not sure how common it is but personally I always buy apple and pumpkin-filled tamales from a local shop.
The difference I was taught growing up in Oklahoma, is stuffing is when you stuff and cook that stuff inside the turkey, and dressing is when you cook it seperate from the turkey.
We cook dressing in my Oklahoma family.
Wild rice is beautiful as a side dish or incorporated into stuffing/dressing. It has a wonderful flavor and is more expensive than regular rice , mostly because it is labour-intensive to harvest and mostly grows in Minnesota and surrounding regions. Also, just to clarify to your viewers' panel, wild rice is NOT a nut, "nutty flavor" means it has a distinctive , earthy flavor like nuts. It takes longer to cook and will not "mush up" like white rice. It is not a grain but a type of grass. I make my stuffing with wild rice minced apples, day old baguette or other bread, the typical seasoning and mixed onion, celery, sometimes sausage. Cornbread stuffing is also good.
You don't have to place the stuffing inside the turkey. You can choose to bake it separately in a casserole. Also, I find that the turkey cooks faster without filling the cavity with stuffing. Everyone prepares stuffing differently. There are hundreds of different recipes.
We always make turkey that’s stuffed with dressing with pork sausage and cherries, green bean casserole, twice baked potatoes and of course that turkey gravy
It varies by region, but in the part of the southeast that I'm from, stuffing is cooked in the bird, and dressing is cooked on its own. In some places, people will use one term or the other to apply to either. Being on the coast, my favorite is oyster dressing.
You need to open the mind and try new things, Other than the jellied fish it is good to try at least one time
In West Virginia we don't usually have Mac and cheese for thanksgiving we use raw oyster to cook in our bread stuffing we cook out stuffing separate in baking dish , sweet potato boiled with butter and sprinkled with butter and brown sugar, pumpkin pies with whipped cream and mince pies and broccoli cheese casserole, cranberry salad made with jello cranberry strawberry and nuts
For thanksgiving and christmas dinners i usually make baked macaroni and cheese, not the macaroni with cheese sauce. I layer the macaroni and shredded cheese ( cheese layer seperate from the macaroni layer) and pour a mixture of milk and eggs over the layers. A few dashes of ground cayenne in the milk egg mixture is really good. I dont care for collard or mustard greens. Turnip greens are ok. Even better with a couple of squirts of pepper vinegar (vinegar that has had a bunch of hot peppers soaking in it for some time) that vinegar is good on the other greens too.
The one thing my kids loved for thanksgiving was the bridal salad. Made of pineapple chunks, canned mandarin orange sections, a little bit of shredded coconut, mini marshmallows, and sour cream. Marachino cherries can also be added. When i was a kid and my grandmother made this fruit salad and the thought of the sour cream and marshmallows disgusted me and i refused to try it. Years later i finally tried it and hated that i had refused it for years. It was wonderful. If you make it a day ahead the marshmallows feel like little puffs of air in your mouth and the sour cream turns sweet from the marshmallows and the coconut. Its tasty and refreshing. Dont use the canned fruit cocktail to make it unless you really like that.
Dressing is stuffing that didn't make it inside the bird, but surrounded it.😊
I'm obviously from Michigan and I'm 57. I've never had a Thanksgiving without stuffing/dressing and Yams/sweet potatos... Green bean casserole is a distant 3rd...I never had macaroni and cheese on Thanksgiving.... it's so basic... Thanksgiving foods are generally traditional and based on what was available at harvest time in November.
Thanksgiving dinner not only varies from region to region, but from family to family. I was born in Los Angeles, California, but my family roots were from Oklahoma.
Candied yams and sweet potatoes are interchangeable, yams 🍠 are usually cut in chunks and sweet potatoes 🍠 are usually mashed like mash potatoes, they are one of the same just the preparation is different.
I'm from Massachusetts & I love yams, but not with marshmallows or brown sugar. I like them with butter & salt. The difference between stuffing & dressing is stuffing is put inside the cavity of the turkey to cook & dressing is the same thing, but cooking in a separate pan & not inside the bird.
Oregon, here. We had stuffing/dressing made with ground French breadcrumbs, uncooked sausage, ground turkey giblets, heart and neck meat, plus sauteed onions and celery, and eggs. All mixed together and roasted in the bird. Very flavorful. I cook it in a casserole dish instead. It kind of steamed in the bird, and I didn't like the texture so much. Much prefer a crispy top crust. That one is like an old forcemeat in Medieval France or England. Plus the turkey roasts much faster unstuffed!
Candied yams - usually actually nice, dark orange sweet potatoes instead. Boiled, peeled, quartered, then we poured a boiled butter-brown sugar sauce with cloves and cinnamon over them, baked until the sauce literally turns into candy. Nom! Pumpkin pie with whipped cream was a must for dessert, along with mincemeat pie. From a very old recipe from Mom's family, using real meat. Originally made with ground venison; Mom used mince. Cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, homemade dinner rolls, and some sort of vegetable and salad. 😄 Oh, and because Dad's family were Czech immigrants, we also had kolache - sweet rolls with an indent in the top, filled with a fruit or sweetened cottage cheese filling, or ground poppyseed in a big crescent that was sliced to serve.
I agree on no chunks of fruit in pie. 😁 Gack. I learned to make apple pie with slices of apple only about 2mm thick, from quartered apples. Melts in your mouth, and is wonderful with a room temperature slice of extra sharp Cheddar. Whole cane berries are good, but big chunks of any other fruit, no.
What I was taught is that its stuffing when it's cooked in the bird, and dressing when it's cooked separately from the bird.
The variations on Turkey Day dinner are also different in the way it's arranged. If the meal is exclusively made by the host, then they control most of what's available from start to finish. Whereas I've had many family get-together style Turkey Day dinners where different people bring different things. The members bringing food worked out ahead who would bring what type of dish to avoid having 13 desserts and only 3 sides, etc. Dig the new cut, G. Thanks for another fun vid, guys. Cheers.
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So 10 green bean casseroles isn’t a common occurrence? 😀
@@tvc1848 If you're referring to the green bean casserole incident of '85, my family doesn't speak of that.