What do you eat for Thanksgiving - Curious Australian

typical thanksgiving food is a roasted turkey filled with "stuffing" (a mixture of bread, seasonings, and sometimes fruit or vegetables), mashed potatoes, roasted winter squash or butternut squash, baked sweet potatoes or sweet potato casserole (marshmellows and brown sugar on top), green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and a variety of pies, the most popular of which seem to be pumpkin, sweet potato, and apple...but of course that's debatable.

I spent the day with South Americans. We had salmon. I miss my canned cranberry jelly (without real cranberry chunks), served with can ridges intact so as to better cut off a serving... and I miss my Stove Top Chicken flavor stuffing... and I miss the albeit regional pie we get up in the northeast, egg custard pie. You guys can keep the other ones, because I'll eat the whole 8 serving egg custard pie all by myself (in about 24 hours, but still.)
Other things I expect at my dream Thanksgiving:
green bean casserole prepared according to the directions on the back of a can of French's fried onions...here's a video of how to make it: http://www.frenchs.com/recipe/frenchs-green-bean-casserole-RE1511
mashed potatoes, rather mashed but with some chunks to prove it's not instant, and loads of butter
gravy for the potatoes
an appetizer bowl of olives. I'll eat all of them no matter how many you serve. Ok, I'll eat half. I do have some manners.

turkey. some people do ham too
stuffing
mashed potatoes and gravy
dinner rolls
vegetables- a lot of families do green bean casserole. my family does broccoli with cheese sauce instead
some type of squash or sweet potato dish or both- my family does candied yams
pie- pumpin is most common. we had chocolate cream pie and cheesecake
various other side dishes and casseroles. mac&cheese is common

The most traditional Thanksgiving always has:

Roasted turkey
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
Dressing (this just means on the side instead of cooked in the bird)
Green beans (we cook ours with bacon and tomatoes)
Pumpkin Pie

We also make:

Slow roasted tomatoes for smearing on bread
Onion dip (greek yogurt caramelized onions seasoning)
Candied Yams

We had a fairly simple Thanksgiving this year. We smoked a turkey, dressing/stuffing, I don't cook mine in the turkey, garlic mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, brown & serve dinner roles, & pumpkin pie. I use sage sausage in my stuffing which I guess is kind of unusual, but everyone in my family loves it. Really all that matters is being surrounded by good friends, family, & comfort food & being thankful for all the wonderful things & people in your life.

I like a traditional Thanksgiving, but there are 2 things I hate that other's think are traditional. Sweet potato anything and green bean casserole. I just don't like sweet potatoes and the green bean casserole is made with canned soup. Yuck.

I like turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, dinner rolls, dressing, wild rice and a large pattern of roasted vegetables (brussel sprouts, yellow beets, carrots.) I make every thing from scratch. No instant gravy or store bought rolls. Yeah it's a lot of work, but I love treating my family to good food.

I don't make many of the "classics," and most of my guests seem to think I'm trying to serve them soylent green.

Grilled turkey breast, steamed green beans, rice pasta with cheese, baked sweet potatoes with cinnamon sprinkle, and grilled portabello caps.

thanksgiving would always turn into a passive aggressive competition between my mom and her sisters, so they'd always have to outdo each other.

the craziest thanksgiving we had:
turkey & stuffing, cornish hens, brisket, ham, rack of lamb and ribs
green beans, greens, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, potato salad, mac n cheese, beet salad
pound cake, red velvet cake, sweet potato pie, pecan pie, peach cobbler

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there was other stuff too, but that was all the stuff i ate that thanksgiving, because of course once i had something 1 aunt would make another would run and be like "oh baby have you tried my ....?" and sit and watch me eat it.

i remember we kids were pretty excited about all the food at first but we ended up hating being hounded to prove to someone that we didnt think her potato salad was horrible because we didnt have seconds

Our menu looked like this (and is not necessarily traditional):

Apple cider brined turkey, maple bourbon glaze
Mashed potatoes
Collard greens with apple cider vinegar gastrique
Cornbread and andouille sausage dressing
Green beans amandine
Pumpkin cheesecake

Last year, instead of mashed potatoes, I did sweet potato hash and added a caesar salad and parker house rolls (bigger crowd), but everything else was the same.

Everything thing you can think of to cook or bake!

We had turkey, ham, bread stuffing, homemade egg noodles, brown sugar baked beans, baked mac and cheese, cranberry sauce, cucumber salad, deviled eggs, mash potatoes and gravy, cottage cheese, crescent rolls with honey butter, a relish tray with black & green olives and baby dill pickles, green bean casserole.
Then for desserts we had pumpkin pie, dutch apple pie, pecan pie, zuccini bread, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cheesecake, white chocolate chip macademia nut brownies, chocolate mint and pecan brownies.


Yep its a day of feasting until you fall into a food coma and then you watch football on the couch and try not to snore lmao! I think that about sums it up

Turkey with cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, pumpkin torte, stuffed celery, baked.apples, good homestyle food cooked by family and friends.

pork loin roast wrapped in a pastry puff , mashed potatoes with skins, gravy, corn, green bean casserole, biscuits , cranberry sauce, caramel apple crumb pie, praline pumpkin pie