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StillLiven 🤣 some foods are better imagined than actually tried.

I saw too that the 1960’s creepy clear gelatin "salads" like the ones with a single shrimp on top 🦐 or weird green misc stuff inside are making a comeback rebranded as "healthy".

Noping right away from them too…

We are actually doing a sort of traditional Thanksgiving dinner for those of whose who grew up around the Chesapeake Bay: steaming 1/2 bushel of premium live Chesapeake Bay blue crabs with traditional J.O. #2 crab seasoning! We'll have hush puppies, corn on the cob, deviled eggs (mandatory), and some TBD side dishes and desserts. Not certain what some in the family are bringing and it doesn't matter as long as you can put butter on it :) We enjoy crab feasts as it really is a meal where you can eat at your leisure, and whatever is leftover we pick and make crab cakes the old Maryland style (read mostly crab with minimal fillers to bind the meat). Those freeze and become treats over the next couple of months.

We'll do the turkey and ham at Christmas, but this time of year the crabs are fattening up for burying themselves in the mud for the winter, and the premium jimmy's (6 1/2" min size) are excellent. Hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving, there is no right or wrong meal as long as everyone ends up with a full belly!

To simplify Christmas dinner my wife and I suggested to our (grown) kids that we skip the walnut and bacon-fried broccoli and the Waldorf Salad. Two sides they never touched. It was like we had suggested we skip Christmas altogether!
They insisted dinner be the same as always. So for the last couple of years, we have made all the side, and still they don’t touch either!

Bigger,
My mom used to make a lime jello/cottage cheese/walnut/cool whip "salad" for holidays when we were little. We called it Good Green because it was both good and green. When we become teens she tried to quit making it but we revolted. It did finally drop off the menu when she somehow inexplicably lost the vintage Tupperware mold that it was always made in. (Yeah,,, right… no idea what happened to it…)

So there is still hope. Just lose the dishes!

In our case we did eat it (and loved it) but it was 70s molded food sugar bomb trash and definitely not a salad, but we could not let it go.
Traditions are traditions :-)

BSR OMG

It was impossible to appreciate the scent of the turkey or pies under an aggressive miasma of turnip casserole.

Hilarious!!

I agree with Pippin, that line is one of the most poetically descriptive I've ever come across regarding food!

(You ought to be a writer if you aren't already, BraveSirRobin.)