Someome exlpain thanks giving food to me, please

Update: i've just seen another tiktok where a woman layered mashed potato, turkey, gravy & 'dressing' (stuffing is its actual name) in a dish & called it a casserole.

New fear unlocked!

Green bean casserole thank you very much 😌

Dumped an old batch of crispy onions on the the lawn but the wild life won't eat em.

Idk. Thanksgiving is all about engorging yourself with food because we gave small pox blankets to indians or something idk

It's the lazy man's (or woman's) side dish that is usually brought to the meal by someone who can't be assed to actually cook something.

There is nothing wrong with how it tastes, but I don't allow it in the door. If you can't cook, bring a fucking pie.

This is pretty much how american cooking is.
My mum was an avid cookbook collector. (She had hundreds, if not nearly a thousand).

And the most iconic thing about American cookery is - they use premade food stuffs:
-Cans of...
- packets of....
- tubs of...
- jars of...etc .

And they do wierd shit like jello salads, deepfried....ANYTHING, and putting unrestricted combinations of food together and calling it a 'dish' (usually served with chips and covered in some sorta cheese..... or shaped into something patriotic 😅


I remember the first time i looked through a collectors series of american cookbooks that covered everything from appetisers to mains, salads to sweets.....and it was the most alien type of cooking id ever come across!
Most of the ingredients id never seen, let alone heard of, and many were an amazement of discovery: canned potatoes!😳, cookie dough in a tube!😯, crisco🤢, jarred fish😱 ?!

I decided way back then that American cooking isnt so much a tradition, as it is a social science project of personal evolution of gastronomic potion making and intesinal endurance
(admittedly with some amazing results🤗 ....and some seeming abominations of culinary abuse😫)

Ultimately American cooking grew up in a booming commerical imdustry, and evolved using soups, packets and premade sauces and stuffs like the rest of the world uses fresh herbs and spices.

Which makes it kinda unique....and a bit of a shock to the rest of us.

And this seems one of those dishes.
Mushtooms and beans?!...and some are saying its a side dish and others are saying this is a casserole..
.eh what!?
It sounds more like desperation to me 😂
Personally....this , this would be a HUGE no for me🤢
But then......i think cans of mushroom soup are an evil conspiracy of satan🤮

Can’t help you, I’m English born and raised, and thought it strange to have Christmas dinner twice in one month, but that was then. Now, I love Thanksgiving dinner, although I don’t cook it myself. Since I no longer have my husband to cook a delicious Thanksgiving meal, I go without, or buy something cooked from the grocery store. The green bean bake is delicious. I’ve never made it myself.

Yeah that stuff is gross

That's nasty!!🤢
Fresh green beans, with green onions, bacon, and butter, maybe some garlic cloves just because. Cover and bake until the green beans are done. Leave that trash soup out of it.

Well it all started when the Indians saw a ship of Englishmen coming on shore with long sticks that went boom…and now we have thanksgiving food every year

Nope, it’s commercial garbage that came later. The early meals were nothing like this, the media wasn’t around to encourage everyone to overeat and get sick.

I don’t think I’ve ever had green bean casserole tbh. I generally avoid dishes that are cooked with cream of mushroom soup 😬

That`ll not be happening in this house. 😖

I would eat just the green bean casserole. Heaven.

Green bean casserole is AWESOME!!!

And I thought people only had Turkey

Is that even edible?

@MethDozer and it clearly states that casserole dishes csn be made in other cooking containers .

And as to 'popular, yes , id say traditional international dishes that spread across the world to other countries would be considered kinda popular.😏

But just becuase American cooking views it one way, and the rest of the world sees it another, doesnt make you more right than anybody else .

Its just different.

Casserole recipes were being invented and refined before america was ever settled

Ok, so your culture uses the term differently. It does that with many things, the english language, driving on the right side of the road, measurements.
It doesn't make anyone wrong here.
Its just a uniquely American interpretation. Which is fine .

But stop telling me the way the rest of the world has to see it.😂 Other cultures have their own way too.
And thats also fine .

I did say American cooking is kinda unique. And there was a reason why.... You guys do stuff differently.

I hate that stuff.

I prefer turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, sometimes cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie

Don't watch this anymore, it gets worse, I saw a woman put a pack of dried spaghetti, a tin of tomatoes, loads of slices of that American plastic cheese, and some water, she put it all in a casserole dish in the oven, then mixed it up and it looked like vomit🤢

Green bean casserole. It's pretty good