Oh, wow, well this requires background information. The nearly 8 years I was with my ex-husband (3 dating, 5 married) we rotated Thanksgiving. The years we went with his family I learned to eat only the Japanese side dishes. The turkey thing just didn't work. The mashed potatoes were lumpy and watery and had no taste, but seemingly unsalted butter was pooled every where. The turkey was dry in a way I did not know was possible. The whole thing was weird. People sat on chairs with t.v. trays in front of them and they were scattered all around the room. The food, except for the tempura and the magical layered jello was just not worth the calories. And now for the worst dish ever!
On the first Thanksgiving I spent there I felt the need to be polite and eat a bit of everything. And everyone was saying, "oh, I made this" and "I made that." I wanted to be nice, so I even took a bit of the one dish I never understand - THE GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE! This was such a huge mistake. It was a mess, the stuff did not blend like I believe it should. And the green beans were sort of grayish in the midst of the other soupy sauce and the crunchy things were soggy. And it tasted like overly salted mushy cardboard.
If you know me, you probably know - I don't do mushy bread items, I am super sensitive to salt and cardboard is not a food group. I am still proud to this day that I kept the two bites I ate in my stomach and did not barf in front of 20 people I barely knew.
But, in the future years, won tons, jello and tempura were my choice and I just told them I never got to have those items homemade. Oh, man, I love that jello!
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