My friends and I were discussing thanksgiving and what we usually have for the meal. We are from different ethnic backgrounds and only one of us has greenbean casserole which my friends agreed was because only one certain ethnicity eats it. I was just seeing if it is true or not. Thanks.
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Answer by banshee1068
My family has green bean casserole, not because of ethnicity, but because we like it. However, my husband's family is cajun and sometimes they will have it and sometimes they don't but the general consensus is that they prefer regular green beans with ham hock over the casserole.
Oh and our turkey down here in Louisiana is fried instead of baked!
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My Granmother was Czech and German so on holidays she always and sourcrout and dumplings which I learned to make. Even though I am a descent from her natioality I consider myself American and I have mede it a tradition of mine to make greenbean casserole.
ReplyDeleteYes. And I am white.
ReplyDeleteYeah. We use green beans, cream of mushroom soup, dried onion mix, and then sprinkle on top those crispy onion strips (French's brand I think).
ReplyDeleteAnyways, it's not because of my ethnicity. We just like it because it is good.
No, never heard of a green bean casserole until the commercial a few years back. Mixed ethnicity...
ReplyDeleteYes, we always serve it.
ReplyDeleteI'm American and my husband is half Arabic and they serve it too!
I am sure that ethnicity decides some of the dishes at a Thanksgiving meal. When my daughter was in the third grade she had a week long project. She was supposed to keep track of all the food she ate for a week. The project was supposed to be informative for healthy eating and proper nutrition. It was timed so that it fell during the Thanksgiving holiday week. We had feasted with our tribal family the weekend after the "true" holiday. Each person bringing what was "their" specialty. When she went to school that Monday her assignment was completed and signed off by myself. I received a note from her teacher that afternoon. It was not nice, not only did she inform me that my daughter had failed but that encouraging her to write ficticious tales was inappropriate. The following morning I went to school with my daughter to speak with her teacher. Her teacher was new to the district and apparently did not bother to read my childs records. (If she had there may not have been any problems.)
ReplyDeleteThe teacher started to condone my actions when I interupted her and asked her if she knew my child's ethnicity, she said no. I told her and then proceeded to tell this young teacher about our "Thanksgiving Meal." We brought pumpkins to be baked in the cook fire, (Empty a pumpkin of their seeds, add cream, butter, an egg or two, brown sugar, vanilla) Coat the outside with clay mud and sit the whole thing lid and all on the edge of a fire pit, turning regularly, Scoop out filling and serve. Her uncle brought bear stew, my cousin turtle soup, her aunt salman fillets, turtle, venison, buffalo and aligator steaks were cooked on sight, flat bread, bannock and frybread with of course every kind of jelly you can think of including elderberry, there was corn soup, hominy, blue corn stuffing, pickled asparagus, and pemican, and of course pit roasted turkey. Yams and regular potatoes were baked in the fire pit along side squash. Herbal teas sweetened with honey and coffee so strong it would melt spoons, Goat milk and heavy cream to sweeten drinks and to cool puddings made from carrot/squash/eggs, your question brought back a memory that I had not recalled in a long time! thanks
Oh, the teacher apologized and asked if I would come speak to the class about woodland indians. I did and brought the teacher some easy but odd recipies.
I am a Jewish American.
ReplyDeleteWe never had GBC.
Fresh green beans with toasted almonds tastes fresh and light.
That's what we prefer.
My green beans are cooked with bits of ham in a delicious sauce(gravy). I'm Tex-Mex,but my ex-Mom-In-Law taught me to make it,and she was English.
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