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In various places on the internet I'm seeing not just a lot of dislike, but outright hatred, of jellied cranberry sauce. What in the blue hell is up with that?! I love the stuff and can't imagine Thanksgiving without it. I even eat it at times when it isn't Thanksgiving, so I don't get the hatred!
underpants
(182,931 posts)For instance, I was buying a bathroom squeegee for work and there were 10-15 reviews of it on the Walmart site. People actually logged in to offer their opinion of it.
Ocelot II
(115,879 posts)the way you could dump it out of the can and it would go *blop* and you could see the outlines of the can. And it tastes good. Some people are purists.
LuckyCharms
(17,460 posts)True Blue American
(17,992 posts)When there is turkey. I can eat the cooked with orange but the salad is yucky.
Glorfindel
(9,739 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,992 posts)From my earliest recollections as a youngster in the earliest 60s, some said the canned sauce was an inferior product, being such an ultra-processed food. And look! It took the shape of a common food can! How gauche! My family went for convenience, not GAF about societal judgments.
Goonch
(3,618 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,062 posts)ificandream
(9,399 posts)Massachusetts is a big cranberry state. Ocean Spray, which markets a lot of cranberry products, has its headquarters there.
debm55
(25,531 posts)cachukis
(2,277 posts)jellied sauce is brought to the table jiggling? I bet diners all across America will want to jiggle too.
getagrip_already
(14,864 posts)And they both have takers...
I probably prefer the canned, but just because it's sweeter.
JoseBalow
(2,497 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,757 posts)hunter
(38,334 posts)... sitting on a fancy dish with a fancy knife and fork, right out of the can.
My grandma loved modern convenience foods, most especially breakfast cereals in a box. Whenever we were visiting overnight or longer she'd buy breakfast cereals, the kind we saw on television, that my parents never ever bought.
Her mom, all my great-grandmothers actually, never really trusted any food they hadn't killed and cut up themselves, from a lowly potato, to a turkey, to an entire steer. The only canned food they served was food they'd canned themselves.
They constantly criticized their daughters and daughter-in-laws for being too lazy to even bake and slice their own bread. My siblings and I used to love going to the neighborhood bakery with my grandma. She'd pick a loaf or two of bread and have it sliced in the machine, which was fascinating, and then the baker would give us treats.
As I think about it now, maybe that cranberry jelly in a can was my grandma's way of saying "FUCK OFF, this is MY house!" to her mom and mother-in-law.
MLAA
(17,338 posts)None of that whole berry snooty stuff for me!
Niagara
(7,683 posts)I happen to like canned jellied cranberry sauce and like you, I enjoy the stuff when it isn't Thanksgiving.
chouchou
(645 posts)..and came to the conclusion that people who like canned cranberry are simply uncivilized. Yep, straight from the mayo ...or maybe I'm thinking of Saturday nite live?
soldierant
(6,937 posts)but I have never been crazy about jell in anything. My PB&J sandwiaches were with jam, not jelly. And I don't care for Jello- flavor and actual brand no issue.
This is not something you can take to a doctor's office, but food preferences in some peopl MAY indicate food allergies -whether it's a like or a dislike. A strong dislike may indicate a classic allergy and a strong like may indicate an addictive allergy.
Another possibility is that it's not really the food they hate but its associations, expecially in childhood, may be negative,
I don't care what you eat or like either. Enjoy your cranberry sauce whenever you want it,