🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To TRYING THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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Who cooks the food matters so much.
Yeah, cause errbody ain't allowed to cook certain things. You have to assigned dishes like the mac-n-cheese!
Ohhhh for sure! Take a seat Aunt Deb, I've got the turkey this year 😅
@@Elsi-77 That was pumpkin pie.
@@Kim-427 sorry, correction: they called it "sweet potato casserole" 3:40
But I still stand behind the caucasity of it having marshmallows on top.
Oh absolutely!
You could go to 100 homes for Thanksgiving dinner and get 100 different meals. Every family has its own favorite side dishes. I have never eaten a turkey sandwich like that one. That is not typical, IMO. Yams or sweet potatoes with marshmallows is a side dish.
Yet, It is very typical in the part of the country I'm from.
The turkey sandwich is more of a “weekend after Thanksgiving” meal to use up the leftovers, it’s not really a day-of meal.
I think foreigners think that there's one thanksgiving meal, but it entirely depends on each family. For example, my thanksgiving usually consists of: Turkey, gravy, dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed turnip, mashed winter squash, boiled onions, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and blueberry pie. And typically as snacks beforehand we'll have shrimp cocktail and cashews.
Also, that was the sorriest looking pumpkin pie I have ever seen in my life. I can't even believe it, it looks like plastic.
Yeah, Thanksgiving usually has people bringing different dishes (not to say I haven't been to any that one family cooked for everyone). And America is an amalgamation of cultures, so it stands to reason that everyone's family's are different.
Ok, I am born and raised in the American South, where we definitely do pecan pie best (a little hint, a splash of bourbon in the mix is what takes it over the top). Here, we say pecan like peh-khan. That is because here in the south, a pea-kan isn't a food. It's what you use at 3am when you don't want to put your shoes on.
LOL! Took me a moment, but I get it. Pea-kan as in Peeing in a can.🤣
@@2436golden At least you got it. Every time someone I watch asks how to pronounce pecan, I leave this same answer. You’re the first to respond.
I can, you can, he can, she can, we can, PE-CAN!
@@Cricket2731 don’t make me type in my southern voice.
@@tylerpaschall4363 😂😂😂
We live in the Northeast and wouldn't even think about sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Every part of the US has its traditions and foods - we love them all, but all don't eat the same things. We love Thanksgiving (which is the last Thursday in November), no matter your traditions - everyone in the US embraces them all, even if they aren't your meal traditions for Thanksgiving. ENJOY THANKSGIVING to everyone in the US!!!
K here in my family it was marshmallows or cinnamon-sugar or brown sugar, depended on who was making sides that year.
My family, over the years has grown a bit weary of Turkey for holiday meals and has begun substituting Prime Rib, Ham, Goose, and/or Lamb for the main course of the meal. Some people complain but I notice there are no leftovers. Sometimes we have both a turkey and another meat. I'm Thankful for just having my family together.
I want to like this comment over and over. America needs to be a little more inclusive with the food representations. How about one dish from a few groups of Americans.
I grew up in the northeast, and both sides of my families have lived in either the northeast or just over the border into Canada going back well into the 1600s. We had sweet potato casserole with Thanksgiving occasionally, but not as a norm.
It's actually the 4th Thursday in November to account for years when there is a fifth one.
Sweet potato casserole with marshmallows just seems weird to me but I have an aunt that always brings a sweet potato casserole topped with pecans and brown sugar that I was skeptical about but it turned out to be amazing.
The teacher always makes me laugh he just loves everything and genuinely seems excited to try this food.
I always use the pecan crumble on the top of mine 😊
I make it without pecans every Christmas and Thanksgiving. My late MIL gave me the recipe over 20 years ago.
Yep, each family has their own spin. I'd never whip my potatoes (prefer big chopped pieces) and only do a pecan crumble. It's fun to visit a friend's Thanksgiving to try "new to me" spins on old classics.
I don't like the giant marshmallows. Just a nice sprinkle of the smaller ones is good for me.
It's sooooo much better with the pecans! I do this every year.
The sweet potatoes (my family calls them candied yams) are one of my favorite parts of the meal, especially with the turkey and mashed potatoes. Sweet and savory is a powerful combination. I will say, we don't use nearly as many marshmallows as the ones in this video so ours probably aren't as sweet as those
We do candied yams too! But it's actual slices of yams in a brown sugar glaze topped with pecans, never marshmallows haha
Yea that was way too much marshmallow like maybe half of what they had would be good
100% was going to say this also, the sweet and savory combo is where it's at, though I am not a huge fan of sweet potato.
Two different potatoes
Yams and sweet potatoes are two different things 😊
The sweet potato and cranberry dishes are meant to offset the savory portions of the mains like Turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing. When done correctly, it is a magical push-and-pull that's like poetry. Granted, the flavors don't always hit with everyone since America is so diverse. I come from a Puerto Rican family so we've done the standard version but our favorite is half a turkey, a whole roast chicken, lasagna, arros con gandules and a shrimp or regular salad on the side with flan or panettone on the side with coffee.
I grew up in the south (Georgia/Tennessee border), & that "Thanksgiving sandwich" isn't FAMOUS, Ive never heard of such. Although, regular turkey sandwiches, and casseroles, are a thing for about a week after Thanksgiving as to not waste that turkey! 😜 😂
That sandwich was on an episode of 'Friends' TV show a very long time ago; it may be popular somewhere, but no one I know had ever heard of it.
We could just be odd.
@caregiver55 I haven't seen much of that show, & maybe we ARE just the oddball! 😂😉 But I've never (thank God!) Heard of it or seen anything like it. 🤣🤷♀️
I live in Los Angeles and yep, before Friends was a thought in some writer's head, this is how a Lot of people had leftovers. There are also tacos, burritos, pizza, dips, and casseroles made from leftovers. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a sushi roll with leftovers. The only difference is having rice instead of dressing, I'd guess.
haha
By the time my Aunt divides up the left overs between my family (3), my two cousins families (4) and (6), that's 13 people so she doesn't have a whole bunch of leftovers to worry about... 3 or 4 meals worth which makes her happy
Sweet potato, if seasoned and cooked properly, tastes a lot like pumpkin in pumpkin pie.
And it’s definitely a dessert, just one people eat as part of the main meal.
You know nothing about cooking. Pumpkin has a bitter taste hint why you need whipped cream. Sweet potato is too sweet doesn’t need whipped cream.
Candied yams are what I grew up with as a casserole with the marshmallow topping. Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same things, sweet potatoes are softer, sweeter and creamier than yams. Candied yams have a good bite to them without being hard and the sweet works amazingly well with them. Often nuts (like pecans or walnuts) are added to the top of it for a bit of crunch in the dish.
Thank god I’m not the only one. I’m about to have a fit reading this comment section. Seriously, when did people start hating marshmallows so much? Not that sweet potatoes with pecans and brown sugar is bad, that’s also excellent. But still…
My mom always made butternut squash AND sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving when we were growing up. No idea why lol... Never made any sense to me.
Cajun-born here. Yep, candied yams is what I grew up with.
Depends on how they’re cooked. Because you can serve both and make them soft as you like. One is sweeter than the other.
@@fuzzyhead878 And I get upset with the assumption that everyone in America puts marshmallows on top of a sweet potato casserole. That’s not what’s on every Americans table during Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is the 4th Thursday in November. Here in Texas at our house we have the following: Turkey that's been injected with butter and garlic then deep fried in peanut oil; mashed potatoes with giblet gravy, cornbread dressing, sweet potato casserole (with brown sugar, marshmallows and pecans), green bean casserole (green beans, cream of mushroom soup, bacon and french fried onions), cranberry sauce, rolls, pecan (pronounced puh-caan) pie, and chocolate pie with meringue.
1:23 Close. it’s the fourth Thursday in November. Doesn’t always mean the last. Take this year for example. There’s five Thursdays in November.
More JOLLY reactions please! I love these guys and they are so worth watching. They’re in Texas now and tried some BBQ and the Texas Rodeo.
This is the Fulham Boys School in London. The headmaster (Dave smith) is friends with Josh and Ollie and they’ve been filming with them for over a year. They even took a group of lads to Korea on their other channel (KoreanEnglishman)
Sweet potatoes can be made savory or sweet. For my families thanksgiving its a side dish & I make it with butter, brown sugar, crushed pineapple, chopped pecans and toasted marshmallows on top. My sons, their families and my husband love it. We have numerous side dishes that are tradition in our family going back 3 generations. I'm making and preparing everything 2 days ahead. The only thing I make Thanksgiving day is the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and rolls.
Pineapple? I would try that. My sister used to put apples in hers.
I’ve never tried it with pineapple! That sounds interesting.
Pineapple juice or Pineapple bits make the sweet potato brighter in color also. It also makes sweet potato pie or shueflay lighter in texture with a sweet tangy flavor.
I'm from the southern US and sweet potato pie was a part of every Thanksgiving when I was a child. I started making sweet potato casserole when I raised my own children. Now with my grandchildren, I think I will try your recipe for a change up and start a new tradition. It sounds delicious.
@@2436golden I hope you all enjoy it!! my 12 grandchildren sure do 🥰
It doesn't matter how you pronounce pecan, pretty much any American will know what you mean because we have so many different accents due to the mix of immigrants.
Maybe pecan trees don't grow as well there so they're not as popular? In the US they do grow better in the lower half of the country which has milder & shorter winters. It takes a good 6-7 months for the nuts to fully grow & ripen, so they are typically harvested throughout October & into November.
My dad's parents had a HUGE pecan tree in their back yard & my grandparents would send the kids into the yard with paper grocery sacks after our Sunday dinner. Every week we'd spend a couple hours picking up all the fallen ripe ones & others would do the same during the week. We'd have like 8-10 overflowing bags by 2 weeks before Thanksgiving, when we would then be set to work on cracking them open. That was the hardest part, cracking them open & getting the nut out without mashing it to crumbs. 😂
Traditional Thanksgiving dinner in my home- Turkey, fresh mashed potatoes, gravy made from the turkey broth, sweet potatoes w/marshmallows (gross), stuffing, green bean casserole, broccoli casserole added when I learned it from my in-laws, fruit salad, cranberry sauce (used to hate it) , dinner rolls, pumpkin pie w/real whipped cream, pecan pie and later caramel apple pie. My Mom was fantastic at making everything from scratch (except the rolls). She taught me everything while growing up, except the turkey. After I graduated, but before I turned 18. I had to call her up and ask how to navigate that. Lol, me cooking my first holiday feast at 17 by myself. Now my son does it too. ❤
I agree to all of those as staples as well except the broccoli casserole.
@Violent Kisses Lol, like I said a new one introduced to me in the 90s. Ritz cracker crust, broccoli and cheddar cheese. I have turned broccoli haters into lovers over this recipe. Now some grocery chains offer it in their holiday boxes. Nowhere near the recipe I know.
Up here in the Great White North, my mom used to make sweet potato casserole, but instead of marshmallows, she used brown sugar sprinkled over the top. Delicious!
Mr. Smith is awesome, isn't he? He's just so happy with it all. :)
I wouldn't call that a sweet potato casserole. Here in my part of the the south (east Tennessee) we top the sweet potatoes with brown sugar and pecans. Some also add miniature marshmallows, but I don't. With the brown sugar and pecans it is delicious. Yes, it's eaten on the plate with the main meal, not dessert. It can vary by location and family to family.
That headmaster or w/e his title is totally a delight.
Full southern Thanksgiving dinner would be:
Turkey
Stuffing (bread crumbs, sage & spices, butter)
Baked Mac & cheese
Sweet potatoes (mashed, seasoned, butter and brown sugar, maple syrup)
Succotash or corn
Green bean casserole (green beans, french fried onions, sharp cheddar, cream of mushroom soup)
Cranberry sauce (cranberries, sugar, lemon/orange juice)
Corn bread and sweet wheat rolls
Pumpkin pie
Sweet potato pie (no marshmallows)
Apple pie
Pecan pie (pea-kawn and molasses)
Chocolate pie (made by the auntie that is sweet as pie and no one likes but you and your mama)
*Anything else y'all can think of?
I make my Mom's cornbread oyster dressing (cornbread, bread crumbs, onions, celery, sage & oysters). In addition to what you mentioned I also make broccoli, cheese & rice casserole. I'll also set out fresh veggies like broccoli, cauliflower (ranch dip on the side) and mixed pickled veggies and olives. As I've gotten older I usually just eat green bean casserole, broccoli, cheese & rice casserole and dressing with cranberry sauce and my homemade dinner rolls. So funny. You spend 2 or 3 days preparing everything and then on Thanksgiving...your miserable after 15 minutes and pooped.😂
@@angb6561 that all sounds delicious!
In south Louisiana, no stuffing but cornbread dressing. Not sweet potatoes but candied yams and baked yams. No sweet potato pie, sometimes pumpkin pie or both pumpkin pie and pecan pie (puh-kawn), no chocolate pie. No succotash, also add baked ham. I’m forgetting something at the moment but I’ll remember later.
@@Elsi-77 Lol, yes. I figured not every family or person has ham for Thanksgiving, my grandpa did. I think he did it for Christmas, too. I tend to not like ham since I don't like sweet meat, but one year my dad did one that was so good. I forgot to ask him what brand it was, and I think he may have smoked it.
I love deer meat! Especially when it is a steak and in sausage form (80% deer, 20% Boston butt. Although, never had it deer meat during Thanksgiving dinner with our immediate family, but it sounds great to have during Thanksgiving.
I agree witth cornbread dressing being a gift from above. What a creation! I eat it occasion throughout the year.
Where is your collards? 😢
My sister in law makes an AMAZING thanksgiving dinner! Her sweet potato casserole is flipping incredible, with marshmallows and pecans. 😊
It's really weird that they didn't touch on the entire meal. I mean, they did a good portion of it stuffed together in the sandwich, but that's not the same. But, there are probably too many traditional side dishes, outside of mashed potatoes and stuffing, to choose from. But, they did hit some good highlights. I'm surprised at how many didn't like the pecan pie.
I’m shocked that there were so many negative reactions to the pecan pie. I can understand it not being a favorite but, short of someone being allergic to nuts, I think it’s a pretty pleasant and innocuous flavor. It’s just a sweet molasses with toasted nuts on top really
But,That’s what you like. There are many different people in America.
I don’t care for pecan pie. It’s way too sweet.
I dislike pecan pie too sweet and dont like the texture
American here and also don’t like pecan pie 🤢
I love pecans but I can't stand overly sweet things and pecan pice, apple pie are way too sweet.
Last Thursday in November. I've had Thanksgiving with my family in the south a couple times, I promise they will feed you amazing food until you die down there. Like, most people have dinner at like 2:00 in the afternoon on Thanksgiving for some reason, and the guys will just lie on the couch and watch football until the evening. Every time I've had Thanksgiving dinner, I've cleaned up the plates I used and just slept into the next day. Seriously, a ton of families make SO MUCH FOOD. If you ever come back to the U.S. just tell a random person you've never celebrated Thanksgiving. Literally anyone will invite you into their home and give you a lethal amount of food.
I love everyone sharing the knowledge that Thanksgiving food is different depending on the region. It also depends on the ethnic background of the family. Many Latino, Asian and Black families have very different food than a lot of what's made popular on TV.
Candied Yams (Sweet Potatoes) with Pecans and Toasted Marshmallows. We never whipped our Yams (Sweet Potatoes), so they had a lovely texture. They are seasoned with Cardamom and Cinnamon and sweetened with Light Brown Sugar. Mama didn't make them too sweet. They are a side dish and reside on the plate with the mains. My Mama was an INCREDIBLE cook and baker. Our Thanksgiving Dinners were always AMAZING! That is why my Daddy NEVER wanted to go to anyone else's house for Thanksgiving, because he knew that it would fail to stand up to Mama's standards. We did go elsewhere a couple of times, but Mama promised that on Friday, after Thanksgiving, she would cook OUR Dinner menu and we'd have leftovers for several days. Daddy was OK with that. 😜
FLORIDA MAN HERE!
There are two ways to pronounce "pecan" in the states, and it generally depends on where you're from:
1) PEE-can
2) Puh-KHAN
The sweet potato topped with brown sugar and marshmallows is known as Candied Yams. And yes it's a side dish, right beside baked beans with maple and brown sugar baked on top, green bean casserole, mash potatoes and gravey, turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce.
The US is so diverse, and so is Thanksgiving. In our family, we have turkey, but EVERYONE goes for my Mom's fried chicken tenders. She got a recipe from a restaurant chef years ago in Georgia, and she rubs everything with it. Her pork chops, burgers, batter for chicken, EVERYTHING!! It's delicious and all 20 of us carry some home!
She makes several desserts: chocolate pie, (an art) p-con (that's how you say it) pie, caramel pie, and strawberry shortcake. She cuts no corners when it comes to Southern cooking!!
Mmm. I love making homemade chicken tenders. I love breading them up to my liking. Pecan pie too? You going to invite me this year? Lol
Thanksgiving is usually the fourth Thursday of November. The thanksgiving meal in my household usually consists of turkey, stuffing, ham, macaroni and cheese, broccoli rice and cheese, jellied cranberries, scalloped corn (it’s made with cream corn, whole corn, milk, eggs, sugar, salt, pepper. It’s topped with ritz crackers and baked), mashed potatoes, green beans with bacon, and bread rolls. For dessert, my mom makes a very good sweet potato pie!
Officially it's the fourth Thursday of November. 5 out of 7 years that will be the last Thursday of the month but 2 of 7 years there is a fifth Thursday but it's not Thanksgiving.
Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes is a southern thing. Most other regions use yams( not the same) either candied or baked with a brown sugar/butter glaze.
The pardoned Thanksgiving turkey is sent to a dairy farm in the Shenandoah Valley where he is quartered with 71 turkey hens. He is fed milked-soaked bread, bugs and grain until old age. Not really.
Dude I’m telling you, sweet potato casserole with marshmallows works! It’s super sweet like pecan pie and I can only handle a little bit but it’s awesome.
The Thanksgiving sandwich is the leftovers. Some delis offer it year round.
4:26
Sweet potato with marshmallow on top is actually quite good
Some people actually take their sweet potato casserole a step further and add brown sugar in addition to the marshmallow
"Pecan" is pronounced all those ways, depending on the region. I'm a fourth-generation Texan and I and my family even pronounce it different ways, depending on context.
The turkey does get to live out its life on a lovely farm with other pardoned turkeys. 😄
Pie should be served warm with vanilla ice cream. Well, you can eat whatever ice cream but traditionally it's vanilla. The warm and cold together is nice and the light cream flavor of the vanilla ice cream helps cut the flavor of the sweeter pies. Same goes with iced tea, the ice is supposed to melt some to cool off the tea and lighten up the sweet flavor. Like, dont pour hot tea right on the ice, let the tea cool down some first 😂 Then pour it over a bunch of ice and let it sit a minute, or stir the ice around a bit to cool the drink off faster. Then you should be good to go 😉👍
The marshmallow on sweet potatoes is called candied yams. Its my favorite food, beyond even pizza or chicken. I add cinnamon red hots to mine for a little kick. They melt into the mixture and add some spice theoughout.
Instead of regular cranberry sauce from a can, I always make an orange cranberry relish that's super easy to prepare. Its delicious!
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November. It can fall as early as the 22nd or as late as the 28th.
Marshmallow on yams was never something I much liked the idea of, and nobody I knew ever served it - so it's never been an issue. Marshmallow is fine in desserts, but Yams are fine without them.
Pecan Pie is good, but way too sweet for me - so a very small piece will do. I prefer pumpkin or squash pies, custard pies too, and apple pies warmed up with vanilla ice cream on top, and one year I had a cherry pie among the desserts, which turned out to be popular at the table because it was a little unusual.
I come from the Northeast, so our traditions will vary from a Southern Thanksgiving - Pecan Pie is a "southern thing" that has been taken up pretty much all over the country at this point. One Southern tradition I've adopted is having mac and cheese on the menu as a side dish. The first time I heard it was a thing was from a black family I knew, but they said "Yeah, it's a black thing, but really it's a Southern thing". Aha! Whatever - I thought it was a fantastic idea, and I've done it every year since.
Warm apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream is my dessert choice on thanksgiving. I remembered thanksgiving of 2008 I cooked from 8 am until 9 pm. I promised myself I would never do that again and I have kept that promise.
Wish they would have had mashed potatoes with corn, green bean casserole, turkey with gravy, etc. But at least they had pumpkin pie (my favorite). I'm thankful for Kabir and this channel!
the thanks was always given in a prayer to god when the early settlers were struggling to live and the indians tought them how to garden and grow food then after the crops was picked and stored away they would thank god and it started thanks giving
So, Thanksgiving is on the last Thursday in November in the US. It's on the 2nd Monday in October which is Columbus Day for us.
Thanksging dinner varies from region to region and from to family. In my family we will have turkey, green brean casserole, mashed potatos, stuffing, gravy, rolls, candied yams with marshmallows, ham, fried chicken, collard greens, cabbage, regular string beans(some people hate the green bean casserole), cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese. For dessert there is apple pie, sweet potato pie, red velvet cake, coconut cake, and assortment of cookies. There maybe a pumkin pie but not too many people will touch it. For beverages there is the usual water, sweet tea, sodas, but at this time of year I look forward to the egg nog. I hope this helps.
There is a different version of the sweet potato with a streusel topping with pecans on top.
I love that the British response to good-tasting food is, “It’s nice.” On its face you’d think that it’s not very expressive, but I totally get it.
We top sweet potatoes with brown sugar and pecans and it is delicious. Never had it with marshmallows.
Both of your ways to pronounce Pecan are correct. The pronunciation varies depending on your location in the United States.
Pumpkin Pie is very good and it's something that I always look forward to for Thanksgiving dinner.
Please come have Thanksgiving in the states! Start it off with live coverage of the
annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade followed by football, football and football. Then the grand finale... The Feast🍗🍠🍞🍰and when you can't even eat one more bite, you fall into a turkey coma, when you wake up, its Christmastime. That's how it is in my house anyway. I do think you'll love it. Oh, yeah and the black Friday sales, Thanksgiving night and the next day and its everywhere!
Most people don't eat sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving, maybe Southern blacks, we eat pumpkin pie!! And I don't like nuts, but pecan pie is my all-time favorite pie!
Sweet potato as a vegetable dinner side , is blander where the roasted marshmallow brings out the spice! And pumpkin pie is seasoned with cinnamon, clove , ginger and Allspice with Vanilla whip cream or sometimes ice cream also Vanilla ❤ thanksgiving last Thursday of November (25)
It isn't a British Christmas dinner but Thanksgiving dinner can vary from area to area. Family to family as well.
Fourth Thursday of November. One of the biggest meals outside of a full out American Football Super Bowl. Watch the REAL Super Bowl snack for an idea.
Fourth, not third.
@@jwb52z9 I'll fix that. Thank you.
@@AC-ni4gt More accurately, it's the LAST Thursday of November.
@@rustincohle2135 Not for this year at least.
As an American, I have never had Sweet Potato Casserole! That must be from the 1940s and 1950s!
The presidential "pardon" for the turkey is meant as cutesy silliness lol it's not a serious thing
My mom used yams, not mashed up, and brown sugar and pecans in her casserole and the marshmallows were more toasted. So yummy!
Sweet potato pie is kinda a southern thing. My family made/makes it with pineapple, walnuts, and plenty of brown sugar. It can be topped with marshmallows or brown sugar and pecans. So there is more of a texture difference than you might have thought.
Sorry it autocorrected to pie it was sweet potato casserole
good Lord, I’m gonna be editing this comment as the video progresses... God help me lol. OK Kabir I’m from the south and we don’t have a Thanksgiving sandwich with everything on it. Now we make leftovers sandwiches like with turkey and ham because our family usually has both turkey and ham, but not slapped together on a sandwich with literally everything🤦♂️.
Sweet potato casserole... Yes with marshmallows trust me Kabir... Yes it's a main.
Sweet potato pie is also a Thanksgiving dessert used in substitute for pumpkin and I prefer it.
Pecan pie is good too and very very sweet.
There's so many things they didn't try. Some basics are mashed potatoes, Mac n cheese, green bean casserole, we make cornbread dressing instead of stuffing. I prefer canned cranberry sauce not whole berry but opinions on that very greatly and by region. Deviled eggs are another dish. There's so many "traditional" dishes it gets subjective to what you're family prefers and was raised on really.
In my family Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner were nearly identical until like the last 10yrs or so then we shifted to more finger foods and snacks at Christmas with like fried chicken.
Sweet potato casserole is a regional thing. Never ate it until I moved south. I prefer it with a pecan topping rather than marshmallows.
If you ever personally make pumpkin pie add a few drops of orange extract to the pumpkin mix. I've never seen it in any recipe but learned it from a chef from New Orleans many years ago. It just takes it to the next level. You don't taste orange at all, it just brightens it. Also, oven roasted pumpkin is better than canned because it caramelizes some during the roasting process giving it a deeper more developed flavor
Oven-roasted pumpkin tastes entirely different from canned pumpkin.
I hate that they included that sandwich. That is a day after Thanksgiving thing made from leftovers, not the day of. Yes, I know I’m being petty. 😅
How sweet potatoes or yams are prepared vary from home to home. In our part of Northern California, stores usually carry to types of sweet potatoes/yams at Thanksgiving time. A yellow fleshed variety and an orange fleshed one called Garnet. I prefer Garnet sweet potatoes. I have seen the sweet potatoes prepared as both pie and casseroll with added ingrdients such as pecans, pineapple and marshmallows along with spices. At our house, we serve them baked with butter, sour cream, bacon and chives on the side.
Say pecan however you want!!!
Exactly! The pardoned turkeys live in paradise.
There are many different foods around the country that people serve on Thanksgiving. I love green corn Tamales!
Both the cranberry sauce and the sweet potato casserole can go from a bit sweet to nuclear sweet depending on your taste. Marshmallows are also totally optional.
Sweet potato with just butter, is already decently sweet so when I make mine, I do a quarter cup of maple syrup, or brown sugar, and lots spices including a lot of all spice, a bit of cardamom, and real cinnamon, not cassia (which does have it's place).
For cranberry sauce, I use two bags of fresh cranberries (which are quite sour and bitter) a 4oz bag of dried cranberries (with no sugar added) and cover with cranberry juice. I have received nothing but rave reviews over it. I also love it so much I often make a triple portion. I leave 1/3rd for thanksgiving, then blend and strain the rest and make a spritzer with carbonated water.
We rarely do stuffing since sweet potato + mashed potato + cranberry + dessert is quite enough carbs for one meal.
Nuclear sweet lol I've never heard that before and I love it 😂
Everyone doesn’t put marshmallows on their sweet potato casserole or yams. Some folks sprinkle pecans on top and some leave nothing on top and let the brown sugar form the crust.
My grandmother made the best Sweet potato casserole. That one they gave to the kids looks kind of dry. You have to make like a sauce that is mixed into the potato, then really char the marshmallows on top for that smoky sweet taste. That Established titles turned out to be a scam. I am surprised they did not edit the end out of the video.
How fun! I am not a fan of sweet potato with marshmallow, either. Too sweet! If I were to make one, I usually make it with sage and brown butter, or sometimes with cinnamon, pecans (I say pee-kons) and brown sugar. Pecan pie is a bit too sweet for me so if I make something other than pumpkin pie, it's usually either a type of apple pie, or a cream pie of some sort. Eggnog pie is soooo good. The one I make has a homemade gingersnap crust, too. Takes a bit of time because you've got to bake the cookies before you can make the crust, but it is heavenly. Loved seeing this video - thanks so much! I can't wait to hear about your version of Thanksgiving with your family if you end up doing one. Have a great day!
Keep in mind that there is 2 Thanksgiving. The first (ever) one originates from Canada (1604) and the second in the USA. The first one (also known as "l'action de grâce" in french) held on the second Monday of October; celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Outside of the country, it may be referred to as Canadian Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the American holiday of the same name. The typical menu items vary immensely as duck, goose or even game meats were commonly used (still widely offered), braised cabbage, carrots, potatoes, beans & peas were pretty much our vegetables but contrary to the use of cranberry sauce we often used pickled beets, onions with our meats.
Sweet potatoes have only been available since the 70's, here; as our climate is not suitable for its culture.
The consumption of pumpkin (here), really started in the latter 20th century; as it was undergoing a new revival of veganism. Even if it was part of the Hurons dietary tradition (when the arrival of the french), it was never fully accepted.
As for the dessert, it varies by region. My province (Quebec), it wasn't rare to have Maple syrup sugar pie; we are the largest producers of that stuff anyways (no white or brown sugar used in it's making) or even blueberry pie; as we alone produce more than 1/2 of our nation's wild blueberry (smaller than a pea size but larger than a pencil-top eraser) production (95 million of kg)
Maybe you can find a channel where Europeans care about Canada’s Thanksgiving.
You can make sweet potato casserole without marshmallows. There are so many great ways to prepare sweet potatoes.
In addition to the standard Thanksgiving menu, just about every Thanksgiving dinner I've been to in S. Texas(San Antonio area) has also had smoked brisket and tamales
The thing about Thanksgiving food is that, while the main components like turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy are all there, there are so many different food cultures in every US state and region that have integrated into the meal. I grew up in Kentucky, so my family would make southern mac and cheese, corn pudding, bacon Brussels Sprouts. Cranberry relish sauce is more of a Northeastern thing, the stuffing in New England is made with oysters or clams, and people in the Southwest make pumpkin empanadas.
That pumpkin pie was less than half the height of what we typically see around here.
It's stuffing if it's cooked in the bird and dressing if it's cooked separate. There are almost as many types of dressing as there are types of pie. I've personally tasted white bread, corn bread, sourdough, oyster, apple and/or cranberry and/or mushroom, and my favorite, chestnut. I've also heard of but never tried giblet or turducken.
USA Thanksgiving is always the last Thursday in November. Day after is always Black Friday. Every year...
My favorite day after Thanksgiving leftover meal is making Thanksgiving Gyros. I just lightly fry some pita, then stuff it with turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and mac and cheese. It's feckin' delightful.
i’m definitely going to have to try this this year
Candy yams and sweet potato casserole are two different things. Marshmallows do not go on candy yams but a lot of people will put them on their sweet potato casserole.
My family does not do sweet potato casserole but they do candied yams.
For myself and my daughter, I bake the yams for about three hours. I remove the skin from the yams. Mix with lots of butter and some cinnamon but no sugar. I get the electric mixer beat the pulp while it’s still hot and the butter can melt and mix it till it’s light and fluffy. I put that in a baking pan then top it with the marshmallows and bake until the marshmallows are slightly browned. My family doesn’t like marshmallows on their yams but my daughter and I do so we never take this dish to any type of family holiday dinner. It’s for home eating only.
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinners with my family are usually the same tthing. The favorites and sometimes something new. Baked turkey, slow cooked candied ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, candied yams (sweet potatoes baked with marshmallows on top), greenbeans and bacon, stuffing, dinner rolls, fruit salad (diced fruits mixed with whipped cream and mini marshmallows),j cranberry sauce, molasses baked beans with bacon... I know I'm missing a few things... Every family is different and come in so many different variations. always a feast and always left overs lol OH! And don't forget the pumpkin pie with whipped cream for dessert!
Pi-kon = Pecan. You'll find these trees in the Southern U.S. and Northern Mexico
The sweet potato-to-marshmallow ratio in that casserole is ridiculous! I don’t put marshmallows on It, but when other people do, they put small marshmallows on it.
And to add to the dessert discussion, if you've not had pecan pie (southern Americans like myself usually pronounce it "puh-KAHN"), think of treacle tart sprinkled with English walnuts. Walnuts and pecans are in the same taxonomic family, but pecans have a stronger flavor and a MUCH thinner shell. I once sent some un-shelled pecans to a friend in Germany, and she assumed that the shells would be of walnut thickness -- so she put some on the floor and stomped on them to crack the shells. She was shocked to see that she'd smashed them all flat and they were squished into the bottom of her shoe! ;D
Usually, when we make the sweet potato casserole, we make the marshmallows crispy on top (until nice and brown). Some may contain pecans or walnuts for an extra crunch.
I've never had that sandwich before. My household usually just has turkey sandwiches after Thanksgiving, and then the rest of the leftovers separately. What was in that sandwich was part of the traditional meal though: cranberry sauce, stuffing, and turkey. My family usually also has green beans and homemade mac-n-cheese. It's a ton of food, but it keeps everyone fed for days.
Christmas dinner is so much easier!
Sweet potatoes don't always come with marshmallows. In my family, they're cut into chunks, cooked with butter and brown sugar, and maybe some nutmeg and ginger. My uncle cooks his dish with walnuts. It's still plenty sweet, but it's still considered a side.
The point of Thanksgiving is to celebrate the season of plenty, so there are all kinds of dishes. You could really do anything, but some things are traditional.
I grew up in Michigan. Our Thanksgiving dinner was roast turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing made with white bread and seasonings, whole berry cranberry sauce, glazed parsnips, steamed Brussels sprouts, rolls. For dessert it was pumpkin or apple pie.
Sweet potato casserole is a side item. Best when using fresh sliced sweet potatos baked with butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Once done you turn the oven to broil add marshmallows on top and back in the oven till marshmallows are brown on top.
Thanksgiving dinner is regional. This looks like a southern menu. I’ve never had marshmallows on sweet potato or extra bread in the leftover sandwich. My family doesn’t have pecan pie (too sweet).
I'm an American and as much as I love sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving, I NEVER put marshmallow on them ... pecans, butter, and a SMALL drizzle of maple syrup and you're good to go! As far as pecans are concerned, different parts of the country pronounce it different ways ... but puh-KHAN (more posh) and PEE-can (less posh) are most common. Pecan pie recipes sometimes include chocolate chips, sometimes Bourbon. The turkey pardon is granted for the natural lifetime of the turkey. Finally, although Thanksgiving is NOT a religious event, giving thanks is central to the meal, but some families take it far more seriously than others.
There is a video from Geography King which discusses various regional Thanksgiving dishes from the US. Worth watching, too.
In many families the best part is that it's usually a collection of cooks contributing. We'll have Aunt Marie's sweet potato dish and cousin Renea's cranberries. It's the blessing of bringing them all together.
Not just anyone gets to cook. In my family you have to start out with the less prominent dishes, like the relish tray or a pie. Usually there's more than one member bringing each type of pie so it's not too risky. Once trusted you work up to a side dish or dinner rolls or something on that order.
You have to really prove yourself to be trusted with the turkey and there's tons of pressure. My first year I literally did a trial run a couple days ahead and had the practice turkey as backup in case there was an unfortunate mishap with the official turkey. All went well and the backup turkey wasn't needed. I'm now firmly in the upper tier of family members who host the dinner. 😁
Just an FYI - In Canada Thanksgiving is the 2nd Monday of October (over a month before USA). Also, Canada started having Thanksgiving 43 Years before the USA. In the spirit of the holiday we are happy to share...lol.
It seems they served the food in am odd order. It's funny they asked the one boy "do they feed you at home?" Lol
I do think pecan pie is very sweet. I didn't care for it the first time I had it, but it depends who makes it. While most foods served on Thanksgiving are fairly standard, probably every family has traditional foods specific to them. My family doesn't eat sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Another traditional dish my family doesn't do is green bean casserole.
Last Thursday in November, since the 1860s!!
It's definitely different from xmas dinner, the food choices of thanksgiving actually have a meaning. It is all food that is native to north america, celebrating the sharing of harvest knowledge :D (tbh I bet some Americans dont even know this, it's tradition by this point)
The marshmallows are cut in half and the tops should be toasted till crisp. The smooth sweet potato and crunchy mallows are awesome!
Sweet potatoes are good when they're prepared as a savory food, such as sweet potato fries (you'd probably say chips) or sweet potato chips (you'd probably call them crips). Sweet potatoes prepared the traditional way with marshmallows has never sat well with me.
I love pecan pie. Depending on how it's cooked, it can taste a little bit like baklava.
HI, Kabir! I was hoping that the Jolly guys would explain to the kids that the modern American Thanksgiving is mostly based on the old English Harvest Home festival, in which British farmers would celebrate the gathering and "bringing home" of the fall harvest by having a party. Harvest Home has pretty much died out in England now, I think. British immigrants to America in the 1600s, such as the group known today as "the Pilgrims", threw Harvest Home parties sporadically, and the tradition bobbled along just as sporadically across the years (along with Harvest festivals of many other cultures, including Native Americans.) It took off in a big way in the 1880s, if I remember correctly, and has served as the opening act for the American Christmas/midwinter festival season ever since.