Thanksgiving is a widely celebrated holiday if you celebrate it or not you most
definitely know the famous foods associated with it. The iconic dishes such as turkey,
ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, casserole, pies, green beans, and the most
controversial, cranberry sauce were put to the test to see if they really do deserve to be
sitting at the table.
Students at Belvidere North ranked these dishes 1-5 and the results were shocking.
Students rated turkey a 3/4 and ranked ham a 5. Pretty ironic due to the fact that turkey
is such an iconic thanksgiving dish. A not surprising rank was mashed potatoes with a
5/5 but on the opposite end of the stick was cranberry sauce with a 1 / 5. To join
cranberry sauce is stuffing, casserole, and pie. Green beans are at a solid 3 /5 rating.
The results definitely said words maybe the traditional thanksgiving is just not that
great to eat but satisfying to look at. In the US, 46 million turkeys and 24 million pounds
of ham are eaten on thanksgiving. Leaving turkey to totally dominate the holiday in
means of protein. These numbers are nothing compared to how many pounds of
mashed potatoes are eaten during thanksgiving. Americans will eat 214 pounds of
potatoes. This really makes us ask the question of if turkey should really be the food
that represents thanksgiving or should it be mashed potatoes.
In conclusion, I think it’s clear that the traditional thanksgiving foods may start to
disappear as the younger generations seem to not dislike them. It will be exciting to see
what could replace these foods. Yet, for now I think it’s safe to say that everyone will
definitely stay away from the cranberry sauce.