Growing up in Oklahoma there were two dishes that confused me as a child.
Cranberry salad was a bowl of strawberry jello with cranberries and pecans with a layer of cool whip on top.
There was also always sweet potato casserole which was a tray of thick slices of sweet potato covered in maple syrup, sprinkled with brown sugar, and marshmallows placed on top before baking the entire thing.
And yes both were served with the savoury food, and yes there was always 10 different pies, ice cream, an assortment of cookies, and homemade caramels for dessert afterwards.
Looking back, it explains why every single male in the family was overweight.
Cranberry salad was a bowl of strawberry jello with cranberries and pecans with a layer of cool whip on top.
The variation of that I’ve had involved strawberry jello, whole berry cranberry sauce and canned pineapple tidbits with the pineapple juice from the can replacing the water in the jello. No nuts or fake whipped cream, though.
Having had the “pleasure” in the 90s to have my host family mum serve one of those as a special homemade dinner because I mentioned I liked sweet potatoes on a previous visit to the States, I just had a bad flashback…
I didn’t finish even my first serving and I felt so bad because she had made this for me especially. But… marshmallows! How can people mistake those for something edible???
Growing up in Oklahoma there were two dishes that confused me as a child.
Cranberry salad was a bowl of strawberry jello with cranberries and pecans with a layer of cool whip on top.
There was also always sweet potato casserole which was a tray of thick slices of sweet potato covered in maple syrup, sprinkled with brown sugar, and marshmallows placed on top before baking the entire thing.
And yes both were served with the savoury food, and yes there was always 10 different pies, ice cream, an assortment of cookies, and homemade caramels for dessert afterwards.
Looking back, it explains why every single male in the family was overweight.
The variation of that I’ve had involved strawberry jello, whole berry cranberry sauce and canned pineapple tidbits with the pineapple juice from the can replacing the water in the jello. No nuts or fake whipped cream, though.
Having had the “pleasure” in the 90s to have my host family mum serve one of those as a special homemade dinner because I mentioned I liked sweet potatoes on a previous visit to the States, I just had a bad flashback… I didn’t finish even my first serving and I felt so bad because she had made this for me especially. But… marshmallows! How can people mistake those for something edible???
what…