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My dirt farming west Texas side of the family does the marshmallows over sweet potatoes thing. It's a poor-man's meringue, has been mentioned before. You'll also see marshmallows on toothpicks on cakes, but that's to keep the tin foil/plastic wrap from getting on to the frosting.
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DekeThornton posted:Are marshmallows cheaper than egg whites and sugar? Isn't it rather a lazy and tasteless man's meringue? Slightly cheaper perhaps but certainly faster. Could be a result of WW2 rationing as well as not everyone having an electric mixer/good oven/the right climate to not have it spontaneously deflate/melt. When you've spent the last few weeks making sure that the cotton's been planted in time, you kind of stop giving a poo poo about how tasteless something is.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:06
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Hirayuki posted:poo poo, I guess I can expect a visit from the Thanksgiving Police this year at our family meal in metro Detroit. Your punishment will be to eat a whole sweet potato casserole by yourself. May god have mercy upon your soul.
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Nov 12, 2014 01:53
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Do I have to tell them we've never had sweet potato casserole, or will that just make my punishment worse?
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FROOOOOOOOG posted:The only sweet pie I've had is apple, and pumpkin is a vegetable. I thought it was yet another side dish for ages. I'm now trying to picture Starbucks releasing a savory pumpkin spice latte. It's mildly loving hilarious.
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Nov 12, 2014 07:01
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Hummingbirds posted:Everyone is complaining about sweet potato casserole but the true heinous southern Thanksgiving/Christmas dish is ambrosia. You shut your filthy, filthy mouth.
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Nov 13, 2014 01:45
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Hummingbirds posted:Ambrosia would be a lot better if it was just fruit salad without the weird dressing Does she use cottage cheese? I've got one dirt farming relative that does, and that's always loving horrifying. Just some home-made whipped cream and some sour cream. Ambrosia (and most things that end up at church gatherings and what not) is a status thing, similar to why sweet tea is such a big thing here in the south. It came about because if you had sweet tea you had enough loving sugar to add it to everything.
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Nov 13, 2014 02:26
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My grandma makes it every year and I feel bad not taking some, but I always wish it was just fruit.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:
What fresh unwashed hell is this?
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Nov 13, 2014 21:20
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To be fair, I miss Pizza Hut flavored Doritos.
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Dec 6, 2014 03:44
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The Time Dissolver posted:Ambrosia is one of the defining Midwestern culinary idiocies. I always had it with Cool Whip and I think coconut? And mandarin oranges only. It's far from gross but definitely cheap and stupid, and closely connected in my mind with that agonizing boredom of being a child at a non-Christmas family gathering. It's not so much a Midwestern idiocy as a Southern thing. Depending on the amount of effort put in to it you end up with different results. Cottage cheese + canned oranges + Miracle Whip + raw shredded coconut = DEAR GOD WHY!? Small marshmellows + orange/grape/cherry slices + toasted shredded coconut + toasted walnut/pecan + home made whipping cream/yogurt = a pretty darn good desert.
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Jan 15, 2015 15:08
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pandaK posted:The regular fruits in an average SoCal supermarket are very delicious, Meanwhile, my kinfolk out in west Texas don't really get non-gassed fruit readily.
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Minarchist posted:Maybe if someone dared me while I was several drinks into a binge. I'm down with sea bugs (to a point, crawfish weird me out but shrimp don't) but land crawlers just...no. Maybe with a lot of butter or something. http://30daysofbugs.com/
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