November Poll 2007

Welcome to The People's Press - Your Town, Your News, Your Views! We are the #1 Single Copy Newspaper for Wallingford and Meriden Connecticut – November Poll 2007 What’s your favorite and least favorite Thanksgiving dish and who makes the favorite? Thanksgiving foods have a different ring when you are vegetarian. My dad makes good stuffing and stuffed mushrooms for his "vegetarian" daughters. I also look forward to garlic mashed red potatoes. But my favorite this time of year??? Butternut Squash and Almond Bisque. YUM!! – Carrie My favorite Thanksgiving day food is turkey, and I really like cranberry sauce. I like home baked bread, and pecan pie is by far my favorite pie. I know a Chinese-American family that puts water chestnuts in their stuffing. Katrina Alxerod My favorite thanksgiving dish is a toss up between turkey(white meat) and stuffing smothered in gravy and my mother's fried summer squash (which I'll never have the way she cooked it again because she's gone) and my least favorite is cranberry sauce with whole berries. - Diana Favorite: Pumpkin Pie Least favorite: Candied Yams (YUCK!) – Mark Hughes My favorite Thanksgiving dish is sweet and sour red cabbage the way my grandmother made it and my mother still does. I also love the turnips! Add those two items to the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy and life doesn’t get any better - Pam White My favorite thanksgiving dish is everything that my brother-in-law makes – especially since I don’t have to cook it. Least favorite would be brussels sprouts, but if he ever ventured there, I think the family would rebel - Betty Berger/Meriden My favorite dish is stuffing. My least favorite dish is sweet potatoes - YUK!!! Andrea My earliest memory of Thanksgiving, the smell of turnip cooking turned my stomach inside out. I was forced to at least eat some of it off my plate, and I gagged during the entire most unpleasant process. To this day if I smell turnip cooking, it makes me sick. The best part of Thanksgiving for me was always the drumstick on the turkey. If one was not available, I made due with the wing. Dark meat is definitely the best! Yum! – Barbara If you consider beets a dish, that’s my pick for least favorite. I hate beets! Very tough to pick a favorite. If I had to choose, it would be a chestnut and sausage stuffing! – Dan D’addio Least favorite, sweet potatoes. Favorite is mashed potatoes with gravy – Roger My least favorite Thanksgiving item is turnip (Yuk) and my favorite is PUMPKIN PIE!! Thanks Tracy Mashed Potatoes are my favorite and the briscuit is my least favorite. – Heather Sarkin Least favorite is turnip with melted marshmallows. It’s always touted as a family tradition and rarely touched. – William Dennett Least favorite is cranberry sauce, and favorite is stuffing – Shirle Favorite: Pecan Pie Least: Turnip - Steve Zerio My favorite of all time is Broccoli Rice Cheese Bake. My sister Cathy makes it, and I could eat a whole dish of it. I still have nightmares about my least favorite – Mince Meat Pie. I don’t know how anyone could like that. – Jake Kilroy I don’t like real cranberry sauce made with real berries, now that’s nasty, and my favorite is the green bean casserole! - Emma Connolly Favorite: mashed potatoes Least favorite: cranberry sauce – Lori Favorite: stuffing and gravy Least Favorite: creamed onions, yuk! Turnips—least favorite Stuffing—-favorite (my grandmothers) - Jacqueline Whoolery Favorite...mashed potatoes and gravy. Least favorite...squash – Yannick Gonzalez Favorite — whatever’s for dessert. Least favorite — If I have to pick something, I guess it would be cranberry sauce. - Bill Mercuri Favorite: This item is tied into my ethnicity. My mother sautés a huge batch of fresh mushrooms with garlic every Thanksgiving. People in my family will argue over where the bowl of mushrooms will sit on the table. We never let it sit next to my brother. He is what we call a “cavone.” Least favorite Thanksgiving dish: Simple. Deviled eggs. How can anyone get something that smells so bad close enough to their nose to ingest it? Horrifying. - Ralph Riello Flora: Favorite dish: Tie between good stuffing and sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows baked to perfection. Least Favorite: Creamed onions What is not to like? It is the best day for people being positive. – Kate McBride Rocky Mountain Oysters are my favorite – Dave My favorite Thanksgiving dish is Turnip :-) Least favorite is green bean casserole :-( Cathy Love a turkey, eat vegetarian!!!! - Bren & Ern Favorite.....Twice baked potatoes stuffed with bacon and hickory smoked cheddar cheese.. Least Favorite....turnips and soggy green beans. Favorite - Twice baked potatoes, my grandma makes them the best! Least favorite - Whole berry cranberry sauce, it’s too gushy - Allison Sprafke My favorite is the appetizers (shrimp) and the jello with strawberries and bananas My least favorite is the green bean casserole – Kristen My favorite dish may be the pumpkin pie. My least favorite would be turnips. See, son, I did read your mail. Will miracles never cease? - Mom Favorite Dish: Hopefully this includes desert: Hands down: pumpkin pie with whipped cream (real whipped cream). Least favorite dish: Turnips. I still have to cook them because my husband and mother like them, but they stink up my house, and taste awful! Happy Thanksgiving! – Denise My wife has this mystical ability of rendering our ordinary butterball turkey into a heavenly, golden brown delicacy. I always scramble for one of the well-browned, juicy legs...hmmm. Some may think I am un-American when I say, "I will pass on the stuffing". George Arndt believe... Favorite: My dad's stuffing. It's made with sausage and onions and is so delicious my brothers and sisters all fight over the leftovers. Favorite after Thanksgiving is turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sandwiches. I don't have a east favorite, I like it all. Someone is cooking dinner for me, what's not to like? –Joan My favorite Thanksgiving day food was my mother's veal stuffing. She made it with milk crackers that always gave it a wonderful taste. . I recreate today. My least favorites Thanksgiving Day Food was........HMMMMMMMMM...nothing at all!—Gina I love stuffing and homemade apple pie the best. Joy For all the people who dislike turnip: Try cooking them with a shredded carrot, then mashing them with celery salt, pepper, butter, and heavy cream. Then when you eat them mix them with mashed potatoes. I always disliked turnip until my mother-in-law mixed them with mashed potatoes. Now I love them. My favorite Thanksgiving foods are the turkey, stuffing, gravy (without giblets), pumpkin pie, and of course, turnip. My least favorite is whole cranberry sauce. Thanksgiving is a tough holiday for me - being the only vegetarian in the family - but, I absolutely LOVE homemade mashed potatoes & most of the veggies, so I can make a pretty good meal for myself. And I always bring a veggie burger just in case. I dislike any dish that was made "especially for me" (people tend to do that due to my veggie status & don't get me wrong, I DO appreciate it) because then the entire table makes sure I did indeed get some of whatever "it" is, and then they watch me eat the "special weird girls veggie dish" to see if I am going to gag & spit it out, or eat it. Then I have to say how yummy it is, and this has gotten me into many a year of having to eat horrible food usually made from the back of a soup can label, or items that were good the first, second & third time, but not the 56936324 time. Like cheddar cheese soup over broccoli with a tofu crumble, BBQ vegetable kabob and 89 bean baked beans. Christi, glad I don't have to suffer anymore in Meriden Most loved dish: Stuffing Least Favorite pearl cream onions Submitted by Brenda Crosby LEAST FAVORITE DESSERT MINCE MEAT PIE FAVORITE DISH STUFFING: WHO MAKES IT ME. Mary Brenda/Easel Works....for me...not one food....its all the trimmings with lots of gravy.....and don't forget the cranberry sauce! My favorite dish is everything really, whats not to like about Thanksgivng (plus its my bday!) But if I had to choose I would have to say pumpkin pie with home made whip cream!!!!!! - Nicole Giannetta