Keep reading to participate in our totally unscientific and mostly tongue-in-cheek Food Controversies Opinion Poll! And don't forget to download to our special Food Fight edition of HCPL's Podcast for your drive over the river and through the woods!
Pregaming for the Holiday Parade of Parties, Feasts, and Irresistible Treats
It's November, and that means most Americans are prepping for the annual weeks-long gauntlet of parties, feasts, and irresistible treats that mark our winter holidays and that, come the new year, will prompt many of us to resolve to shed the pounds that are the season's most lasting gifts. New gym memberships will spike as they do every January.
This season is rife with food-related pitfalls. For every surefire crowd-pleaser like pumpkin pie, there is the dreaded fruit cake that roams from home to home like the ancient mariner in search of the soul brave enough with a stomach cast iron enough to consume it.
"But It Wouldn't Be Thanksgiving Without It..."
The Thanksgiving table is piled high with traditional dishes we have only once a year. Some are beloved. Others are there only because it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without them. Yet, in most households, the Thanksgiving feast is a tad bland. The only real splash of color comes from the cranberry sauce whose chief purpose may indeed be to break up the insistent beiges and browns of the rest of the meal. Let's face it, the traditional Thanksgiving meal really could use a glow-up, but that won't happen because the holiday and its food are about tradition and connecting with the past. Any deviation from that tradition will elicit, at the very least, raised eyebrows and hushed clucking from Aunt Frieda. Stray a bit farther from family tradition, and you will be the subject of much discussion on family members' drives home. Do something truly heinous, like replacing the pumpkin pie with a winter squash mousse, and you will go down in family lore--not in a good way.
HCPL's Food Controversy Opinion Poll
Most people have strong opinions about Thanksgiving meals and food in general. So, we've put together this poll to answer the burning holiday questions, like whether marshmallows belong on sweet potatoes, but also the eternal food controversies, like pineapple on pizza and which goes in the bowl first, the cereal or the milk.
Food Fight! Listen to the Podcast
If the poll whet your appetite for more food controversies, be sure to check out HCPL's Using Our Library Voices. This month, the podcast team digs in and serves up some hot takes of their own!
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