The diligent ladies here are manning (or womanning) the production line at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire in 1934. In my home, we eat canned green beans about once a week. A couple times a month, I’ll buy the fresh ones and spend an hour snipping the ends and chopping them into reasonable bite sizes, then simmering them in beef broth for several hours. They taste better, but it’s not really worth the labor or the four minutes it takes my men to consume them. We always eat the thicker Italian cut beans, as they are heartier and easier to stab. However, when the holidays roll around, we buy the French Style beans to make green bean casserole because America.
But these British lasses would never have celebrated Thanksgiving and probably never had a green bean casserole in their lives. In Texas, we don’t eat many casseroles; that’s more of a Midwest thang. But I love a good casserole, from spinach to broccoli rice to sweet corn. And I never pass up a side at Thanksgiving. I am an equal opportunity consumer. I don’t even care if the cranberries are cut into a slab of congealed jelly or fresh berries with orange zest and ginger. Either way works.
What about y’all? Are you picky? I’d eat any and all of these sides.
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Green bean casserole is a real biggie in Iowa. We had it for dinner on a regular basis growing up! 🙂
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Is that so? Then it wasn’t a treat at Thanksgiving?
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Nope – we had it year round. The kind with the tots on top! 🙂 🙂
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Ooooh, that sounds good right now as we are in an ice storm and can’t leave our homes. Tots!
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Tots are the best. Someday I’m going to experiment and create my own tot flavors -spicy, smoky, maybe even a sweet tot. 🙂
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I’d eat all of them, too. But, confession time, I actually prefer the jelly style cranberry sauce. When it comes to green beans (string beans) only the freshest will do.
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The jelly has the bonus of still having the can marks on it, too.
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I’ll eat from the bag of frozen beans any night, Kerbey, but my dear wife Karen likes to treat us with the fresh variety a couple of times a month, cooked slightly in a stove pot with garlic butter. Yes, better. On holidays I pass on the green bean casserole because I am not a mushroom fan. Yes to every other side you picture!
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The mushrooms are definitely all throughout it.
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