I love turkey, but pumpkin pie is the best!

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Matt's right. I'm up with stuffing and pie.

Down with turkey. Not my favorite at all....unless maybe it's a heritage turkey.

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Pumpkin cheesecake and stuffing: the complete Thanksgiving meal. (Put enough stuff in the stuffing, and it really is!)

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I've been doing the Thanksgiving Thing for more than forty years, and if I had to pick a Best/Worst food, it would be stuffing (on both counts).

Stuffing (alternately "dressing") can be one of the most memorable, delectable facets of Thanksgiving Dinner. It can (and has, in my experience) also be one of the absolute worst accompaniments to an otherwise splendid meal.

It's not easy to F-up mashed potatoes. Nowadays, it's virtually impossible to screw up a turkey. But the stuffing: you need to be on top of that, at least for a short time.

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i hate stuffing. straight up, i hate it. perhaps it is like john said, the best or the worst part of the meal and i guess i've always just had the worst stuffing.

i absolutely love the rolls and pumpkin pie. mashers are a necessity, but only if done right!

happy turkey day slashfood fans.

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My worst Thanksgiving food? Sweet Potatoes, hands
down! I won't touch them with a ten foot chef's knife!

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childhood favorite is sweet potatoes with pineapple but cannot even look at mince pie :)

happy thanksgiving
GP in Montana

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I thought I hated stuffing, too. For years as a child, I watched my mother pull dripping spoonsful of wet, celery-laden bread out of the turkey's rear end. It was disgusting.
Years later, my mother-in-law insisted I try her sausage and apple stuffing. It did not drip....it was wonderful...sorry, mom.

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Since I'm a vegetarian, I don't eat the turkey, stuffing, or any other meat-containing food.

My favorite would probably be the baked sweet potatoes. Least favorite: cranberry sauce. Ick.

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Stuffing is so overated....I hate tasting the same crap every year. This time of year....Imma pie/ cake kinda person. I emjoy pumpkin chesse cake and pecan pie (my favorite pie) but this year I bought Key line cheesecake so hopefully it will fit in my meal this year. Biscuits are overated too, so try making corn bread muffins. Del-lessh! (Sorry Rachel Ray!)

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We don't do turkey for Thanksgiving.
Having all that leftover meat
plus a carcass in the fridge
until trash day = yuck !
We eat ham, stuffed chicken breasts,
pork chops, or something else.

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Worst: The Dreaded Green Bean Casserole, candied yams topped with miniature marshmallows, goopy/sodden dressing, jellied cranberry sauce.

Best: A perfectly-roasted turkey with my mama's cornbread (she's Southern, from North Carolina) dressing; yams candied with brown sugar, butter and bourbon; sauteed greens with crispy garlic; potato rolls; The Best Pumpkin Pie (secret recipe), and pumpkin-fudge ice cream.

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Worst? Stuffing. I don't like celery at all and every stuffing I've ever tried has celery. Yuck. Maybe one without I'd try and like.

Best? Deserts! I have an awful powerful sweet tooth and the cheesecakes, pumpkin roulades, pecan pies, apple tarts... oh my!

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I feel as if I need to put in a good word for jellied cranberry sauce, my second favorite Thanksgiving food. I've had it for as long as I can remember, and its delicious. I cannot stand fresh cranberry sauce at all.

My absolute favorite would be perfection salad. I do not believe anyone I have ever spoken to has ever heard of it besides me. Shredded cabbage and carrots, diced green bell peppers, crushed pineapple, mixed together- all held together by flavorless gelatin mixed with lemon juice and a bit of sugar added. Dob of mayo on top is optional, but highly recommended. It's like coleslaw but not. Has anyone else ever heard of this? My grandmother claims it came out of a Southern Living Magazine.... ages ago.

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i LOVE all the food on the plate together..they all play a special part of the meal...like a symphony.

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The worst two things to me on Thanksgiving would have to be pumpkin pie and anything sweet potatoe related.
I love the cranberry sauce, could eat that alone and be happy. Not a real big meat person but, don't mind eating turkey and gravey. I like stuffing, provided it isn't too dry. I have had a friend make a stuffing that was real good and tried to copy it. It had chopped nuts and crasins in it.

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I'm not sure if this is really a Thanksgiving food, but it's been a traditional sidedish in our family for as long as I can remember...mashed turnips....ewwwww!!! My favorites are either the sweet potatoes (they just don't taste the same any other time of year) and my sister's mashed potatoes (I don't know what her secret is...but mmmmm!!!!). It goes without saying of course, apple pie....yummy!!!

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The best Thanksgiving food is stuffing, pumpkin pie, and the green bean casserole...Yummy!

The worst Thanksgiving food is sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and I could do without the turkey cooked the traditional way. It is really good smoked, though. And I have heard of it fried, also.

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I always hated turkey so much as a child I never even knew people liked it until recently! Actually, as a kid, I hated ALL of the traditional trimmings, except the stuffing and the chocolate lollypop in the shape of a turkey the restaurant gave kids at the end of the meal.

Now, I like PLAIN baked sweet potato (no marshmellows, please) dried cranberries and PLAIN string beans. But most of the traditional ways of cookign the staples still skeeve me out...

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My husband doesn't like turkey either. He says it's too dry. i cn take it or leave it. I just eat it for tradition.

Have I already admitted to liking canned cranberry sauce? I love it!!

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