IMPORTANT THANKSGIVING POLL QUESTION!!!
This question is a subject of passionate debate among my friends... But we've agreed that the results of this poll will settle the question forever! :B Which canned cranberry sauce is "correct":...
Forum Discussion
The Dung Beetles wrote:
The original recipe has the appearance and flavor of something "pre-digested" (scene cuts to the movie THE FLY as Jeff Goldblum physically disintegrates his dinner)..... buuuhahahahahahaa....
In the interest of Historical Fact, I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that...brace yourself...
:E !!! The real, true "original recipe" is different in critical ways to that which survives today !!!:E
For one thing, it calls for fresh beans...but perhaps the most important present omission is that of the traditional celery salt. I refer of course to the First Known Incident of anyone ever having been aware that green beans, whether fresh or canned, could be combined with canned soup of any kind.
On purpose, I mean.
And it was served to no less a personage than THE QUEEN of IRAN!!!
I here refer you to the following account published on April 22nd, 1955, and immortally entitled:
"American Homemaker serves beans to Queen". (The winning recipe is reproduced therein.)
If it's good enough for a Queen, who are we to argue? :B
