Um , maybe: do you make it with condensed soup or a scratch base? Lol. (Mine love it.)
I love green bean casserole but several years ago one of my cousin’s announced that since we have all our teeth no more green casserole at Thanksgiving. Now this cousins loves canned peas and eats them right out of the can so I really think she had some nerve.
And my sister will only eat the cheap smelly tuna and she eats it right out of the can, too,
Okay, meant as tongue in cheek, no offense intended, but since the quiz is a little ridiculous, here is my expanded Thanksgiving version.
Is Your Thanksgiving in an Elitist Bubble?
No green bean casserole: 0 points
From scratch using a recipe off epicurious and fresh green beans and mushrooms: 1 point
Canned soup base, canned green beans, French’s fried onions: 5 points
Heritage breed, free range, humanely raised, hormone free turkey sold by your local butcher or Whole Foods at price that could pay for a nice dinner out for a family of four: 0 points
Pre-cooked turkey dinner bought at Dean & DeLuca: 0 points
Fresh turkey, nothing special: 1 point
Frozen Butterball Turkey: 2 points
Store brand turkey that you saved up the store receipts for months to get for free: 3 points
Turkey you shot yourself in the woods, gutted and dressed yourself: 10 points, with bonus point given for deep frying it.
Homemade cranberry sauce with fancy ingredients like candied ginger, figs or kumquats: 0 points
Homemade cranberry sauce, nothing fancy: 1 point
Canned whole berry cranberry sauce: 2 points
Canned jelly cranberry sauce still bearing the ridge lines from the can (my favorite kind 
): 5 points
No cranberry sauce because you’re from the deep south and they don’t do the cranberry thing there: 7 points
Fresh whipped cream for your pie: 0 points
Whipped Cream from a can: 1 point
Premium ice cream: 0 points
Store brand ice cream: 1 point
Cool Whip: 5 points
Presumably, the reverse sometimes happens. Indeed, on the web, you can find complaints about how places like Hawaii and California are the “most racist” places because of various kinds of petty racism that exist everywhere, but are invisible to white people living in mostly white areas, but more likely to be encountered by white people in places where most people are not white.
I tried to do your quiz, but I had a problem. I made a from scratch Bean Casserole from Cook’s Illustrated. That probably gives me -5 points. I usually just get regular turkey, not frozen, but I haven’t saved receipts either. So is that 2.5 points? I make homemade cranberry sauce, but no fancy ingredients. It’s the recipe on the package. Cook ten minutes with a cup of sugar and let cool. So Maybe 1 point? And I like ice cream with my pie.
You get 1 point for your scratch green bean casserole. @mathmom Since I’m still in edit mode, I updated my points to reflect your choices. You’re a 3 or 4 depending on your ice cream preference.
10 Thanksgiving points for me!*
Going with the spirit of the original quiz, this means I fall into the incredibly meaningfully narrow 3–24 point range, which is “An average first-generation middle-class aspiring foodie, with holiday food tastes that reflect working-class origins.”
- Mainly because I do the cream of mushroom soup green bean casserole. It’s a magic food, green bean casserole is, because it tastes amazing on Thanksgiving—but absolutely horrible every single other day of the year.
If it’s my big family Thanskgiving (there are 40 of us give or take)
- no green bean casserole.
- At least one turkey will be free range/butcher/whole foods and 1 couid be frozen butterball if it was my assignment because that is what I like. When it’s not mine, I don’t know because I don’t ask.
- homemade cranberry sauce with variety of added ingrediants. If it’s my assignment I make it with clementines.
- fresh whipped cream
So I think that would be 2 or 3 points I guess.
If just for my wee family/friends
- orig Campbell’s soup recipe green bean casserole.
- the one my grocers sells for $0.69/lb with coupon.
- homemade cranberry w/clementines
- I serve the pie with vanilla bean ice cream but it’s the dairy store own brand which is much better then regular store brand.
So, 8 or 9 pts give or take.
My family usually eats Indian food for Thanksgiving. So we don’t have green bean casserole, but we don’t have cranberry sauce either.
@doschicos:
Take the family to Cracker Barrel or a cheap all-you-can-eat buffet place for Thanksgiving dinner: 20 points
Show up at your neighbors house for Thanksgiving dinner with your brood because you see a lot of cars there and go over with a package of “heat and bake” parkerhouse rolls: 25 points
BTW they do do cranberries in the south.
lol @ thanksgiving quiz
I scored a 16. I could live on canned cranberry “sauce” and green been casserole alone 
Thanksgiving
Growing up frozen turkey, Butterball if my Mom had the extra money. Cranberry jellied in the can with the ridges. Cool whip and frozen pies. 12 points
My in laws where I’ve spent the last 28 Thanksgivings-
2 or a 3 depending on her turkey purchase. For many years she did a free range or hormone free bird as my SIL only ate hormone free. The last few years as she has aged she has switched to Butterball. We have fresh green beans.
I have never been to a Thanksgiving meal with a green bean casserole.
@jym626 During my time in the south and having had a few southern guests at my table, the majority of them have never had cranberry sauce at their table. Maybe a molded jello salad or some kind of ambrosia fruit thing, but not cranberry sauce.
I’m a 7 on my Thanksgiving quiz with 5 of those points coming from the jellied cranberry sauce but we’ll also have the gourmet homemade version on the table as well.
But, I’ve got plenty of turkeys roaming around in my yard if anyone is looking for some.
What do we get for watching the Macy’s Day parade and then eating dinner at the Harvard Club? 
I grew up with both canned and homemade cranberry sauce because my midwest Dad preferred canned and my New England Mom preferred homemade.
Well all I can say @doschicos is I’ve lived in the South for 41 years and regardless of where Thanksgiving was held, there was always cranberry sauce.
I object! Homemade cranberry sauce without the extras is more “U” than the kind with walnuts and orange peel. So the 1 and 0 should be flipped for those.
Born and raised in GA here -and can’t remember a Thanksgiving without Cranberry sauce. Ocean Spray. Making your own would be “fancy” B-)
My mom (from N Alabama) always made homemade cranberry sauce.
I never did Thanksgiving dinner (I don’t like working on my vacations) and family is far away. We always took the kids skiing. D and older S like cooking though and the last 2 years they have cooked something. Turkey is a hassle so they make chicken instead. I guess we fail at Thanksgiving.
You need a question regarding marshmallows on sweet potatoes.
doschicos: How many points for Thanksgiving in a box; pre-cooked turkey and sides (including the mushroom soup/canned onion ring, green bean casserole) from the local chain grocery? Do I get bonus points for serving this to 1) guests who last week served me a dinner entirely raised on their farm, including the meat course 2) other guests who last month served me rabbit from the local farmers market?
I do Thanksgiving annually for a bunch of friends. They, seemingly, love the casserole and call it “retro” but they don’t know I just reheated it.
There is a sort of a long story as to how I got to this point. I won’t bore you with details.
To be fair, when always asked, I always say it isn’t necessary to bring a thing - but, if there is a special Thanksgiving dish they want that I don’t provide, then please feel free. No one brings anything, except maybe flowers, wine, etc.
I get really good pies from a local woman and use real whipped cream. And a special cranberry relish from a gourmet place. I hope that doesn’t deduct too many points.