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Stuffing or dressing? Vote to settle Thanksgiving’s most heated food debates

The Thanksgiving feast will be different this year. Coast restaurants are doing the cooking, making smoked and deep fried turkeys and the trimmings. The casino restaurants will be open Thanksgiving and offering holiday specials.
The Thanksgiving feast will be different this year. Coast restaurants are doing the cooking, making smoked and deep fried turkeys and the trimmings. The casino restaurants will be open Thanksgiving and offering holiday specials. Getty Images/iStockphoto

Thanksgiving arrives this week, which means its time to prioritize one of our most important arguments: food.

Specifically, what makes a good holiday meal? Do you use cornbread in your dressing or the dreaded boxed stuffing. Is sweet potato casserole with marshmallows the best dish on the menu or an insult to everyone who is forced to eat it?

What about the cranberry sauce? One of our colleagues here at the Ledger-Enquirer, Kelby Hutchison, referred to the substance as, “over glorified jelly you eat once a year.”

Even mentioning Thanksgiving food during a meeting threatened to divide the newsroom with reporters and editors alike ready to spiral into 20 slide PowerPoint presentations with topics such as “10 reasons why homemade cranberry sauce is the best.”

So, we put the topic to our readers here. Let’s have Muscogee County vote in this unscientific poll to settle some of the internet’s more heated Thanksgiving food debates.

Brittany McGee
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Brittany McGee is the community issues reporter for the Ledger-Enquirer. She is a 2021 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Media and Journalism with a second degree in Economics. She began at the Ledger-Enquirer as a Report for America corps member covering the COVID-19 recovery in Columbus. Brittany also covered business for the Ledger-Enquirer.
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