Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>You do know that GBC is one of the top requested foods on death row, right? << How would I know that? We Green Bean Casserole Appreciators don't hang around prisons.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Toonie, how can it be traditional and exotic? It's just plain horrible. We had this one year with our group of 18 people because it's a tradition in some (poor, suffering, confused) families. A few people tried this despite its appearance (including me) and all but one disliked it. We threw away 90% of the dish.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>how can it be traditional and exotic<< That's what makes it magical! You plunk down a bowl of green beans. Everyone goes, "Yay. Green beans. What a treat. What a special holiday this is." But you take those boring beans and put 'em in a bubbling pool of condensed soup and top it with crispy onions, oh mama, now it's a PARTY! Traditional elements combined transform into something exotic and special, a once-a-year treat.
Originally Posted By Labuda Please ensure you sign me up on your team again this year, 2oony. I have loved green bean casserole ever since I can remember. In fact, I remember being a VERY little girl (prior to 1977, I'll say, since Grandma Labuda is part of this memory and that's the year she got sick) sitting on the back porch at my Granddad and Grandma's house, snapping the ends off green beans from Granddad's garden so that they could go into green bean casserole the next day for Thanksgiving. I've had green bean casserole every year of my life on Thanksgiving, and I will continue to do so!
Originally Posted By -em I'm Team Switzerland! Since I'm not a fan of either mentioned versions but of a third I grew up with I'll stay neutral on this debate... -em
Originally Posted By Labuda I *know* you are not insulting my dead Grandma, 999! Wanna insult my dead Daddy and HIS love of green bean casserole, too? *sniff*
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan That's a lovely memory, Labuda. And it even has a back porch! The haters' Thanksgiving stories don't have back porches in them. They have at&t phone stores in their stories. How depressing.
Originally Posted By Labuda Way to backpedal. This is a woman who made kolaches. And cookies. And a bunny-shaped white cake with coconut frosting the year my birthday was on Easter. Grandma made nothing but happy tummy items, and green bean casserole was right up there at the top of the list as the best!
Originally Posted By Ursula 2oony, even though GBC is THE mid-century dish to die for, it is not worth my death. The thing has mushroom soup in it. Did you know this? Egads. I'm going Team Lisann on this one. (This does not have any bearance or consideration for any and all other food allegiances Ursula has with 2oony on other matters such as Popcorn.)
Originally Posted By ophellia Chiming in to join Team 2ooney! ooOOOOoooo Green Bean Cassarole!!! I would eat it in a box,with a fox... I would serve it near and far... doesnt matter where you are... T-day dinner without it isnt whole.. it's all about Green Bean Cassarole!!!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Cream of celery soup can be substituted if mushrooms are the issue. What's important is: "GBC is THE mid-century dish to die for" --Ursula
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin See, in my profession, I can think of other things that look like that. And we don't touch them without gloves.
Originally Posted By Labuda <a href="http://voices.mysanantonio.com/sarahsnyder/2009/11/ode-to-green-bean-casserole.html" target="_blank">http://voices.mysanantonio.com...ole.html</a>
