@Thusnelda @Dagnar @Diogenese_Shiplap I like most Thanksgiving dishes, except super-sugary sweet potato casserole. I like sweet potatoes on their own with butter and orange juice and toasted pecans.

My favorite Thanksgiving dish is something my grandmother's best friend always made--scalloped oysters. It consists of three sleeves of crushed Saltines, butter, half and half, and oysters all baked together till the top is crispy and the interior is fluffy, salty, fatty, buttery, and oyster-y. So good. It was always served in a special silver dish at the table and we all loved it.

Speaking of autistic food issues, I haven't made it in years bc husband doesn't like most seafood. My parents had that Depression-era (I was their late-life GenX child) fixation on CLEANING YOUR PLATE DAMMIT YOU LITTLE SHIT YOU WANT THE BACK OF MY HAND I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT. Any HINT of a food preference was always punished corporally. Miraculously, I learned to like most foods, including okra, but I received one of the worst beatings of my childhood over eggplant. I can eat it, but my parents are dead and I don't have to.