pretty sure the fruit jelly is intended to be eaten with the meat as it always is. but seeing as we live in a society where we can afford to eat whatever we want and thanksgiving is an accepted day of gluttony, people put a huge red pile of sugary gel/sauce on their plate and eat it by the tablespoon. don't forget to put some gravy on it.
+Glaucus oh fuck off it's a national celebration where families get together and traditions and handed down. You're probably some 14 year old emo girl.
+Samuel Rs you're telling me gluttony is not more accepted on thanksgiving than other days? That's all I said about Thanksgiving but I infer from your comment that you feel I am Anti-Harvest-Celebration. I don't have a problem with thanksgiving I just thought it was ignorant to say "who eats cranberry sauce on their meat". but yeah your swear words and insults scared me and made me feel inferior.
+James Welks Yes, please, who makes and presents the food on these channels? Because they are never really made like they actually are in real life. It's like they're purposely choosing wrong things and also purposely making the food bad.
+Tiffany Tan They are cooking American food in Ireland. Mostly likely with Irish cooks unfamiliar with the American dishes in question. Not the best of circumstances for the best version to happen.
They have to find ingredient that most of the time native to America/hard to find import. Fresh cranberry? Good corn flour? Sweet potato? (I want to know how anybody can hate freshly prepared sweet potato? They really do taste like potato but sweet. ) Also the turkey looks dry. lol
That is the strangest Thanksgiving dinner I’ve seen in my 56 years. The food hints at thanksgiving but was obviously put together by someone who had never actually eaten a thanksgiving dinner. Or even been in the neighborhood where thanksgiving dinner was being served and, dare I say, never in the continent where Thanksgiving is celebrated.
Same! But maybe it's because I'm black with family from the south so we have turkey, ham, roast pork, roast chicken, mac and cheese, lasagna, mashed potatoes and gravy, collard greens, rice and beans, pumpkin pie, apple pie, banana pudding pie, stuffing (but it doesn't look like theirs), and corn bread basically.
As a white Northerner this doesn't look like my Thanksgiving either. This looks like an Irish professional chef's interpretation of Thanksgiving-esque recipes gathered on the internet from all corners of America (and maybe Canada). So... good job Irish Buzzfeed? Yes, I know you're called Facts. (bad name choice, mate) but I'm gonna call you Irish Buzzfeed. Because 1. that is what you are, and 2. Buzzfeed is a meaningless onomatopoeic corporate word that more accurately reflects your content. You are Irish Buzzfeed, live it, love it. Also unrelated, again as a white Northerner, how is CcakeAsh's Thanksgiving menu any different than regular black soul food? Besides the turkey, pumpkin pie, stuffing, etc. Like, what's Thanksgiving-y about collard greens and not just, y'know, regular Southern-y?
A lot of these dishes were cooked incorrectly. The stuffing isn't meant to be like celery and bread itself. Boxed stuffing would be better. The green bean casserole was cooked incorrectly. That was very important to get right cause that makes the whole meal. Also, the potato should have been mashed.
Well, I think it was actually green beans with slivered almonds, not, per se, "green bean casserole." Either of which is typical thanksgiving fare, IMO, but they are definitely fairly **different dishes...**
That is no American Thanksgiving. The most generic American Thanksgiving I can think of would be: a roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, Stovetop stuffing, green bean casserole with Frenchs french fried onions, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce from a can (that almost no one touches) and pumpkin pie. Now I realize all of these differ from household to household, but these imo are the Thanksgiving staples.
+Paul Watts Fresh cranberry sauce is definitely the EASIEST thing to make from scratch, it's just berries sugar and a touch of water, put in a pot and boil.
@@TheNiteSkye those are *Hasselback Potatoes* they are a German style of baked potato and they do NOT have Cheese or bacon but are basted in Garlic butter
I am 50 and a grandma so I have made this meal for decades. They got it all wrong. It's all about traditional foods. Weeks in advance foods are bought. It's all from a package to save time. Stove Top brand stuffing. Ocean spray cranberry from a can. A Jenny O turkey in an oven ready bag. Hunts Jared gravy. Crescent rolls from a tube. This spells success! The last item you get should be muffins and your pies. Then watch the parade while you cook. They will tell you when to heat your side, baste ECT. After Santa shows up, set the table. See, easy- not fancy.
When I make Thanksgiving dinner, it isn't this mess!!! Yuck! It all looks like it came from an airplane!! It's a terrible representation of Thanksgiving dinner, which is glorious!
IKR!! Where's the friggin' crunchy FRIED ONION topping!!! Looks like they went to a Chinese restaurant to have Thanksgiving. I wonder if their turkey was still smiling at them. xD
That is not a proper American thanksgiving dinner. Good lord the turkey looked like garbage, the stuffing looked awful and I dont even car for cranberries, but that is not cranberries!
They just didn’t make them right. Brussels sprouts always taste better roasted with some bacon and chopped garlic, and it would’ve been better to skip the sweet potato casserole and just throw in the diced sweet potatoes to roast in the same pan.
Nathan Crause nobody likes it when their culture is misrepresented, what if I said that British people sit on there ass all day drinking tea and eating biscuits?
+Jasmine Hazeldine-Ross You are truly one in a million because I have never heard of it for thanksgiving and I have lived in several parts of the country. I do love brussel sprouts though if they are steamed.
I have a bunch of family in Ireland and I remember my aunt cooking all the thanksgiving food for us so we could celebrate it while we were there. So sweet.
When you proclaimed: "it's like 6 different things (on the menu...)", I literally burst out laughing. When my Connecticut family got together with other relatives, it went something like THIS: 1:00pm - cheeses & crackers, olives & pickles, stuffed celery, THEN came soup AND salad AND fruit cup, THEN came a 25 POUND turkey with sausage stuffing, spiral-sliced glazed ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, corn, green bean casserole, squash...URP!!! BUT WE'RE NOT DONE YET!!! OH, DEAR LORD!!! OUT CAME, um, dessert...egg nog, ice cream log roll, homemade cakes AND pies AND cookies AND brownies, PLUS tea or coffee!!! GAG!!! 😜 THEN the guys went into the den to watch football, while I got "chauffeur duty", driving around all my ancient Aunts to visit at LEAST 3+ cemeteries. Simply DELIGHTFUL way to DIGEST!!! 😡 Upon arrival back, it was time for, um, "Round TWO"!!! WOOF!!! Out comes ALL the leftovers from lunch, AS WELL AS... cold cuts and cheese and rolls for sandwiches, lasagna, stuffed cabbage, kielbasa & sauerkraut, 10 POUNDS of potato salad, 24 deviled eggs, shrimp cocktail, PLUS ALL THE LEFTOVER DESSERTS!!! PLEASE GOD HELP ME!!! 😱 Finally, the dishes would be washed, dried, and stored. Any final leftovers would be "doggie-bagged" to bring home, and we'd all waddle back to our cars for that looooooooong ride home... WOOF!!! 💋
ok.. I like watching these. but I really have to say. since they are eating american foods.. ffs.. WOULD SOMEBODY SERVE THEM FOOD THE WAY WE ACTUALLY HAVE IT HERE.
Yeah, they definitely didn't go with the most traditional versions of each recipe. I'd say the turkey and sweet potato casserole were accurate, but everything else was a bit off.
+bluejazz511 Agreed. It's supposed to be Turkey & Gravy. Cranberry sauce is a side. Also, who ever heard of nuts in green bean casserole? It's Green Beans + Cream of Mushroom soup + French's French Fried Onions. Also, that stuffing/dressing didn't look right at all. Someone should mail them a box of Stove Top Turkey Stuffing and a pouch of McCormick Turkey Gravy. THAT is proper American food.
As an American I can say who ever cooked this, wasn't someone use to cooking thanksgiving dinner. Majority of this stuff I have never heard of anyone eating except for the stuffing and turkey. Plus the turkey was dry? someone didn't cook it right and I feel sorry for these lovely Irish folks who had to suffer through it.
@@latoashav2107 yea lol just like a southern Thanksgiving here in tennessee, southern cooking is the best and noticed it when I visited a friend in Michigan and my other friends had like a generic tasting Thanksgiving on average in Michigan, theres always that nice grandma in detroit or melvindale that has them southern cooking skills.
@@wcwindom56 Or fly someone over who actually knows how to cook. I make Acorn, and chestnut stuffing. A turkey bbq'ed whole, on a Weber grill with charcoal for the heat, Home made gravy, Roasted asparagus on the grill, greens (seasonal, usually Amaranth) Fire roasted corn on the cob, home made mashed potatoes, Mashed yams with just a touch of orange juice, topped with cinnamon, Nutmeg, and a touch of REAL maple syrup, Sweet potato pie, Pumpkin pie, and pecan pie!
@@dragunovbushcraft152 Sounds delish... We typically do yams with a dash of lemon and a bit of brown sugar... Mashed, obviously. Peach / blackberry cobbler is also quite acceptable as dessert. But Pumpkin / apple pie are too. :) In theory, pecan pie, though it's a bit too sweet for my taste, personally... But yeah... Brussells sprouts? Nah bruh. Maybe broccoli, yeah, asparagus is common enough I think (pretty sure we've made that plenty of times). Green beans with slivered almonds (green beans almondine?) is typical enough, though different from green bean casserole, which is its own thing. They definitely needed gravy. (white or brown). And the cranberry sauce shoulda' been aside, not slathered on everything like it's going out of style.
I can't be the only one who watches these and just wishes they could go over their and cook the food properly. Like clearly that turkey was not cooked upside down the right way or it would not have been so dry, the stuffing looked awful, the green bean casserole looked halfway done, there was no mashed potatoes or gravy, and someone just butchered those brussel sprouts.
Skreamie If you cook the turkey upside down for the first two thirds of the time it keeps the breast incredibly moist and allows the fat from the dark meat to drip over and through the white meat giving it a richer flavor. Then you flip it for the last third and baste occasionally to crisp the skin and brown it. Comes out better than deep frying it which is hard to beat.
+Skittles McStabbypants I've never once eaten brussel sprouts with my Thanksgiving dinner, but I agree that they need a better chef. Sweet potato casserole (or candied yams) is much better with diced apples and pecans, plus they didn't even coat the whole thing with marshmallows properly. And the stuffing looks like a bowl of croutons, like they never got around to actually cooking the stuffing. Finally, never in my life have I put my cranberry sauce on my turkey, not even turkey as dry as theirs.
Damn Right. Gotta have mashed potatoes and gravy. ... And unless you're Martha Stewart, the cranberry sauce should still be the same shape as the can it came out of (so you can slice off a chunk).
+CaptainIronButt Nobody does any of this. What stuffing looks like someone cutting up sandwiches for their toddler? Cashews on green bean casserole?!! What are those!!!!!!!!!
+CaptainIronButt EXACTLY. Stuffing is supposed to have the bread crouton sized at the biggest, with spices and assorted small vegetables.... Heck, who uses just like... white bread??? Isn't corn bread more typical???
+CaptainIronButt I put cranberry sauce directly on the turkey, that is DELICIOUS. I use the leftover turkey and cranberry sauce to make delicious sandwiches for several days after, too. It can only be homemade cranberry sauce, though, not the canned jelly.
I like brussell sprouts, but they have to be roasted with a little bit of balsamic vinegar, ginger, and garlic, but even then nobody is eating brussell sprouts on Thanksgiving. And where's the damn gravy?! Everything on that plate is supposed to be floating in a delicious pool of brown or white gravy.
+GummyTumor I joke there's only two ways to cook brussel sprouts: the right way and the wrong way. If cooked correctly, they're delicious but if not, they're nasty.
Cornbread stuffing is the best with all its herbs and seasonings. That stuffing shown hear looked horrible! It looked like a bunch of soggy croutons and probably tasted like it, YUCK 😝
Even Stove Top would be better. Supermarkets here have pre made stuffing, Mac and cheese, pies and cornbread. Some have pre cooked food in a big box you pick up a few days before. All you have to do is heat it up!
Traditional thanksgiving dinner is a big roasted turkey, bread stuffing with celery & onions, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole baked with condensed cream of mushroom soup, sweet potatoes with marshmallow, baked bread rolls & butter. Dessert is pumpkin pie & pecan pie, both served with a generous topping of whipped cream 🇺🇸👊❤️
Lori D as is the case with everything they eat or drink. It's hard to watch, even though it's a lot of nice girls and cool guys that you may want to hang out with..
This looks like a Thanksgiving dinner made by someone that has never attended a Thanksgiving dinner. XD The stuffing and green bean casserole in particular looked quite different than how I"m used to seeing it prepared.
Some Irish producers wife must have cooked that awful representation of a Thanksgiving dinner. BRUSSEL SPROUTS? No one I know ever served them at Thanksgiving. Heck! Most people never serve them at all. Yuck!
That's what I was thinking because a few of those dishes look off. Like the green bean casserole with no cream or fried onions and wheres the gravy? I think they would like my cranberry sauce but agree with them, I never understood the marshmallows on sweet potatoes
+jupiter tovar That was not turkey...that was deli meat. You need a juicy whole turkey, with mashed potato's, giblet gravy(made from the actual turkey), yams match better, but the sweet potato's looked solid, and cranberry on the side. Also the green beans are better just sauteed with bacon. The food looked good in the picture, but individually you could tell they were just made to look pretty.
Whoever cooked this meal isn't American. We don't eat Thanksgiving food like that. Cranberry sauce is a small side dish often not, even on the same plate and never as a topping for the turkey! The green bean casserole made here looked like green beans with milk or cream on top. Green bean casserole is actually best using canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup, fried onions on top and then baked.
D Wayne Mendoza i agree with everything u said except ur full of shit cause i love cranberry sauce with my turkey!! other then that ur completely right bro...
Almost 30 years of thanksgiving and no one, including me, have served any of these. These cooks/writers must have really shitty memories of Thanksgiving. (Or they aren't American, which I suspect more.)
I can't speak for Blu, but I've never had turkey with fuckin' cranberries on it. Throw tuna and mayo on there and it's the quartet of shit I absolutely hate.
What did they do here, give the Irish the nastiest food available and claim that Americans eat it. Brussel Sprouts, who eats those and the stuffing looked more like wet croutons. Did they even attempt to make the food edible??!!
Actually, I come from an entire family that loves brussel sprouts, but we never prepare it like that. Those looked just nasty and I don't blame the people in the video for hating it. Brussel sprouts done wrong are just NASTY!
who tells you guys this stuff is what we eat in america? wheres the mashed potatoes? wheres the gravy? why, in the name of all that's holy, was the cranberry sauce ON the turkey?
+ShibbyLove Moore Or their chef can have a Skype with an American Grandma thats been cooking homemade meals for the last 30 years. Which they should have consulted with an actual American before they made this video.
***** That's a shame. I've always had a high opinion of the Irish, if that really was their intention with these videos though then that is rather sad and reflects more poorly on them than it does on us.
All the America videos I've seen not much of the food is anything I've heard of or tried, and absolutely nothing in this video looked like it was cooked or made right. You should have an actual American make these meals. Not trying to be rude, I watch a lot of your videos, I just don't think it's true to our real food.
Oh piss off all of you! Sweet potato casserole is gross anyways. Brussel sprouts are gross. Stuffing is mediocre. And cranberry is just nasty! Have you seen how we serve it? Straight out of a can! It even retains its shape! THAT'S NOT NATURAL! NOT IN MY CHRISTIAN HOUSE!!! Thanksgiving is all hype. It's not even a good holiday! And at least they actually call them Native Americans and not Indians! Or worse, 'Injuns. They don't like our food and they don't have to!
That was not a traditional thanksgiving dinner! That stuffing wasn't even close to real stuffing and that green bean casserole was no where near a real green bean casserole.
+Nicki Del Turkey with turkey gravy. Cran from a can. Stovetop Stuffing. Green bean casserole from the french's can recipe. Sucatash. Mashed Potatoes. Brown and Serve Dinner rolls. Mashed Sweet Potato Caserole (either marshmallows or strussel topping). That's the traditional meal. Brussel Sprouts are optional, but I've never seen hasselback potatoes.
I make brussle sprouts all the time for thanksgiving. make them good with some bacon and onions and different spices and a marinade I make its pretty bomb
I think this could benefit greatly from having an American there eating with them. He could be like, "Why did you put the cranberry sauce ON the turkey!? Where's the mashed potatoes? No rolls? No, we don't all put marshmallows on sweet potatoes. That's not stuffing, what have you done!?"
Dear Facts: Do more research. Sweet potato with marshmallows is utterly disgusting, although I've heard this recipe is more of a southern thing (where the foods tend to be sweeter than the north). Brussel sprouts are pretty universally disgusting to most people -- and the cranberry sauce doesn't tend to go on top of the turkey. And what about mashed potatoes, gravy, muffins/biscuits, corn? And what was that potato loaf thing? I've never seen that.
In our family (we are from Louisiana) sweet potatos are cut into chunks than put in a casserole dish pour a little apple juice sprinkle some brown sugar and cinnamon and put it in the oven. You are right though about the sweetness for this dish in the south. My mom sometimes likes to top it with a honey granola as well.
@FACTS Can Y'all please do a RE-MAKE???? Bring all 4 of them back And Put somebody that has "SOUL" in that kitchen PLEASE.....I don't even eat that weird shit.
Here’s the thing. All our parents and grandparents pretty much went off of Betty Crocker or some other cookbook. Over the years they add or omit things to the recipes. If you’re lucky enough to have recipes older than that you should share the love. Because these people are not experiencing the love of Turkey day.
yep, we use grandma's cranberry recipe, the gravy recipe from an old man at our church, my aunt's mother's stuffing recipe and ok the green bean casserole recipe is from the can of French's onions LOL but everything came from somewhere.
missmorgandeville Yeah, me too. I suspect he's being a wise guy about the "cabbage" though, due to Irish Americans always making corned beef and cabbage...something which they don't really eat in Ireland. :)
so bland looking. I do make a Southern style, with bread crumbs, cornbread, onions, celery, giblet pieces, egg and poultry seasoning. In the pan, not the bird. Also, gotta have giblet GRAVY !!
I detest yams and marshmallows but made it once with the marshmallows ,brown sugar and cranberries and loved it!! Of course I ate more of the rest than the yam parts. lol
Indiana chooses to do noodles and put gravy on it yeah no I grew,up in Illinois. Sometimes we had mac and cheese sometimes in addition to mash potatoes we'd do cheesy scalloped potatoes. My family didn't bother with sweet potato pie no one would eat it.also in area where am now they do the cheesy cornbread casserole
I know this video is really dated but, I love these videos however, the American food representations are way off...and this one in particular hurts to watch. We challenge you all to our home near San Diego california as our guests and we will treat you to an authentic Thanksgiving dinner and I promise, you won’t be disappointed!!!!
Heck yes!! I was thinking the same as I watched the vid. Not only would this bunch be a ton of fun,, they would get to see what the big deal was all about.
That is not what Thanksgiving dinner prepared at an American home looks like. Also, regional dishes are served as sides. Mac and cheese, salad, sweet potato pies, picked pearl onions, the list goes on. A real American housewife should have made it. No fancy dishes. Paper plates and red kool aid should have been served on a TV tray while your aunts dog licks his balls.
I could not agree more. My in-laws are Chinese, and I am of Irish-German descent but my family has been here for several generations. When I made a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner, with roasted turkey, herb stuffing (NOT just old crusty bread that appears to have been pan fried), giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole (WITHOUT friggin nuts), cranberry sauce, rolls, apple pie, pecan pie, sweet potato casserole (yes, I put marshmallows on it but I do realize not everyone likes it that way - tough) - they LOVED it. I'm sure if some served these Irish hipsters some REAL traditional Thanksgiving dinner, prepared and served properly - well, they probably STILL wouldn't like it - but that's because they're HIPSTERS, not because they're IRISH. >:(
Hipster is a term used in the US to describe people who take themselves too seriously. Most Irish I'm sure aren't hipsters, but these folks were what we'd call hipsters. Many hipsters self identify as hipsters so its not necessarily an insult.
+christschool actually the definition of hipster is someone who follows trends, most of them being underground. the rest of American took the term and used it to mislabel coffee shop goers who thought they were too good for mainstream media and trends.
+Bruni Doesn't look like any Canadian Thanksgiving I've experienced. That stuffing looked awful, and I've never seen marshmallows anywhere near sweet potatoes.
Aight y'all fucked this food up. The stuffing looks so bland and not what stuffing is, you're missing ham, sweet corn, collard greens, green beans (who the hell eats a casserole tf), cornbread, yams, black eyed peas, mashed potatoes and some pumpkin pie or peach cobbler To finish it off.
The turkey and cranberry sauce are the only things I've ever seen from here at our thanksgiving dinners (I'm from VA). We usually also have five layer mac and cheese, Smithfield ham, stuffing (that looks more cubed and has bits of vegetables in it), collard greens cooked with ham bits, chopped sweet potatoes with marshmallows and cinnamon, mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, deviled eggs, various pies etc. It's interesting how many types of thanksgiving dinners there are.
Yeah, and they're all good! But there are a few essentials - turkey, stuffing, and gravy, for instance. Your Thanksgiving Dinner sounds wonderful! A little different from mine, but wonderful! :D
I live in Massachusetts and we do a lot of these items but they were executed VERY poorly. how can they call that stuffing????? its just soggy croutons and celery. sweet potato caserole has pecans and caramelized onions. candied yams get the marshmallows. that green bean casserole was hardly a casserole. this video hurt my soul. oh, and you do gravy with a small amount of cranberry sauce and it becomes quite nice.
I responded to their other 'try thanksgiving video'...this was my comment... They should try a southern thanksgiving dinner. Which I am sure shares many of the same food items as other regional celebrations. But if you've never had the experience it would blow your mind. Cornbread stuffing (made with cornbread, chicken broth, sage, celery, baked in the pan, never stuffed in a turkey) with 'giblet gravy' (cream of chicken soup with bits of chicken and cut up boiled eggs, traditionally made with all the left over parts of the chicken like liver and heart and kidneys, but we never used those parts), Turkey or Ham OR both(we always had both because some people don't like turkey), cranberry sauce on the side(
Thanks you saved me a lot of writing I was going to say pretty much the same thing. I'm from NC and you described a proper Southern Thanksgiving meal. I would like to add that we always had collards. We would have two types of homemade potato salad (one with finely chopped onions added and one without). Like you said we would have both turkey and ham. My Granny would make a homemade chicken salad. We would have sweet potato casserole, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, brownies, cookies and cakes(my favorite were the Peter Paul cake
First message sent without finishing . My Granny would also make a Hawaiian pie. When Thanksgiving was made we often ate off of it for a week after. We would have sandwiches from turkey, ham, and chicken salad. Turkey soup, and even hash with turkey or ham.
@Ruh Roh we would have two tables. We keep a lot of the food in the pots or on the islands/counter tops. Some food would be on the table. We would fix our own plates... except the women would fix the children a plate. They would also fix the men's plates unless the men wanted to fix their own.
@Ruh Roh she didn't make hers with chocolate. I bet your mom's pie taste great.. especially since I am a chocoholic. If you want I will get the recipe and send it to you. I got my Granny to give me the recipe last year. Very easy to make since it's a no bake pie.
No one's family did. Arguing over your poor life choices and old familial grudges, possibly while heavily intoxicated, is the most authentic part of any Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years/wedding/family dinner, ever.
So glad I have nothing to do with my biological family. I do NOT miss the cops getting called...and this was an alcohol-free event, and STILL cops would need to be called. Nope, do not miss it a bit.
I NEVER put marshmallows on my sweet potato pies. Horrible thing to do. The stuffing didn't even look like stuffing. Try coming to a real person's home for Thanksgiving with herbed stuffing, turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs.. a few pumpkin, pecan, and chocolate pies.. rolls.. THAT is eating!
Not a yankee. I live in the South, born in Colorado. I just find marshmallows make a sweet potato far too sweet. Sickly sweet. No need for them. Marshmallows are great for Rice Krispy treats and roasting over a fire. Keep them off my sweet potatoes tyvm.
I'm from southern Appalachia and here we don't put the marshmallows on the sweet potato pie, they go in the sweet potato casserole. You put whipped cream on top the sweet potato pie and the pumpkin pie.
Back in the 1960's when I was a kid turkey was really dry. The breed they sold for thanksgiving dinners had not been developed yet and the breast meat was very thin and dry. Back then, you HAD to have gravy because the white meat was so dry. Today, turkey's are much more moist. They've developed the breed so the breast sections in particular are thick and they hold in the moisture when you cook them. That's the biggest thing that's changed over the years-that and some folks boil their Turkey in peanut oil instead of bake it. I've never tried it that way, but they tell me it's great. Other than that, I agree with the other commenters that many of those in the video were not common in my home. We had it much simpler-mashed potatoes (usually white or redskins), mashed yams, stuffing (with celery and raisins in it), kernel corn, green beans, brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce, gravy for your potatoes (don't need it for the turkey anymore), corn bread, hot biscuits and butter and of course numerous pies for desert (pumpkin pie, blueberry, mincemeat, all with a healthy dollop of vanilla ice cream on it), egg nog and coffee with your dessert. Nothing better than that-except the nap during the football game!
Of i see Brussel sprouts I'm walking out and if going to call it greenbean casorole them green bean s better be covered in cream of mushroom soup. Yes sometimes paternal grandma would serve plain green beans just margarine and salt but she didn't are nuts or call it casserole typically it was aperture served way i described but couple years she settled for green beans.
I've never seen stuffing like that. That is not proper stuffing. I have also never heard of Hasselback taters. Where the hell are the home made mash potatoes and turkey dripping gravy????
Well.. I could tell by the look of the food, which version of Thanksgiving Dinner it was. In my family we do it quite differently ( as far as the way to cook each dish) and what I saw was not it. To me, that looked like that bland crap you get at restaurants when for whatever reason you end up at one during Holidays instead of at home. I don't personally combine cranberry jelly w/baked turkey for instance. Another difference is that our stuffing is cooked separate from the bird as it's own dish, and not prepared in a pot on the stove. Instead, it's preparation and ingredients are different and it is baked in the oven. The green bean casserole again, it looked like it was a restaurant version (& not a good restaurant either) it just looked bland and tasteless. The sweet potato casserole featured looked completely off which looked horrible so I can understand that comment about it. ( I wouldn't have eaten it either. ) Hassel Back potatoes is more like bar food, or food you make for a tailgate party, or a side dish to meatloaf on occasion but for Thanksgiving? That was just weird. While we do have potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner, we do a version of mashed potatoes w/ brown gravy served optionally on the side. Another oddity, was they were not served dessert after Thanksgiving supper. Traditionally, we have a table full of a variety of desserts. Options vary every year but Pumpkin or Sweet Potato pie is always traditionally a staple and served with optional cool whip or vanilla ice cream depending on where you are at and what your families customs are. Other traditional fall desserts include: fruit & nut spiced pies: apple, peach, minced meat, pecan pies. Non spiced fruit pies, cobblers, & tarts: cherry, lemon, lemon meringue, key lime, raspberry, triple berry, strawberry, banana, custard & coconut creme. Spiced and non spiced fruit and grain fall cakes/cupcakes, even breads like banana walnut bread, pumpkin rolls and many more. But yea, we do desserts after supper. I wonder if they would of had a more positive experience if it were done differently. I would love to help with that someday. Maybe make a more positive impression of Thanksgiving dinner, and other foods. Sending love from California!
wait who eats cranberry on the turkey? If people eat it I've always seen eaten on the side never on.
lol I eat it with the stuffing
I do and I love it
pretty sure the fruit jelly is intended to be eaten with the meat as it always is. but seeing as we live in a society where we can afford to eat whatever we want and thanksgiving is an accepted day of gluttony, people put a huge red pile of sugary gel/sauce on their plate and eat it by the tablespoon. don't forget to put some gravy on it.
+Glaucus oh fuck off it's a national celebration where families get together and traditions and handed down. You're probably some 14 year old emo girl.
+Samuel Rs you're telling me gluttony is not more accepted on thanksgiving than other days? That's all I said about Thanksgiving but I infer from your comment that you feel I am Anti-Harvest-Celebration. I don't have a problem with thanksgiving I just thought it was ignorant to say "who eats cranberry sauce on their meat".
but yeah your swear words and insults scared me and made me feel inferior.
Title should be"Irish People Try Thanksgiving Dinner made by another Irish person who has no fucking clue what we eat for Thanksgiving"
Clearly
Yes, the food looks unrecognizable.
+James Welks This is hilarious lol I was thinking the same thing.
Lolol exactly. Nothing they ate looked like what we have in US
+James Welks Yes, please, who makes and presents the food on these channels? Because they are never really made like they actually are in real life. It's like they're purposely choosing wrong things and also purposely making the food bad.
As an American, this meal is not a representation of any Thanksgiving meal that I have ever had!
Seriously; they didn't open ONE can of spaghettios during the whole meal!
@@barbarianaggressor879Spaghetti-o's? He said he was "american," not "british."
Exactly! I agree with you hence my comment. I have never heard let alone tasted such vile concoctions! Yuk!
Corn pudding
Green bean casserole
Where's the Turkey gravy
Sadly, I've had a few that were very much like that. I come from the Midwestern sort of Protestants who just basically don't do good food.
Is it just me or do they always pick the worst version of every type of food they try?
+Tiffany Tan i reckon it's funnier.
+Tiffany Tan They are cooking American food in Ireland. Mostly likely with Irish cooks unfamiliar with the American dishes in question. Not the best of circumstances for the best version to happen.
They have to find ingredient that most of the time native to America/hard to find import. Fresh cranberry? Good corn flour? Sweet potato? (I want to know how anybody can hate freshly prepared sweet potato? They really do taste like potato but sweet. )
Also the turkey looks dry. lol
+Tiffany Tan
It is not just you.
Right! This food sounds unappealing.
That is the strangest Thanksgiving dinner I’ve seen in my 56 years. The food hints at thanksgiving but was obviously put together by someone who had never actually eaten a thanksgiving dinner. Or even been in the neighborhood where thanksgiving dinner was being served and, dare I say, never in the continent where Thanksgiving is celebrated.
This food was prepared in Ireland where their existence revolves around drinking and starving .
Calling this a typical Thanksgiving meal hurts me.
+Steve French the severe lack of gravy and whole turkeys... T_T
+Steve French Do you have room for Thanksgiving? Aren't you full after eating all of Randy's cheeseburgers?
+Steve French was just going to say that! I wouldn't eat anything they served. Maybe the baked potato
Sammy solja the food they had looked ok enough, what was wrong with it?
+Steve French As a non-American I know that a pumpkin pie should be there, right? And something called the "yams". And well turkey too of course.
You should do another video with actual Thanksgiving food.
ikr
I'm with you. This is no typical U.S. Thanksgiving.
True! Where was the honey baked ham?? and we have mashed potatos not whatever they served lol AND THE GRAVY
+Viridiant I honestly have never ever seen most of these foods on my plate at thanksgiving dinner
+Viridiant why bother, its all shit food
I am an American. That doesn't look like *ANY* Thanksgiving dinner I have ever had in my entire life. LOL
Same! But maybe it's because I'm black with family from the south so we have turkey, ham, roast pork, roast chicken, mac and cheese, lasagna, mashed potatoes and gravy, collard greens, rice and beans, pumpkin pie, apple pie, banana pudding pie, stuffing (but it doesn't look like theirs), and corn bread basically.
Same. I'm from the south, doesn't look like my thanksgiving.
CcakeAsh Can I please have Thanksgiving at your house!!!
I was thinking the same exact thing.
As a white Northerner this doesn't look like my Thanksgiving either. This looks like an Irish professional chef's interpretation of Thanksgiving-esque recipes gathered on the internet from all corners of America (and maybe Canada). So... good job Irish Buzzfeed? Yes, I know you're called Facts. (bad name choice, mate) but I'm gonna call you Irish Buzzfeed. Because 1. that is what you are, and 2. Buzzfeed is a meaningless onomatopoeic corporate word that more accurately reflects your content. You are Irish Buzzfeed, live it, love it.
Also unrelated, again as a white Northerner, how is CcakeAsh's Thanksgiving menu any different than regular black soul food? Besides the turkey, pumpkin pie, stuffing, etc. Like, what's Thanksgiving-y about collard greens and not just, y'know, regular Southern-y?
A lot of these dishes were cooked incorrectly. The stuffing isn't meant to be like celery and bread itself. Boxed stuffing would be better. The green bean casserole was cooked incorrectly. That was very important to get right cause that makes the whole meal. Also, the potato should have been mashed.
Yes, cooking it with the "details" is important.
Well, I think it was actually green beans with slivered almonds, not, per se, "green bean casserole." Either of which is typical thanksgiving fare, IMO, but they are definitely fairly **different dishes...**
I haven't seen half those things not to mention inside stuffing vs outside stuffing.
Where is the cornbread, grits, Mac and cheese? Come on now! Go to Walmart and get hooked up. Most of it is pre made. You just have to heat it up.
So very correct, this video just made me sad.
That is no American Thanksgiving. The most generic American Thanksgiving I can think of would be: a roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, Stovetop stuffing, green bean casserole with Frenchs french fried onions, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce from a can (that almost no one touches) and pumpkin pie. Now I realize all of these differ from household to household, but these imo are the Thanksgiving staples.
+Paul Watts no green bean casserole and I love cranberry sauce from a can! I would add apple pie or cobbler and glazed ham.
+Paul Watts Ugh, their stuffing made me want to cry. Their sweet potato with marshmallows made me want to puke.
I totally eat the cranberry sauce that comes in a can but it has to be whole berry because the other kind is just gelatin.
+Paul Watts We have the same meal... the funny part is, we usually have two different cranberry sauces that no one touches... in a can and homemade.
+Paul Watts Fresh cranberry sauce is definitely the EASIEST thing to make from scratch, it's just berries sugar and a touch of water, put in a pot and boil.
So I've watched a bit of their American foods videos; at this point I'm just watching to see how they've messed up the recipes :D
LOl,.. really..!1
Same here.
For real. They're all wrong one way or another.
Same. First there were pecans in the god damn cobbler. Now cashews in the green beans? What....
Exactly...it's pitiful...I couldn't eat that mess either! 😬👍
where the hell's the gravy?
Where the heck is the Thanksgiving dinner!
Lol right
And mashed potatoes not a loaded baked potato
@@TheNiteSkye those are *Hasselback Potatoes* they are a German style of baked potato and they do NOT have Cheese or bacon but are basted in Garlic butter
Thank u
This doesn't represent any thanksgiving meal I've ever had or seen and I'm old
How old are you
I'm 40, and it seems pretty "wrong" to me, too, in a few ways...
I am 50 and a grandma so I have made this meal for decades. They got it all wrong. It's all about traditional foods. Weeks in advance foods are bought. It's all from a package to save time.
Stove Top brand stuffing. Ocean spray cranberry from a can. A Jenny O turkey in an oven ready bag. Hunts Jared gravy. Crescent rolls from a tube. This spells success!
The last item you get should be muffins and your pies. Then watch the parade while you cook. They will tell you when to heat your side, baste ECT. After Santa shows up, set the table. See, easy- not fancy.
Did anybody consult an American when making this video?
No. They're too good to do that.
Dude, at this point I'm like fire that cook.
When I make Thanksgiving dinner, it isn't this mess!!! Yuck! It all looks like it came from an airplane!! It's a terrible representation of Thanksgiving dinner, which is glorious!
IKR!! Where's the Mashed Potatos and Turkey Giblet Gravy!!!
Obviously not. Lol.
That was absolutely not stuffing. It looked like a fucking bowl of croutons.
OldScratchJohnson I don't really even like stuffing, but I know what it looks like. That damn for sure did not look like any stuffing I've ever seen
that is NOT GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE
I was thinking the same thing...looks just like green beans with cashews on them
I've never seen a green bean casserole like that before. It doesn't look good at all.
I am not even American yet I KNOW that's not a casserole, looks like our bean stir fry or roasted beans at best. I love green bean casserole!!
That's DEFINITELY NOT green bean casserole.
IKR!! Where's the friggin' crunchy FRIED ONION topping!!! Looks like they went to a Chinese restaurant to have Thanksgiving. I wonder if their turkey was still smiling at them. xD
Whoever made that damn food needs fired ASAP!!! That’s not a proper thanksgiving meal
Facts needs to redo this with proper American cooking. This was rank.
Well said.
That is not a proper American thanksgiving dinner. Good lord the turkey looked like garbage, the stuffing looked awful and I dont even car for cranberries, but that is not cranberries!
"not a proper, not a proper, not a proper", according to bloody well whom? Joyzas, you yanks are so opinionated about your bloody food.
Nathan Crause Because it’s not good food lol. You can get food anywhere, but if it’s shitty people aren’t gonna like it.
I've never had brussel sprouts at Thanksgiving, but I like them.
They just didn’t make them right. Brussels sprouts always taste better roasted with some bacon and chopped garlic, and it would’ve been better to skip the sweet potato casserole and just throw in the diced sweet potatoes to roast in the same pan.
Nathan Crause nobody likes it when their culture is misrepresented, what if I said that British people sit on there ass all day drinking tea and eating biscuits?
Here's a tip how about have an American make the food because good grief that didn't look like any food that real America's eat at Thanksgiving.
+LeeLee 34 It looks the food you would get in a restaurant. For those sad people that don't have family to spend with on thanksgiving day.
+green melon Even a restaurant would've done it better.
I know right. That is not stuffing.
Who has brussel sprouts on thanksgiving?
Who puts cranberry sauce directly on turkey?
Where is the pumpkin pie?
+Madeline S *raises hand* I eat brussel sprouts on Thanksgiving. No cheese though, just bacon. They aren't bad.
+Jasmine Hazeldine-Ross You are truly one in a million because I have never heard of it for thanksgiving and I have lived in several parts of the country. I do love brussel sprouts though if they are steamed.
I have a bunch of family in Ireland and I remember my aunt cooking all the thanksgiving food for us so we could celebrate it while we were there. So sweet.
That ain't thanksgiving, that's hipstergiving
Bwahahaha I thought the same thing!!!
mark454- 😂🤣
Not even close to the real thing
*Disclaimer: NO REAL THANKSGIVING FOOD WAS USED IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO.
Exactly.
1000 times THIS!!!!
Agreed/Yep!
When you proclaimed: "it's like 6 different things (on the menu...)", I literally burst out laughing. When my Connecticut family got together with other relatives, it went something like THIS: 1:00pm - cheeses & crackers, olives & pickles, stuffed celery, THEN came soup AND salad AND fruit cup, THEN came a 25 POUND turkey with sausage stuffing, spiral-sliced glazed ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, corn, green bean casserole, squash...URP!!! BUT WE'RE NOT DONE YET!!! OH, DEAR LORD!!! OUT CAME, um, dessert...egg nog, ice cream log roll, homemade cakes AND pies AND cookies AND brownies, PLUS tea or coffee!!! GAG!!! 😜 THEN the guys went into the den to watch football, while I got "chauffeur duty", driving around all my ancient Aunts to visit at LEAST 3+ cemeteries. Simply DELIGHTFUL way to DIGEST!!! 😡 Upon arrival back, it was time for, um, "Round TWO"!!! WOOF!!! Out comes ALL the leftovers from lunch, AS WELL AS... cold cuts and cheese and rolls for sandwiches, lasagna, stuffed cabbage, kielbasa & sauerkraut, 10 POUNDS of potato salad, 24 deviled eggs, shrimp cocktail, PLUS ALL THE LEFTOVER DESSERTS!!! PLEASE GOD HELP ME!!! 😱 Finally, the dishes would be washed, dried, and stored. Any final leftovers would be "doggie-bagged" to bring home, and we'd all waddle back to our cars for that looooooooong ride home... WOOF!!! 💋
ok.. I like watching these. but I really have to say. since they are eating american foods.. ffs.. WOULD SOMEBODY SERVE THEM FOOD THE WAY WE ACTUALLY HAVE IT HERE.
Yeah, they definitely didn't go with the most traditional versions of each recipe. I'd say the turkey and sweet potato casserole were accurate, but everything else was a bit off.
+bluejazz511 Seriously. How hard is to find some American recipes online, or ask an actual American?
+bluejazz511 Yeah No Kidding!!
those green bean were sad. nothing at all like what we typically see
+bluejazz511 Agreed. It's supposed to be Turkey & Gravy. Cranberry sauce is a side.
Also, who ever heard of nuts in green bean casserole? It's Green Beans + Cream of Mushroom soup + French's French Fried Onions.
Also, that stuffing/dressing didn't look right at all. Someone should mail them a box of Stove Top Turkey Stuffing and a pouch of McCormick Turkey Gravy. THAT is proper American food.
As an American I can say who ever cooked this, wasn't someone use to cooking thanksgiving dinner. Majority of this stuff I have never heard of anyone eating except for the stuffing and turkey. Plus the turkey was dry? someone didn't cook it right and I feel sorry for these lovely Irish folks who had to suffer through it.
Being from the south, I also noticed the absence of green bean casserole and pecan pie.
I've heard of everything in the video, but we prepare it differently in our house.
Don't know what kind of thanksgiving meal that was! Try coming to my house.
Cool, we're on our way to your house now
Me also. Bringing the scotch, margaritas, and beer, for the ladies I'll make a peach cobbler. I cook also
Agreed!
I'd be pissed if I was served this on Thanksgiving.
This ain't no Damn Thanksgiving dinner!!!!!! WTF
Brian Kelley Right
Right! They need to eat at an African American holiday dinner!
@@latoashav2107 yea lol just like a southern Thanksgiving here in tennessee, southern cooking is the best and noticed it when I visited a friend in Michigan and my other friends had like a generic tasting Thanksgiving on average in Michigan, theres always that nice grandma in detroit or melvindale that has them southern cooking skills.
Wow Never had most of the items they showed and I've had 61 Thanksgivings in my life. Who gave them this food?
It would be nice if someone could afford to fly them over for a proper thanksgiving dinner
Toni Priore A Brit
@@wcwindom56 Or fly someone over who actually knows how to cook. I make Acorn, and chestnut stuffing.
A turkey bbq'ed whole, on a Weber grill with charcoal for the heat, Home made gravy, Roasted asparagus on the grill, greens (seasonal, usually Amaranth) Fire roasted corn on the cob, home made mashed potatoes, Mashed yams with just a touch of orange juice, topped with cinnamon, Nutmeg, and a touch of REAL maple syrup, Sweet potato pie, Pumpkin pie, and pecan pie!
Come to Texas, and I'll make you happy on Thanksgiving!
@@dragunovbushcraft152 Sounds delish... We typically do yams with a dash of lemon and a bit of brown sugar... Mashed, obviously.
Peach / blackberry cobbler is also quite acceptable as dessert. But Pumpkin / apple pie are too. :) In theory, pecan pie, though it's a bit too sweet for my taste, personally...
But yeah... Brussells sprouts? Nah bruh. Maybe broccoli, yeah, asparagus is common enough I think (pretty sure we've made that plenty of times). Green beans with slivered almonds (green beans almondine?) is typical enough, though different from green bean casserole, which is its own thing.
They definitely needed gravy. (white or brown). And the cranberry sauce shoulda' been aside, not slathered on everything like it's going out of style.
I can't be the only one who watches these and just wishes they could go over their and cook the food properly. Like clearly that turkey was not cooked upside down the right way or it would not have been so dry, the stuffing looked awful, the green bean casserole looked halfway done, there was no mashed potatoes or gravy, and someone just butchered those brussel sprouts.
+Skittles McStabbypants Oh yeah entertaining as hell though loved the video even if I whine like a bitch.
+Skittles McStabbypants Why upside down?
Skreamie
If you cook the turkey upside down for the first two thirds of the time it keeps the breast incredibly moist and allows the fat from the dark meat to drip over and through the white meat giving it a richer flavor. Then you flip it for the last third and baste occasionally to crisp the skin and brown it. Comes out better than deep frying it which is hard to beat.
+Skittles McStabbypants I've never once eaten brussel sprouts with my Thanksgiving dinner, but I agree that they need a better chef. Sweet potato casserole (or candied yams) is much better with diced apples and pecans, plus they didn't even coat the whole thing with marshmallows properly. And the stuffing looks like a bowl of croutons, like they never got around to actually cooking the stuffing. Finally, never in my life have I put my cranberry sauce on my turkey, not even turkey as dry as theirs.
Damn Right. Gotta have mashed potatoes and gravy. ... And unless you're Martha Stewart, the cranberry sauce should still be the same shape as the can it came out of (so you can slice off a chunk).
"Stuffing with bread"
*STUFFING IS BREAD!*
That was like no stuffing I've ever seen. It just looked like chopped up bread. Who puts cranberry sauce directly on turkey?
+CaptainIronButt Who eats brussel sprouts on Thanksgiving ?
+CaptainIronButt Nobody does any of this. What stuffing looks like someone cutting up sandwiches for their toddler? Cashews on green bean casserole?!! What are those!!!!!!!!!
+CaptainIronButt EXACTLY. Stuffing is supposed to have the bread crouton sized at the biggest, with spices and assorted small vegetables.... Heck, who uses just like... white bread??? Isn't corn bread more typical???
Ha-ha, my dad's side of the family puts apple sauce on their turkey. Not a fan of either.
+CaptainIronButt
I put cranberry sauce directly on the turkey, that is DELICIOUS. I use the leftover turkey and cranberry sauce to make delicious sandwiches for several days after, too. It can only be homemade cranberry sauce, though, not the canned jelly.
I like brussell sprouts, but they have to be roasted with a little bit of balsamic vinegar, ginger, and garlic, but even then nobody is eating brussell sprouts on Thanksgiving. And where's the damn gravy?! Everything on that plate is supposed to be floating in a delicious pool of brown or white gravy.
What is white gravy? 😮
+flyingangelthe1st it's like brown gravy, but it has cream or milk mixed into it. It's really good on mash potatoes.
+GummyTumor
I joke there's only two ways to cook brussel sprouts: the right way and the wrong way. If cooked correctly, they're delicious but if not, they're nasty.
+GummyTumor Oh, I see. Thanks!
+GummyTumor My thoughts exactly, gravy is what makes everything good, and I've never heard of anyone having brussell sprouts on Thanksgiving either.
even if I'm a year late, please have someone make them proper Thanksgiving dinner
I've never seen stuffing like that. I looked more like croutons. Mine is like moist cornbread.
Malevelous Maybe bad shake and bake?
I agree that "stuffing" is hoorible, you should have served southern-style cornbread dressing with giblet gravy.
Cornbread stuffing is the best with all its herbs and seasonings.
That stuffing shown hear looked horrible! It looked like a bunch of soggy croutons and probably tasted like it, YUCK 😝
Even Stove Top would be better. Supermarkets here have pre made stuffing, Mac and cheese, pies and cornbread. Some have pre cooked food in a big box you pick up a few days before. All you have to do is heat it up!
I agree 100%
A drunk Irishman must have made this menu. Because these are not common US Thanksgiving foods.
That's not a typical American thanksgiving dinner and to whoever cooked this, your Nana would be ashamed.
thanksgiving dinner is the best dinner of the year and somehow yall managed to cook all the wrong things. for shame.
I'm thinking they made it awful on purpose so the Irish could engage in their favorite past time, "Bitching and moaning"
They needed to make green bean casserole with the french fried onions (not effing cashews, eww) and add some gravy for pete's sake!
Bitching and moaning is what you're doing , you hypocrite.
poor do
@@scooterdooter And smirking to each other
Traditional thanksgiving dinner is a big roasted turkey, bread stuffing with celery & onions, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole baked with condensed cream of mushroom soup, sweet potatoes with marshmallow, baked bread rolls & butter. Dessert is pumpkin pie & pecan pie, both served with a generous topping of whipped cream 🇺🇸👊❤️
Doesn't look like ANY Thanksgivings I ever had!
Lori D as is the case with everything they eat or drink. It's hard to watch, even though it's a lot of nice girls and cool guys that you may want to hang out with..
This looks like a Thanksgiving dinner made by someone that has never attended a Thanksgiving dinner. XD The stuffing and green bean casserole in particular looked quite different than how I"m used to seeing it prepared.
Some Irish producers wife must have cooked that awful representation of a Thanksgiving dinner. BRUSSEL SPROUTS? No one I know ever served them at Thanksgiving. Heck! Most people never serve them at all. Yuck!
Who made this dinner lol
The people working in the kitchen in the Merry Ploughboy Pub in Dublin made the Dinner for the guys
That's what I was thinking because a few of those dishes look off. Like the green bean casserole with no cream or fried onions and wheres the gravy? I think they would like my cranberry sauce but agree with them, I never understood the marshmallows on sweet potatoes
+jupiter tovar That was not turkey...that was deli meat. You need a juicy whole turkey, with mashed potato's, giblet gravy(made from the actual turkey), yams match better, but the sweet potato's looked solid, and cranberry on the side. Also the green beans are better just sauteed with bacon.
The food looked good in the picture, but individually you could tell they were just made to look pretty.
+taxidrivernwo Soo where do you live?, ill be over at 5 for my dinner...damm im so hungery now
Thanks y'all I knew I wasn't the only one who felt like this food wasn't right lol
WHO MADE THAT GOD FORSAKEN DRESSING
Note to Facts- try having a real American Thankgivings dinner in the video instead of what you THINK is an American Thanksgiving dinner.
Whoever cooked this meal isn't American. We don't eat Thanksgiving food like that. Cranberry sauce is a small side dish often not, even on the same plate and never as a topping for the turkey! The green bean casserole made here looked like green beans with milk or cream on top. Green bean casserole is actually best using canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup, fried onions on top and then baked.
lots of people eat cranberry with turkey
maybe it's the Canadian Thanksgiving?
I agree, that really did not resemble the average Thanksgiving in an american household.
D Wayne Mendoza can't beat roast dinner and full English breakfast
D Wayne Mendoza i agree with everything u said except ur full of shit cause i love cranberry sauce with my turkey!! other then that ur completely right bro...
I've never had anything quiet like ANY of that on Thanksgiving.
+TypicalJAFO that stuffing looked nasty!
+TypicalJAFO Jumbo croutons. They are supposed to be morsels, not mouthfuls.
+Kelsey Harrell Same. I've had some of those things, but not combined the way they were.
+Kelsey Harrell Right!!!
+Kelsey Harrell There's always a fight about something with my family
YOU HAVE TO EAT EVERYTHING TOGETHER ON ONE PLATE.
Almost 30 years of thanksgiving and no one, including me, have served any of these. These cooks/writers must have really shitty memories of Thanksgiving. (Or they aren't American, which I suspect more.)
you've never had turkey on Thanksgiving?
I can't speak for Blu, but I've never had turkey with fuckin' cranberries on it. Throw tuna and mayo on there and it's the quartet of shit I absolutely hate.
This is more like Irish people eat food made by other Irish people. In the description says clears as day. Made by the chefs from some Irish pub
Agreed. They need to bring in granny to make a real American Thanksgiving Dinner. My mom was the best too.
And a few southern aunties, too! Hold the collared greens, tho!!!
I've been celebrating thanksgiving for 17 years and I've never had like any of these foods
That stuffing looked absolutely pitiful.
What did they do here, give the Irish the nastiest food available and claim that Americans eat it. Brussel Sprouts, who eats those and the stuffing looked more like wet croutons. Did they even attempt to make the food edible??!!
Actually, I come from an entire family that loves brussel sprouts, but we never prepare it like that. Those looked just nasty and I don't blame the people in the video for hating it. Brussel sprouts done wrong are just NASTY!
I thought the same thing about the stuffing... not the brussel sprouts though, I love em.
This looks nothing like thanksgiving....
+VG Courage Shit looks like what you buy off of the "delicate" magazine
+VG Courage why reply to yourself?
What the hell kind of thanksgiving food was that.
who tells you guys this stuff is what we eat in america? wheres the mashed potatoes? wheres the gravy? why, in the name of all that's holy, was the cranberry sauce ON the turkey?
for Thanksgiving I got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes
Lamb, rams, hogs, dogs
Chicken, turkeys, rabbit
YOU NAME IT!
Stop
you deserve more thumbs up
KNOW YOUR MEMEs PEOPLE!!!
lmao with your comment
They need to have an actual american cook the food then try this over again.
+ShibbyLove Moore Or their chef can have a Skype with an American Grandma thats been cooking homemade meals for the last 30 years. Which they should have consulted with an actual American before they made this video.
absolutely, just a little more effort and this could have been a really good video.
+ShibbyLove Moore Agreed! Then they'd know how good it is. :)
***** That's a shame. I've always had a high opinion of the Irish, if that really was their intention with these videos though then that is rather sad and reflects more poorly on them than it does on us.
+ShibbyLove Moore bet itll just be scones with baby sick covering it , AKA biscuits and gravy ?
All the America videos I've seen not much of the food is anything I've heard of or tried, and absolutely nothing in this video looked like it was cooked or made right. You should have an actual American make these meals. Not trying to be rude, I watch a lot of your videos, I just don't think it's true to our real food.
Agreed...it's like watching people claim to be trying authentic Mexican food, only to see them unwrapping stuff from Taco Bell...
As an American, I agree.
I agree also
Agreed
Oh piss off all of you! Sweet potato casserole is gross anyways. Brussel sprouts are gross. Stuffing is mediocre. And cranberry is just nasty! Have you seen how we serve it? Straight out of a can! It even retains its shape! THAT'S NOT NATURAL! NOT IN MY CHRISTIAN HOUSE!!! Thanksgiving is all hype. It's not even a good holiday! And at least they actually call them Native Americans and not Indians! Or worse, 'Injuns. They don't like our food and they don't have to!
If I was on death row, and this was my last supper, I'd tell the warden," It's ok, I'm good".
Can I just bring them to my thanksgiving? You know, so they can eat a real thanksgiving dinner?
That was not a traditional thanksgiving dinner! That stuffing wasn't even close to real stuffing and that green bean casserole was no where near a real green bean casserole.
I feel like the green bean casserole is the way green bean casserole is supposed to be, but the way it is over here is so amazing
+Nicki Del Turkey with turkey gravy. Cran from a can. Stovetop Stuffing. Green bean casserole from the french's can recipe. Sucatash. Mashed Potatoes. Brown and Serve Dinner rolls. Mashed Sweet Potato Caserole (either marshmallows or strussel topping). That's the traditional meal. Brussel Sprouts are optional, but I've never seen hasselback potatoes.
+Tom Leonard With Pumpkin pie and redi-whip for dessert.
maybe it is, but not it our house. so bland and boring, like something you get at a work holiday party (low budget)
+ThisIsShe Daily lol a pot luck brunch
I’m beginning to feel obligated to cook these taste testers dinner
in total agreement, that is not food that is food served at school.
This ain't no Thanksgiving meal, this seems like food from a cheap 1 star buffet
I'm American, and I've never eaten brussel sprouts for Thanksgiving. We don't do hasselback potatoes, either. Mashed potatoes are far more likely.
I'd stab my mom in the hand with a fork if she tried to serve me brussel sprouts on Thanksgiving.
Don't forget the baked macaroni and cheese. That has to be at the thanksgiving dinner.
Not in my house. :/
+Ashstrodamus1 I know I'm late but Dayuumm,. I would absolutely do the same.
I make brussle sprouts all the time for thanksgiving. make them good with some bacon and onions and different spices and a marinade I make its pretty bomb
I think this could benefit greatly from having an American there eating with them. He could be like, "Why did you put the cranberry sauce ON the turkey!? Where's the mashed potatoes? No rolls? No, we don't all put marshmallows on sweet potatoes. That's not stuffing, what have you done!?"
They butchered a typical thanksgiving meal, who the hell made that crap
You should have a Thanksgiving Dinner at my house, the food would be different and better lol
Dear Facts: Do more research. Sweet potato with marshmallows is utterly disgusting, although I've heard this recipe is more of a southern thing (where the foods tend to be sweeter than the north). Brussel sprouts are pretty universally disgusting to most people -- and the cranberry sauce doesn't tend to go on top of the turkey. And what about mashed potatoes, gravy, muffins/biscuits, corn? And what was that potato loaf thing? I've never seen that.
Sweet Potatoes are either Candied or made into a Pie (possibly Both!!) !
@@caniswolf3394 lol, or just baked in the oven and a little unsalted butter. Sweet potato casserole is absolutely disgusting.
Exactly!!
In our family (we are from Louisiana) sweet potatos are cut into chunks than put in a casserole dish pour a little apple juice sprinkle some brown sugar and cinnamon and put it in the oven. You are right though about the sweetness for this dish in the south. My mom sometimes likes to top it with a honey granola as well.
John Higgins I love sweet potatoes with marshmallows but I’m also from the south so yea we love it here.
@FACTS Can Y'all please do a RE-MAKE???? Bring all 4 of them back And Put somebody that has "SOUL" in that kitchen PLEASE.....I don't even eat that weird shit.
yes!
Shauntanel Wilson by soul what do you mean? Do they have to be black?!
ToM5kk nope just know how to cook some good as soul food
amen cause that stuffing looked nasty as hell
Stuffing and dressing are the same thing, it just depends on where you are in the states
Here’s the thing. All our parents and grandparents pretty much went off of Betty Crocker or some other cookbook. Over the years they add or omit things to the recipes. If you’re lucky enough to have recipes older than that you should share the love. Because these people are not experiencing the love of Turkey day.
Hmmm. Thanksgiving meal is from the 1860's. And the food traditions behind it were centuries old by then.
yep, we use grandma's cranberry recipe, the gravy recipe from an old man at our church, my aunt's mother's stuffing recipe and ok the green bean casserole recipe is from the can of French's onions LOL but everything came from somewhere.
"Does anyone want to say Grace?" Rubadubdub thanks for the grab amen
*grub.
My uncle's favorite one was always Amen dig in.
Who made this meal? Someone not American, that's who. Food looks rank and doesn't represent a true American Thanksgiving dinner overall.
You're doing it wrong. :)
Blame the "chef". That was no good.
Also, Brussels sprouts are awesome. They're like magical little cabbages. :P
+mtnvortex i thought for sure leather jacket would love them!
missmorgandeville
Yeah, me too. I suspect he's being a wise guy about the "cabbage" though, due to Irish Americans always making corned beef and cabbage...something which they don't really eat in Ireland. :)
***** If they came to the US and had a REAL Thanksgiving dinner, I can't imagine anyone not liking it. It's one of the best meals of the year. :)
That stuffing was not stuffing.
I know, right !
so bland looking. I do make a Southern style, with bread crumbs, cornbread, onions, celery, giblet pieces, egg and poultry seasoning. In the pan, not the bird. Also, gotta have giblet GRAVY !!
Right? And the green bean casserole was not a casserole and certainly wasn't what I know as green bean casserole.
@@shannoncopeland4506 and that is such a basic recipe: green beans, cream of mushroom soup and fried onions...not hard
You need to fly me over to cook y'all a proper Thanksgiving meal!
you put fried onions on your green bean casserole, also I put brown sugar and pecans on the sweet potatoes rather than marshmallows.
Me too. Some cinnamon too! I always thought the marshmallows were nasty.
I detest yams and marshmallows but made it once with the marshmallows ,brown sugar and cranberries and loved it!! Of course I ate more of the rest than the yam parts. lol
NO MAC&CHEESE?!?!?!?!
maybe that's a southern thing ?
No it's not just a southern thing. A lot of us in the north have it with Thanksgiving dinner too.
Sound's good....
I've never had mac and cheese at Thanksgiving.
Indiana chooses to do noodles and put gravy on it yeah no I grew,up in Illinois. Sometimes we had mac and cheese sometimes in addition to mash potatoes we'd do cheesy scalloped potatoes. My family didn't bother with sweet potato pie no one would eat it.also in area where am now they do the cheesy cornbread casserole
From the Midwest and we certainly love our Mac n cheese at thanksgiving
How the hell can you have turkey, and whatever that crap was they called stuffing, without gravy!
I have been an American, wait ... yup, all my life, from Massachusetts no less ,and I've never even heard of Hasselback potato casserole. Who knew?
I know this video is really dated but, I love these videos however, the American food representations are way off...and this one in particular hurts to watch. We challenge you all to our home near San Diego california as our guests and we will treat you to an authentic Thanksgiving dinner and I promise, you won’t be disappointed!!!!
Ooo that's so nice of you ...l am sure they woul loved
Heck yes!! I was thinking the same as I watched the vid. Not only would this bunch be a ton of fun,, they would get to see what the big deal was all about.
This American dinner was made by a European
and it shows. No offense, but maybe they didn't have the right product to cook with either.
That is not what Thanksgiving dinner prepared at an American home looks like. Also, regional dishes are served as sides. Mac and cheese, salad, sweet potato pies, picked pearl onions, the list goes on.
A real American housewife should have made it. No fancy dishes. Paper plates and red kool aid should have been served on a TV tray while your aunts dog licks his balls.
If but a southern flavor and twist they won't have gone home an slapped they mum.
We do not eat that plain soulless ass food.
OMG this is so. Not a normal Thanksgiving dinner for most.. this actually hurt to watch it.
this is not a typical Thanksgiving dinner
I could not agree more. My in-laws are Chinese, and I am of Irish-German descent but my family has been here for several generations. When I made a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner, with roasted turkey, herb stuffing (NOT just old crusty bread that appears to have been pan fried), giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole (WITHOUT friggin nuts), cranberry sauce, rolls, apple pie, pecan pie, sweet potato casserole (yes, I put marshmallows on it but I do realize not everyone likes it that way - tough) - they LOVED it. I'm sure if some served these Irish hipsters some REAL traditional Thanksgiving dinner, prepared and served properly - well, they probably STILL wouldn't like it - but that's because they're HIPSTERS, not because they're IRISH. >:(
You lost any credibility when you started with the name calling. Way to prove what an American you are.
Hipster is a term used in the US to describe people who take themselves too seriously. Most Irish I'm sure aren't hipsters, but these folks were what we'd call hipsters. Many hipsters self identify as hipsters so its not necessarily an insult.
What name calling???
+christschool actually the definition of hipster is someone who follows trends, most of them being underground. the rest of American took the term and used it to mislabel coffee shop goers who thought they were too good for mainstream media and trends.
ive had thanksgiving my entire life and never seen any of these food items before in my entire 20 years of life
turkey yes and that is not stuffing
+Bruni Doesn't look like any Canadian Thanksgiving I've experienced. That stuffing looked awful, and I've never seen marshmallows anywhere near sweet potatoes.
+Bruni That's definitely not Canadian Thanksgiving lol.
+Reckless Rhino hahahahahaha lol!!!! fucking funny and I live in Montreal!
Aight y'all fucked this food up. The stuffing looks so bland and not what stuffing is, you're missing ham, sweet corn, collard greens, green beans (who the hell eats a casserole tf), cornbread, yams, black eyed peas, mashed potatoes and some pumpkin pie or peach cobbler To finish it off.
You must be from the south? That sounds yummy but comma inducing. Lol. 😀
+Mamasita5678 I want to come to your place for Thanksgiving. :)
I haven't had a dinner like that since my Grandma died.
+Mamasita5678 isn't Black Eyed Peas a band? :)) do you eat the cd?
+Yvonne Nunez Comma inducing 😂😂😂
+MrYlad I know! I was laughing myself. Of course I meant coma not a comma. Lol. Most likely diabetic coma.
Somebody invite them to a real family Thanksgiving dinner. Most the foods on these videos have me shaking my head.
They need to try home cooked thanksgiving meal.
The turkey and cranberry sauce are the only things I've ever seen from here at our thanksgiving dinners (I'm from VA). We usually also have five layer mac and cheese, Smithfield ham, stuffing (that looks more cubed and has bits of vegetables in it), collard greens cooked with ham bits, chopped sweet potatoes with marshmallows and cinnamon, mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, deviled eggs, various pies etc. It's interesting how many types of thanksgiving dinners there are.
Yeah, and they're all good! But there are a few essentials - turkey, stuffing, and gravy, for instance.
Your Thanksgiving Dinner sounds wonderful! A little different from mine, but wonderful! :D
Greens with pepper sauce, yum! Your dinner sounds like what my family has in Georgia. Yams, potato salad, other bits.
ItsABriMoment sounds like a mixture of T-day and Everyday food. Those poor souls didn't even touch the surface of a real T-day.
Idk about every one else but I've never heard of any one serving half of this shit for thanksgiving
same
Haha I scrolled down to comment that
+Soul Intent other countries always associate the mentioned dishes with your (usa) thanksgiving tho, idk -_-
I live in Massachusetts and we do a lot of these items but they were executed VERY poorly. how can they call that stuffing????? its just soggy croutons and celery. sweet potato caserole has pecans and caramelized onions. candied yams get the marshmallows. that green bean casserole was hardly a casserole. this video hurt my soul. oh, and you do gravy with a small amount of cranberry sauce and it becomes quite nice.
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I responded to their other 'try thanksgiving video'...this was my comment...
They should try a southern thanksgiving dinner. Which I am sure shares many of the same food items as other regional celebrations. But if you've never had the experience it would blow your mind. Cornbread stuffing (made with cornbread, chicken broth, sage, celery, baked in the pan, never stuffed in a turkey) with 'giblet gravy' (cream of chicken soup with bits of chicken and cut up boiled eggs, traditionally made with all the left over parts of the chicken like liver and heart and kidneys, but we never used those parts), Turkey or Ham OR both(we always had both because some people don't like turkey), cranberry sauce on the side(
freespeechisdead isdead this is perfect!!!
Thanks you saved me a lot of writing I was going to say pretty much the same thing. I'm from NC and you described a proper Southern Thanksgiving meal. I would like to add that we always had collards. We would have two types of homemade potato salad (one with finely chopped onions added and one without). Like you said we would have both turkey and ham. My Granny would make a homemade chicken salad. We would have sweet potato casserole, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, brownies, cookies and cakes(my favorite were the Peter Paul cake
First message sent without finishing . My Granny would also make a Hawaiian pie. When Thanksgiving was made we often ate off of it for a week after. We would have sandwiches from turkey, ham, and chicken salad. Turkey soup, and even hash with turkey or ham.
@Ruh Roh we would have two tables. We keep a lot of the food in the pots or on the islands/counter tops. Some food would be on the table. We would fix our own plates... except the women would fix the children a plate. They would also fix the men's plates unless the men wanted to fix their own.
@Ruh Roh she didn't make hers with chocolate. I bet your mom's pie taste great.. especially since I am a chocoholic. If you want I will get the recipe and send it to you. I got my Granny to give me the recipe last year. Very easy to make since it's a no bake pie.
"There's no arguing." My family obviously never got that memo. 😂
No one's family did. Arguing over your poor life choices and old familial grudges, possibly while heavily intoxicated, is the most authentic part of any Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years/wedding/family dinner, ever.
John G. Schmidt Don't forget politics and current events!
Cheyenne R Oh, there's gonna be plenty to argue about this year.
So glad I have nothing to do with my biological family. I do NOT miss the cops getting called...and this was an alcohol-free event, and STILL cops would need to be called. Nope, do not miss it a bit.
Same!
“A lot of food”
Lololol my dude needs to see a real Thanksgiving dinner which is AT LEAST twice as large as that
I NEVER put marshmallows on my sweet potato pies. Horrible thing to do. The stuffing didn't even look like stuffing. Try coming to a real person's home for Thanksgiving with herbed stuffing, turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs.. a few pumpkin, pecan, and chocolate pies.. rolls.. THAT is eating!
Nah, adding marshmallows in sweet potato is good. Its not a horrible thing to do if you can cook it right. Some people butcher meals.
Not a yankee. I live in the South, born in Colorado. I just find marshmallows make a sweet potato far too sweet. Sickly sweet. No need for them. Marshmallows are great for Rice Krispy treats and roasting over a fire. Keep them off my sweet potatoes tyvm.
I'm from southern Appalachia and here we don't put the marshmallows on the sweet potato pie, they go in the sweet potato casserole. You put whipped cream on top the sweet potato pie and the pumpkin pie.
You forgot greens, corn bread, vegetables and apple pie.😍
no one is talking about marshmallows on sweet potato pie...
Back in the 1960's when I was a kid turkey was really dry. The breed they sold for thanksgiving dinners had not been developed yet and the breast meat was very thin and dry. Back then, you HAD to have gravy because the white meat was so dry. Today, turkey's are much more moist. They've developed the breed so the breast sections in particular are thick and they hold in the moisture when you cook them. That's the biggest thing that's changed over the years-that and some folks boil their Turkey in peanut oil instead of bake it. I've never tried it that way, but they tell me it's great.
Other than that, I agree with the other commenters that many of those in the video were not common in my home. We had it much simpler-mashed potatoes (usually white or redskins), mashed yams, stuffing (with celery and raisins in it), kernel corn, green beans, brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce, gravy for your potatoes (don't need it for the turkey anymore), corn bread, hot biscuits and butter and of course numerous pies for desert (pumpkin pie, blueberry, mincemeat, all with a healthy dollop of vanilla ice cream on it), egg nog and coffee with your dessert. Nothing better than that-except the nap during the football game!
If anyone hands me a plate of turkey with cranberry sauce all over it, I'm tossing it out the window. LOL
I personally would just walk out of the room if someone tried to serve me that bastardized abomination of turkey.
Of i see Brussel sprouts I'm walking out and if going to call it greenbean casorole them green bean s better be covered in cream of mushroom soup. Yes sometimes paternal grandma would serve plain green beans just margarine and salt but she didn't are nuts or call it casserole typically it was aperture served way i described but couple years she settled for green beans.
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I've never seen stuffing like that. That is not proper stuffing. I have also never heard of Hasselback taters. Where the hell are the home made mash potatoes and turkey dripping gravy????
it looked like stuffing molded to look like bread
Right! That's not proper stuffing!
Hasselback potatoes are an old Swedish dish. Beats me why they turned up in a supposed Thanksgiving dinner.
That was not bread stuffing, there was no gravy or mashed potatoes. Poor representation of a Thanksgiving Dinner #WheresThePie
Thank you! The lack of gravy offended me the most especially when they replaced it with fucking cranberry sauce. REALLY?!?
3,000 Americans disliked this nonfactual "Thanksgiving dinner."
Well.. I could tell by the look of the food, which version of Thanksgiving Dinner it was. In my family we do it quite differently ( as far as the way to cook each dish) and what I saw was not it. To me, that looked like that bland crap you get at restaurants when for whatever reason you end up at one during Holidays instead of at home. I don't personally combine cranberry jelly w/baked turkey for instance. Another difference is that our stuffing is cooked separate from the bird as it's own dish, and not prepared in a pot on the stove. Instead, it's preparation and ingredients are different and it is baked in the oven. The green bean casserole again, it looked like it was a restaurant version (& not a good restaurant either) it just looked bland and tasteless. The sweet potato casserole featured looked completely off which looked horrible so I can understand that comment about it. ( I wouldn't have eaten it either. )
Hassel Back potatoes is more like bar food, or food you make for a tailgate party, or a side dish to meatloaf on occasion but for Thanksgiving? That was just weird. While we do have potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner, we do a version of mashed potatoes w/ brown gravy served optionally on the side.
Another oddity, was they were not served dessert after Thanksgiving supper. Traditionally, we have a table full of a variety of desserts. Options vary every year but Pumpkin or Sweet Potato pie is always traditionally a staple and served with optional cool whip or vanilla ice cream depending on where you are at and what your families customs are. Other traditional fall desserts include: fruit & nut spiced pies: apple, peach, minced meat, pecan pies. Non spiced fruit pies, cobblers, & tarts: cherry, lemon, lemon meringue, key lime, raspberry, triple berry, strawberry, banana, custard & coconut creme. Spiced and non spiced fruit and grain fall cakes/cupcakes, even breads like banana walnut bread, pumpkin rolls and many more. But yea, we do desserts after supper.
I wonder if they would of had a more positive experience if it were done differently. I would love to help with that someday. Maybe make a more positive impression of Thanksgiving dinner, and other foods.
Sending love from California!