Union Rates Thanksgiving Food
My family’s Thanksgiving meal looks different from yours, and yours looks different from the next. Nonetheless, there are key features to a Thanksgiving meal that tend to be constant, appearing on the dinner table year after year. I asked 15 Union students to rate these dishes. What’s the best? What’s the worst? Read on.
In last place, coming in with a shameful 31 points is the dreadful cranberry sauce. Moises Claros summed it up nicely for all of us when he questioned, “Why’s it even there?”
Coming in sixth place are the veggies with 50 points. Apparently, Thanksgiving isn’t the time to be concerned about nutrition.
Fifth place goes to the stuffing with 54 points. “I won’t be stuffing myself on stuffing this Thanksgiving or any other for that matter,” Hannah Johnson said after rating stuffing as the worst.
Voted into fourth place with 61 points is pumpkin pie. Union students were quite split on this, with several rating it as the best and several as the worst. Logan Scroggins said, “Pumpkin pie is overrated,” while Hannah Houchins argued, “Pumpkin pie is superior.” And then there’s Jordyn Hammond who simply declared, “Crust is everything.”
The bronze medal is awarded to dinner rolls with 64 points. The verdict is in: dinner rolls aren’t anything special but are always reliable.
The silver goes to mashed potatoes with 77 points. Hannah Johnson rated mashed potatoes as her favorite and added, “If you don’t agree with me, you haven’t had my dad’s.”
The gold medal prize is awarded to none other than the turkey! With a whopping 83 points, turkey and its vegetarian substitutes take the win! Rating turkey as his favorite, Tanner Toay explained that Thanksgiving with his grandparents is the only time he gets turkey because the rest of his family is vegetarian.
We may all have different preferences when it comes to what fills our plates on Thanksgiving. In the end, it’s not what we desire most for seconds that’s important, but rather who we have around to join us in eating those seconds.
Hannah Dreweick is a sophomore studying business administration.