transcribe ([info]transcribe) wrote,
@ 2008-09-15 18:29:00
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I hated my family on the Christmases they couldn't be bothered to cut up the canned cranberries
and there they laid on a dish, obvious during my Grandmother's epically hypocritical graces. A fat, shiny burgundy tube wrung with rings from pressing tin - -
plebeian, simple and reeking of classlessness, despite our upper-Bourgeois imaginings. There is a better way honestly.


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[info]telepresence
2008-09-16 02:48 am UTC (link)
That drives me crazy (well first, there's the question of chunky cranberry style vs the pure jelly style), can we get within stabbing range of a real food product please? And then yeah, having it lay there like some kind of Alpo Alien Beets Food Product Tube...is it too much to just put it in an unassuming little bowl and mash/stir it up a bit? I'm not even asking for any kind of fancy real anything from some farmstand or specialty foods place...oy. I hardly claim to have good aesthetic sense, but the quivering jelly cylinder is just sad.

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[info]transcribe
2008-09-16 05:08 pm UTC (link)
It is. I think it is a symptom of something being wrong in the family if it appears at the table. =) It's like a badge of dysfunction.

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[info]easyalchemy
2008-09-16 04:20 am UTC (link)
It just makes me crazy that we're so conditioned to buy things in cans, even my verging-on-Martha Aunt Wendy serves canned cranberries. It takes all of 15 minutes to make cranberry sauce yourself, and there's like 3 or 4 ingredients... mashed potatoes are more complicated.
Blah blah blah, I am thinking of you and sending good thought your way, even though we don't know each other that well.

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[info]transcribe
2008-09-16 05:07 pm UTC (link)
Thank you.

And yes! Cranberries are the easiest dish of all the dishes! Sheesh! It was always weird to have these epic meals from scratch - potatoes, stuffing, beans etc, but this obvious, culinary flaw holding down one end of the table. I always found it embarassing.

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[info]flowerfalls
2008-09-17 05:53 pm UTC (link)
hey now, in my family, despite much made from scratch, there was always the canned cranberries (although sliced and displayed in a cut crystal dish, so marginally more attractive and more ironic too)... and now it's at the point that my brother insists that it isn't thanksgiving without it. last turkey day he was around we had both kinds.

i do see your point, but i must speak up in defense of the canned cranberry goo - it's strange and preserved but also tasty!

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