On a lighter note: The Thanksgiving Recipes Googled in Every State (Frog eye salad....really?)

[dixiegrrrrl]

Check out your state on the map, , and can anyone tell us what's up with Frog Eye Salad?????

(if anyone can post the map, that would be marvelous)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/25/upshot/thanksgiving-recipes-googled-in-every-state.html?abt=0002&abg=0

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Maryland and saurkraut.

We did have it every Thanksgiving growing up. Didn't learn until recently it was something of a regional thing.

[MineralMan]

29. I first encountered it in Maryland, when I went to the home

of my mother's old friend from high school for Thanksgiving while I was in the USAF. There it was, with the turkey. I liked it. It works well as part of Thanksgiving dinner.

[hlthe2b]

2. Never heard of it, but apparently it is 'hot" in the Rocky MTN, region... Sounds awful:

salad that combines pasta, fruit, eggs, whipped cream and marshmallows.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Thankyou. I couldn't stop reading the recipe for Frog Eye Salad. It was ribbeting.

[Bobbie Jo]

14. heh

That's what I've been toad.

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. ouch!!!!!

[Bettie]

4. When I lived in IL

someone brought Frog Eye Salad to a potluck.

It was profoundly gross.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. "Funeral Potatoes..." Really Utah?

Can't you just be like Michigan and call them "Cheesy Potatoes?"

[etherealtruth]

10. LOL n/t

[DawgHouse]

13. Or hash brown casserole? That's what we call it. nt

[LiberalElite]

53. That's the casserole Mormons

bring around after funerals.

[FLPanhandle]

6. Florida: Flan de Calabazza?

Yet Georgia gets Key Lime Cake?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

30. I don't Georgia and Key Lime Cake, either.

I'm supposing pecan pie or peach cobbler would be too predictable.

This Floridian is baking a Key Lime Pie for Thanksgiving, for what it's worth.

[FLPanhandle]

34. I've made our Key Lime Pie yesterday.

It's already missing a slice...

[HockeyMom]

41. Publix

has buy one get one free pies: Apple (regular and crumb), Pumpkin, and Sweet Potato. They have Key Lime Pie year round and not just for holidays. lol Didn't see any Flan. Actually, I was looking for Pecan Pie, but they didn't have that at all.

Hello, Georgia? No Pecan Pies?

[Retrograde]

43. In Florida they know how to make is so they don't have to google

Georgia not so much, apparently. Just like New Yorkers have to google stuffed artichokes, while Californians know this is just gilding the lily.

[HockeyMom]

52. Not Italian New Yorkers

[LanternWaste]

7. I've never tasted, nor even heard of sopapilla cheesecake. Challenge accepted!

I've never tasted, nor even heard of sopapilla cheesecake. Challenge accepted!

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. It is really very good. My dad's GF makes it and that's the reason we welcomed her into the family.

[johnp3907]

45. That one jumped out at me too.

My wife is the baker here, so I'll suggest it.

[Odin2005]

8. Damn it, NYT, it is Wild Rice HOT DISH!

[ctaylors6]

24. I learned that on first visit with in-laws from Minnesota

and "salad" was a jello-based dish

[Odin2005]

27. Snicker Salad!

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. ahhhhhhhhh.....I remember now.

From back in the 1950's, jello mold with carrots or something was called salad".

Remember tomato aspic?????.....

[shanti]

42. yes GREEN jello with shredded carrots

and raisins. my mother used to put in cottage cheese. it was NASTY!

[amandabeech]

56. No, it's ORANGE with shredded carrots and raisins.

GREEN jello goes with cottage cheese and pineapple!

[shanti]

58. Yeah, you're right

My memory isn't like it used to be.

[amandabeech]

59. Mine's not always perfect either, anymore,

but my Mom's Jello recipes are burned in there for life, I'm afraid!

[notadmblnd]

9. apparently it your basic fruit salad that is made with whipped cream then they add a cooked pasta to

it making what we would call a "stretch meal"

[yallerdawg]

11. Yaaay, Alabama!

We topped the list for once when you scroll down for recipes!

[DawgHouse]

12. Never heard of frog eye salad until recently when a friend mentioned it.

Wiki says it's popular among LDS members, but doesn't give a reason. I know it's called that because of the common name of the pasta.

[octoberlib]

15. NC's Pig Pickin' cake involves

mandarin oranges, pineapple and whipped cream. I've never heard of it before and I live here.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. it is not making it onto one of our recipe cards!

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. Hmm...pig pickin' cake for NC. not a cake made with BBQ pork, but...

box yellow cake mix with cool whip, instant vanilla pudding, orange segments and canned pineapple.

I think we will stick with our pecan pie and pumpkin pie!

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Tis the season for Cool Whip, that's for sure.

I don't allow it in the house, myself.
Prefer real whipping cream, once a year I will splurge on the calories.

[Trajan]

18. I had to go look out up last night

Looks like a traditional Ambrosia Salad to me, more or less .... with pasta added ...

[cyberswede]

19. LOL - at least Iowans want apples in their snicker salad.

[Jenoch]

46. My mother made it without the Snickers,

just diced apples and whipped cream.

[cyberswede]

50. Yummy!

My mom's "fruit salad" was canned fruit cocktail stirred into kinda-melted vanilla ice cream.

[ctaylors6]

21. I googled Snicker Salad but still don't quite get it

Recipe says pudding, cool whip, snickers, and apples. Why put the apples in it? Is it a dessert or a side dish?

[cyberswede]

51. Yes.

Just kidding. It could be either one, imo.

The apples give it a tangy flavor.

[Jamastiene]

22. It doesn't actually contain frog eyes, thankfully.

The recipe for it sounded great, except the pasta part. They just don't seem to go together to me. The rest was mostly different types of fruits and some pudding. Can't argue with that part. It would be tasty. I don't know about the pasta though. Sounds like a stopped up sink to me.

[pinboy3niner]

31. Well, not in your version, anyway. But some of us like to be authentic.

[Jamastiene]

36. Pfft!

[catnhatnh]

54. Ah, shades of Monty Python's Chocolate Crunchy Frog....

"If we took the bones out it bloody well wouldn't be crunchy now, would it?"

[Bettie]

23. My son was just looking over my shoulder

He's 12.

He looked at the map and said, "Oh, I figured Texas would be different than that".

Why? I asked.

He said that he figured that they would be searching for human flesh or something.

Kid has a weird idea of what people are like in Texas.

I did ask him why and he said it was because the execute so many people and eat so many ribs.

But I laughed anyway.

[Travis_0004]

25. you need google for a dirt pudding recipe?

I would assume that would be one easy enough to memorize that there are not too many people googling it.

It also makes a better halloween recipe than thanksgiving.

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. I DID have to lookup the Worm Dirt Cake recipe.

Probably more popular with a family with kids.

[Freddie]

35. PA...potato filling...yes indeed

I'll be up to my eyeballs in it tomorrow. And it's "filling", not that highfalutin' stuffing or (God forbid) dressing. Sautéed onions and celery, bread cubes, mashed potatoes, milk and eggs.

[librechik]

37. they're not real frog eyes

They're salamander testicles. Oh don't you think a starving pilgrim would eat those?

[pinboy3niner]

40. Nuts!

[dixiegrrrrl]

55. Put enough gravy on 'em

no one will notice....

[lpbk2713]

38. Pumpkin Whoopie Pie

Does that also double as a cushion?

[HockeyMom]

39. November is not the Season for Artichokes

Born, raised, lived 58 years in NY, AND from an Italian family. Never had stuffed artichokes for Thanksgiving, or Christmas. Vaguely remember sometimes EASTER dinner, but that is in the SPRING. Hello?

[Retrograde]

47. They're a winter crop here in California

I'm looking forward to the first frosts in Monterey county so we can get the not-too-pretty but tastier frost-damaged ones cheaply!

(Actually, they produce year round by the sea, but they seem more abundant in fall and early spring)

[Warren DeMontague]

44. "Hot Pilgrim on Pilgrim Action"

Okay, that's not technically a recipe.

[pinboy3niner]

48. TMI, dude! What you do in the kitchen is your business.

We don't need to know.

[Warren DeMontague]

49. "Goodman Brown, hand me the baster, wouldst thou?"

[JHB]

57. Snicker Salad?

Does that use bars, or doodles?

[dixiegrrrrl]

60. Click on it and find out..

all the recipe names by the states are clickable.
My teeth ran away when I read snicker Salad.
Actually, I have got past all the Coll whip in the recipes.......shudder.

[carolinayellowdog]

61. Oregon's vegan mushroom gravy is amusingly stereotypical; Virginia's collards are nostalgic

I was a bit embarrassed that people here have to look up recipes for something as simple as collards, while most everyone else is searching for complicated and weird dishes. But I think it has to do with VA being the least southern state in the South where barely half the population ID's as southern. People might fondly remember grandma's collard greens, but they don't serve them anymore except once a year, which is why they have to use Google to find out how long to cook them.

No state south of here would need to look up collards, and no state north of here would want to.