5 Thanksgiving side dishes that do not belong on the dinner table

Green beans are a Thanksgiving staple but you don’t need to make a casserole out of them.

I’m 51-years-old and have lived all up and down the eastern seaboard as well as across the northern and southern mid-west. I am from the south and I have never once sat down for a Thanksgiving dinner where green bean casserole wasn’t on the menu.

Somewhere someone came up with the brilliant idea of taking a can of condensed soup and pouring it over top of green beans, throwing it into the oven with a french fried onion topping, and calling it a Thanksgiving side dish.

In those save 51 years of my life, it is always that dish that gets thrown away two days later that not a single person wanted to eat more than once, and in many cases not at all. Growing up, it was that spoonful that was tossed on my plate that all the kids were forced to eat, later in life I realized that no self-respecting adult was eating it!

Still to this day, my wife buys everything for it and expects me to make it and then serve it to the kids because lord knows she isn’t eating it and every year, it’s the one dish I forget to make. I love eating green beans but keep them out of that gross creamy soup concoction and serve them simply with butter and salt if you must have them on the table.