re: #214 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

Anything that is a “traditional” food that people make at holiday time out of obligation, not because anybody actually likes it, is usually horrific.

Some examples:

The “3 bean salad” that your cousin Edie brings to every family Thanksgiving (which her mother, and her mother before her also brought) that nobody eats.

Passover Borscht. Useful in suppressing massive fart attacks.

Passover Schav Borscht (borscht made from leaves. It’s from when people were starving in Russia and had nothing else to eat)

Anyone else want to share examples of horrific holiday food?

I’d also add corned beef and cabbage for St Patrick’s Day. Not a fan of it as a combination, and in my family it was usually overcooked as well.

(And I’ve pointed out to a friend of Irish descent that it was traditional because at that point in late winter corned beef, cabbages, and potatoes were all that was left in the larder anyways.)