Cranberry Sauce: Canned or Homemade? The Great Thanksgiving Debate

The Cranberry Sauce Debate

During November, cranberry sauce is a hotly debated topic. Actually it's only hotly debated when you set a dish of canned cranberry sauce in front of someone adamantly against it (or vice verse). When this happens, it's on. There is no appreciation for "different'; to them it is simply wrong.

Is it possible to like both? Which type of cranberry sauce do YOU like? Is there anything wrong with canned cranberry sauce? Is homemade cranberry sauce really any better?

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What's at Your Thanksgiving Dinner?

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Which side are you on?

In the left corner we have fresh homemade cranberry sauce, made by a loved earlier today. On the right, the gelatinous but faithful canned cranberry sauce holding it's cylindrical shape. all the way to the table. Where does your vote go?

How do you prefer your cranberry sauce?

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Homemade!

nancycarol says:

I'd rather have the homemade, but my family likes the canned. So I just don't eat cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving.

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Canned!

rorymullen says:

I do not like Cranberry Sauce, but if I had to eat it, it would be canned.

kab says:

I don't care what anyone thinks, canned cranberry sauce is for me!

 

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Canned Cranberry Sauce, eh?

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  • Tipi Jan 20, 2012 @ 10:24 am | delete
    My sister makes a cranberry sauce that is crazy good with coconut rum, I think that's her favorite cooking ingredient. I've been hearing about cranberries being particularly good for us over the last year, a bit of a super food and not just for Thanksgiving anymore!
  • kab Jan 20, 2012 @ 10:26 am | delete
    I might want to try that recipe. You are right about cranberries being healthy - they are great for your kidneys.
  • WebWriteGirl Dec 3, 2011 @ 10:11 pm | delete
    I loooove cranberry sauce! Both homemade and the whole berry canned ones.
  • amieljaven Nov 11, 2011 @ 11:18 pm | delete
    I like cranberry. Yummy lens. Two thumbs up! Liked.
  • nancycarol Nov 10, 2011 @ 11:02 pm | delete
    I'd really like to have the homemade stuff, but can't ween my family off the canned stuff. So they have their canned, and it's not that big a deal to me, I just don't have Cranberry sauce. I like your lens and the poll and I just got 100 points for answering my 500th poll. Thanks for sharing.

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