Americans Are Sharing Unusual Thanksgiving Dishes And Everyone Is Grossed Out

Thanksgiving is supposed to be about comfort food, but one viral conversation turned it into a parade of culinary horror stories. Maya Kosoff kicked things off on Twitter, and people quickly started sharing the kinds of dishes that only make sense inside one family.

From strange sauces to salads that barely qualify as salads, the replies showed just how different holiday tables can be. What one person calls tradition, another person might call a crime against dinner.

And once the photos started rolling in, there was no going back.

Maya expressed excitement about food, but she wanted to hear about the travesties of everyone's families—things that maybe shouldn't be called food but have become beloved and timeless traditions.

mekosoff

And she kicked it off with her family's very own disturbing dish.

mekosoff

This Cranberry Sauce "Alternative."

W H Y

benafflecksmoke

That set the tone fast.

Shrimp No Cocktail

Who did this? WHO?

bliccy

Barf Salad

That's not a joke; that's the actual name.

VelvetHydrangea

Suet Pudding

A suet pudding is a boiled, steamed, or baked pudding made with suet, flour, bread crumbs, raisins, and spices.

Echo9M

Enjoy a broken tooth with your dessert.

BONE appetite.

holachola

Salad gets used real loosely around Thanksgiving.

I cannot emphasize loose enough.

mjprestarri

Things only got weirder from there.

It also feels like the AITA fight where someone secretly swapped the traditional turkey for vegan.

Brown Sauce

Who comes up with this crap?

alissamarie

Wow, I think I can smell this one.

Unfortunately.

ellendecandia

Coca Cola and Salad are two words that aren't supposed to go together.

Seriously, folks.

michelmcbride

Some of these dishes are hard to unsee.

NO

I'm scarred.

Volpinator1

Quite frankly, I'm scared to ask... but please let us know what unusual and disgusting concoctions you've been exposed to on Thanksgivings past and present.

Some family recipes are best kept off the internet.

For more Thanksgiving tension, see if the secret pie recipe caused a blowup.