The most popular dishes in each state typically include a trifecta of reviled ingredients
We have previously assured readers that, contrary to our present inclination to dismiss convenience items and the recipes that employ them, midcentury cooking was not a hoax conducted by homemakers to get revenge on their families. Though we may cringe at the concoctions in old church cookbooks, the reality is that these recipes have continued to suit the public and make home chefs' lives simpler. That's why, according to a recent study by THC seltzer company Cycling Frog, America's most popular "weird" Thanksgiving recipes by state tend to have certain similar ingredients: Cool Whip, marshmallows, and Jell-O.
America's weirdest Thanksgiving dishes
Cycling Frog examined Google Trends data for five years' worth of popular Thanksgiving recipes that employ uncommon component combinations or have interesting titles. Each state's favorite food was determined by ranking uniquely high search data for each dish. Here are the outcomes:
- Alabama: Ambrosia salad
- Alaska: Frog eye salad
- Arizona: Ambrosia salad
- Arkansas: Jell-O salad
- California: Ambrosia salad
- Colorado: Ambrosia salad
- Connecticut: Ambrosia salad
- Delaware: Ambrosia salad
- Florida: Ambrosia salad/Jell-O salad
- Georgia: Jell-O salad
- Hawaii: Frog eye salad
- Idaho: Frog eye salad
- Illinois: Ambrosia salad
- Indiana: Ambrosia salad
- Iowa: Jell-O salad
- Kansas: Frog eye salad
- Kentucky: Ambrosia salad
- Louisiana: Jell-O salad
- Maine: Ambrosia salad
- Maryland: Jell-O salad
- Massachusetts: Ambrosia salad
- Michigan: Ambrosia salad
- Minnesota: Frog eye salad
- Mississippi: Jell-O salad
- Missouri: Ambrosia salad
- Montana: Jell-O salad
- Nebraska: Frog eye salad/Jell-O salad
- Nevada: Ambrosia salad
- New Hampshire: Ambrosia salad/Jell-O salad
- New Jersey: Ambrosia salad
- New Mexico: Ambrosia salad
- New York: Ambrosia salad
- North Carolina: Ambrosia salad
- North Dakota: Ambrosia salad
- Ohio: Ambrosia salad
- Oklahoma: Jell-O salad
- Oregon: Jell-O salad
- Pennsylvania: Jell-O salad
- Rhode Island: Ambrosia salad
- South Carolina: Ambrosia salad
- South Dakota: Jell-O salad
- Tennessee: Jell-O salad
- Texas: Ambrosia salad
- Utah: Jell-O salad
- Vermont: Ambrosia salad
- Virginia: Jell-O salad
- Washington: Jell-O salad
- West Virginia: Ambrosia salad
- Wisconsin: Jell-O salad
- Wyoming: Frog eye salad
Yes, we will explain what the hell "frog eye salad" is. While it doesn't have the Wikipedia coverage it deserves, this is a dessert pasta salad composed with tiny noodles, egg yolks, Cool Whip, canned citrus fruit, and marshmallows. When the small noodles, most often acini di pepe, are blended into the surrounding gloop, they resemble frog's eyes. A truly disgusting comparison, but a delectable complement to the Thanksgiving meal.
With 27 states looking for this classic combination above all others, ambrosia salad has sailed into the number-one Thanksgiving side dish spot. And what are the key distinguishing elements of ambrosia salad? Of course, there are little marshmallows and whipped topping! Without them, it wouldn't be a throwback recipe.
While we frequently attribute the popularity and preservation of midcentury Jell-O salads to Midwesterners, it appears that the influence of these sweet, jiggly dinner/dessert hybrids extends far and wide. Everyone likes a little wiggle from Arkansas to Oregon, and "Jell-O salad" as a recipe category took the top place in 16 different states from coast to coast. While there are virtually endless variants on Jell-O salad, a standard recipe would almost always include some mix of Cool Whip and micro marshmallows with the Jell-O to soften the jiggly gelatin texture and moderate the powerful fruity aromas. My favorite Jell-O salad? Of course, there's green things.
Looking at the statistics, it's evident that the components we all like to mock for their low-cost simplicity, straightforward sweetness, and no-chewing-required consistency are the ones that persist over generations for those same reasons. These should not be our silent or apologetic favorites; they should be the first items on our Thanksgiving table this year.
SOURCE: thetakeout
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