Serious question for anyone who can answer it.

[Different Drummer]

In various places on the internet I'm seeing not just a lot of dislike, but outright hatred, of jellied cranberry sauce. What in the blue hell is up with that?! I love the stuff and can't imagine Thanksgiving without it. I even eat it at times when it isn't Thanksgiving, so I don't get the hatred!

[underpants]

1. People get stupid about food and apparently have nothing else to do

For instance, I was buying a bathroom squeegee for work and there were 10-15 reviews of it on the Walmart site. People actually logged in to offer their opinion of it.

[Ocelot II]

2. I've always liked it. When I was a kid I thought it was cool

the way you could dump it out of the can and it would go *blop* and you could see the outlines of the can. And it tastes good. Some people are purists.

[LuckyCharms]

3. That stuff is delicious. n/t

[True Blue American]

8. I take my can

When there is turkey. I can eat the cooked with orange but the salad is yucky.

[Glorfindel]

4. I like it, too. Don't understand the hatred.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. I think food snobbery plays a role

From my earliest recollections as a youngster in the earliest 60s, some said the canned sauce was an inferior product, being such an ultra-processed food. And look! It took the shape of a common food can! How gauche! My family went for convenience, not GAF about societal judgments.

[Goonch]

6. 👇👇👇👁️👁️

[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. I've never liked it, but I don't care if you do!

[ificandream]

9. Lived in Massachusetts as a boy and grew up with that stuff. I love it -- both jellied and with cranberries in it.

Massachusetts is a big cranberry state. Ocean Spray, which markets a lot of cranberry products, has its headquarters there.

[debm55]

10. I agree with you Different Drummer.

[cachukis]

11. Have you not seen the commercial when the

jellied sauce is brought to the table jiggling? I bet diners all across America will want to jiggle too.

[getagrip_already]

12. We serve both types....

And they both have takers...

I probably prefer the canned, but just because it's sweeter.

[JoseBalow]

13. And it goes great on a peanut butter sandwich!

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. No hate here, just not a big fan.

[XanaDUer2]

15. I love it nt

[hunter]

16. My grandma always served it, Thanksgiving and Christmas...

... sitting on a fancy dish with a fancy knife and fork, right out of the can.

My grandma loved modern convenience foods, most especially breakfast cereals in a box. Whenever we were visiting overnight or longer she'd buy breakfast cereals, the kind we saw on television, that my parents never ever bought.

Her mom, all my great-grandmothers actually, never really trusted any food they hadn't killed and cut up themselves, from a lowly potato, to a turkey, to an entire steer. The only canned food they served was food they'd canned themselves.

They constantly criticized their daughters and daughter-in-laws for being too lazy to even bake and slice their own bread. My siblings and I used to love going to the neighborhood bakery with my grandma. She'd pick a loaf or two of bread and have it sliced in the machine, which was fascinating, and then the baker would give us treats.

As I think about it now, maybe that cranberry jelly in a can was my grandma's way of saying "FUCK OFF, this is MY house!" to her mom and mother-in-law.

[MLAA]

17. Love the squiggly stuff. Chill the can, open, slice and serve.

None of that whole berry snooty stuff for me!

[Niagara]

18. You need new places to hang out on the internet, DD!

I happen to like canned jellied cranberry sauce and like you, I enjoy the stuff when it isn't Thanksgiving.

[chouchou]

19. The Mayo clinic ran a research project..

..and came to the conclusion that people who like canned cranberry are simply uncivilized. Yep, straight from the mayo ...or maybe I'm thinking of Saturday nite live?

[soldierant]

20. Personally I prefer the whole berry

but I have never been crazy about jell in anything. My PB&J sandwiaches were with jam, not jelly. And I don't care for Jello- flavor and actual brand no issue.

This is not something you can take to a doctor's office, but food preferences in some peopl MAY indicate food allergies -whether it's a like or a dislike. A strong dislike may indicate a classic allergy and a strong like may indicate an addictive allergy.

Another possibility is that it's not really the food they hate but its associations, expecially in childhood, may be negative,

I don't care what you eat or like either. Enjoy your cranberry sauce whenever you want it,