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[Rosie]

You look in any good Lutheran Church cookbook.

It's green beans.

Tator tot hotdish has green beans and that's all there is to it.

 

[Tom Petty]

And we've got a holy war on our hands.

just say corn, zeke, and nobody gets hurt.

 

[Rosie]

It's green beans.

Not corn.

 

[writing irish]

North country wars! Somebody get Bob Dylan to sing a peace song!

 

[Tom Petty]

You look in any good Lutheran Church cookbook.

It's green beans.

Tator tot hotdish has green beans and that's all there is to it.

when mrs. petty tries to sneak beans into her TT casserole, i stop depositing my checks.

 

[zeke12]

You look in any good Lutheran Church cookbook.

It's green beans.

Tator tot hotdish has green beans and that's all there is to it.

I can vouch for this viewpoint -- my stepmother, proud native of Glenwood, swears it's green beans and green beans only.

But the rebel faction of my family goes with corn.

I prefer corn, but concede tradition to the green bean folk.

*plopping down on fence*

 

[Rosie]

It's not a casserole!!

It's hot dish. No wonder you're confused.

 

[writing irish]

Is "tator" the heavy metal spelling? Or Nordic spelling? Are there umaluts on the "o"?

 

[Rosie]

Zeke, you're just trying to avoid a trip to your room.

 

[Tom Petty]

It's not a casserole!!

It's hot dish. No wonder you're confused.

now i get it. hot dish gets the beans, TP's casserole gets corn. problem solved.

 

[Barsuk]

Hmmm...we used to eat a bit of hot dish, but we called it casserole. Guess we were, in fact, puttin' on airs.

We did a tuna noodle one with Lay's on top, and a green bean one with the crispy onion majiggers on top. And my mom makes a hashbrown <s>casserole</s> hot dish that's mighty tasty.

 

[Rosie]

Works for me.

 

[zeke12]

It's not a casserole!!

It's hot dish. No wonder you're confused.

See, once you start calling it a "casserole," you've got anarchy.

Also, another corrollary: Any hot dish containing tomatoes probably has "Mexican" in the name.

Because up nord, der, a tomato is considered spicy.

 

[Tom Petty]

Works for me.

i'd still pull up a chair for the hot dish, beans or no (damned) beans if you made it, rosie.

 

[writing irish]

Yeah, count me in.

 

[Rosie]

Aw, thanks guys.

Zeke, you're forgetting goulash. Tomatoes, macaroni and hamburger. AKA hamburger hot dish.

 

[zeke12]

Hmmm...we used to eat a bit of hot dish, but we called it casserole. Guess we were, in fact, puttin' on airs.

We did a tuna noodle one with Lay's on top, and a green bean one with the crispy onion majiggers on top. And my mom makes a hashbrown <s>casserole</s> hot dish that's mighty tasty.

The green bean one is also a Thanksgiving favorite, and consists of green beans, onions, cream of mushroom soup and onion soup mix with the little onion twists on top.

Yum.

And gawd, Rosie, you're sending me on a trip. Goulash was my grandpa's favorite, and, as you said, consisted of elbow macaroni, ground beef and tomatoes, and kidney beans if there was a can laying around.

Probably the blandest thing known to man, the way my mom made it -- with absolutely no seasoning.

 

[Tom Petty]

Aw, thanks guys.

Zeke, you're forgetting goulash. Tomatoes, macaroni and hamburger. AKA hamburger hot dish.

no, dammnit rosie, i want my freakin' hot dish. ;D

 

[Rosie]

Zeke, I actually brown the hamburger with onions when I make hamburger hot dish.

 

[Barsuk]

Damn, we ate the **** out of some goulash, too. Nothing worse than when people put weird **** in goulash, though. Keep it simple: Elbow macaroni, hamburger, tomatoes. For some reason, we always had macaroni and cheese with it, too, I guess because we were already boiling the macaroni. Usually cottage cheese, too. And bread and butter.

How the **** is it that my family, most of which came from Arkansas, shares the same culinary tradition with all you folks from da U.P. (Note: I realize none of you are actually from da U.P., but I wanted to type "da U.P.," OK)