does anyone REALLY like Green Bean Cassarole??...

[samnsara]

IMHO...

….green beans are ONLY to be eaten pickled in a Bloody Mary

….mushroom soup is no more than creamed fungi


….and greasy deep fried onions on top?


….ewwwwwww

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Yes! Especially with crunchy onions

[csziggy]

53. Just skip the green beans and mushroom soup and eat the crunchy onions alone!

Those onions are seriously delicious by themselves!

[MaryMagdaline]

54. They are!

[hlthe2b]

2. I have the same "love-hate" relationship as I do with greasy hamburgers...

I usually eschew because I know they aren't really healthy, but once in a blue moon, just gotta have it!

[Docreed2003]

3. I'll admit it...

I love the hell out of it and could eat my weight in a really good one! The problem is, only about a third are really really good

[LisaM]

4. I've seen people eat it, but...

those onion thingies are the only edible part.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

5. I love it. I make mine from scratch, though.

Takes a LONG time to french cut fresh green beans, and to chop a couple pounds of mushrooms and crisp up some onions... The end result is worth it, though.

[Demsrule86]

35. I do the same thing...it is my youngest daughter's favorite dish.

[Shrike47]

6. I like green beans, fresh ones anyway. The mushroom soup is right out.

[Ilsa]

7. One serving, once or twice a year.

Salty, crunchy, fatty, creamy. Only sweet and caffeine are missing from it in my major food groups.

[Me.]

16. Hilarious

[irisblue]

8. Well, yeah. I make the traditional for potlucks. Pan is left empty

For home, it's different. I make home made cream of mushroom soup( freakin easy-google), flash crisp heat trimmed greens beans, minced onions, I deep fry 3/4 home mage onion rings(panko). Green beans on bottom of casserole, slowly add a limited amount of soup, bake 20ish mgmt, pull out, then top with onion rings, heat through. I like that for home.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Only at Thanksgiving.

And only if the onions are super crunchy (I hate onions that actually taste like onions) and the rest of it isn't too soupy. The traditional Thanksgiving dish that I really hate is that nasty, gooey concoction of sweet potatoes and marshmallows.

[wryter2000]

33. I'm with you

Get those GD marshmallows out of my sweet potatoes!

[DonViejo]

10. The inventor of the casserole just died late last month...

OCT. 24, 2018

RIP, Inventor of the Green-Bean Casserole


Dorcas Reilly with a huge fan. Photo: Courtesy of Campbell Soup Company


By Chris Crowley

Dorcas Reilly, who invented one of 20th-century America’s classic dishes with her green-bean casserole, passed away on October 15 at the age of 92. The dish (originally known as the green-bean bake) was created in 1955, and like a lot of classics from that era, it was the product of a corporate test kitchen.

A graduate of Drexel’s home-economics program, Reilly was a supervisor for Campbell’s Home Economics Department. The dish was, after much testing, her team’s six-ingredient answer to the AP’s request for an easy side recipe incorporating two then-ubiquitous ingredients, Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup and green beans. In 1960, five years after green-bean casserole was invented, Campbell’s put the recipe on its cream of mushroom soup cans. And in 2002, the company donated Reilly’s original recipe card to the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Since the green-bean casserole’s invention, the inexpensive and uncomplicated dish has become deeply associated with the Midwest (a.k.a. the land of casseroles), to the point that people seem to think it originated there. It’s as much a part of Thanksgiving as cranberry sauce, and in an obituary for Reilly posted to its website, Campbell’s says that in excess of 20 million Americans cook the dish during the holiday. The company has also stated that a whopping 40 percent of its cream of mushroom soup is bought specifically to make the casserole.

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/10/dorcas-reilly-inventor-of-green-bean-casserole-dies-at-92.html

[LakeSuperiorView]

38. Casseroles? Hot Dish!!!

Sorry. I know people from outside Minnesota don't understand that casserole is not a word...

[Freddie]

43. 6 ingredients?

Green beans, cream of something soup (I use cream of celery), milk and the canned fried onions. What are the other 2 things?

[jmowreader]

45. Here's the Official Recipe for this food product

https://www.campbells.com/kitchen/recipes/classic-green-bean-casserole/

The six ingredients:
Cream of Mushroom soup
Milk
Soy sauce
Black pepper
Green beans
French fried onions

[Buzz cook]

59. A nation of holiday dinners owe Dorcas thanks

Xmas or turkey day without green bean casserole just isn't fully traditional.

[Cracklin Charlie]

11. You haven't had mine.

I haven’t brought a drop home in decades.

Homemade mushroom soup is easy and makes a huge difference.

[dawg day]

12. Next thing you'll be telling us broccoli-cheese casserole is bad.

You probably have something against Jello too!

[Runningdawg]

26. That would wipe out half out Thanksgiving menu

Take away the jellied canned cranberry sauce and cool whip and we might as well eat at Mcdonalds LOL

[wryter2000]

34. The cranberry sauce

had better have the rings from the can on it.

[Runningdawg]

55. Always!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

13. I love it. I also make spinach and broccoli versions.

For the latter two, I use cream of celery soup or broccoli and cheese soup instead of cream of mushroom, or make my own white sauce. I also double up on the canned onions. I usually add shredded cheddar and sometimes sour cream, too.

I know... Unhealthy as hell. But my family loves the spinach version especially, and I only ever make it for holiday events it's been requested for or that I'm hosting.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

14. Farmers who grow them do...

[The Genealogist]

15. Not I

This is the second time I've encountered a conversation involving green bean casserole in the last two days. Tis the season! I am firmly against it. I place it on the same level as Christmas fruitcake.

[Demsrule86]

36. I love fruit cake and have learned to make a gluten free version of it.

[NNadir]

17. Nope. When I was growing up, my mother allowed me to skip one, and only one, vegetable.

It was green beans. I couldn't stand them.

Thank god my mother never prepared okra. That would have left me with an impossible choice.

[samnsara]

42. holy moly we are twins! even re: the Okra..which my mom did make..

….but never asked me to eat them. As a Southerner..those were connection to her childhood. My dad, however, was from Arkansas and fed me pickled pigs feet. I still remember that taste. Not bad, but just knowing what they are now makes me gag.
but I would still eat a pickled pigs feet/foot over GBC.

[Polly Hennessey]

18. Love green beans.

Green Bean Casserole only at Thanksgiving. Include, Creamed Onions to the only at Thanksgiving food.

[Autumn]

19. Yes. It's a must have at my house at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don't care for it but

the kids love it.

[luvs2sing]

20. Bean Blah!

And yes, I love it. I usually make it from scratch now, using fresh green beans and my own sauce, but I still love the funky stuff. It got the name “Bean Blah” from a young friend who swore she hated it..but she had three helpings anyway. 😂

[RainCaster]

21. No no no no no no no

I do not like green bean caserole
I will not eat it in a hole
I will not eat it here or there
I will not eat it anywhere

[samnsara]

40. you are my new best friend!

[SallyHemmings]

22. Not a fan

I grew up near the Mushroom capital of the world. So you either love mushrooms or hate them.

I am in the love them camp. I like all of the ingredients, just not together. It was not on my holiday table until marriage number two.

His family loves it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. I have never cared for it, the rare times I've had it.

Don't think my mom ever made it.

We always had green peas, sometimes green peas with pearl onions as the green vegetables. Mom always made brussel sprouts, but she was the only one who ate them.

And I think marshmallows in sweet potatoes is another abomination. I just open a can of sweet potatoes, warm them up, and serve. If I want them sweeter, I might sprinkle some brown sugar on top, but they are already sweet enough as is, so adding sugar is something I haven't done in years.

[samnsara]

41. lol and i love the canned yams w/ marshmallows...

...and my grandma made the creamed peas and onions. now THAT I can eat!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

44. Not creamed peas at my place.

You can either buy frozen green peas and pearl onions, or buy fresh pearl onions, peel them and add them to the peas.

[notdarkyet]

24. No. Never have.

[Runningdawg]

25. Yes. I love it.

I will eat green beans however they are cooked, but reserve the casserole for buffets, potlucks and of course, Thanksgiving.

[sfwriter]

27. No

[Siwsan]

28. My niece LOVES it - Count me as a Meh.

I'm heading to Tampa on Tuesday, and she's already told me she's making it. This will be the first time she's hosted the family for Thanksgiving since her wedding, last January. I'll be VERY supportive of the effort.

[bitterross]

29. Given the way mine disappears - I'd say yes.

I've had versions that really are not very good. But, the recipe I use has always left the dish empty at the end of the evening.

[wryter2000]

30. Yes

Although I must admit I'd like to find an alternative to the canned soup

[Phentex]

31. I like it but I don't make it...

I might taste it if it's served at someone else's house. But usually there's other things I want to eat instead.

[spinbaby]

32. Don't like it, but I have to make it

Family gets upset if I deviate from the menu.

[LakeSuperiorView]

37. Oh, THANKS for the reminder that it contains cream of MUSHROOM soup...

That is going to stick in my brain until at least next Thursday...

[JHan]

39. I dislike it.

[MissMillie]

46. It's O.K.

I wouldn't make it in my home, but if served elsewhere I would eat it.

I think my issue is that I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to veggies--especially green veggies. I don't think they need that much. (I guess I have a "less is more" attitude.)

Also, on Thanksgiving, there are a lot of dishes that are creamy, filled or covered in butter, covered in gravy, etc.

One of my favorite green bean side-dishes is green beans sauteed in olive oil w/ cherry tomatoes, garlic and a little rosemary.

I've also enjoyed broccoli steamed w/ minced garlic cloves and lemon zest (with the juice of the lemon in the steaming water).

And kale sauteed in bacon fat, w/ the crispy bacon sprinkled on the top.

I don't judge people for what they like. You like what you like. I wholly recommend that everyone enjoy their holiday.

[smirkymonkey]

47. I have never had it, but it doesn't sound bad.

I like green beans, mushrooms and onions. Sounds pretty good to me.

[OriginalGeek]

48. We eat it at least a couple times a month

Often more.

But I didn't know it was supposed to have soy sauce in it. Might have to try that....

[frogmarch]

49. Don't forget the shredded cheddar!

Green bean casserole is best with shredded cheddar in it.

Almost everything is.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

50. I will not be sorry if I never have green bean casserole again. n/t

It's OK, if you like not particularly good food.

[Brainstormy]

51. No. never have, but

Allen's seasoned southern green beans, straight from the can, are divine!

[janterry]

52. Yuck

[Major Nikon]

56. I make it every Thanksgiving and it always gets eaten

My recipe is a bit non-standard. I use fresh green beans and both fresh and dried mushrooms. The only thing that comes out of a can is the fried onions. I’ve made those from scratch before and have found it isn’t really worth it.

At any rate it’s a great dish that is popular in my house, but I wouldn’t eat the version that uses canned soup and canned green beans.

[no_hypocrisy]

57. Green beans and spaetzel!

My favorite

[912gdm]

58. My mom does.

Me? Nooooope.



She makes it every Thanksgiving and I fake-happily eat a few bites.




I just thank god she doesn't like the canned yams with marshmallow thing that my aunt was infamous for.

[Wawannabe]

60. Yes

I’m in. Had it made with fresh green beans this year. Different-Always used canned myself. I was about 17 or 18 when this dish became a food fad! Everyone I talked to that year made it or ate it! Lol!