you would never make it in Minnesota.

November 22, 20184:28 PM ET

The inventor of the green-bean casserole, Dorcas Reilly died on Oct. 15 at 92. This Thanksgiving, Campbell's Soup estimates the dish will be served and enjoyed in more than 20 million homes Thursday.

DORCAS REILLY: This Thanksgiving, we remember a woman who has made a mark on millions of Thanksgiving tables, including, perhaps, the one that you are at today. Dorcas Reilly, the creator of green bean casserole, died last month. In 1955, she was working in the home economics department of the Campbell Soup Company. Her job was to come up with creative ways to use Campbell's products - tuna noodle casserole, sloppy Joe souper burgers - that's S-O-U-P-er (ph) burgers.

The dish first known as a green bean bake combined two kitchen staples at the time, green beans and cream of mushroom soup. She tested. She tinkered. She put it in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes, and the green bean casserole was born. Reilly had no idea the dish would become a holiday classic. In interviews, she said she didn't even remember creating it. Here she is at her alma mater, Drexel University, in 2009.


REILLY: I love to go to work every day, and I am just overwhelmed. As they say, that was just another day's work.


ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

Well, thanks to that day's work, Campbell's estimates that 40 percent of its cream of mushroom soup sales end up in green bean casserole. Reilly always insisted the invention was a team effort. And 60 years later, the six-ingredient dish is almost as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey. One ingredient in particular might be the stroke of genius.



LAURA SHAPIRO: The reason people like it decade after decade has everything to do with the French fried onion rings because of the salt and the fat and the crunch. I mean, it's the kind of product that people love.

SHAPIRO: That's Linda (ph) Shapiro - no relation. She's a culinary historian and author of "Something From The Oven: Reinventing Dinner In 1950s America." These days, as food trends rise and fall all the time, she says green bean casserole's secret weapon is its familiarity.

SHAPIRO: Thanksgiving, you don't necessarily want something new. Food people are always saying - oh, you know, time for bok choy sauteed with a little sprinkling of prosciutto. No, people don't want that. They want green bean casserole, just as they did in 1955, because it reminded them of themselves.

SHAPIRO: In 2002, Campbell's donated Dorcas Reilly's original recipe card to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. And Reilly kept cooking. She said in 2013 that she was still experimenting in her own kitchen. Her motto at work and at home, she said, was food should be fun; food should be happy. Dorcas Reilly died last month. She was 92 years old.

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**** all the casserole haters.

I am avowed Thanksgiving and Christmas super fan.

I love the holiday season for so many reasons.

The food, the family gathering, friends we always find time to be with are so important.

And this year our food pantry, actually three we help with in three smaller communities are in trouble and need help.

Do what you can, lots of people hurting again this season

God Bless you all

and I do love GBC

Right, so my anger is pretty much solely directed at one person, not the food.

I eat Turkey all year long. Probably more than beef or pork. I git it shaved or thick sliced at the deli and top salads with it or have Turkey sammiches.

Nothing pissed me off more as a kid than an adult fixing my plate and putting mother ****ing beats next to my mashed potatoes :mad:. This is unforgivable. I didn't want the beats. I'd say no beats for me thanks but wtf BEATS NEXT to my MASHED POTATOES. Ruined Thanksgiving thanks for starving me.

I've always loved me some baked yams with marshmallows baked on top

Honestly love some homemade stuffing with homemade gravy. Nothing too special but it's classic and delicious.

Im just glad we got an early Thanksgiving Green Bay Casserole

It’s hard to beat pickled beets

I bet a potato masher would suffice........

We're at the point where we have a traditional Thanksgiving day pizza and snacks. No one wants to spend hours prepping a meal and then cleaning up afterwards on a holiday. Tacos are an option as well.

Once you drop the charade of actually liking most of the foods that appear at a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, you can actually eat the foods that everyone likes with a lot less effort. It makes everyone more relaxed and have fun.

I'm with you. Fat boy is not one for nostalgia.

I made this recipe once just to prove to myself that GBC could be good.

https://www.seriouseats.com/homemade...sserole-recipe

And it was. I added bacon and some cheddar to it as well. It was excellent. But man it was a lot of work so no, I won't be doing it again.

It's a hell of a lot easier to just fry up some bacon and onions then fry my green beans in the skillet with them with a little garlic.

Fried green beans with bacon is a staple for holidays around our house. My mom used to make them for everything and when she passed, my wife took over the responsibility.

Should we let Virus in on the traditional White People Post Feast Thanksgiving Family Dance, or is that too much too soon?

https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20130117/dancing_17.gif

That's what she said? :eek:

LMAO Hey, I am white! I've seen more than a couple casseroles at family functions. Personally, I just can't stand the stuff.

Speaking of, anyone ever have cheeseball? My grandma used to make it all the time. She'd put a big bucket of the stuff out in one of those Country Crock butter containers with some Ritz crackers and I'd go to work.

Or how about a wholesome dish known as shit on a shingle? Anyone ever had that?

This is not what I thought and I don't know why. LMAOLMAO

My wife does a cheeseball all the time. No idea why, but I will just sit and each the hell out of them if they are put in front of me.

Cheeseballs gross me out. Never could stand them.

And shit on a shingle was a staple in my youth. My dad loved it, so we ate it quite often. THAT might be contender for "whitest dish ever", literally and figuratively. Lol

My mom made that crap when I was a kid. From a McCormack's packet, no less. So it was that dehydrated chipped beef and the most nasty, gelatinous gravy imaginable.

The reason I can make some badass sausage gravy these days is because I absolutely refuse to make that crap my mom made so I learned how in college. Packaged/canned gravy is inexcusable.

Actually I thought the he was black as well and I don't know why myself.

Well mister you can just take back all those white guilt positive reps I've sent and stick them up you hoo haw. Honkey!

I thought he was half black or something. Pretty sure he said that.

I always took him for a Tiger Woods type.

Wait...what?

Well shit, that probably brings CP back down to 0 then...

Is CP now officially the whitest place on earth?

Hah! They are a thing then. Have literally never heard anyone outside of my family talk about either dish so I wasn't sure if it was just a midwestern thing or a my family thing.

I believe the man is both.

Best of both worlds, that guy.

It's because cheese might just be the best ****ing food on earth.

I know bacon gets a lot of credit, but I've long argued that cheese is far more versatile, and can compliment far more dishes than bacon.

Hmm, yeah, I believe I have mentioned it before. I'm just like our sweet biracial Patty. I just don't usually bother with the "half-black, half-white" thing. I am white and I am black.

But I'm also neither at the same time.. It's weird.

Schrödinger's Virus

:)

I'm like Blade. All of their strengths, none of their weaknesses.

I can go to the beach without sunscreen but also have a good credit score.

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Cheese is life, hence my love for mac n cheese. Also pizza.. and lasagna.. Mmmm.

LMAO

My dad refused to let SOS or rice be served in our house. Because there were times when he was in the Korean War that SOS and or rice was all they had to eat for days and days on end. He refused to eat either after he got back to the world.

For ****ing real, man. I think my next food thread/poll is going to be a Cheese vs. Bacon discussion. I fully expect bacon to win totally based on its reputation, but those people will still be wrong.

LMAO LMAO

We love you no matter what and happy you're here! :grouphug:

You're our Patrick Mahomes,

Cheese is dish specific for me.

I'm not going to be out there buying blocks of cheese and just slicing pieces off to snack on. And I'm for damn sure not going to be one of those cheese connoisseur's that sit there and dream about the perfect moldy cheese and orgasm when it hits their tongue.

Bacon. All day.

I don't have much to add except recipe sites are the absolute ****ing worst

I'm used to the ads flashing everywhere, disrupting the loading of the page, but when did we start having to scroll through someone's entire life ****ing story to get to the 8 ingredients of a cheeseball recipe?

Mother**** recipe websites

Allrecipes has a pretty good App I'll use. Tasty's isn't bad as well.

But yeah - gotta work through the apps or you'll get buried.

Seriously though, my wife makes a version of this smoky cheeseball that's pretty ****ing good.

1 cup smoked gouda
2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
8 ounce cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup salted butter, softened
2 tablespoon milk
2 teaspoon steak sauce
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
crackers, for dipping

In a large bowl, use a spatula to gently mix and fold together the cheddar cheese, cream cheese, butter, milk, steak sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. Mixture should be mostly smooth; a few visible clumps are okay.

Lay out a piece of plastic wrap on a flat surface, then scoop the cheese ball mixture in the center. Pull up the sides of the plastic wrap to cover the cheese mixture, confining it to the middle. Once completely wrapped in plastic, use your hands to smooth the cheese into a ball shape. If needed, use another piece of plastic wrap to secure it.

Place wrapped cheese ball in the refrigerator until firm, at least 2 to 3 hours.

When ready to serve, spread out chopped pecans on a flat surface. Roll the cheese ball in pecans, using your fingers to press and stick the pecans to the cheese.

Serve smoky cheese ball immediately with crackers for dipping.

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I hate canned green beans. Always have. Don't know why. Fresh green beans sauteed in garlic butter? I can eat those. But canned? No way, no how.

And this led to a memorable moment in my childhood. I was going to Central Elementary School in Olathe in the late 70s. We had a teacher named Mrs. Miles who, as lunch over-seer, made everyone eat everything on their plate. One day, Mrs Miles was lunch lady when green beans were served. I didn't eat them. But before we could go out to recess or whatever, we had to show her our plate. This was one of those 70s style lunch trays with the plastic that was about 3" thick and different ridged/divided sections on the tray. She saw I hadn't eaten my green beans, so the conversation was like this:

Her: You need to eat your green beans.

Me: I can't. They'll make me sick.

Her: That's in your head.

Me: No, they'll make me sick.

Her: eat them or no recess.

To this day, I have no idea how I choked them down but I did. And I went up to show her my tray. She sees my green bean section is now empty and she snidely comments, "See, they won't make you sick."

I walk back to where I was sitting and before I even sit down, I threw up my lunch all over the table. Just a massive pile of vomit with lots of recently ingested green beans still practically whole and glistening in green bean and stomach juices.

Everyone at the table yelled in abject horror and moved out of the way as fast as possible. Other teachers were called in to quell the disorder and chaos. I sat down at the table (away from the vomit) as my stomach was deciding if it wanted to have a second round. Mrs. Miles, looking rather whiter than usual, was yelling at everyone to calm down and sit down but nobody wanted to sit next to puke. The school janitor came in and cleaned it up and I remember thinking that I didn't want a job where I cleaned up puke. With the noxious green beans gone from my system, I soon felt better and went out to recess. But ever after that, when Mrs. Miles was on lunch duty, she would say, "Everyone has to clean their plates, but frozenchief does not need to eat his green beans."

So, no, I won't be making green bean casserole for Thanksgiving. Never have. Never will.

It was a cool autumn morning in Upper Michigan. Dad had just come in from splitting firewood and mom and I could see his tired eyes and chapped hands. Even falls in the UP(That's what we call it up here, lol!) could be particularly tough. The air hung heavy with the scent of oak and the sweat of a man who never took a day off. "Honey, I need a snack mighty quick if'n you don't mind" he said to my mother. She rummaged through the icebox for a moment and asked if cheese and crackers would do. My father was never one to turn down anything my mother would put in front of him....