Cranberry sauce is listed pretty close to the top of many “ quintessential Thanksgiving foods ” lists , right up there withturkey , mashed potatoes , andpumpkin Proto-Indo European . But do Americans actually like to eat up the scented , sticky jelly ? allot to two different surveys , not really .
The Takeoutreportsthat Instacart , with the supporter of The Harris Poll , ask 2000 adults a serial of doubt about their Thanksgiving habits and opinions , andfoundthat 46 percent of participants think canned cranberry sauce is “ disgusting . ” Still , that does n’t seem to lay off them from bribe it — last Thanksgiving , Instacart sold 50 percent more canned cranberry sauce than fresh cranberry .
The “ ew ” cistron does n’t seem to deter everyone from serving it up slice , either : 31 percent of people surveyed do n’t chat up up their dismiss cranberry sauce before giving it to their hungry guests .
In WalletHub’sstudy , ground on Twitter data , only 3 percent of participants name cranberry sauce as their favoriteThanksgiving peach , compare to a whopping 39 percent of people who thinkturkeytrumps all , and 23 pct who prefer to glut themselves withstuffing . While this does n’t needs demonstrate that anybody hates cranberry sauce , it does involve that very few people deal it the crowning gem of the repast .
So if people do n’t seem to like cranberry sauce , especially the canned variety , why have it at all ? Instacart ’s results suggest that the polarizing side dish has remained a vacation staple just for tradition ’s sake ; 29 percent of participants respond that although they dislike cranberry sauce , they run through it anyway because oftradition .
And it ’s true that cranberry sauce sure enough has been an participating member of the Thanksgiving party for some time now , though it did n’t exactly start out as a dense , sugary cylinder . get out how it came to be — and why we might ’ve started eat on it on Thanksgiving in the first spot — here .
[ h / tThe Takeout ]
