Let’s say Thanksgiving was brought to your country and you had to choose the foods to have at the feast, what would you pick?

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1. Traditional november foods native to your country? Well, kale with turnip and pork sausages it is. And apple pie for dessert of course.

2. In Spain, seafood is pretty common food for festivities, so I Guess that would be one of the main dishes

3. To match the heartiness of thanksgiving meals. I’d probably go for a roast dinner style meal – beef or a vegetarian meat alternative, gravy, roast potatoes, carrots, peas, with sides of Yorkshire pudding and cauliflower cheese.

   For dessert, could be an apple crumble or a hot sticky toffee pudding. Or both! Yum.

   So good.

4. Most food in Denmark was terrible before the green revolution and the internal market made more foods available to us, but if we absolutely have to pick traditional food…

   We have “Morten’s Evening” on 10 November. Where we basically serve roughly the same as at Christmas. Apple and prune filled Goose, potatoes and brown sauce, with sugar/butter glazed potatoes, and sweet pickeld red cabbage.

   We could add a pear pie.

5. A roasted goose with potato dumplings and red cabbage

6. You know what’s coming! It’s time for that codfish baby! If not for codfish, something else like octopus, lamb, or even regular meats (like pork and beef).

   The sides could vary a lot, as they depend on the manner of preparing and cooking the codfish (or whatever else is being prepared), but could range anywhere from vegetables to salads, fruits, rice, fries or even no side at all.
   Most likely, it would be preceded by a large plethora of entries, from shrimp (or other sea food like clams) to pathes and other spreads, snacks, etc.
   Dessert is obviously also a big part, with traditional cakes and sweets.

7. Thanksgiving is an insult to the native people. So even if that would be “brought” to France, I would certainly NOT celebrate this huge hypocresy.

8. Tofu. I heard something fun about someone making a turkey-ish dish with tofu instead. Might as well use Thanksgiving as an excuse to try that.

9. We have St. Martin’s feast which is roasted goose, red cabbage and mlinci. Mlinci is boiled flat bread.

   Blood sausage, turnip and mashed potatoes could also work.

10. It’s impossible to have a national dish. In Spain each region has it’s own gastronomical traditions.

    Galicia is known for its octopus, in Asturias, cachopo, maybe if we continue to the east the find marmita de bonito/marmitako (bonito = longfin tuna), in Castilla y Leon, idk, suckling pig or botillo and so on even within the same region you can find different traditional cuisine, so is really hard to choose one dish

11. Sweden being Sweden, there would probably be pickled herring in som capacity.

12. Every region or city would have its own traditional sweets. Some kind of sweet “bread” probably.

    The main course would probably involve mushrooms (porcini), pumpkin, easily in some kind of dumpling