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We'd ask you the same thing about Kawfee Krisps.

The green bean casserole is so overwhelmingly easy to make, but still has the pretense of being a substantial sidedish, that it's become an US icon.

Eh?

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Oh, and I think you meant "Why does it enthrall

allanh so much?" I just giggle when I see it at a potluck, sort of like the tortilla cream cheese green chile rollups that are so prevalent here.

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You'll have to try Paula Deen's version.

I've always made fun of green bean casseroles, but this particular recipe ...

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I'll see your observation and raise you one:

What is it about Kraft Macaroni & Cheese that enthralls Canadians to the point of becoming an integral part of the Canadian lexicon? ("KD")

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brunorepublic.livejournal.com

It's cheap and filling. :)

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qnetter

We just added four kinds of fresh mushrooms, sauteed in garlic, to the plain-vanilla version this year, and put the cheesy variety of the French's onions on top... Yum. (LOMLFOML got compliments for the beans themselves, by one of the guys who made his version from scratch to somewhat less satisfying results. "Straight from the can," he replied...)

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qnetter

So are styrofoam peanuts, but...

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low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com

He didn't just "dis" the coffee Crisp did he? oh no - OH NO HE DI'NT!

i actually found a store that carries them here in SF. (i have one freezing into a log of FLAVORGASIC joy - to have crumbled over vanilla ice cream soon)

soon my pretty - very soon!

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Up until the currency exchange rate reversal ... so were a number of Canadians I know. :)

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dakoopst.livejournal.com

I LOVE it!

Love it, love it, love it!

Love. It!

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trawnapanda.livejournal.com

you put vanilla into green bean casserole?

how very peculiar.

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To me, KD is student food: when you have $5 to feed your self with for a semester, it's the Canuck equivalent of Ramen noodles.

By the same token, Ikea is now just studentware in my mind... I'd never have the stuff in my house now that I have a real income.

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westwind-mv.livejournal.com

Part of the mystique is that it's a food we usually only get once a year. For good or ill, it is linked with family get-togethers and the whole holiday mishegas.

For me personally, I love the combination of the creamy mushroom soup base and the starchy fullness of the beans, with a hint of crunchiness from the onions. I didn't have any this year (we had dim sum for Thanksgiving), and I definitely missed it.

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My arteries don't like Paula Deen. My taste buds aren't too thrilled with her either but are more forgiving.

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So when one goes hunting for

dakoopstes --in the appropriate season when they're at their peak, of course-- it would be most advantageous to bait the snare traps with green bean casserole? So noted! :-)

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We'd ask you the same thing about Kawfee Krisps.

Coffee Crisp is a reminder sent to earth by God that He forgives our sins and there is indeed a Heaven. If I were a priest, I'd mass would be served with Coffee Crisp and Coke Classic. Our parishioners could heave each service simultaneously cleansed of their sins and with a light sugar buzz.

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To their credit, I had sweet potato french fries with lunch yesterday... delicious!

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Now you're scaring me! Danny's all hot to go to an Ikea if one ever opens here...I've never been to one. I thought I was old enough and had enough wherewithall now that we'd buy pre-assembled, but I understand you have to put all their stuff together!

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I haven't sampled them. Yet. And if they have chocolate in them, I'm sure I'd love em!

But then again, I was the naive one during a 1994 trip to England that bought a bunch of Toblerone (sp?) candy back, thinking it was exotic, only to find that it was a staple in the U.S.

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Ikea is swedish for "some assembly required." There were five in the greater Toronto area. The Ivar shelving is great for workshops and toolrooms but I'm not fond of much else.

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jss

Have you tried her Krispy Kreme bread pudding?

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musicbearmn.livejournal.com

Keith has banned it from our Thanskgiving, so, in at least one Yankee household, it's non existent...

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With careful shopping, IKEA yields some good buys on basic furniture. I think it takes at least one or two trips through the store to figure out exactly where their limitations become apparent, but what they do well, they do very well and very inexpensively.

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