# Unconventional Thanksgiving side dishes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unconventional-thanksgiving-side-dishes/602264
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 8, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unconventional-thanksgiving-side-dishes/602264 "2011-11-08T12:04:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unconventional-thanksgiving-side-dishes/602264/41 "2011-11-13T05:13:56Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#):
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> We have garlic cheese grits fairly often
We always have it also and now I have moved it along to a few others, but I had never heard of anyone else having this for Thanksgiving and had no idea they might be common.
Of course I am a native Texan now living in the Northwest where no one has ever had grits to start with. 😉
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unconventional-thanksgiving-side-dishes/602264/42 "2011-11-22T14:20:01Z")
Pepin’s [Pumpkin Gratin](http://www.kqed.org/w/morefastfoodmyway/episode206.html) is also very good. It is a really surprising dish as most people have never eaten pumpkin as a savory food, and it tastes nothing like the pie.
oyster stuffing/dressing is awesome if you use fresh, not canned, oysters.
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