Each year when November rolls around , tyro cooks come out madly searching for answer to all their turkey - related questions . When should it be thawed ? Is an oven or deep fryer better ? What ’s the best recipe ? Hotlines like Butterball’sTurkey Talk - Lineget flooded with hundreds of thousand of claim each holiday season .
So it ’s no surprisal that turkey was the most - google Thanksgiving beauty across America last November , according to Satelliteinternet.com ’s newanalysisof food - related Google searches . But not every cook was look for turkey advice last Thanksgiving . There was plenty of regional variation in the recipes people were searching for , as the map below show .
Green beanand corn casseroles were the next most - searched item after turkey last year , having amassed a particularly large rooter foundation in the Midwest . Other searches are more unique . Vermonters seem to loveambrosia salad , while Louisianans can be expected to serve up a lot of cornbread dressing . Meanwhile , residents of Maryland , Virginia , Mississippi , and Illinois wanted to know how to make a copycat translation ofPopeyesCajun turkey . ( If you happen to be one of them , you could watch a recipehere . )
Meanwhile , in Idaho and Utah , Jell - O is obviously a very popular sweetheart in the month of November . Perhaps hoi polloi were slash up something like Allrecipe.com ’s ThanksgivingJell - oxygen Salad , which is made from crushed pineapple plant , cottage tall mallow , lime Jell - O , and rack up topping .
Previous depth psychology have found even more variation in what Americans deplete on Thanksgiving . Back in 2014,The New York Timeslooked intothe most unambiguously pop Thanksgiving peach in each state , excluding common dish like Republic of Turkey . Deer jerky , mellisonant tater dumplings , asparagus casserole , turkey enchiladas , and something calledfrog optic saladwere a few of the top hunting effect .
Those dishes are n’t about as weird as some of the Thanksgiving cup of tea that were served up several decades ago , though . Creamed onions , cranberry salad with mayonnaise , and jellied turkey - vegetable salad are among some of the more off - puttingvintage recipeswe’ve dug up .
