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ESSENCE staffers debate which items belong at a black Thanksgiving. Do greens have their place on your table?
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00:00Greens are very important to me.
00:02I got it.
00:03And to our ancestors.
00:04I respect that.
00:09Something that should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever land on my Thanksgiving table would be cranberry sauce.
00:15Cranberry sauce is basically like the candy corn of Thanksgiving.
00:19Cranberry sauce is a dub. That's a complete and total no. Hard stop.
00:23Yeah, it's definitely not. What do you even use that for?
00:26I don't know. I don't know.
00:27I'm admitting I'm the only one in my family that likes cranberry sauce.
00:30Then there you go.
00:31But wait, it has to be the one from the can. I have to hear the sound and I have to see the ridges on it.
00:38No, that sounds like poverty.
00:41Raisins, bruh. Raisins.
00:44Nah, that's not a thing.
00:46Greens are important because, okay, when I think of greens, I think of waking up as a kid early on Thanksgiving Day.
00:53And that's usually one of the first things that my mom has on.
00:56And the house just smells like just cooked food and warmth.
01:01Greens aren't allowed at my table.
01:04What?
01:05I'm not a vegetarian, just so you know.
01:07This is a good look.
01:08I don't eat pork.
01:09This is a good...
01:10But I'll...
01:11For the purpose of this.
01:12I mean, pick up the pace.
01:15Mmm.
01:16That's pretty good.
01:17And look, you just open it up.
01:18You always got to do a little shake, you know, just to make sure it got that...
01:33I won't be eating the neck, but I will try it.
01:35No?
01:36That's fine.
01:37Go for it.
01:38Mmm.
01:39The whole neck.
01:40Let me...
01:41Let me tell y'all saying.
01:42Okay?
01:43This...
01:44This neck going here?
01:45Mm-mm.
01:46Now these are good.
01:47This is good.
01:48This is good.
01:49It's slimy.
01:50Slimy?
01:51It's not slimy.
01:52Okay, I guess the texture is a little different.
01:53It depends on how you cook them.
01:54I don't know.
01:55I don't know.
01:56I don't know.
01:57I don't know.
01:58I don't know.
01:59I don't know.
02:00I don't know.
02:01I don't know.
02:02I don't know.
02:03I don't know.
02:04I don't know.
02:05The texture is a little different.
02:06It depends on how you cook them.
02:07How long you cook them.
02:08What you season them with.
02:10Mmm.
02:11Just gonna put it...
02:12Just gonna suck on the neck.
02:15I am.
02:16You need a moment?
02:18I do.
02:19That's why it's so good.
02:21That's why they're so good.
02:23And they're good the next day.
02:26And that's like...
02:27That's one of the things that you look forward to the next day.
02:30They're like the most eco-friendly dish.
02:32The most sustainable dish.
02:34See?
02:35In the entire Thanksgiving lexicon.
02:37Somebody's wrist is swollen that made this.
02:40And ankles.
02:41That is good.
02:42I cannot deny that that is good.
02:44Ah!
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