The holiday season can spark many emotions, such as happiness, thankfulness, hunger, excitement, and even rage, especially when arguing over the best food to have on Thanksgiving, or when your Aunt Linda asks who everyone voted for. 

Leave all arguments at the door, ye who read any further, for this is Emma Holmes’ List of the Top Ten Thanksgiving Foods, and they are set in stone. 

10. Deviled Eggs

If you’re one of the five people on the planet who actually enjoy deviled eggs, you may be wondering, “Why are they dead last?!” Well, that I can answer for you: they are simply disgusting. 

Sure, if you like mushy, cold, foul-smelling foods, they may be for you. However, in my book, they lay in last place. 

9. Cranberry Sauce

If I could tie this one for last place I would, but I am trying to be fair. Cranberry sauce is bad but not as bad as deviled eggs. 

Again, mushy and cold. I don’t know what more to say. It feels like a less yummy version of Jello.

8. Casseroles 

Okay, this one I may have to clarify. Do not get me wrong, I love some good ole corn casserole or even sweet potato casserole. 

However, other casseroles like asparagus or green bean casserole just drag this category down. 

7. Potatoes 

Considering the different variations on potato preparation, I just lumped them into one category and decided placement based on individual scores. 

Mashed potatoes are the peak Thanksgiving food, but they can be the downfall of the day if the recipe fails or is made with an instant mix.

While potatoes can be absolutely fantastic, but almost feel a little awkward to eat on Thanksgiving. Maybe that’s just me though. 

6. Bread

The only acceptable rolls are Sister Schubert’s®. That is all. Cornbread is acceptable as well.

5. Ham

There are people that prefer ham far more than they do turkey, but I am not one of those people.

Ham is great. It’s sometimes sweet, and it’s all right to eat cold; I love it a lot. The thing is though, is that it just isn’t turkey, ya know?

4. Pies

This one is harder to do as a category rather than individual pie rankings, but I’ll try to make it work. Just like my ranking for casseroles, this one is slightly lower due to less tasty pies.

Well, let me reword that, it is slightly lower due to people ruining the pie recipe more often than not.

Pumpkin, pecan, apple, and fudge pie all have my heart, but if I hear one more person pronounce ‘pecan’ as ‘pee-can,’ pies will be dead last. 

3. Corn

Hear me out. I love corn way too much. It’s probably a problem at this point, but I seriously could eat an entire bowl of cream corn in one sitting.

Not just cream corn either. I absolutely love corn on the cob and corn casserole too! Corn is just the best! I have tried avoiding bias in this piece, but this is way too important to try and be nonchalant about corn.

2. Turkey

Ah, the classic Thanksgiving food staple. Many have an unknown disdain for turkey. They sit there and say it’s too dry or too plain. Well, my turkey hating friends, you’re eating the wrong cooking. 

Turkey is an absolute Thanksgiving masterpiece. It goes well with, and improves, almost every item on the list, and even foods not mentioned! 

Say what you want about turkey, but it is the superior main course of Thanksgiving dishes, not to mention you can make it into a sandwich the next day. 

1. Dressing

I know my opinion may anger or upset some of you, but it is the cold hard truth. 

I had not only one, or two, but three different types of dressing this year, and let me just say, they were all delectable. I even brought a to-go container of dressing home and ate all of it at 1 AM.

Dressing deserves the top spot for many reasons, the first being that it is simply marvelous. 

The second being that it has variety. The dressing can be made in many different forms with different types of breading, meats, veggies, and seasoning.

Despite all of that, it still manages to taste amazing. Along with corn, I could eat it year-round. 

That’s my list and I’m most definitely sticking to it. I would say to email me if you have any questions as to why on earth I ranked corn above nearly everything else, but your opinion probably won’t change mine. 

Regardless, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving filled with many foods, now have a great Christmas!