Washington's favorite Thanksgiving sides
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Thanks to thousands of responses from Axios readers, the winners of our favorite Thanksgiving sides poll have been selected.
- If you were to have Thanksgiving dinner with other Axios readers, you'd be having mashed potatoes, dressing, green bean casserole, dinner rolls, cranberry relish and pumpkin pie.
By the numbers: While some of the matchups had runaway winners, others were much more hotly contested.
- Stuffing vs. dressing was the tightest race, with dressing edging out stuffing overall 51% to 49% thanks to its popularity in the Midwest and South.
- Mashed potatoes reign supreme except in Louisiana, where sweet potatoes were more popular.
- Cranberry sauce in relish form trounced the jiggly canned variety, except in Mississippi.
Zoom in: Axios readers in Washington overwhelmingly chose mashed potatoes over sweet — 78% to 22% — and mac & cheese over green bean casserole, 60% to 40%.
- Dinner rolls beat cornbread among local readers 76% to 24%, and cranberry relish beat canned 71% to 29%.
- Stuffing edged out dressing here 54% to 46%, but this may simply be a question of the word preferred rather than a difference of taste.
- Pumpkin is easily the favorite among pies, with 58% of Washington respondents preferring it to pecan (38%) or sweet potato (4%).
Zoom out: While the majority of respondents said they don't include the following regional dishes as a part of their Thanksgiving spread, several readers expressed interest in adding them to future holiday meals. Among those readers who already include at least one of these dishes, they preferred:
- Fruit over Jell-O salad.
- Stone crab over deviled crab.
- Collard greens over carrot soufflé.
- Creamed corn over tamales.