When Thanksgiving food is good, it’s great. Unfortunately, there are some foods that can cast a dark shadow on an otherwise perfect Thanksgiving Dinner.

10. Green Bean Casserole– This food was created by Campbell to market its cream of mushroom soup and canned green beans. It’s product placement and, on top of that, it tastes awful.

9. Instant Mashed Potatoes- These are powdered potato flakes that you add butter, milk, and water to. It’s easier and faster, but definitely not better than the real thing.

8. Jello with Vegetables- Yes, people actually put vegetables like carrots inside gelatin. And yes, they actually eat it. We still don’t know why.

7. Canned Ham- Apparently, people don’t know that ham is supposed to come from pigs, not cans.

6. Canned Cranberries- Because nothing says grateful like congealed cranberries.

5. Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows- The great thing about sweet potatoes is that they are already sweet, so there’s really no reason to add sugary, gelatin-y, artificial anything!

4. Creamed Corn- What do you call that liquid the corn floats in, anyway?

3. Stovetop Stuffing- If it’s never really been inside the bird, then it’s not really stuffing; it’s just toasty bread crumbs and celery.

2. Minced Meat Pie- A popular dish with origins in the fifteenth century. We’ve come so far since the middle ages, yet we still eat pies with meat and fruit in them (whatscookingamerica.net). Why?

1. Turducken- The biggest question surrounding the turducken is how it first came to be cooked. What crazy person thinks to put a duck inside a chicken inside a turkey? That’s just wrong.