What are the traditional dishes in your family's Thanksgiving celebrations?

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I’ve been introducing homemade baked yellow-eye beans (a particular specialty of mine) and succotash (made with corn and cranberry beans / Roman beans / speckled beans, whatever you want to call them – no lima beans, though I like those, too). This year I might also make a batch of sautéed Brussels sprouts, which are pretty darn good. That, or Crash Hot Potatoes which have been well received on Fluther, anyway.

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