What's The Deal With Jellied Cranberry Sauce?
Cranberry sauce Gene Ham via Flickr That wriggly jellied can-shape cranberry sauce is common on holiday tables in the United States. It's probably hanging out on its own, shoved to a corner, on a tiny plate. But it's usually there. So, I've got two questions: Where did this idea come from? And what makes it so... jelly? Where did cranberry sauce come from? So, where did the whole can thing come from? The answer is in the way the cranberries are harvested. Americans consume very little of the total cranberry crop as fresh fruit. In 2013, only 5 percent of the cranberries produced were sold as fruit. That means 95 percent of it was consumed as a processed product, like juice, jams, and of course, sauce. And the berries used for sauce and juice...