yes to canberries with guidelines for slicing

BrickLayer: Slicing? it is not really a thing down here, but I assumed you just opened it, put it in a bowl and mashed the hell out of it. Is that not how it is served?

I think that's the idea, but in reality, my mother would just slice it (I personally never ate it)

That is so me. I love homemade cranberry sauce and subject my entire family to it for the holidays.

Hot cranberry sauce (before it's chilled and jelled), served over a biscuit is my absolute favorite.

Cranberry sauce is insanely easy to make and way better when not from a can...

My grandma's cranberry sauce recipe WAS opening a can, because she (both grandmas, actually) really valued the convenience of canned foods.

They also both COULD make biscuits from scratch, but they loved having biscuits-in-a-can because it saved time.

Mind you, there were some recipes that always had to be made from scratch. Like divinity.

Cranberry from the can is our family recipe

I like the canned.

It was never an essential part of my Thanksgiving growing up, but I prefer fresh over canned.