You can eat cranberry sauce straight out of

A can by spooning slicing dipping its

Plush coolness with your hand licking

Sauce from fingertips though quarter slices look

Best designing plates like florets you share

When serving guests that's why before devouring

Sweet flavored red sauciness I like reminding it

Who is boss by stretching its length

Across my dish and slicing it however I

Wish

I notice just before sauce meets

Its upright mammal destined

Fate its berry tint shines moist and

Bright reflecting kitchen's overhead

Light and prior to knife's slithering through

The fruit my eyes decide it's more than

Cute the way cans secure their rings

Around cranberry's cylindrical shell and

It brings pleasing responses to my skin with

Happy goose bumps that often tend to make

Eating fun

In USA cranberry sauce is vital with our

Meals Thanksgiving dinner meals that is of course

Especially when it is chilled the sauce's

Burgundy color stands out on your plate in

Ways that steals attention from contrasting turkey and

Of course potatoes with stuffing and gravy while

Its tart flavor opposing peas and carrots and ham and

Corn but adding bite inside biscuits already smothered in

Golden butter

Yes cranberry sauce is often smooth but sometimes it is

Chunky like when it is made homemade without

Fancy equipment super smoothing over softening skin

Straining it out and since one more thing about cranberry is

Without effort it addicts its eaters causing difficulty for diners to

Eat cranberry sauce to belly thresholds no matter how much sauce

Cooks spread out on T-giving tables more is often needed twice even

Thrice before dinner meals end and when morning comes and turkey breasts

Sit on breakfast saucers with no sauce awaiting morning pallets because

The night prior crazed appetites digested its sweet sour flavor to a

Store is where you go because eating leftover turkey without cranberry

Simply won't do but when whole cranberries closed up in a bag are hiding in

The fridge you wash them boil them squish them in a pan adding

Sweet sugar to their tangy chewy skins that within the mere passing of

Ten or so minutes in a skillet you decide they are done and cast your

Eyes on how soft and delectable they look knowing cranberries taste as

Good hot as when chilled

How wonderful Native Americans taught English settlers all about

Preserving food with cranberries to help harvest their

Dwindling lot of food that is then Ulysses S. Grant

Popularized cranbie sauce ordering cooks feeding tons of

Military men to serve sauce to troops way back in 1864 and then

In 1912 that company called Cape Cod Cranberry

Canned cranberries to eat during household meals so

Now and hopefully forever we will enjoy

Thanksgiving cranberry sauce

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