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Florida’s Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dishes
With Thanksgiving approaching at the end of the month and countless Florida residents either hitting the road (or airport) or staying close to home to enjoy the food-centric holiday with friends and family, it’s natural to wonder what dishes Sunshine State residents prefer the most come turkey time.
In Florida, it appears that the Thanksgiving classics such as stuffing, macaroni & cheese and green bean casserole are the favorite side dishes among locals, with those three sides scoring the highest totals when it came to search interest scores statewide.
Utilizing Google Trends, FloridaBet.com analyzed the most popular Thanksgiving side dishes of state residents by looking at the search results of each side dish from 11/01/2023 to 11/30/2023. The dishes analyzed were the most in total searches in the United States, including Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, Mac & Cheese, Green Bean Casserole, Sweet Potato Casserole, Candied Yams, Brussel Sprouts and Cranberry Sauce.
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Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dishes of Florida Residents
Rank | Side Dishes | Interest Over Time Period |
1 | Stuffing | 18 |
2 | Macaroni & Cheese | 10 |
3 | Green Bean Casserole | 8 |
T-4 | Sweet Potato Casserole | 6 |
T-4 | Mashed Potatoes | 6 |
Most Popular of Each Major City Area
Tampa-St.Petersburg
- Stuffing – 42%
- Mac & Cheese – 18%
- Green Bean Casserole – 16%
Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne
- Stuffing – 40%
- Mac & Cheese – 21%
- Green Bean Casserole – 16%
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale
- Stuffing – 37%
- Mac & Cheese – 24%
- Sweet Potato Casserole – 14%
Jacksonville
- Stuffing – 36%
- Mac & Cheese – 24%
- Green Bean Casserole – 17%
Pensacola-Panama City
- Stuffing – 39%
- Mac & Cheese – 21%
- Green Bean Casserole – 18%
Which Thanksgiving Side Do FL Residents Prefer?
This Thanksgiving, there’s a pretty good chance that Floridians will be serving up fixtures such as stuffing, mac & cheese and green bean casserole, as those three scored the highest search interest totals statewide during the period in question.
Overall, Florida’s Thanksgiving side dish de jour was stuffing, with a search interest score of 18, beating out mac & cheese (10 search interest score), green bean casserole (eight search interest score), sweet potato casserole and mashed potatoes (six search interest score each).
When broken down by the state’s largest metropolitan areas, stuffing scored the highest percentage of top picks in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, at 42%, while the Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne area was the next closest, at 40%.
All five of Florida’s largest MSAs had mac & cheese as their No. 2 Thanksgiving side with percentages ranging from 18% (Tampa-St. Petersburg) to 24% (Miami-Ft. Lauderdale), while the state’s third choice was green bean casserole, with percentages that ranged from 14% (Miami-Ft. Lauderdale) to 18% (Pensacola-Panama City).
Still, when it comes to Thanksgiving side dishes, Florida residents seem loud and clear about their pecking order of choice, with stuffing being the No. 1 pick of Sunshine State locals from the Alabama border and Tampa Bay region east towards the shores of the Atlantic.
USA Today photo by Michael Holahan.
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