traditional holiday foods have to be good, but not too good.

if they were terrible, no one would look forward to having them over the holiday. if they were too good, we’d slip and start to eat them all the time. they’d lose that magical holiday association.

— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) December 16, 2020

I don’t know, sweet potato casserole (without the marshmallows) is pretty spectacular and I still usually only eat that around the holidays.