Dylan Dreyer Throws Fans Into a Tizzy With Divisive Grocery Question
Dylan Dreyer sparked a divisive conversation among fans after posing a food-related question while grocery shopping.
As the Today show co-host revealed in a post on Instagram on Tuesday, Sept. 3, she was searching for some jellied cranberry sauce and having trouble finding the canned version she wanted.
“Is there a reason I can’t find any good old fashioned jellied canned cranberry sauce in NYC???” she wrote to caption her post, which began with a photo of several stacked cans of Ocean Spray’s Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce. A photo of the same can available for purchase online followed, after which she shared a screenshot of her unsuccessful online search for “Cranberry Sauce Jellied.”
The Tuesday post sparked a debate online about whether store-bought or homemade cranberry sauce is better. While many sided with Dreyer, 43, on preferring canned jellied cranberry sauce, others chided the mother of three for not making her own.
“Has to have the lines from the can or it's not ‘real’ cranberry sauce,” one fan declared as another agreed with Dreyer, writing, “I hear you Dylan! As someone who only had the jellied kind growing up, not the holidays without it.”
“Canned and jellied is the ONLY way to go!!!!” another fan echoed while one person joked that Dreyer might become “responsible for a cranberry sauce shortage in NYC” due to her post.
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Several Instagram users shared recipes in the post’s comment section while urging the NBC meteorologist to take on the “easy peasy” task.
“Make it yourself,” one fan recommended, adding, “Once you do you will never go back.”
“Canned cranberry sauce?? Nooo! Homemade takes 1-15 minutes and tastes fantastic????,” another person wrote.
“Time for cooking with Cal Cranberry edition,” one Instagram user commented in reference to the cooking videos Dreyer sometimes creates with her oldest son.
Dreyer’s husband, Brian Fichera, chimed in after awhile to share his opinion on the subject.
“I’m here in solidarity with my wife,” Fichera wrote in a top-liked comment. "I will defend her from all of the extreme ‘cranberry sauce purists’ out there who think they are above canned jellied cranberry sauce. I stand with Dylan.”
OceanSpray even weighed in, stating, "While we’re checking the bog, check your dm’s so we can set you up with your “old-fashioned jellied canned cranberry sauce” ??."
Meanwhile, someone posed the question: "Curious minds want to know: why are you looking for cranberry sauce in September?!"
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