It ' s not a typical Thanksgiving dish by any means , but I always make these giant popovers for any major facestuffing holiday . My sister got the recipe from a restaurant that specializes in them they ' re served with most dishes near where she went to college , and they ' ve been a staple of my Thanksgivings out here and our Christmases back home for the last ~ 15 years . They also work well as a main piece of my Thanksgivings because my girlfriend is a vegetarian and I ' m nonchalant about turkey so I don ' t have to go through that hassle . <| sep |> But American products use corn syrup in everything . Since Europe doesn ' t have the same weird corn subsidies in place , they don ' t need to get rid of all that syrup stuff .