The convenience factor fucked up a lot of it too. Homemade béchamel sauces got replaced with chunking a can of condensed cream soup and some milk in the pot.
TBF cream soup casseroles can work for some stuff but it's firmly in the realm of "weeknight, want to make something easy to put on rice/egg noodles". That shit should be well away from a Thanksgiving meal though.
The convenience factor fucked up a lot of it too. Homemade béchamel sauces got replaced with chunking a can of condensed cream soup and some milk in the pot.
TBF cream soup casseroles can work for some stuff but it's firmly in the realm of "weeknight, want to make something easy to put on rice/egg noodles". That shit should be well away from a Thanksgiving meal though.