I think it's a thing specifically among southern boomers and older, but it feels like midwesterners should have loved it too. I have a relative that makes it for every holiday season. It's so fucking disgusting. No one wants it, but she will force some of it onto your plate so that the serving platter doesn't sit there completely full at the end of the night. She doesn't even eat it herself! I have no idea why we all have to suffer for her bizarre idea of tradition.