Canned jellied all the way! We go to a family friend's for Thanksgiving, and one guest (elderly man, our friends' kids' surrogate grandpa) always makes his special homemade cranberry sauce. Not sure what's in it besides whole cranberries, but I find it incredibly bitter; my family doesn't like it at all, so I always bring a can of the jellied sauce. I like the canned with whole berries, too, but DH and DD don't, so jellied it is!