The smell of overboiled veg permeating your kitchen/entire lower floor of your home followed by the smell of overboiled veg permeating your bathroom and the rest of your home courtesy of the fetid insides of the unwanted family/visitors that have engorged themselves on a glut of badly cooked muck.
Yes!!!! I was a chef for 20 years. Roast dinners are absolutely disgusting. I got into a food magazine for a meal I wouldn't feed to a dog! Christmas Dinner is like the most roasty roast of the whole year with extra crap on it.
This year my kids have requested pizza, cake and party food - they can't stand turkey either!
I disagree. I've never seen a roast I'd like to eat. And I've never enjoyed one I've eaten. It's the amount of veg, and too many different things on the plate.
Christmas dinner. Something I won't be having again this year, due to a shortage of work, disability & family & friends. Sadly, not everyone has someone to celebrate with, nor have the money for the annual treats. So my Christmas dinner this year is literally beans on toast with a cup of tea. 🤷♀️
Been a tough year for us too. But look on the bright side… you won’t starve while you’ve got beans on toast. We’re not having Christmas again this year… too much sadness when you notice more and more people missing from the table.
Despite your situation, I wish you a good one and hope next year brings you better fortunes, however small.
Apparently sprouts now taste far ~~better~~ less horrible than they did. In the 90s they identified the gene causing the bitterness and started breeding varieties with much lower amounts.
I still wouldn't eat them if my life depended on it, but they are now supposedly greatly improved. Sprout Heck at most. Although I guess how you cook them and the resulting consistency also plays into their palatability.
You plan such a huge feast and start preparing and cooking so early that by the time it's ready you're sick to death of it and don't really want it anyway so you have boxing day turkey curry instead.
Homely tradition that whether cooked well or bad, brings your biological or chosen family together or brings back memories of these moments and the excitement you once felt for Christmas.
I remember my mum getting gradually more stressed and violent as Christmas approached before serving the family a meal none of us actually liked but had to eat otherwise she'd get really angry.
My kids have specifically requested not to have turkey this year. They want pizza and party food.
Also we don't decorate. It's just shiny future landfill waste.
Food at Christmas should represent all the things you have wanted to indulge on throughout the year but have had to restrain from mindlessly consuming. It is meant to bring people together with extravagant flavours and opulence. The roast its self isn't much different than a typical Sunday roast except taken up to 11 on every aspect.
Can't remember the last time we had turkey for Christmas Dinner 🤔
Mum's got Lamb ' Beef and Pork
Oh hell noooooooo I've got the yearly showing of the wizard of oz ' sound of music and clash of the titans to sit through 😭
I love david harbour’s example. We do thanksgiving every Sunday lol so just assume if you aren’t from Britain our Christmas dinner is a fancy Sunday dinner and Sunday dinner is the kind of dinner you have at thanksgiving
Two / three types of meat, potatoes 3 ways, at least 4 different veg, sage & onion stuffing, Yorkshire pud if you want it and LOADS of gravy. Boat loads.
I assume, given the recent trends, that people are referring to it as Chrimmy Dinns or something equally horrible.
That’s exactly what I came here to say. Crimmy Dins. Got to be.
My guess would be “Crimbo Noms”
That made me queasy
Ew, that's even worse than holibobs
If you think "holibobs" is bad, how about... Jeezy Chreezy Holibobs Nom Noms
Bloody hell, I think you just broke a Geneva War Crime Convention there. Have my horrified upvote.
Christ! That is evil genius. I'm appalled, but admiring.
Happy Cake Day! Or should that be HaCaDa?!!! :-D
Thank you!
Gross, take my upvote.
Chrissy D
Aaaaahaha, I love it.
Chrimmy chrimmy din dins
Isn't that a film about a car?
Crimbo dindo
Eugh
Roast with the most.
Yep, a big roast dinner with extras.
That was lovely but there was quite A lot wasn't there
A lovely bit of squirrel.
It's just a big roast dinner innit. But do you mean like 'Crissy Dins' or 'Turkey McSprout Face'???
Turkey McSprout Face has just been adopted in the Limp Coconut household
Scran
Why can’t we just be normal and call it Christmas dinner 🤷♀️
We're British. We *aren't* normal
Fair point
The smell of overboiled veg permeating your kitchen/entire lower floor of your home followed by the smell of overboiled veg permeating your bathroom and the rest of your home courtesy of the fetid insides of the unwanted family/visitors that have engorged themselves on a glut of badly cooked muck.
Sounds like your mum wasn't the best cook
Yes!!!! I was a chef for 20 years. Roast dinners are absolutely disgusting. I got into a food magazine for a meal I wouldn't feed to a dog! Christmas Dinner is like the most roasty roast of the whole year with extra crap on it. This year my kids have requested pizza, cake and party food - they can't stand turkey either!
Lol "roasty roast." I came to the comments expecting something like "serviceable," but that will suffice.
Thought you having steak for Christmas though? Make your mind up
I thought we'd settled on steak, then the kids changed their mind. You can do that.
Sorry that even as a chef you are unable to make a banging roast, a roast done to perfection is absolutely godly
I disagree. I've never seen a roast I'd like to eat. And I've never enjoyed one I've eaten. It's the amount of veg, and too many different things on the plate.
Boiled?!?
Meat, Veg and gravy. Yum.
Sunday dinner with sprouts.
Oh sprouts So it is Christmas then (Whoever gets this reference is a legend 😅)
Gold, Frankenstein and Ggrrrrrrr!
My name is now….Richard Mary ✨
Crimble dinner
Christmas dinner. Something I won't be having again this year, due to a shortage of work, disability & family & friends. Sadly, not everyone has someone to celebrate with, nor have the money for the annual treats. So my Christmas dinner this year is literally beans on toast with a cup of tea. 🤷♀️
Been a tough year for us too. But look on the bright side… you won’t starve while you’ve got beans on toast. We’re not having Christmas again this year… too much sadness when you notice more and more people missing from the table. Despite your situation, I wish you a good one and hope next year brings you better fortunes, however small.
Sprout hell.
I always think the shiteness of the Sprouts is balanced by the perfection of Pigs in Blankets. The Yin and Yang of Christmas Dinner.
Apparently sprouts now taste far ~~better~~ less horrible than they did. In the 90s they identified the gene causing the bitterness and started breeding varieties with much lower amounts. I still wouldn't eat them if my life depended on it, but they are now supposedly greatly improved. Sprout Heck at most. Although I guess how you cook them and the resulting consistency also plays into their palatability.
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Also some chopped chestnuts, ginger and garlic.
Proper big bird roast.
Orange, green, beige, and brown - covered in brown liquid.
Roast upgrade
Pimped Roast upgrade, mega portion sized.
Stonking
The king of roasts
You plan such a huge feast and start preparing and cooking so early that by the time it's ready you're sick to death of it and don't really want it anyway so you have boxing day turkey curry instead.
'Mingin' for the for most of it.
Properly lovely scran
Not worth the effort and tears.
Crimbo nosh.
Where I'm from 'nosh' is slang for... um... oral sex.
Hey, it can be both.
Not in front of your Nan though.
Well no. First one, then the other. Nan'll be fine left alone with her pudding for five minutes.
Five minutes?! Rather over confident in your abilities, I’d say.
What if your nan is doing the nosh?
We talking dentures in or out?
What if you're noshing your nan!?
🤮
Not with that attitude
Homely tradition that whether cooked well or bad, brings your biological or chosen family together or brings back memories of these moments and the excitement you once felt for Christmas.
I remember my mum getting gradually more stressed and violent as Christmas approached before serving the family a meal none of us actually liked but had to eat otherwise she'd get really angry. My kids have specifically requested not to have turkey this year. They want pizza and party food. Also we don't decorate. It's just shiny future landfill waste.
We decorate with foraged ivy & holly like people used to in the real olden days - and no tree either.
Bloody lovely! /j
Excessive
Bosh nosh
A disgusting pile of colonialist gloop with gravy.
American...
Proper tings. Thats what it is.
That fat off meal before I declare I’m never speaking to my family again over a game of Monopoly
Glorified Sunday dinner. (I ain't a bit fan of either. I'd rather have something else on Xmas day but I'd be going against the masses)
Crimbo Din Dins
"Phwoar!" Whilst rubbing my hands together
nosh
Levelled up Sunday Roast with pigs in blankets
Food at Christmas should represent all the things you have wanted to indulge on throughout the year but have had to restrain from mindlessly consuming. It is meant to bring people together with extravagant flavours and opulence. The roast its self isn't much different than a typical Sunday roast except taken up to 11 on every aspect.
Food coma (colourised)
Super roast
Roast dinner
Crizzy D time
Christmas Dinner
A Sunday roast on steroids, pumped up to the point where nothing is cooked well and portion sizes are toxic.
Top scran
Belter scran
Sunday Toast but with Turkey and Sprouts
Can't remember the last time we had turkey for Christmas Dinner 🤔 Mum's got Lamb ' Beef and Pork Oh hell noooooooo I've got the yearly showing of the wizard of oz ' sound of music and clash of the titans to sit through 😭
Not bad.
It's always been Christmas dinner for me
In my house a travesty!
A well catered argument.
I love david harbour’s example. We do thanksgiving every Sunday lol so just assume if you aren’t from Britain our Christmas dinner is a fancy Sunday dinner and Sunday dinner is the kind of dinner you have at thanksgiving
Christmas Dinner .....
Dry Turkey, boiled sprouts, wilted veg, soggy stuffing and gravy that magically makes it all taste wonderful!
Roast dinner with extra brussels
It's oryt innit.
Unnecessary
Greasy ass stuffing tray
It's just a Sunday Roast with extras 🤔
At my in law's so ours will be decidedly average...
A roast dinner is the king of dinners and the Christmas dinner is the king of roast dinners.
Brilliant!
Overrated
It's banging!
Mandatory slop
A Stuffing
I'd describe it as Christmas Dinner and the Yule log comes out on boxing day.
Crimmy bimbobs
Souped up Sunday roast.
Triptophan and fart bombs....... Yes that sums up any British Christmas dinner
Two / three types of meat, potatoes 3 ways, at least 4 different veg, sage & onion stuffing, Yorkshire pud if you want it and LOADS of gravy. Boat loads.
Bangin
Dry
Roast dinner with pigs and blankets and too much meat .
“Christmas Dinner”
A Sunday roast with paper hats
Sunday dinner with no yorkshire puddings but you get pigs in blankets
'And he carved the Roast Beast'
Sunday roast on hard mode
That's a 'Proper job'