In-laws staying for Christmas. Get along fine with them, but you know, there's always tension between different families all of whom have The Right And Only Way To Do Christmas.
Have gone to lots of effort & expense - turkey, ham, trimmed tree, beautifully wrapped presents, etc. Have dealt with their scoffing at the notion that Christmas afternoon will involve board games (my family's tradition). All fine, really, everyone's feeling the goodwill, the day will be alright.
But I do balk at being sent a sheet of recipes for their brandy cream, butter, stuffing, etc. And their stuffing involves three kinds of meat and a tin of foie gras, and I don't know, it just pushes me over the edge and into 'this is just obscene consumption'. I can afford it (in the sense that I won't be unable to meet bills, but I do feel like I'm haemorrhaging money this year) but, still, I know it's a feast and all but - foie gras? Really?
But it's just stuffing, and they'll probably be hurt if I don't make it.
So, I genuinely don't know, here: AIBU to make a more scaled-down stuffing?
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not to make the Christmas stuffing? Completely petty problem
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Tortoiseonthehalfshell · 23/12/2010 23:42
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