Foods that DO NOT belong on a Christmas Dinner...

[MaidenMotherCrone]

Obviously it’s all down to personal taste but some things are just wrong...

Mushy peas fgs, noooooooo

What foods would never have a place on your plate?

Yorkshire puddings

Pilchards

Meat of any sort. In our house anyway

Boiled carrots...absolutely disgusting.

Beetroot. Yuck.

I love cauliflower cheese though. Or cheesy leeks. I just keep gravy on the other side of the plate, contained within a Yorkshire pudding.

We are vegetarian though, so there are fewer "rules".

I don't see the point in having a meal you don't love just because that's the tradition.

Dp's parents include a side of fried sliced onions and mushrooms on the Christmas table

They honestly could not understand my incredulity as to them it's normal, passed down from their own parents.

Fucking weirdos

Mashed potato adds happiness to a roast dinner. I’d eat it with any meal!

There would be a riot in my house if I didn't serve Yorkshires with Christmas dinner.

Cauliflower cheese or anything else with cheese or cream, they are nice in their own right but mixed with gravy is utterly grim.

Honey glaze on anything, again just wrong with gravy, vegetables should be savoury not sweet.

Bread sauce. Wrong full stop.

I can’t get my head around cauliflower cheese with roast, but if others like it then great. Sounds like I’m committing some sins anyway... I’ll be having mashed sweet potato (in addition to another type of potato) and sweetcorn and peas will feature as my dd loves them.

Yorkshire puddings. Only with beef.

I much prefer boiled baby potatoes with garlic or herb butter or dauphinois to roast potatoes (unless they're roasted baby potatoes. I never really get the fuss over roast potatoes.

I always had pigs in blankets with my childhood roasts, usually cooked by my grandma. We didn’t call them pigs in blankets though, we called them (very literally) little sausages wrapped in bacon. For some reason my grandma used beef sausages to make them, and it was always streaky bacon. They had a very distinct flavour I’ve never managed to recreate and the butcher she used to go to has long closed down.

MIL would serve tinned marrowfat peas and sweet corn with xmas dinner. Grim.

Cranberry sauce.
Bread sauce.
Red cabbage.

“Also I'm not going to say they don't belong, but pigs in blankets are a recent innovation aren't they? I'm sure I never had them with Christmas dinner in my childhood.”

It was chipolatas and bacon rolls in my childhood, and that’s what we still have. I prefer it, the bacon doesn’t get over cooked while the sausage cooks through, the chipolatas brown all over.
The packs of ready made ‘pigs’ look as if they are made with low grade tasteless sausages.

I was once offered a pickled onion with mine. All kind of wrong

Cucumber and onion in vinegar

Having different sorts of potato means you can get massive amounts of potato on your plate but look less greedy than just loading up with the mashed potato equivalent of Mount Everest.

But you have to have two types of potato with your Christmas dinner! How can you offer just one kind of potato??

Roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, roast parsnips, sprouts, peas and carrots. Then Boxing Day we have all the left overs mashed together as a fry up. Yum

Carrots.
Peas.
Yorkshire puddings.

I see any of the above on a Christmas dinner, and I judge. Oh yes.

Bread sauce is the devil's substance.
Cauliflower cheese is only ok if you have a gammon joint. It doesn't go with any other meat in my opinion.

Fucking Smiley face potato thingys. My DM serves them every year cos my nephews want them. My nephews are 19 and 21!