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

229 replies

MaidenMotherCrone · 01/12/2018 09:44

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?

OP posts:
Bittermints · 02/12/2018 14:31

I love potatoes in all forms but roast potatoes are enough for me. I did hear on Gardeners' Question Time years ago one of the gardeners said he always kept back some new potatoes for Christmas dinner. I can't remember how he did it but that did sound nice, as an addition to roast potatoes. Baby new potatoes boiled in their skins with a sprig of mint, then tossed in butter, would be lovely with anything Christmas dinner.

BakedBeans47 · 02/12/2018 14:35

Bread sauce. 🤮 wtf is that disgustingness all about?

Also, trifle. Soggy sponge, cold thick custard and jelly. Grim.

FourFuxxakes · 02/12/2018 14:40

New potatoes roasted with red onions and crushed garlic is v nice. We have it with tomato and rosemary fish but not Xmas dinner for some reason.

SpaceCadet4000 · 02/12/2018 14:44

Mashed potatoes. It's overkill, and I'd much prefer to put the energies into making another tasty vegetable side.

I'm also a gravy snob- no granuals or cubes.

RestingBitchFaced · 02/12/2018 14:51

Well I'm a vegetarian so obviously don't have lamb or beef but I love Yorkshire pudding and mint sauce with my roast. We also always have mushy peas, as me and my sister love them

Margelovesjim · 02/12/2018 15:46

Can't believe people have corn. Shock

Bittermints · 02/12/2018 16:30

Trifle! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Will definitely be making a trifle for visiting relatives just after Christmas! Gorgeous.

ScribblyGum · 02/12/2018 17:07

Bread sauce (made from scratch obviously, none of your packet nonsense) is absolutely divine. My father used to say that the turkey was just a vehicle for the bread sauce. It’s so easy to make and oh has such a lovely mouth feel.

ScribblyGum · 02/12/2018 17:09

Buttermints, this month's Sainsbury’s magazine has a recipe for mince pie trifle. Dd1 has already put in a request for it on Boxing Day.

HerLadySheep · 02/12/2018 17:16

I knew a couple who had pickled walnuts with their roast dinners!! 😱

cantfindname · 02/12/2018 17:52

You haven't lived until you have endured the disgusting sight of a bag of Wotsits with Christmas dinner instead of roast potatoes.

Vile doesn't come anywhere close to describing it.

BeanBagLady · 02/12/2018 18:19

Someone actually chooses to put Wotsits in their Christmas dinner plate?

It sounds more like desperate food shortage following a Zombie Apocalypse than a celebration meal. Please don’t tell me next year’s post Brexit dinner will comprise Wotsits and mushy peas, ShockSad

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 02/12/2018 19:31

We never have cauliflower cheese with Christmas dinner, but I don't see what's wrong with it. Dh loves it and the only reason I don't do it Chr. day is the extra last minute faff. IMO cauli cheese should be freshly made, cauliflower cooked just al dente and very well drained, lots of very cheesy sauce.

All too much with everything else to see to - especially after my usual half a dozen glasses of Buck's Fizz.. (we don't have Chr. Dinner till at least 5 pm.)

LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett · 02/12/2018 19:40

Funnily enough SpaceCadet Christmas is the only time I use bought gravy. There's just too much going on and I'm too pissed to stand and do gravy on the day.

Fevertree · 02/12/2018 22:45

My FIL once served up an oriental mini snack selection with my Xmas Dinner. You know, spring rolls, onion bhaji, samosa. On my plate, with all the usual (I'm veggie so no meat but id brought a quorn roast.) love him but that was all kinds of wrong.

safariboot · 03/12/2018 01:45

People saying no to carrots and peas: if I didn't do steamed carrots and birdseye petis pois then I wouldn't have any veg in my Christmas dinner! (I dislike parsnips and all brassicas. I like sweetcorn spinach and mushrooms but they don't belong with a roast.)

beardeddragon174 · 03/12/2018 08:08

My mum serves garlic bread with Christmas dinner. I know it doesn't belong, but I love it.

Hofuckingho · 03/12/2018 08:11

My friend always cooks turkey and lamb. The lamb is so wrong!

BeanBagLady · 03/12/2018 08:24

I see Claridges are serving carrots with turkey as part of their Christmas Day lunch.

MamaDane · 03/12/2018 08:38

Turkey, Yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes, bread sauce, stuffing. Etc.

(it's all delicious Wink) Only because I'm Danish and our Christmas dinner is pork roast and crackling

imonlyherefortheAIBU · 03/12/2018 08:40

Sweet corn! Always confuses me! Vinegar and broccoli/cabbage is so good!

imonlyherefortheAIBU · 03/12/2018 08:40

The garlic bread is genius- so random but so good

woollyheart · 03/12/2018 09:15

I've just remembered - it used to be common to have both turkey and boiled ham.

OutPinked · 03/12/2018 10:29

Tinned veg. Peas of any kind do not belong on a Christmas dinner plate!

I’m also from Yorkshire and Yorkshire puddings don’t belong. They’re great with a sunday dinner but not the Christmas dinner.

BadlyAgedMemes · 03/12/2018 10:39

It can be fun to change up your traditions from time to time, though. I'm not British, so the roast dinner is not my traditional Christmas meal, but it's nice, so why not?

My childhood Christmases were full of pork, various casseroles/bakes (no one here believes me that a carrot and rice bake and a liver, rice and raisin bakes are nice...) and other things, that I miss vaguely, but really can't be arsed to make. The only thing I won't give up is gravlax.

Having said that, we're having a pork roast this year instead of turkey, at my British DH's request. :)