Ok light hearted thread, post your first world Christmas problems here....

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We order a Serrano ham every year, every year DS from the age of twelve now nineteen manfully takes on the task of decimating it, last week for probably the first time in a long while his anxiety over Covid and everything started to bubble up, he was really twitchy as to whether Tesco would deliver the Serrano ham, ( it really wasn't about the ham, I can see that now)

We agreed that we would try and order a second one and if the first one arrived we would cancel the second one, the first one arrived yesterday, straight on to the Tesco website to cancel the second one. Computer says no......

We are in tier two but living as though we were in tier four as I am CEV, we have been nowhere, done nothing and whilst the extra spend is annoying in the extreme, it is not the end of the world.

Looks like Serrano ham for Easter as well.

Asda didn't give me any Jaffa cakes or pickled onions in my click and collect. And I haven't been able to get a tin of roses! I have quality street but they don't have the hazel whirls. Hey supermarkets- not everyone buys their sweets in November

@Sprogstersmum

Tesco didn't deliver the coloured icing I ordered so we can't make penguins to go on the Christmas cake. We're isolating due to positive test so can't go out and get any... they delivered white icing instead so it's snowflakes or polar bears...

Can you paint them yourself? (Either with food colouring, or ordinary paint and warn people not to eat them)

@Whatsetshortfor

I can’t find any Charbonnel et Walker hot chocolate for our Christmas Eve bicerin. Anyone got any good hot chocolate recommendations?

Hotel Chocolate flakes are gorgeous, but expensive.

@ThatDamnKrampus Has he made you one? I'm on your behalf.

Other than the very sad posts like above I am loving this thread.

I just decanted some Christmas Day dessert trifle from its giant bowl into a pudding bowl for me to eat and I used one of those big flat ladle serving spoon things. I got upstairs and into bed and realised I had still got the big serving spoon in my bowl instead of a normal dessert spoon. Obviously I am too lazy tired to go back downstairs so am still eating it but the serving spoon won't fit in my mouth and I have to lick each mouthful off.

It's very annoying and slightly ruining my enjoyment of said trifle.

(That was like some kind of pudding porn wasn't it).

I can't find the Christmas tablecloth, I only bought it yesterday

@Cocolapew

I can't find the Christmas tablecloth, I only bought it yesterday

Try the front passenger footwell of your car. That’s where I found my tins of Pringles after searching the house.

DH works for a company that supplies fruit, veg , dairy , eggs , milk , flour cheese , you name it to schools and restaurants . I’ve been pinged by track and trace so I can’t go out . Discovered yesterday that what I thought was mincemeat in the cupboard , turns out to be chutney . So I ask him if he can pick some up on his way home . So he does . THREE KILOS of it . So far I’ve made 45 mince pies, and have a kilo and a half left .

On a brighter note........ he picked my Christmas present up from the dairy today ..... truffled Baron Bigod . So chuffed !

[quote IAmAMalenkyBitPoogly]@ThatDamnKrampus Has he made you one? I'm on your behalf.

Other than the very sad posts like above I am loving this thread.

I just decanted some Christmas Day dessert trifle from its giant bowl into a pudding bowl for me to eat and I used one of those big flat ladle serving spoon things. I got upstairs and into bed and realised I had still got the big serving spoon in my bowl instead of a normal dessert spoon. Obviously I am too lazy tired to go back downstairs so am still eating it but the serving spoon won't fit in my mouth and I have to lick each mouthful off.

It's very annoying and slightly ruining my enjoyment of said trifle.

(That was like some kind of pudding porn wasn't it).[/quote]
Nigella is that you ?

It's too late to order anything more online. Not that I need anything I just quite enjoy getting deliveries!

@plominoagain Sadly I am not licking the spoon in a seductive manner and looking suave and beautiful. I just managed to transfer a blob of trifle from the end of my giant spoon to my septum piercing and had to clean it with a tissue. So definitely not Nigella.

Found it on top of the fridge 👍

My tablecloth that is

Waitrose cheese counter was closed last night so I couldn't get my Swedish goats cheese that I have been salivating over for ages. I was unreasonably miffed.

I'm enjoying the tales of kilos of mincement and hams.

Our DDs are really enjoying the Christmas cheese board. Which is fantastic, especially since they are showing willing to try things.

But... They are eating all our cheese! DH is having to top up the biscuit selection.

The shape of the very large, expensive iron skillets I've bought my 3 grown up DC dont flow with the angled order and symmetry of the other gifts under the tree.

I can’t find any Charbonnel et Walker hot chocolate for our Christmas Eve bicerin. Anyone got any good hot chocolate recommendations? if you have good quality cooking chocolate you can grate that and that works just as well.

DS found melba toast in Sainsburys this morning. My world is complete.

Booths messed my turkey order up. Instead of a small turkey breast joint they've given me a full sized turkey. Same price, more meat, poorer quality. I've had to spend £20 on bits and pieces to cook the turkey with!!!

My DBro is a respiratory consultant down in Essex and he's mainly annoyed that he's watched loads of Christmas specials that he would have saved for Xmas day if he knew he was stuck at home!

I consider myself an excellent Yorkshire pudding maker (thank you Mary Berry) and wouldn’t dream of buying ready made ones. However, because we now can’t have any guests for Christmas, I had to add MIL’s food shop to our Tesco order.
When it was delivered last night the Tesco man said “Oohh not making your own Yorkshire puddings?”
I didn’t want to say they aren’t for us in case he thought we were unreasonable adding to his load so just laughed. And now I can’t stop thinking about the fact that the Tesco man now thinks I’m too lazy to make my own

We got a really nice Brie in the supermarket at the weekend. Went in to buy more but they're sold out . On a happier note, their Boursin is back in stock so I picked up a pack.

This thread has given me a much needed laugh in the middle of all the Covid and Christmas madness.

I am having a great day I just did a load of Christmas wrapping so naturally I played Christmas music and wore my Santa hat. It's the law in our house But when I took the hat off all the little fluff from inside the hat had attached itself to my head (I have a stubbly scalp as it's overdue a shave ) and I can't get all the fucking fluff off and I have to collect the Turkey at 5.30.

I might start an AIBU to put the Santa hat back on to collect my food or will I look like a twat?

Ocado have kindly substituted my 2 packets of jelly with 2 POTS of ready made jelly. Now that's not going to be any use to my trifle is it?!

I let DH go to the deli without supervision. He bought so many different types of cheese that the goose won't fit in the fridge!

@IAmAMalenkyBitPoogly

I am having a great day I just did a load of Christmas wrapping so naturally I played Christmas music and wore my Santa hat. It's the law in our house But when I took the hat off all the little fluff from inside the hat had attached itself to my head (I have a stubbly scalp as it's overdue a shave ) and I can't get all the fucking fluff off and I have to collect the Turkey at 5.30.

I might start an AIBU to put the Santa hat back on to collect my food or will I look like a twat?

Go for it! My DH has been out and about in his santa hat for the last few weeks and even the teen DD isn't too ashamed to be seen with him, so he can't look that bad

I couldn't get fresh figs to go on my cheeseboard and the ham I've bought is too big to go in my largest saucepan. Catastrophe!

Oh. And I've just split up with DP. On the cards but shite timing 🙄