What do you find shocking at Christmas?

[RosieGuacamosie]

Lighthearted

I have ASD so certain things utterly astound me, I’m sure others will vehemently disagree so feel free to share your own!

1. Starters for Christmas lunch! Surely you’d save room to maximise the main event!
2. Cooking the turkey the day before - are you not worried about food poisoning or it being super dry?
3. Mash on a Christmas dinner, see also sweetcorn

I’m sure I’ll think of more

Its only dry when cooked too long.

and i eat it at Easter too (buy a fresh discounted one on Christmas eve then freeze it).

one thing I hate are those posts on FB “we’re not sending cards this year but will donate to charity”

yeah, right, of course you do

The amount of presents some dc get from parents/grandparents. It’s frankly obscene, those people who get on the news demonstrating how they can’t close the door because of the amount of presents they’ve piled under the tree. Ugh.

I don’t see the point in cooking the turkey the day before. Cook it on the morning and cover, it should stand and rest for as long as it cooks. You then have loads of oven space for everything else and a lovely moist turkey.

The obscene amount of spending .. Comparison with how much other people spend on their DC's gifts .... and the inevitable debt issues caused by overspending ....

We were on a cruise ship last Christmas and whole families were on matching pj's ALL day?

@AngelinaFibres , my DF was a Londoner born and bred, and he loved bread sauce. He was about the only one who ate it, though.

@MotherWol, for many years we’ve had Christmas dinner at 5 or 6 in this house. Less of a rush for the cook, and everyone’s that much more ready for it. When little Gdcs have been staying, we just give them something quick and easy at their usual lunchtime of around 12,30. - e.g. pasta. Same with their breakfast, usual time, whereas adults have a brunch later.