Odd wanky Christmas food

[Jellycatspyjamas]

I’m finishing off my online food order and think I might have found the oddest Christmas food - sticky toffee cheddar cheese. I can’t even imagine what it tastes like. Sadly I’m too late to order it.

Any other odd food combinations out there that I’ve missed hiding from the shops this year!

That sounds delicious! You can’t get more Christmassy than figs and orange!

Winter spice Bisto gravy granules- sounds disgusting 🤮

Bread sauce IS the star of Christmas dinner for me. Homemade of course with plenty of nutmeg.

Aldi has some horror cheeses in their xmas range -

Bombay spiced Red Leicester
Cheddar with wasabi
Cheddar with fudge
Cheddar with pickled onion

... I could go on 🤢

Leave the cheese alone! It doesn't need weird stuff mixed into it!

The fig and orange tarte tatin sounds lovely. I'd have it with a dollop of creme fraiche.

The sticky toffee pudding cheese doesn't appeal, but it's not the worst I've heard done to cheese. A few years ago, a certain cheesemaker based in the north of England produced a limited edition variety with parma violets. . .I haven't come across anyone who tried it.

I'm just wondering how well it will work in real life? It looks pretty dark already in the picture. I think the capacity for it burning is quite high. It might just look like a burnt brown sticky mess. Figs are very sugary, oranges are acidic and citrus fruits can be funny.

I don't want this to be the River Café Chocolate Nemesis de nos jours. Just don't blame me...

I love them and thank you for reminding me to try and get some along with dried fruit and nuts.

I bought some green tomato and apple chutney from Gail's Bakery yesterday- is that wanky? It cost £5-odd!

I've just seen these freaky looking things in Waitrose - there was a whole shelf full of them in the reduced to clear section.... can't think why 🤔

Cheese with pickled onions and a Wensleydale one with cranberries are big winners in our house at Christmas - don't knock it til you've tried it.
The mixture of a really nice cheese with the sweetness of the fruit is delicious. Even when I'm eating standard cheddar I have a mouthful of cheese and then pop in a pickled onion 😋

That sounds AMAZING.

Now you have truly "Understood the assignment." as they say on the Tiktok.

They are disgusting. My parents always got them at Christmas, and Chinese figs. I doubt anyone in China ever ate figs like that.

I have seen Christmas themed Bao buns which seem like a terrible idea.

I have had white stilton with mango and crystallized ginger in it from a market stall who manages to get it fresh so the flavour is amazing - it's a bit like eating a very solid cheesecake.

Well, I've never understood why some people have cauliflower cheese as a side with their Christmas dinner.

Very odd.

The Bombay spiced red Leicester cheese is actually much, much nicer than it sounds. It's not like curry, the spice is far subtler than that, a bit like Geeta's mango chutney.

Today in Iceland they were trying to flog me Cathedral City cheddar and chutney mince pies at the till. I declined. 😳

It's nice, had some last Christmas.

Nope, its a sweet fruit. Perfect for a martini

I like white stilton with mango and ginger, wensleydale with cranberries, sharp cheddar with horseradish, monterey jack with hot peppers, twaróg/farmers' cheese with pineapple...

misses point of thread

I had chocolate lemons in the USA one Christmas - same concept as a Terry's chocolate orange except shaped/foil-wrapped as a lemon and lemon flavoured. I don't think it works anything like as well as the trad orange.

I like the idea of christmassy bao buns, but not all the ones that I have seen filled with jackfruit- they would be nice with spicy chicken or pulled pork but all the christmas ones seem to have jackfruit masquerading as meat in them.

I don't understand it either. It's either cheesy dinner or gravy dinner for me. Is it American? My auntie does it though and nobody could disdain US culture more than her.

I lived in the US for 30 years and I never saw cauliflower cheese over there, not in California and not in Alabama. Cauliflowers were ridiculously expensive too.

The US gravy that turns up on biscuits (a bit like a scone) is the vilest gray, glutinous, slime imaginable - vaguely tasting of sage. I don't think that is part of a US Christmas dinner though.

Because it's absolutely delicious 😋

Im shocked by the things some people are shocked by! Surely cauliflower cheese and cheese with onions, cranberries etc and that fruit tart are pretty bog standard?

No, it originated in the U.K. in the 1700's apparently with the introduction of the cauliflower.

A few years ago, a certain cheesemaker based in the north of England produced a limited edition variety with parma violets. . .I haven't come across anyone who tried it.

What the actual fuck, that’s an abomination.

I made my kid’s cauliflower cheese as a side for Christmas dinner, they both looked at me like I’d shat in their mouths. It’s been off the menu ever since.

So you are honestly telling me that you are happy to swig down puréed pumpkin, cream, rum AND vodka through a digestive biscuit crust on the edge of the glass?

Have you thought this through? Good luck to you anyway. You're a stronger man than I Gunga Din.

I’ll drink most things but I can’t imagine how that combination wouldn’t curdle my stomach.