to think what is the point of pannetone, and other POINTLESS Christmas foods which we are conned into buying

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What is it for.

You are just conned into buying great big pretty boxes of boring dry fruit bread.

Tell me anyone if you actually eat all your pannetone.

Ditto wierdo cheeses (rhurbarb stilton for example) and 4-packs of dip.

Pannetone is shit. It is fresh air, studded with dried fruits. It would make very useful packaging though when pulled apart.

YABU - I love pannetone and eat it all year round

Eat Me dates

pannetone is great for toasting for breakfast, and jamie does a pudding with it that never fails to get me a standing ovation when I make it

Bags of festive nuts.

TOBLERONES

Those cherry abscesses in chocolate

I love panettone. We have it for breakfast, toasted with butter. We eat it all. It's also lovely made into a bread and butter pudding, but we never have enough left fot that

YABVU re the panettone, but not weirdo cheeses. Fruit should not be in cheese. It is just wrong.

Im not conned into buying anything. I buy things I know will get eaten, if people are daft enough to buy things they don't like thats there fault not the shops!

Didn't realise there was a gun at your head when you buy them?

Pennetone is ming. I don't like brioche either. Be cake or be bread. Don't be something in between.

But then I don't buy the things I don't like.

fruit in cheese is lovely. I love wensleydale and cranberry

I have teenagers. Everything gets eaten!
However, we are selective about our Christmas nibbles and tend to go for the Germanic rather than the Italian.

Oh yes - pannetone is all box and no trousers. Def pointless.

Pannetone.

I imagine Pennetone would be ming too, cake bread made of pasta anyone?

No-one forces you to buy extra food.

lol at cherry absesses.

If a cheese is nice, it will be available all year round.

You don't have to buy these things, you know! Do you get home from the supermarket, look in your bags and think, "Oh bugger, I've gone and bought another pannetone! Haven't even forced myself to finish the last one yet! Oh well..." and miserably chew your way through it?

yy to Germanic - there is a LOT of point to Stollen, mmm.

Panettone. One N two Ts.

It's lovely. I'm half Italian though so may be biased.

But pannetone's are the sort of things that people give you as a gift because the box looks like a present. With sad disappointing innards

Oh chill out, I know you don't have to buy it fgs.

But you have Sainsbos magazine advertising Pannetone in gushing terms for about 3 months pre Christmas.

And somehow it ends up as the Christmas must have.

Though I must admit I haven't tried all the bread pudding / toast variations. Maybe that WOULD improve its dry dustiness.

Love it, GOML?

Do you know the snow (and having my Christmas shopping abruptly halted) made me question everything (i.e. I couldn't be bothered to gather that momentum that one requires to get out there and fight your way through crowds to procure the Christmas "essentials").

Basically I cam to the conlucsion that barr the children's presents, Christmas is a meal (religious aspects disregarded for the purposes of this discussion).

Consequently, I'm quietly confident that I won't be dieting to shift half a stone as most Januarys find me.

We're having Christmas dinner with all the trimmings (basically a glorified roast dinner) a few extra puddings and that's it.

Pannetone, schmanattone!
I haven't bought or baked one, and I don't intend to either!

Oh is it only the one 'n'

Oh well.

Yes, people buy it for gifts. I would rather have a loaf of mother's pride.