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.

wtf is pannetonne?

I love panettone.

The three Christmas foods that are totally vile are xmas cake, xmas pudding and mince pies. Vom.

Moondog - I do make my own salsa, and v nice it is too. Sometimes I even make guacamole if I'm really pushing the boat out.

I am however a slattern who is easily seduced by a £1 4-pack. There is always some fecker who appreciatively gobbles up lucifer's smegma

But then of course there are the other things that I only buy at Christmas that really I should eat all year. Namely

Terry's Chocolate Orange - clearly this is the taste of Christmas and is what Christmas would taste like if it were food.

Toblerone - yes another chocolate that seems to pass me by for 11 months of the year only for me to think "mmm Toblerone, lovely" every December.

Turkey. Actually love roast turkey but wouldn't dream of eating it on any other day

Ditto 'pigs in blankets' YUM

And this loveliness shall cancel out the marzipan and parsnips and all will be well with the world

Red cabbage. mIL buys it to bring to our house whenever she comes to visit at christmas and she never eats it and neither does anyone else!

Christmas pudding - DH is the only one who likes it but he says himself not to buy it, just to buy something everyone will eat

FattyArbuckel - in a tin? That's vair posh

I would happily live on parsnips and marzipan. Am I weird?

Ooh now I have gone right off Choc Oranges - that orange oil takes the roof off my mouth

Citrusy chocolate is just wrong.

I love Pannetone.
Not cheap dry ones, though.

Damp squashy spicy ones which use no marge or diglycerides of this and that.

For breakfast with unsalted butter, or dipped in black coffee. Gorgeous.

Hate Christmas pudding, cake and pies.

But most of all I hate the pickled walnuts my mum insists on bringing over every Boxing Day. They look like tiny pickled dog turds.

Blu beat me to it - panettone dipped in coffee on Christmas morning is just about my favourite Christmas treat.

Got to be the good stuff though.

Gah - have chocolate oranges got much, much sweeter and nastier in the last few years, or have my taste buds changed?

Brussel sprouts.They're disgusting.

Christmas pudding and Christmas cake.They contain raisins and candied peel. Enough said.

Marzipan. Vile is too weak a word.

Terry's chocolate oranges. One of the worst things one could ever find in one's stocking.

I don't eat any of the 'traditional' Christmas foods- they are all vile!

I too find chocolate orange far too sweet and kind of fatty tasting, too. Used to love it.

I find a lot of Christmas food to be vile - I am not keen on mince pies, Christmas cake and Christmas pudding but every year I end up eating some to keep people happy.

its minging.

another pointless christmas food is those horrible, weird, dense gingery cakes with thin white icing on. they are usually star or tree shapes.

I forgot mice pies. Raisins again.

oh yes those weird gingery things - look much nicer than they taste and should packaged only as tree decorations or something.

Cyb - can I have the recipe?

Panettone - surely breakfast food for that rubbish week between Christmas and NY, ideally with fresh black coffee? Somehow it feels less naughty than having left over chocolate cake or Christmas pudding for breakfast....

to the poster who hates pickled walnuts, i LOVE them am i weird?

Oh I love those gingery cake/biscuit things - are they lebkuchen or something?

Mmm love panetone.

I think the point of panettone is to keep it for 20 years and then use it a a loofah.

I've never tried a pickled dog turd walnut. Am curious now. Do they taste of vinegary walnuts?