An Unreasonable Christmas Buffet

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This year I said I am not doing a turkey because I am sick of being disappointed by turkey and also am sick of all the pans/every utensil in the kitchen forming a 1/10 scale replica of K2 on the work surface every year.

DH and I said we were going to go to the local curryhouse for a curry instead. We invited MIL, my mother and my brother (who I do not like). Last week the curryhouse said they had 25 seats left, and to confirm when we knew what time for definite we would come in. When I rang back yesterday, they were full. No matter.

DH has suggested a buffet at lunchtime. I told my mum on the phone and I could hear her doing this face AIBU about a christmas buffet?

Get her one of those Birdseye Turkey Roast Dinners in a box, and sit her up at the table all by herself. That'll learn her.

Tbh I would be a bit disappointed by a buffet on xmas day-but as your mum hasnt offered to cook then she doesnt have a leg to stand on.

I hate turkey but dh instists we have it but this year he has finally caved and we are having goose...

'Get her one of those Birdseye Turkey Roast Dinners in a box, and sit her up at the table all by herself. That'll learn her.'

at hamwiches I used to love them.
A Buffet is a grand idea, might even do it myself now.

Naice hamwiches?

Snort at "naice hamwiches"

We are doing a buffet for the four of us on Xmas day.

It will include pigs in blankets (because they ARE the law) but probably no turkey as we will be having that on Xmas eve at a friend's house. Considering trying that ham-cooked-in-coke thing.

It will also include my murderously calorific cheese dip.

We did it last year for the first time as our dining room had become a nursery since the previous Christmas. It was brilliant, big turkey and ham platters and lots of yummy salads, rice and potato dishes. It made it easier for other family members to chip in and the best thing was that we could graze on it all day, yum yum.

Why not just order the curry Christmas Eve?

Let it cool fully and then re-heat and have on Christmas Day

All you'll need to do fresh is rice. . .

Fellatio I knew you would be here

It wouldn't be my choice, because I love Christmas dinner.

BUT, it sounds like a delicious meal.

Smells is that not a bit depressing? A reheated curry for your Christmas dinner?

Going out to a curry house I can sort of see if you want a change from the norm, but reheated takeaway?? Bleugh.

YANBU, shame about the prawn ring, or is that an euphemism?

Have you ever thought of cooking the turkey upside down?
I have done this for the last couple of years, the juices all run to the breast while cooking, it is so succulent and flippin' delicious
I love curry, but I couldn't go without my turkey on Christmas day
(A buffet does sound lovely though)

why can't you sit at the table to eat the buffet?

Bastards. I have some hock ham in the fridge, pickles in the cupboard but no white bread! I'm going to hide this thread, it's making me hungry. Soup just won't cut it.

I haven't had a christmas dinner in years.

YANBU

I quite like a roast turkey Christmas dinner .
Though your buffet sounds fine ,
However my favourite meal over Christmas is the boxing day leftovers ( cold meat , bubble and squeak , cold pigs in blankets , too much wine ... )
What are you going to have then ?

It sounds like you do xmas lunch every year, in which case, you should do what you like. If you normally went to xmas turkey lunch at family members' homes and then wanted to go for a curry or do a buffet the one year it was your turn, i would slightly understand your mum's disappointment. What will you do for xmas tea if you are doing that too?

I don't see why you can't sit at the table for the buffet. And why not serve slices of ham rather than sandwiches?

Who sits at a table for a buffet?

Probably the same people who decant chips from the chipper onto a plate instead of eating them from the paper.

Sorry just missed that you do xmas every year.

I which case do what you want.

I am doing deep breaths ahead of Thanksgiving on Sunday as I told my Mum that I wasn't doing a Turkey and I also "could hear her doing this face ". She's getting a capon god damn it. (Despite me nodding along to her well its not Thanksgiving without Turkey, and those small ones are horrible. Of course it can only be an organic Norfolk Bronze.)

Turkey is just so much effort for so little reward.

IMO.

Don't hit me, Fellatio.

Bups just because you are common doesn't mean we all are. Of course chip shop chips go on a plate.

People do seem to invest an unnecessary amount of emotional capital in Christmas Dinner. I can't believe anyone would refuse an invitation to a buffet. But then if they felt that precious about it, they'd almost certainly be happier left at home to work themselves into a roast turkey-shaped frenzy.