To think a baileys dessert from iceland isn't suitable for xmas day and a bit cheeky actually

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I'm cooking dinner tomorrow. One of us is assigned to buy veg, the other meat and the other pudding. So iv'e got a mahoosive chicken,a joint of ham and stuffing, t'other guest has bought carrots potatoes parsnips sprouts broccoli and sauces. So far so good. I phoned the pudding offender last night to find out what scrummy dessert we will be having on xmas day, and this is what she has bought.

It's dome a shaped cake/ice cream thing looks like a panna cotta on the outside and a gateau thing on the inside for 3 quid.
AIBU to think when someone has gone to the trouble of buying naice food and will spend ages preparing and cooking it, the least you could do is buy a naice pudding to go with it.
AIBU to feel a little resentful that they haven't even spent a quarter of what I have and the only prep they have to do is take it out the freezer a couple of hours before?

Am I being the ungrateful one or is she? Merry Christmas

Panzee Me dont laike turkey innit blud

OP are you my mum??!

YABU. You'll have plenty of other sweet things to nibble on if you don't fancy her offering. You should have given clear guidelines if you fancied something specific, or wanted choices.

MinnieBar I don't think so, Not unless my five year old is now a member of mumsnet?

YANBU . It's Christmas day. At least they should bring 2 desserts from iceland.

Coconutty Each to their own, but why anyone would pay twice as much for a drier, less tasty bird is beyond me!

It sounds like it might be OK as a choice, but unless she is strapped for cash, it shouldn't have been the only thing. If it was for a big group, I'd have taken a selection of stuff, even if i wasn't up to making it myself for some reason.

Yabu and ungrateful.

It will probably be lush, we had a Cointreau one a few years back and it was divine.

YANBU

WTF wants anything from Iceland?

Will you come back and admit defeat if it is actually lovely?

Yes I'll update, probably sometime tomorrow when I need to escape from the madness Ill grab a few mins to myself on mumsnet.

I went to a party the other day and the pudding was Elephants Breath. Never had it before and it was lovely. Jelly and evaporated milk whipped together.

I'm not a massive fan of turkey or chicken myself, but Turkey isn't dry unless its overcooked.

Sounds quite nice to me, but then we don't normally have "puddings", just fruit, yoghurt and a crumble type desert at the weekend. Baileys is nice and Christmassy - so sounds good. We always have more than one kind of pudding though so maybe she's bringing something else as well?

(We are however having Aunt Bessies roast potatoes menioned upthread.... I've made stuffing cake, gravy, cranberry sauce, most veg is fresh but I wanted some shortcuts as I want to spend morning playing! I quite like them!)

^Because her veg were up to an an acceptable standard.
She had grown them in her allotment and any other bits she had procured from the farmers market, only the best mind.
Any less will just not suffice. A dessert from iceland ew, I feel like heaving even saying it, have to have a shower when I get home if I merely walk past the place. I'm vair vair posh and don't you know.^

are you taking the piss

A wind up?

I think she may be jinglealthejay, I appreciate the sentiment of 'fuck it, I may as well go with the perception'

I look forward to your baileys dessert covered fingers updating us Louis!

P.s have a lovely dinner

YANBU. That's a bit of a half arsed effort, and the Iceland thing is a bit of a red herring. It wouldn't matter where she bought it from; it requires no effort or imagination, when the OP and the other lady have put in a bit of an effort. Children present might not like it either. If I was doing pudding, I'd do a traditional Christmas pudding (you can make it up months in advance, slowtime) and then make something chocolatey for Christmas pudding haters.

I hope she's coming with some chocolate and cheeses as well; if it's a matter of not being able to afford stuff then she should've flagged it up.

of course that post is a pisstake ffs

OP is probably getting a bit fed up with being called a snob

I would have provided a few choices personally, but the Baileys thing sounds OK as one of them. I think my world would collapse if there was no Christmas pudding though.

I. Think the pertinent point is WHY waste all that stomach space on crappy puddings of any decsription when you could eat 5 more roast potatoes, a pig in blanket and a few parsnips.

No pudding can compete.

I hear that Getorf!

The trimmings are by far the best bit of the meal. Bollocks to whatever meat there is.

I mean the meat is nice and everything but come on; stuffing, pigs in blankets, any roasted veg, thick gravy...

God I wish I was having Christmas dinner!

Don't forget like a million croquettes!

Yes I was taking the piss. I'm more of a bucket than a bouquet dahhling.

Iamsparklyknickers Thanks

What did you want her to do? Spend hours hand making something from the farts of angels and elf breath?

Er....yes. That's exactly what I would do if I were pudding monitor. It's only fair, when someone else has made an effort to cook the main meal.

Spend considerably more money on something from Waitrose that will be exactly the same, just in a different box?

It wouldn't be the same, it would be much nicer.

I wouldn't be happy 1. I don't like baileys 2. What about the kids? 3. It'll inevitably melt into a mess and what's christmas if not an excuse to eat left over desset for breakfast on boxing day.

Would be okay as one of a selection (eg with christmas pud or something fruity/non-creamy) but not as the only option. Just a bit lazy and selfish at Christmas