To think serving a starter with Christmas dinner is unnecessary. And weird.

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Am hosting DH's family for Xmas dinner for the first time this year. MIL always does a prawn cocktail starter and they will miss a starter if I don't serve one, so I will. I think it's very odd though. AIBU?

Iberian goat shit gel with liver and heart sauce. Yum. Not christmas without that.

The really scary thing is that I know squoosh got liver and heart sauce from a recent episode of masterchef. Bleurgh.

YANBU. The only important bit about Christmas dinner is the dinner.

This year it's me, OH and DD, just the three of us, for the first time. My family never do starters, it's like a bloody religion for his family. I've told him he can have his pate on posh toast, I'll have a starter of chicken spread on toast (can't stand pate, salmon or prawn cocktail! God knows what I'd do if we were at his for Christmas..).

Ooh. Do they sell them in M&S or would I have to pop to waitrose for those?

The anally ejected chestnuts that is.

You certainly won't find them in Asda. Although I hear aldi have a new line in anally ejected chestnuts.

Christmas dinner is all about the goat shit.

Dilly if you can't find them in Waitrose do let me know, I have a charming recipe you can do at home. It requires the assistance of a sturdy sphincter muscle.

'sure you were'

squoosh, it's very impressive how you know better than I do how I meant a comment, from behind your screen and all.

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squoosh, it's very impressive how you know better than I do how I meant a comment, from behind your screen and all.

'sure you were'

squoosh, it's very impressive how you know better than I do how I meant a comment, from behind your screen and all.

'sure you were'

squoosh, it's very impressive how you know better than I do how I meant a comment, from behind your screen and all.

Sorry for massive multiple posts! I'm having Wi-Fi issues today.

Consider me chastised (x4)!

Soz. On both counts (repetition and snarky chastisement).

I was snarky too.

Um . . . thanks?

I onve had "an epherial of cheese". Does that count?

I'm guessing the thread has moved on but to the original OP, yanbu.

A Christmas roast is a huge mountain of food. It's not a normal roast dinner. There's no point filling up a bit first on soggy lettuce and limp prawns.

When at MIL's I eat the prawn cocktail starter to be polite but then can't manage all the roast. DH has attempted to introduce it when it's just the two of us for Christmas but it's never worked.

'an epherial of cheese' sounds wanktastically fabulous. What is it?

It was a sort of cheese foam cube. Served on a small doric column. Obviously. Is there another way to serve an Ethereal of Cheese?

Sorry about the initial typo. I was over-excited.

Wowzers! A cheese foam cube served on a column sounds like a piece of cheese that takes itself very seriously.

Bet the pompous little bugger tasted great.

Its not about food quantity its about making the meal last, looking forward to different things, even anal sprouted brain soap, or whatever your all nattering about.

How would you eat the ethereal cheese? with a cloth over head?

Eating is so much more fun when you have to cover yourself to do it.

Starters here, always. Must contain smoked salmon, prawns optional. There's usually a pate or soup option too for seafood refusers.

For me, starters is completely non-negotiable as I'm indifferent to roast dinners and actively dislike Christmas pud and mince pies

There are plenty of things that are strange or unnecessary about Christmas but starters are not one of them.

squoosh it was part of a "Provocation Menu" in Spain last year.

It also included "An Opera of Foie with Pedro Ximinez"

Only foie with Pedro Ximinex can create a true foie opera in my opinion

A Provocation Menu?

Was it making bold statements about single mothers and foreigners?