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

[Kavalier]

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?

Well squoosh if you are happy exploiting the serving classes then so be it! WE prefer to be a litt less flashy here so much more U

We send our melons away to be finessed at Melon Academies in the Swiss alps before we even give them house room. Well, melonerie room.

I bet your melonerie is nothing more than a upvc conservatory with aspirations. .

How dare you! It is a digitally controlled micro-climate. It is integrated into the kitchen. Next to the avocado aclimatiser