Mother wants to bring a chicken to my vegetarian Christmas dinner

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That's kind of it in a nutshell. We've invited 10 people over for Christmas dinner including my mother. We're veggies and I've put together a lovely Scandi veggie menu. She's told me she's bringing a chicken and I've said please don't. Firstly because we're veggie and I don't really want a dead bird on the table and secondly I can't see why she can't last a few hours without meat.

My relationship with her is very strained this year, she's been pretty horrible to me and I'm getting to the end of my tether.

AIBU to tell her not to bring meat or stay at home? She could always come over after lunch if she's going to insist.

If the meal isn't really Scandinavian then why does the OP insist on calling it that? Is it just a way to make it a "theme" meal? I suspect she thinks it sounds more sophisticated than "veggie meal." I wonder if she has shared her menu with all the guests yet.

I was just thinking that. Surely Scandinavian would be ham, fish, reindeer... Not aubergine. Isn't that more Mediterranean/middle eastern?

I'm going to say it now. Where is the OP?

Off to hunt aubergine.

people eat rice pudding? I thought it was a form of torture!

She's abandoned us and we've gone rogue.

We stayed at a scandinavian hotel once and dh nearly cried when we came down to breakfast. Row upon row of picked fish, cured meats and GHERKINS!

Mmmm! - I actually do like gherkins. With a sausage roll and cold meat

Where do they wee on shark meat and bury it in the ice?

Yummy RICE PUDDING for Christmas dinner, yes please !
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the skin of rice pudding makes me feel frightened

As it should.

Fuck off BigChoc

Is anyone else thanking their lucky stars they're having a faux-Scandi-veggie-free meal with all the trimmings?! Bring on the pigs in blankets, I say

From the title, I also envisaged the OP's Mum turning up mob-handed, chicken-wise:

Rice pudding/custard, yummy. Skin of rice pudding/custard, yeuch!

Chicken/pork, yummy. Skin of chicken/pork - yummy also!

Love this ad.... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs8LcEkBfTc

mavis weeing on shark meat definitely sounds like something the Scandic would do...or maybe that's the Icelanders and it's whale meat?

BigChoc -

(And that's the ad I've been thinking about, Londonrach, since joining the thread. It's so sweet)!

My mu always tries to bring a turkey to our veggie Xmas dinner, answer is always no. Ours is a meat free house and people respect that it don't come.

Weeing on fish? Yikes - is that what makes a rollmop?

There's definitely no weeing on the dinner round our neck of the Scandi woods!

There's definitely no weeing on the dinner round our neck of the Scandi woods

Are you quite sure what's in your pickling jars though?