A Christmas dinner should not include ......

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid]

Mushy peas.

I know I'm right on this and dh is a loon. He wants mushy peas with Christmas dinner!

That's just all kinds of wrong.

No to mushy peas with Christmas dinner, it's just WRONG. As is mashed potato or sweet potato anything.

Christmas pudding needs brandy sauce!

Having said that, I'll be having Yorkshire pudding on Christmas Day, but that's because I'm having roast beef for dinnner.

No meal should include mushy peas

No Christmas meal should include turkey either, roast beef or chicken all the way!

There's a lot of talk of Yorkshire puds and mash here. These are both heavenly foodstuffs but I don't think they should be on the Christmas plate as they just take up valuable stomach space.

Cauliflower = delicious

Mushy peas go best with fish'n'chips and it has to be said they are better behaved than the un-mushy type. It's Christmas so why not eat what you like?

Roast beef - yorkshire puddings and horseradish
Roast lamb - mint sauce
Roast pork - apple sauce and crackling
Roast chicken - stuffing
Roast turkey - cranberry sauce, stuffing, pigs in blankets

None of these are interchangeable - ever we do not have yorkshires with roast chicken, oh no, but especially not on Christmas Day

Hang on, mash AND roasties? Talk about carb-loading!!!

MIL serves sweet corn and mushrooms with hers. All kinds of wrong.

That is GROTESQUE. Does she hate Christmas? And people?!

Beauty I know! She does it for most roast dinners tbh. I love her but she's bonkers. She'll bung lettuce in too if it looks like it might be going out of date...

Mashed potatoes. It actually makes me sad to see these on offer at Christmas dinner. Just stick with roast potatoes. And mushy peas with a Christmas dinner? WTAF?!

No. Mushy peas are for F n C at the seaside.

Simply don't allow it.

We have mashed potatoes when we have Xmas dinner part II on Boxing Day

They're not mushy peas. Mushy peas go on fish and chips. It's dried peas when they're going on Christmas lunch. They're traditional. My grandparents used to expect them. I'm not defending them. Just looking at them make me feel bleughhhh. I have no problem with mum doing them. Then forgetting them and leaving them in the microwave until we've finished our meal 😆

I thought this was an idea for a new game on 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue'.

I can just imagine it :

Jack Dee: Now teams, come up with suggestions for things that should never be in a Christmas dinner.

Barry Crier: Roast reindeer

Don't see the problem. I'm making normal boiled peas for Dd as part of her Christmas dinner. She's also having pasta with her turkey as she doesn't eat potatoes.

Anyway, the only use for mushy peas is as a DIY filler for cracks and holes. I think you can buy it in aerosol cans.

I was behind a mum and her tot in Sainsbury's this morning and when asked what veg he would like with his Xmas dinner he replied "spaghetti hoops!" 🤔😄

Mushy peas are bloody wonderful with gravy but not for a roast, maybe serve as hungover food on Boxing Day?

We are having MILs dry turkey, the only saving grace is the cauliflower cheese!!

I've read somewhere that some people have Brussel sprouts with their Christmas dinner - how disgusting is that!

Being noted for being a man of class, sophistication and all round good taste, cauliflower au gratin (not that common cauliflower cheese stuff)and Farrow's marrowfat peas are essentials for me.

I used to know a girl who would eat turkey and bacon baguette for her Christmas lunch as she does not like vegetables in any form 🙄

No YPs for Christmas dinner unless it's roast beef.

We're having beef

mushy peas - great but only with fish & chips or a hot pie

Back up...... brandy butter OR cream, surely that should be AND.

the only use for mushy peas is as a DIY filler for cracks and holes. I think you can buy it in aerosol cans.

Not food-related SisyphusDad but my mum made papier mache and stuffed it in the deep holes where the mortar and bricks had crumbled in my very old garden wall. She kept packing it in until it was completely filled. Then we spread some outdoor filler on it and painted it with masonry paint.

I didn't think it would work but six years on you can't tell and the wall is solid. I'm going to repaint it in the spring but I won't need to refill. Shame she's not here any more to see her handiwork but I think somewhere she knows

Hate sprouts. Whoever said they are evil balls of hatred has it spot on. I reckon there must be a gene or something so some people can taste the bitterness and others can't - why else would otherwise sane people go around insisting that sprouts are not only edible but desirably so??
There is such a gene. Some of us have superior tastebuds which can taste the disgustingness of sprouts, and others don't. So far as I'm concerned, they're the devil's own midget cabbages.

We will have yorkshires with Christmas dinner, even though we're not having beef. I tried saying no a few weeks ago and there was rebellion in the ranks.

But mushy peas? Bleurgh.

Dahl OTOH is wonderful. An essential in any decent curry spread.

I serve the following vegetables at Christmas dinner;

Red cabbage
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Brussels sprouts
Broccoli
Carrots
Puréed celeriac
Green beans

Of these, I will eat only the red cabbage, potatoes, celeriac and green beans. The sprouts, parsnips, broccoli and carrots are there for those that want them.

If someone said they would like mushy peas with their Christmas dinner, I would make them.

Your DH is a freak, there's no denying it, but it is Christmas!

I have had mushy peas. They are disgusting. Yes yorkie puds are only for roast beef. No to mashed potatoes at Xmas. I love potatoes in all forms (well, except boiled) but roast potatoes only on Xmas Day.

I don't mind sprouts drowned in plenty of gravy but I've eaten them boiled and then sauteed with bacon and flecks of onion and I would actively choose them. Really, really nice.

Mushy peas. No. Particularly with mint. I hate mint.