To ask you what is the most English thing you do on Christmas?

[ConfusedWife1234]

As somebody who is not English I’d like to know.

Start drinking Buck’s Fizz within an hour of waking up.

I'm not English either. I think it's meant to be watching the Queen's speech on Christmas Day on tv, but I've never met anyone who does it and I've lived here for years.

Eat a selection box for breakfast ( not a whole one - besides I don't like nuts or coconut in chocolate!)

Have a Christmas dinner and presents on the 25th.
We're abroad, though.

Drink tea?

Obsess for weeks over the making, feeding, marzipanning and icing of the cake? Which only 1 person eats.

Cook and eat sprouts even though no one likes them?

Give people socks as a present?

Look forward to it all year then have one too many cocktails before lunch and end up sleeping through most of it?

Sulk over Trivial Pursuit.

Go to a pantomime! Is it English or British though

The food. There are loads of things I only eat over a 2 week period - mince pies, game pie, box of chocolates, chocolate mints, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, nuts that you shell yourself (who has the time in normal life?)

Carol services, today I'm going to 2! Shaking peoples hands (constant at Christmas)

Make a starter.

@SexnotJenga Why do you cook sprouts if everybody hates them?

Never ending grazing in between a giant roast.
Playing games to get everyone involved

Get pissed quite frankly the only way i cope

Go to church looking forward to the one day of the year I can legitimately sing "born this happy morning" in O Come All Ye Faithful.
Force everyone to wear the embroidered felt party hats I made them.
Watch "Call the Midwife".

Make my children leave brandy for Father Christmas, we live in the US where they leave milk! Milk?!? For fuck’s sake. Man needs something a bit better than that on such a busy night!

Drive 1000 miles with a car full of sugar-hyped children, to visit family who haven't grasped that in M1 and M5 go north as well as south.

Drink Bucks Fizz, go to the lovely family carol service in church, watch the Queen's speech at 3 (my uncle stands up), tell jokes over lunch... perfect!

Carolling round the village pubs

Christmas Crackers at the table.
Lived abroad a long time and no one knew what the heck they were. I used to get Mum to post me a box each year. Then before moving back I started to find them at the import shop.

@SexnotJenga* Why do you cook sprouts if everybody hates them?

Cos s/he is English

Go to Church even though we don’t go any other time of year

My mum’s probably already put the sprouts on. They should be suitably boiled to death by 12pm on the 25th.

My mum’s probably already put the sprouts on. They should be suitably boiled to death by 12pm on the 25th.

Hi Sis

Faff about at various in laws when I just want to relax at home.

Get all excited and stressed over making a meal that we eat a mini version of every Sunday anyway!

A long bracing walk whilst greeting every single passer-by with "Happy Christmas". The other 364 days you simply travel A-Z without making direct eye contact let alone initiate conversation.