To ask for your unpopular Christmas opinions?

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

Mine is that a traditional Christmas dinner is horrible
Turkey - bleurgh, so dry
Sprouts - farts posing as leaves
Parsnips - how can anyone put them in their mouth?!
Stuffing - like eating sand
Christmas pudding - sour booze disguised as cake
Christmas cake - way too dry and that much fruit does not belong in a sponge

I'd honestly be happy with a plate of pigs in blankets, a jar of cranberry sauce and a spoon to eat the sauce straight from the jar.

@SilverBirchWithout
I totally agree! The pastry on shop bought mince pies tastes much nicer. I have given up mentioning this IRL as it always results in me being given even more home made mince pies to try and having (out of politeness) to pretend that this one is different.

Bread sauce !!! A very weird invention I used to microwave the m and s one year and normally I burnt myself getting it out .... after about 25 years I asked my husband why he liked the killer sauce ???? And he said oh I don’t like it so I’ve never had to heat it again

I hate turkey and refuse to eat it and cannot think of anything worse than a massive meal and eating all weekend. My gastric band would burst.
The only thing I like about it is bread sauce which I will make and have on something.
The rest of xmas is not happening this year, it's just me and the cat.

Mince pies are a waste of calories
Christmas-themed movies are the work of Satan
Bread sauce can get in the bin

I'll get my coat

I'd rather listen to Fairy tale of NY than the John Lennon Christmas one or ( even worse) the Paul McCartney Christmas one or Mull of Kintyre! I switch them off or down if they come on the radio. Utter dirge.
The Christmas songs playing in Sainsbury's the other day were dire! The ' CD 2 ' last few numbers were screaming out at me! Turn it down a bit.

@DdraigGoch

Christmas cake - way too dry and that much fruit does not belong in a sponge I've never baked a dry fruit cake. Yorkshire pudding has no place alongside a traditional Turkey Xmas dinner. What sort of weirdo would have Yorkshires with anything other than beef?

Me! 😁 I LOVE yorkshire pudding and eat them with every roast dinner.

I think blue lights are foul, they’re a migraine trigger for me.

I hate the expectations of CELEBRATION at all costs. We’re a family of autistic introverts, and it’s taken us over a decade to find a space in the season that we can inhabit comfortably.

Other than that, as long as it doesn’t impact us, you can all carry on as you wish. I’ll be the one on the sofa with a bag of maltesers and a book.

I will say that I’d love some pyjamas or socks as a gift though. My children steal my socks on a regular basis (2 of them my size, the other one just likes socks that hit his knees) so extras are never unwelcome. :o

I can't stand the ritual stuffing expected to last the whole day, I mean, why would one want to eat such a gargantuan quantity of food in one day? I'd much, much rather have some nice drinks and canapes, perpetually refreshed .

Can't bear turkey after watching that programme recently on TV where they were showing how turkeys are inseminated. OMG, gross.

Also hate the neighbours 'keeping up with the Jones' Christmas extravaganza especially when they leave them flashing all night. Less is more imo.

Spending Christmas alone is much underrated. I love it as I can do what I want, open the booze (or not) when I want, watch what I want on TV, eat what I want when I want. I often get pitied, "Oh you can't spend Christmas alone!", but it's bliss.

Bloody presents. I hate worrying about what to get people, anxious that what I've bought isn't right and they're just politely pretending to love it. So generally I don't buy or receive presents. It's removed the stress of Christmas.

Christmas day is really boring haha that made me laugh. I've thought this for years, especially now my dc are older, but never said it out loud.

I quite like some of the run up to Christmas but just can't get that excited about a day cooking/eating/clearing up and sitting about watching Christmas specials.

Cranberry sauce = jam. No jam on my dinner please.

And stop putting it in 'festive' sandwiches!

Having the kids off school for 2 weeks is boring !

The most tedious Christmas I ever had was when my DH had bought MouseTrap for our DS, he took ages setting it up, I can remember sitting there with a grin on my face trying to pretend I was enjoying myself but secretly thinking back to Christmasses before having a child - a decent walk, a meaningful Church service (not a Nativity performance with over excited children), a good (not Disney) film, civilised drinks with friends, proper games - Bridge or something to challenge your brain, volunteering .... not just watching my DH assemble MouseTrap ... and no one really enjoyed playing it anyway

Christmas is very a woman-powered machine. Unfortunately it is completely inefficient in terms of the resources (human, natural and financial) in consumes. For this reason, year after year it gives me the rage.

I think if Men took over for a couple of years - and when I say take over, I mean really take over - we'd end up with a better, much more streamlined version with a lot less of the faff. And we might all get the rest we know we deserve.

The good parts - eating & general merrymaking, big tree, followed by slothful snozzle by the fire watching a movie - would remain. The pain in the ass parts - buying tat & calling it presents, cards, more than one day of catering / hosting. long car journeys - would be declared redundant.

Unless you celebrate the pagan or Christian festival, anything else is commercialised shit. Turning the whole of December into a spendfest is a waste of time and money for what is essentially a roast dinner on a random day. The angst is unnecessary on every level.
People who post pictures of piles of presents on social media are utterly tacky.
And Die Hard 1 IS a Christmas film.

When I see Christmas trees everywhere, including in a church, it makes me smile that people are celebrating a pagan holiday with pagan traditions without realizing and/or acknowledging it's a pagan thing. Same with Yuletide greetings, yule logs and Noel. All pagan.

Raw turkey smells like food poisoning - I have to open the packet outside and leave all packaging out here.
How anyone eats these things and expect to live the tell the tale I don't know (disclaimer: am vegetarian - but this is the unpopular opinion thread so no comebacks required).

I don't know Ragwort I think some stages of MouseTrap require a certain amount of intelligent strategy

That's reminded me of hours on Christmas day spent dismantling toy packaging, those fiddly metal twisties, cardboard insets impenetrable to kitchen scissors then tense poring over the incomprehensible 12 page instruction booklet with a hangover. All for a game "suitable for 5 years and up". Of course remaining jolly during the whole thing. I remember it well.

Glad I’m not going to OP’s house for dinner, she sounds like a terrible cook.

I’m not keen on Turkey or sprouts but everything else (including Yorkshire pudding) goes 🤣

The only Christmas song I never bite of is I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day. I'd be the perfect person to be trapped in that Christmas black mirror episode

Yes I think there's an audience for a remix of that song; I wish it could be Christmas every other year.

I hate my work Christmas "party". I am overjoyed that we can't do it this year.

1. Love Actually is....

A good film! Just watched it again with the DDs.

1. (In direct relation to the above) Colin Firth is bloody gorgeous but he must never, ever smile. Spoils the brooding manliness .