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.

Also on blacklist

Mince Pies
Works Do
Tat buying/receiving - not doing that this year, donating to 2 charities I believe in instead. After this year, we need to invest in something good.

Whever said book and maltesters on sofa upthread - yes absolutely.

I BLOODY LOVE CHRISTMAS!!

Everything about it, the lead up, the music, seeing family, the food, cosy nights, the food, giving somebody a present you know they will absolutely love....the food.... haha

My opinions are

. Pigs in blankets...overrated
. Yorkshire puddings absolutely belong on a Christmas dinner, or any roast...anything that has gravy tbh
.cauliflower cheese is grim and cheese should not be on a plate with gravy under any circumstances
.if you want to stay in your pajamas all day then that’s what you do, Christmas is all about being comfy and cosy seeing people you love

We are not having our usual Xmas day this year we are at home with my DH family (they lost their mum this year) so I know I will have to basically do all the work for the meal and everything but it doesn’t take anything away from the day for me

Oh and mince pies are awful, along with Christmas pudding

We don't do Santa and Elf on the Shelf is an anathema to me.....

@Soubriquet

Die Hard is not a Christmas movie

There are Christmas trees, it's a Christmas film!

When people do hampers as gifts - 9/10 it's cheap shit tat from poundland/b&m that you would never choose. It ends up costing the gifter more money than just getting one more substantial present of better quality. (That's not me hating poundland or b&m by the way - I love them but it's always the shit you don't want - like a mini hanging sign that says 'live laugh love')

I've dislike pigs in blankets. They are just too salty and greasy. I make lovely stuffing balls with sausage meat and my secret herb selection instead.

spending a bazillion hours making a lovely dinner that is wolfed down in about 10 minutes is not fun. I wish my family took longer over their meals.
I'd absolutely love to spend christmas day all on my own. I have young children, a husband and a recently widowed mum though so would really make some enemies if I did that!

My unpopular opinion (on this thread)

I adore lights & decorations
I love a full turkey dinner and enjoy preparing it.

Sprouts are my favourite vegetable.
Sometimes we put our Xmas tree up in November.
I adore fruit cake.
I love choosing, wrapping and giving gifts.

Basically I wish it could be Christmas every day.

If you weren’t obsessed with it then the post wasn’t aimed at you.

Sherry, mince pies and carrots are fine.

Elaborate schemes designed to confused kids of eight, nine, ten, not so much.

Christmas is for families

No way/it’s for everybody and anybody.

Hmm. Not sure know why I clicked on this thread. I read two page and lost the will to jingle. I don’t think people in general enjoy anything anymore do they?

I actually enjoy the "wifework" involved with christmas.

I appreciate that bot everyone does, and I'm lucky enough to have a DP who does take a partial interest, but yes, I enjoy planning, shopping, wrapping. the whole shebang.

Aaaaaaand I’ve remembered that I hate Christmas trees. Not to look at, they look lovely and they’re fun to watch my kittens destroy but when people tell me they’ve spent 8 hours MINIMUM decorating theirs I realise I’d rather stick superglue in my eyes than obsess over one myself.

Matching pjs make me cringe

Anything Christmas. No just no. I don’t want to participate in any of it, yet to function in society, you have join in with some of it.
We don’t believe in the religious side of it, or the fantasy side, would rather spend money when, on who, and on what we choose - not on over priced tat because it’s expected at Christmas. Plus why would we want to spend Christmas with people we spend the entire year avoiding spending time with?
Finally - school nativities..... No!

I like Christmas but the expectation that its the one day of the year when a visit from the children that I GAVE BIRTH TOO means something special? No just fuck off and no if you can't be fucking bothered with them the rest of the year then Christmas isn't going to be your day either 🙃 🙂

IMHO Yorkshire pudding is good with ANY other savoury food 😁

There's nothing worse than the staff xmas night out

That Christmas cake (and dark rich fruit cake in general) is wonderful. (If it's dry, there's something wrong with the one you're eating).

The only Christmas songs I like are carols - not, or not primarily, for religious reasons, but because virtually all the secular ones are naff. Mistletoe and Wine is the very worst. The tune sounds as if it was written by a three-year-old improvising.

That it's deeply Scrooge/Grinch-like to take your decorations down as soon as the day itself is over. 25th December is the beginning of Christmas, not the end.

I love Christmas shopping and choosing presents for everyone, adults too. (And no, I'm not massively well off.)

Have missed going round the shops this year

Fecking hate the smell of turkey cooking which spreads through the house

A work zoom Christmas party with games.

@Crustmasiscoming

Turkey is only dry when you cook it wrong. A properly cooked turkey is gorgeous and juicy. Stuffing again would be a cooking issue.

I do agree with the general sentiment, however. A wonderful feast shared with friends and family at Christmas is great, but I think the obsessive rules around what you must or must not have, and the military operation to get 20 different dishes on the table, ruins the whole day. Christmas dinner should be a nice meal that everyone enjoys. Fuck the rules, fuck spending the lead up to Christmas prepping and planning, fuck spending Christmas day in kitchen.

And yes, Christmas pudding is awful.

Agree that properly cooked turkey is not dry. But also agree that obsessing about the dinner is wrong. So when the kids were little, we often had dryish turkey because I refused to prioritise timing - I took the view that if we were enjoying ourselves doing something, I wouldn't stop it to go and put veg on or whatever. Hence dry turkey!

p.s. enjoying ourselves doing something may have included being in the pub....