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.

Sanctimonious arseholes who say that the only reason your turkey is dry is because you are a shitter cook than them.

That lasagne and garlic bread is a perfect Christmas dinner if it's your family's favourite. We had it one year, chosen by the children.

My Christmas hates are:
Elf on the shelf
Christmas Eve boxes
The trend for buying a gift for every single person your child has come into contact with, teachers, club leaders, etc.

Cinnamon is the devils dandruff stop putting it in every fucking festive drink and candle that exists!!!

@PyongyangKipperbang

Sanctimonious arseholes who say that the only reason your turkey is dry is because you are a shitter cook than them.

Sanctimony aside - it is true.

@GADDay

It really isnt. I have relatives who are chefs and neither of them will cook turkey out of choice. I am in the restaurant biz and I havent met a chef yet who doesnt hate the Xmas menu! They accept that you can make a turkey nice and juicy but the effort involves artificially making something dry into something juicy and the taste (or lack of) isnt worth it. This is why we as a family have chicken or duck or (once as it was expensive) goose.

When people tell me that they hope I like their gift, it’s something expensive, different, or they’ve put a lot of thought into it, queue the worry that you haven’t brought a good enough gift, panicking and then going out to spend more cash on more stuff, only to open their gift and realise you shouldn’t have bothered.

Don’t like the way some open their gifts in a massive frenzy all at once.

Don’t like how everywhere around the message is eat and eat and then as soon as January hits it’s all about losing weight.

Christmas Day is just ok, but it’s the run up to Christmas I really love.

I actually prefer Christmas Eve to Christmas Day I find once presents are done then dinner, it’s over then/ oh don’t get me started ads straight away after Christmas diets, ect.

I don’t think children should have piles of presents, just to open. I think they’d appreciate their presents much more if there were fewer, more meaningful ones. I also think presents should be opened at intervals throughout the day.

Just my opinion though!

I love Christmas pudding, and Christmas cake (with cheese). Love sprouts too. Leftovers are all the veg, mashed up and fried the next morning- topped with poached eggs.

Pigs in blankets are the food of the devil.

Bread sauce is vile vile stuff. Looks and tastes like chewed up and spat out bread.

I don’t understand people who put decorations up in November when it’s not Christmas and take them down on Boxing Day when it is

I’d rather have no tree than an artificial one

Christmas Eve boxes are naff

Those signs that people get that say “Christmas at the Blobby’s” (misplaced apostrophe done deliberately) make me cringe

I don’t understand people who put decorations up in November when it’s not Christmas and take them down on Boxing Day when it is.

I'll drink to that!

All those deserts full of booze and dried fruit can get to fuck.

I don't like Christmas.

Christmas is naff - all this nonsense of real tree versus artificial tree and flashy outside decorations - it’s all daft - the very essence of Christmas it pure tacky nonsense- trying to make it look classy makes you look even more silly...enjoy what you like but don’t delude yourselves that it’s classy, it really isn’t - you just look too try hard.

Going on this thread - I actually like giving and receiving Christmas presents even as an adult. More to children but I still like it.

@KatherineJaneway

There should be no sponge in the jelly of a trifle.

There should be no jelly in a trifle.

“Sprouts - farts posing as leaves”

This is brilliant! What an apt description.

@EverybodystalkingaboutJamie

Christmas is naff - all this nonsense of real tree versus artificial tree and flashy outside decorations - it’s all daft - the very essence of Christmas it pure tacky nonsense- trying to make it look classy makes you look even more silly...enjoy what you like but don’t delude yourselves that it’s classy, it really isn’t - you just look too try hard.

It's not supposed to be classy.

It's supposed to be silly, cheesy, fun. It's a time of year for family, happiness, easy acceptance of good cheer.

This thread is sad.

I hate Christmas cards and they go in the bin as they are opened here. Thankfully people have got the hint that we don’t send them to anyone and we get very few these days.
I write them for my class because I know there are a couple of children who may receive very few, potentially none, and that would break my heart for them. As a child, you’re keenly aware of people getting things if you don’t.
As for grown up adult family members who make an actual choice to be offended they didn’t receive a card from me, that says more about them than it does me. I make sure I phone and chat with anyone I might have sent cards to.
That will do.

I spoil my children materially at Christmas. Always have done. They are not spoilt, ruined brats.

I let my dc decorate the tree every year. It looks like a chaotic mess and wouldn’t have it any other way. We are not a ‘tasteful tree’ family.

I dislike most typical Christmas foods. We don’t have Turkey, I don’t like mince pies, Christmas pudding and generally anything containing manky dried fruit.

I have never done elf on the shelf, winter wonderland, Christmas ice skating or proper Santa visits.

Contrary to my grinchy sounding ways, we manage to have a wonderful Christmas every year

Sprouts - spawn of Satan. Secret santa - always end up with things I wouldn't drink/buy/eat/use. Sending Christmas cards, costs mount up as not only buying cards but cost of postage as well, take forever to write and can never find address book. Yearly update letters, in this age of social media, why bother, it's probably already on Facebook/Instagram anyway.

My unpopular (?) opinions are:
I love all the work associated with Christmas. Choosing and buying presents, wrapping them, filling stockings, food shopping, hosting and cooking, all of it.

I love giving others presents and seeing them enjoy the day, I don't really like receiving presents.

I hate the office secret Santa, and I hate buying gifts for teachers etc. You know they don't want the tat, but sticking a £10 Amazon voucher in a card seems rude.

Christmas cake is amazing.

The best part of Christmas day is the buffet in the evening.

I don't like spending Christmas with my small family when there are no kids involved, it feels forced and joyless to me.

Pretty much all of it sucks

If I'm being really honest the only part of Christmas I really like are the lights.

But I try really hard to get behind Christmas for my children. In fact I give at least a month of my life every year to Christmas shit. I'm not religious. We're not religious. There is nothing religious about our Christmas. And it's a month of my life spent on a dishonest mid winter festival. Every single year.