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.

The one expression I really dislike is 'Are you ready for Christmas?' ... I have a rather passive aggressive reply now 'It's hardly a surprise, it's always 25th December every year isn't it?'

-Turkey is bland
-Excessive gifting at Christmas serves no purpose but to clog up landfill
-The Christmas Dinner should be whatever the hell you want it to be (come boxing day i will be making Persian food )

• selection boxes should go back to being a gift in and of itself as they are bloody lovely

Yorkshire puddings and gravy are welcome in any meal!

@enigma16 I agree with all your points! Kindred Christmas spirits

Another vote here for Fairytale of Fuckin New Fucking York to fuck off to the far side of fuck.

Heard it way too much now and it wasn't that great to start with (although admittedly a slight improvement on most wanky Christmas pop songs).

What sort of weirdo would have Yorkshires with anything other than beef?

Toad in the hole?

I love Yorkshire puds though. May eat my whole Christmas Dinner out of one

My unpopular opinion: spend what you want, put your tree up when you want, elf/Christmas Eve box/toy advent calanders. Just celebrate however you feel like. I don't think you can do Christmas 'wrong' if it's your own way.

DH and his family insisting on buying adults presents every year even though nobody needs anything. They look me like I've suggested murdering someone when I ask why don't you just get children's presents.

Previous years 'present lists' have included things like printer paper and screen wash 🤯. Often there's no list provided and they just buy each other random tat.

What a waste of time and money. Winds me up every year and I'll never understand it.

I don't eat meat, have issues with gluten (awaiting confirmation of coeliac disease) and don't like dried fruit or alcohol. I am a joy to take out for Christmas dinner

[quote Ilovesugar]@DdraigGoch me!! Fricken love Yorkshire puddings with every meat for a Sunday dinner, I would actually substitute Yorkshire pudding for meat....I may have an issue![/quote]
If you are, I am.

That eating too much is not enjoyable.

Christmas is just a huge waste of time and money and it really ought to be cancelled. Maybe we could just do it on leap years for those who absolutely must .....

Fruit does not belong in cake!

Parents shouldn't lie that presents are from santa when they're not, I feel it ruins the whole "magic of Christmas".

I'm not particularly fond of turkey - we have small Christmas dinners usually so generally have a chicken. Interesting though that people feel it isn't "traditional" to have turkey - it has been a feature of the British Christmas since the 17th century and by the mid to late 19th century it was firmly ensconced on the menu. Even A Christmas Carol features a turkey! So it's no less "traditional" than, say, a Christmas tree.

Yorkshire puds go with every meal that gravy does. Fact. Al all roast dinners should have gravy and Yorkshires.

Brussel sprouts are horrible no matter how you cook them.

If you are, I am.

If you have, I have too. I should have typed.

I'm a bah humbug but I don't mind Christmas dinner and I really miss my inlaws one which was ace! They really could cook lovely roast potatoes and we had Yorkshire puds. I've yet to recreate it but I've learned that buttering up your Turkey really does stop it being too dry.
Not keen on the rest of it. Mostly over hyped and too much pressure when the kids are young to make it ' magical' I just wasn't that person.
I'm glad I didn't have to do ' elf on a shelf'
What is that all about?
People who love it all drive me a bit nuts especially as they think I'm odd for not embracing it all! Each to their own.

I love secret santa, as long as there's a decent budget. The £5/£10 ones are pointless.

'Believing in Santa' is often more about the parents than the children. And I secretly find it grim when they control their children with threats of Santa not coming.

Tinsel always looks horrible.

If you haven't purchased the last things you apparently desperately need for Christmas by lunch time on Christmas eve I could not give less of a shit. I want it to go quiet so I can go home and be with MY family. Yes retail staff have families too- shocking isn't it.

Christmas is just a huge waste of time and money and it really ought to be cancelled. Maybe we could just do it on leap years for those who absolutely must .....

Nobody has a pair of balls big enough to actually do this. Well some have but the majority will carry on as normal. And why not ?

I resent Christmas Diktats i.e. You WILL put your tree and lights up early this year just because it's 2020. You WILL have a Christmas Eve box wtaf ? Damn Elf on a shelf should be banned. It's just an excuse to cheat children out of their Christmas presents IMO. You WILL wear a Christmas Jumper to work on the specified day like it's the 11th fucking commandment. What other day of the year would it be acceptable to tell someone what clothes to wear ?

Being told your a Scrooge and a Grinch if you don't follow someone else's Christmas (attention seeking) diktat. Which is as unChristmassy as it comes.

Hate Elf on the shelf, parents trying to out do one another, being risqué and trying to shock people.
Christmas Eve boxes - WTF! There is enough shit being handed out on the day itself but let’s crate another box with stuff to be handed out the day before!
Matching family pyjamas.... just wrong
Fruit cake/Christmas pudding/mince pies - also wrong

Yorkshire puddings on the other hand make Christmas dinner complete..... and to say otherwise is being unreasonable

@TeenyTinyDustinHoffman

That it's not being a killjoy to state that Christmas is overly commercialised or that people are stupid to spend money they haven't got and go into debt for Christmas.

That a lot of parents are way too invested in the "magic of Christmas" and maintaining their children's belief in Santa.

This.

The hysteria of grown adults about giving their children a magical Christmas, even if it means getting into debt.

Santa "experiences" that cost £50, visits to Lapland, Christmas Eve boxes, spending £1,000 on each child, spending an hour each night setting up an Elf in the Shelf scene, going to painstaking lengths to make Santa seem real...

Don't complain when they're entitled teenagers, that's all I'm saying.

Wrapping presents (except for kids) is a pointless waste of time. I am totally shit at it anyway so all my presents end up looking like they have been wrapped by a drunk chimpanzee. Pretty gift bags all the way for adults.

I guess from this thread that my unpopular opinion is that Yorkshire puddings do belong on a Christmas dinner.
Mint jelly is a staple Christmas sauce.
Gift giving for adults is an unnecessary chore and waste of money.
The Coca-Cola advert needs an update.

Christmas eve is much better than Christmas day.

If people describe your Christmas decorations/coloured lights/blue lights as Tacky you should take it as a compliment.

Tiny white lights and decorations crafted from bits of wood and pinecones are quite boring.

The Glade Christmas edition plug-in smells lovely.

I like Stacey Solomon's Christmas door display.

Christmas presents should be only for immediate family under one roof and maybe parents/inlaws as they buy for their grandchildren. I honestly don't want to stress about what to get for my bil or sil and I honestly don't want to receive anymore soap and for that matter, I don't want to think about siblings too especially if you have a meh relationship with them.

I hate turkey meat too and very much prefer lamb. I don't mind the trimmings though...

I find some of the more aggressive posts on here about maintaining the belief in Santa more than a little sinister.