No gravy with Christmas dinner 😱 AIBU?! (Lighthearted!)

[TheGarbageManCan]

No gravy… been with DH for nearly 11 years and married 6.5. Am sure I’ve had multiple roasts here before and at least 2 Christmas dinner before this. I know they aren’t a big fan of gravy but I’m positive they’d have made it before?

SACRILEGE I tell you - although MIL has been on the sauce all day and the turkey was delicious!

What’s have you missed today??

We had gravy. But DD (17) wasn’t satisfied, and demanded…. KETCHUP

A friend has heavy topped with salad cream! I mean smothered too!

SACRILEGE indeed.

That is shocking.

My adult dc were debating which is the best / most important part of Christmas dinner, and it was generally agreed to take gravy out of the discussion as it was so obviously the most necessary component, and would leave no debate.

What's the point! Yanbu OP! What do they do with the juices off the meat and veg????? If you say they throw it away, I would have to LTB.

This reminds me of the first time I went to my in-laws for Christmas and was most disappointed as there were NO ROAST POTATOES with Christmas dinner!!! At least there was gravy, and excellent gravy it was, too.

My husbands aunt didn’t make gravy with Christmas dinner. She made me bistro chicken gravy granules for me when I asked for the gravy 😳

I left OH to cook all the veg & he forgot to make mash. He did make yummy roast potatoes though.

We left the stuffing in the bottom oven.., we need have pigs in blankets and bread sauce though.

You need gravy…

My MIL used to do amazing Turkey and amazing stuffing, but no roast potatoes and no bread sauce. When I started bringing my own along my niece in law couldn't have been more excited, and MIL god rest her finally embraced the joy of a good roastie

I would genuinely struggle to swallow it without any gravy!

Oh hell I couldn’t cope with that. We had no stuffing but everything else was delicious.

My mum burned the gravy one year. I still feel the pain over twenty five years later!

The only reason I make turkey is to get the drippings to make gravy from scratch. It’s the most important part of the meal.

I would be heartbroken

Bread sauce. I'm the only one who likes it so apparently there was no point

My sister friend has brown sauce on her Xmas dinner

I don't know why you've posted OP. Of course it is utterly unreasonable not to serve gravy with any roast, let alone Xmas dinner! It's like not having ketchup out at a BBQ.
FWIW we had proper gravy that even 'meaty sauce'-hating DD2 admitted was actually pretty good (although it was only allowed to touch the Yorkshire pud). We also had English mustard and a homemade cranberry mustard.

We had proper homemade beef gravy but, as always, we had KFC gravy alongside for those that wanted it.

The first time i had Christmas Day away from my family, I was 23, with my then-DP, there was no mash. It had never occurred to me that anyone would not have mash with Christmas dinner! I was already emotional at my first Christmas away from my family and this was just rubbish. DP couldn’t get it - he said there’s roasties, so why would you need mash?! Idiot. Wonder why we didn’t last

I made The World's Best Roast Potatoes today ( Maris Pipers , all fluffy and rough then cooked to crispy perfection) and a batch of the Most Awesome Yorkshire Puddings .

Made gravy ( I use the water the vegetrables are steamed in with Knorr stock thingies and vegetable bisto powder )

DS is the only non vegetarian . I cooked perfect chicken ( breast)

He has food with gravy and dips it all in ketchup.

I will make the DC cook tomorrow (pizza)

I never have gravy on anything. Can't bear soggy Yorkshire puddings

@Toddlerteaplease

I never have gravy on anything. Can't bear soggy Yorkshire puddings

And that's fine, but surely you'd accept that you are in a minority and still make some for everyone else?

I once had dinner in laws (beautiful meat and veg) but no roasties. Plain mash. The centrepiece was the tub of Bisto. No radio. No TV. She asked us to sit down to get us out of the way and then fil sat down and ate. It wasn't really my scene at all. But respect their ways.

Everyone does it differently.

Also no crackers or anything. Dh never had them until we got married. Or ever been to a funfair. Different upbringing.