Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To realise I've completely misunderstood this Christmas dish

159 replies

strawberriesplease · 13/12/2022 22:52

Bear with me as my excuse is I'm vegetarian.

With friends who were talking about their Christmas dinner. Said they were having a three bird roast, and I really thought the birds were all stuffed into each other.

I just couldn't figure out how that happened.

Blush
OP posts:
yesforone · 14/12/2022 04:21

This concoction may turn more of meat eaters vegan. Sounds revolting.

yesforone · 14/12/2022 04:22

More of us meat eaters

OldTinHat · 14/12/2022 05:34

I love a three or five bird roast, always have one for Christmas!

Can categorically confirm that each bird is deboned, smallest is in the middle and the next largest is wrapped around it and so on. No pate involved!

SpicyFoodRocks · 14/12/2022 05:42

I have been increasingly thinking of becoming vegetarian. This thread may have finally disgusted me into it. Humans are quite gross.

RampantIvy · 14/12/2022 06:20

I'm amazed at some of the hysterical overreactions on here, and love the humorous ones.

The Morrisons offering sounds rather nice however as only two if us eat meat we well be having mushroom Wellington for Christmas dinner.

Banjoman · 14/12/2022 06:54

Phrenologistsfinger · 14/12/2022 00:33

It’s not that much worse but it is pretty depraved. But then I think cooking a baby in its mother’s milk is grim as well (veal in cream sauce anyone?).

Show quote history

Oh you came on to lecture people about meat eating? Not to answer the question.

Banjoman · 14/12/2022 06:56

RampantIvy · 14/12/2022 06:20

I'm amazed at some of the hysterical overreactions on here, and love the humorous ones.

The Morrisons offering sounds rather nice however as only two if us eat meat we well be having mushroom Wellington for Christmas dinner.

Is that an actual Wellington Boot?

do you get a posh version that use’s post wellingtons?

😂

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2022 06:57

I have been increasingly thinking of becoming vegetarian. This thread may have finally disgusted me into it. Humans are quite gross.

Why is it any more gross than just eating meat in a 'standard' way?

Either you find eating animals gross (fine) or you don't (also fine).

RampantIvy · 14/12/2022 06:58

Grin @Banjoman

RampantIvy · 14/12/2022 07:00

Exactly @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll. It can't be much different from having two or three meats on a plate at a carvery. The meat eaters' reactions to this is astonishing and rather childish TBH.

I used to be a member of a foodie forum and several other posters used to like the idea of a three bird roast.

ActionThisDay · 14/12/2022 07:00

Another omnivore here who finds this idea revolting, one up from the meaty forfeits on IACGMOOH.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2022 07:01

Is that an actual Wellington Boot?

Grin

I must warn you that the Dover sole is also really tasteless and extremely chewy!

RampantIvy · 14/12/2022 07:01

nother omnivore here who finds this idea revolting

Why?

PleaseTakeItOff · 14/12/2022 07:02

villamariavintrapp · 13/12/2022 23:34

What an undignified end to their lives..

They don’t do it when they’re still alive

ActionThisDay · 14/12/2022 07:08

RampantIvy · 14/12/2022 07:01

nother omnivore here who finds this idea revolting

Why?

I think it’s important to acknowledge you are eating meat- that an animal died for your meal, and to treat that fact with respect. So appreciate it, don’t waste it, don’t turn it into just a layer between two other birds. I find it disrespectful, just as it would be disrespectful to throw it away uneaten.

A pointless waste, which presumably comes from people wanting to create a sense of festive over-abundance - we have so much food we’re stuffing birds inside each other to create a massive block of meat! It turns my stomach.

IHeartGeneHunt · 14/12/2022 07:08

Aldi do them sometimes. I like it.

Banjoman · 14/12/2022 07:17

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2022 07:01

Is that an actual Wellington Boot?

Grin

I must warn you that the Dover sole is also really tasteless and extremely chewy!

😂

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2022 07:23

So appreciate it, don’t waste it, don’t turn it into just a layer between two other birds. I find it disrespectful, just as it would be disrespectful to throw it away uneaten.

But it IS eaten - it's not just used as a removable wrapper.

How is it more noble to eat a steak in all its recognisable 'glory' rather than, say, bolognaise sauce or chicken soup, where the meat has been minced or cut up very finely and 'disguised'?

RampantIvy · 14/12/2022 07:26

ActionThisDay · 14/12/2022 07:08

I think it’s important to acknowledge you are eating meat- that an animal died for your meal, and to treat that fact with respect. So appreciate it, don’t waste it, don’t turn it into just a layer between two other birds. I find it disrespectful, just as it would be disrespectful to throw it away uneaten.

A pointless waste, which presumably comes from people wanting to create a sense of festive over-abundance - we have so much food we’re stuffing birds inside each other to create a massive block of meat! It turns my stomach.

Show quote history

Such a hysterical over reaction. Do you only ever have one thing on your plate at a time and only eat plain food?

Do you consider turkey with a sausage meat stuffing or chicken breast wrapped in Parma ham "disrespectful"?

ActionThisDay · 14/12/2022 07:38

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/12/2022 07:23

So appreciate it, don’t waste it, don’t turn it into just a layer between two other birds. I find it disrespectful, just as it would be disrespectful to throw it away uneaten.

But it IS eaten - it's not just used as a removable wrapper.

How is it more noble to eat a steak in all its recognisable 'glory' rather than, say, bolognaise sauce or chicken soup, where the meat has been minced or cut up very finely and 'disguised'?

I get that. It's the lack of appreciation and celebration of over-consumption, I suppose. I genuinely find it revolting.

ActionThisDay · 14/12/2022 07:40

RampantIvy · 14/12/2022 07:26

Such a hysterical over reaction. Do you only ever have one thing on your plate at a time and only eat plain food?

Do you consider turkey with a sausage meat stuffing or chicken breast wrapped in Parma ham "disrespectful"?

Show quote history

What on earth is "hysterical" about my perfectly calm post? You asked me to explain why I find it revolting and I did so. The fact my view (and that of plenty of people on the thread) is different from yours doesn't make it hysterical, and you might want to watch if that's your go-to word for criticising other women.

Wdib78 · 14/12/2022 07:44

I once ordered a 3 bird "mini roast" from a nearby rather expensive farmshop one Christmas, not for the Christmas Dinner but for 1 day of the Christmas period just the 2 of us, when I unpacked all the food I said "wow look at this, think I'm gonna need a few pigs in blankets to pad this meal out" .

It was literally a chicken breast stuffed with duck and pheasant 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

£6 I think it was and around 10 years ago.

I ordered it from their Christmas catalogue so not like it in rl first lol.

Wdib78 · 14/12/2022 07:45

"Not like I saw it in real life" meant to say

knittingaddict · 14/12/2022 07:47

I'm so confused by your posts op.

So you thought a 3 bird roast was one thing (the correct thing). Then thought it was something else (the wrong thing). You are now astonished that it is indeed the thing you first thought it was. Is that right?

Where does the pate thing come from?

knittingaddict · 14/12/2022 07:55

ActionThisDay · 14/12/2022 07:08

I think it’s important to acknowledge you are eating meat- that an animal died for your meal, and to treat that fact with respect. So appreciate it, don’t waste it, don’t turn it into just a layer between two other birds. I find it disrespectful, just as it would be disrespectful to throw it away uneaten.

A pointless waste, which presumably comes from people wanting to create a sense of festive over-abundance - we have so much food we’re stuffing birds inside each other to create a massive block of meat! It turns my stomach.

Show quote history

Eh? I don't understand your logic. It's not like you eat more because it's more than one form of poultry. You also eat the whole lot. Where's the waste?

You also sound a bit joyless. Christmas is supposed to be a feast. The whole point of Christmas Dinner is abundance.