Your unpopular Christmas opinions

[LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet]

Yorkshire puddings belong on a Christmas dinner

Christmas dinner - other than Yorkshires and pigs in blankets - is fucking disgusting, and that goes for every course

Elf is a crap movie.

Too many parents get over invested in their child believing in Santa. The reason they love Santa is because he brings a shit load of toys. As long as they’re still getting the toys they’re happy.

That all of it. ALL OF IT. is just a leftover pagan ritual to help us forget about/pass the time on the longest night of the year. That's it. One small warm meaningful gift somewhere cosy with people who genuinely want to be there and like you, that's it, that's all you really need.

Families who buy each other gifts which include those for distant aunts, uncles, second cousins when they haven’t got a pot to piss in. Limit it to children only when relatives are obviously struggling . Better still do a good turn instead of buying an adult a crappy gift.

Cranberry sauce is yuck 🤮
Ditto bread sauce 🤮

1. Christmas cake tastes vile.

2. Secret Santa should have died a long time ago.

3. Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is a bloody fantastic song.

4. I still send Christmas cards and have no intention of stopping until they literally become extinct. It's a lovely tradition.

I didn’t mention bread sauce, but you have read my mind. Bread sauce is vile 🤮 and your recipe does not make me change my mind 😂

It goes on for too long, it’s only three days for heavens sake, but the media start it on 1st December.

also, if your family is fragmented it can be very painful, you can end up just watching another family’s Christmas, which is lonely, even if you are not on your own.

I’m not American but I wish we could swap Thanksgiving for Christmas one year. No presents, just getting together to be…thankful.

A acquired taste, but I love them!

The only thing stopping you having a xmas like that is you.
If you want it, make it happen. You might be surprised how many would like the same.

@xmaslurgy cheesy footballs taste like vomit!

I do not like or understand the obsession with Breadsauce
The John Lennon song makes me depressed and is now banned in our home or car

My favourite things about Christmas are Christmas carols at church and the fancy foods that come out, like orange hot chocolate and different chutney flavours. I do like presents, I don't buy for lots of different people, but I have a few people I exchange presents with so I like to find things I know they'll like!

I love mince pies and Christmas pudding and Christmas cake!

This. I refuse to run myself ragged, buying presents for adults who can go and buy their own stuff. The whole consumerism of Christmas is obscene, as far as I am concerned.

This.
Something they want or need is ok, if they actually do need or want it, but I wouldn't want something to read or wear because the giver would probably have different taste.

Christmas Eve boxes and Elf on the Shelf are a waste of time

I like turkey dinner and turkey curry and turkey sandwiches and turkey everything

People should be more sociable at Christmas - I don't like the way everyone closes in on themselves and you are only allowed to see family. Not everyone has a family to see.

I was given Betty Boothroyd's book a few years and had a nano second to contort my face into an expression of joy and thanks.

Turkey is boring
Christmas pudding is vile
Mince pies are revolting
Christmas Eve boxes are just yet another consumerist reason to spend money on pointless tat
Christmas pyjamas, jumpers, bed linen, tea towels etc. - all shite
Most Christmas songs and carols are excruciatingly awful, especially Fairytale of New York
Getting together with family you barely know, let alone like, and pretending you're enjoying each other's company - WHY???

Yorkshire pudding, bread sauce (without turkey), Love Actually, Baileys, Advocaat, prawn cocktail, orange and lemon slices, real ham, Wensleydale cheese with cranberries in it - all brilliant.

The "something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read" rule of present giving lacks any joy

Not really, that is four presents that they will probably actually want and will not be a waste of money or be tat. Win win. The amount of waste at Christmas is obscene and not very joyous.

The bit where your guests inform you what they're bringing to "help". Only you don't need wine, because you just spent a fortune on two cases, you wanted them to bring cheese or gin. Really fucked off I'll be left with tonnes of wine and have to go buy cheese and gin. Already spent £300 on food.

I used to be a Christmas nut. I now much prefer Easter. Christmas has lost its “christmassy”. Easter is like Christmas but without the pressure and nicer weather for me. I really enjoy it.

and I fucking hate Christmas chart music. Old old classics are great but all the 70s/80s/90s songs depress me to the hilt.

I’m not sure if this has been said already but piles of presents that the person doesn’t really want feels tacky to me.
Yorkshires are a must.
It’s basically just a roast dinner so I don’t think we need to spend hours in the kitchen.
Going on and on and on about the bargains you got in Christmas shopping also feels tacky.
Sprouts are for life not just for Christmas.

Christmas should be cancelled.

Shit music. Too much useless tat bought. Impossible to get practical things done as everyone’s on the sofa, farting, having stuffed their face.

Piles of presents, 1st december boxes, Christmas Eve boxes, matching PJs, naughty elves, over priced priced shitty gift sets are bollocks.

I do love Christmas though, with my loose rules of a reasonable amount of gifts, one Santa visit and ignoring all the commercialised/Americanised bullshit.

I finish work tomorrow afternoon and plan to have the jack doneghy Kennedy package from then until January 1st.

Christmas is a carry over of the old pagan midwinter festival that celebrates the return of the sun.
It's OK, as long as people don't go mad. Presents yes, bankruptcy no.
Goose is better and more traditional than turkey.
Most of the recent fads, like pyjamas, jumpers, bedding, elf on shelf, Christmas Eve boxes, for god's sake, can get to fuck. Consumerism gone mad and contributing to pollution, landfill, etc.
It's not the same without Dr Who.

Tinsel does not belong on a Christmas tree

that is all