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To ask what you think of this xmas dinner

318 replies

Shereturnsforonemore · 27/12/2022 15:53

Ok here goes
microwave pulled pork
frozen Brussels
frozen roast potatoes
frozen yorkshire pudding
ah bisto

Christmas pudding ( ready made) with tin custard.

drinks were a selection of beer vodka rose wine cider and soft drinks and fruit shoots

What would your reaction be ?

yanbu sounds nice
yabu yuk

OP posts:
Comedycook · 27/12/2022 16:49

Honestly...I think it sounds disgusting. I can cope with one of two components being cooked from frozen..but all of it? Yuk. Frozen Brussel sprouts sounds gross. I prefer fresh veg. Frozen roast potatoes are rarely delicious. Sounds like the kind of dinner I cobble together if I haven't been shopping. I'd be really disappointed.

ErinTingey · 27/12/2022 16:49

I'd rather have a frozen meal with the OP if the other choice was a completely cooked from scratch meal with most of the stuck up snobby bitches on here.

Wow, someone got out of bed on the wrong side this morning

FarFlungFlamingo · 27/12/2022 16:50

One of the very few benefits of being coeliac is I'm rarely in the position where people can spring a surprise meal on me and I have to be polite about it!

Minikievs · 27/12/2022 16:51

Iamblossom · 27/12/2022 15:56

I would be delighted if someone has gone to the effort of providing me with a meal and reminded anyone being rude enough to judge it that cooking does not come naturally to everyone.

This

Benjispruce4 · 27/12/2022 16:51

So long as the frozen stuff is cooked, would be tasty if a little untraditional.

Cas112 · 27/12/2022 16:52

Wouldn't be what I would do for Christmas dinner but each for there own

DampSquids · 27/12/2022 16:52

Loving all the people pretending that they wouldn’t be straight into AIBU to start their own thread if they’d been served microwaved meat for Christmas dinner.

ErrolTheDragon · 27/12/2022 16:52

In the circumstances you describe, if the company was convivial and relaxed it'd be fine.

diddl · 27/12/2022 16:52

Shereturnsforonemore · 27/12/2022 16:06

So time for context.
We can't cook so when its our turn we normally pay for going out for xmas dinner.
We moved house less then two weeks ago and with all the faff we forgot to book anything for 9 people so thats why everyone had a frozen xmas dinner this year.

Everyone knew the menu and pulled pork was decided by everyone.

Inn that case I think that forewarned is forearmed.

People could have said no/offered to bring stuff/cooked at yours.

Benjispruce4 · 27/12/2022 16:53

I do wish people would stop being such snobs about frozen food. Frozen veg are fresher than fresh unless it’s just been picked .

StrawberryWater · 27/12/2022 16:53

I prefer fresh stuff to frozen but I wouldn’t turn my nose up at free food so I’d eat it without complaint.

Puppers · 27/12/2022 16:53

It sounds awful to me but if you were genuinely all happy with it then it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

PlanningTowns · 27/12/2022 16:53

The frozen roasties would be the downfall for me.

we had frozen turkey, Brussels, yorkshires, peas and carrots. So the potatoes are the only real difference! Our frozen Yorkshire’s were a disappointment and I should have made my own.

Cas112 · 27/12/2022 16:54

Shereturnsforonemore · 27/12/2022 16:21

No one cared and everyone mentioned how nice this year was as there was no pressure to finish it all as it had zero effort.

It was our turn to host and we wanted everyone to see our new house.

It really doesn't matter whats on your plate.

They have 100% not been honest with you about what they thought.. even if you think they have. Ask them what they think compared to previous Christmas dinners 😂

shinynewapple22 · 27/12/2022 16:54

I wouldn't have wanted pulled pork - but I don't see what is wrong with frozen veg if you are short of time or not used to cooking .

I don't think there is any such thing as 'normal' by the way - particularly when it comes to food!

CraigDavid · 27/12/2022 16:55

It sounds grim. For me Christmas Day lunch or dinner should be indulgent and celebratory. That sounds neither.

Fairislefandango · 27/12/2022 16:55

I'd rather have a frozen meal with the OP if the other choice was a completely cooked from scratch meal with most of the stuck up snobby bitches on here.

Yes, wanting a proper cooked-from-scratch, traditional meal on the one major remaining traditional UK cultural feast in the whole year definitely makes you a 'snobby bitch' Hmm

FfeminyddCymraeg · 27/12/2022 16:55

I know I wouldn’t have enjoyed this and been really upset to miss out on my favourite meal of the year - sorry OP.

I get that people say they ‘can’t cook’ but there are so made ready to cook Christmas dinners around that you could have made more of an effort and chucked on some carrots and peas, at least.

gogohmm · 27/12/2022 16:55

Frozen Brussels are grim - no issue with the frozen roast potatoes or cauliflower but steaming fresh Brussels and throwing quartered carrots (or whole chantenay) carrots into roast with a little oil isn't exactly complicated.

Comedycook · 27/12/2022 16:55

You could have bought ready made nicer stuff...so potatoes that have been prepped and are ready to roast from the chilled section rather than frozen. They are nicer. A pre prepped Turkey crown. Or those ready made chilled Yorkshire's rather than frozen. A bag of fresh green veg that's been prepped and just needs to be steamed. Or a tub of posh ready made gravy rather than gravy granules

HowSadSteps · 27/12/2022 16:55

We had turkey, ham, all the trimmings, three sauces, eight different kinds of veg (and a massive row between the two stressed-to-breaking-point cooks).

Merry Xmas - no one ever gets the food quite right!

Bpdqueen · 27/12/2022 16:56

It sounds fine to me

PleaseDontSayEvriIsMyCourier · 27/12/2022 16:56

I'd enjoy someone cooking me a meal. Anyone rude enough to judge a meal provided to them has something dramatically wrong with their values.

bingoitsadingo · 27/12/2022 16:57

Personally I would be a bit disappointed with that meal. But moving house is so stressful and time consuming that I wouldn’t expect someone who had just moved to host Christmas dinner and would happily have offered to host instead. If I wasn’t willing to do that and no one else could host either then I certainly wouldn’t complain about what I was served.

Fufumcgoo · 27/12/2022 16:57

It's not my Christmas Dinner, but it sounds great. Wouldn't complain if someone had been kind enough to cook it for me 😊