What are ‘all the trimmings’?

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After a slightly disappointing Christmas dinner at a relative’s house, I wondered if my idea of ‘all the trimmings’ was massively out of whack with the rest of the world?

If you did turkey dinner ‘with all the trimmings’ what did you serve?

AIBU to suspect this means very different things to different people?

I agree with you - I've had Christmas dinner at someone's house with 2 veg and no 'trimmings' at all. Mine this year was
Roast potatoes
Pigs in blankets
Bread sauce
Cauliflower cheese with broccoli
Red cabbage
Sprouts with chestnuts
Two stuffings

I can only do roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, brussels sprouts and gravy and store bought cranberry sauce.

Just the thought of any other extras exhausts me, even though I love cauliflower cheese.

I’d never have thought this included mash & croquettes!
I'm Irish if that makes a difference 🤣

I cooked roast potatoes & parsnips, pigs in blankets, sprouts, carrots, peas, broccoli, red cabbage, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, obvs gravies. I would do one less veg next time and if that felt like not enough trimmings then bugger off and cook your own bloody Christmas dinner (which is how I felt during and after cooking anyway really. Domestic goddess/ gracious hostess I Am not!!)

I'd say, variety of veg (we had carrots, roast parsnips, peas, sprouts, mash and roast potatoes) plus pigs in blankets, stuffing balls also cranberry sauce and gravy.

My sister still talks about when she went to her SIL and was served turkey with carrots, peas and potatoes. Just boiled veg.
She took 6 bottles of drink and the puddings and chocolates and crackers.

More than one type of potato?
Who has more than roast potatoes?
Why?

Ours was very simple, as none of us are huge roast fans/big eaters. We had turkey, gravy, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, peas, cranberry sauce, stuffing balls and pigs in blankets.

I think "the trimmings" are the bits you wouldn't have with an everyday roast. So pigs in blankets, extra stuffing, bread sauce, cranberry sauce AND gravy, gussied-up sprouts and you might give your root veg a swanky treatment.

It's just a slightly souped-up Sunday dinner for most (self included). Some households go all out with what should be described as a banquet, having a dozen different veg and several kinds of meat with a dizzying array of sauces and side dishes. That's definitely more "trimmed" but the over-fed stupefaction is the same!

We had

Turkey
Gammon
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
stuffing
Yorkshire Pud
Sprouts
Carrots
Broccoli
Gravy
Cranberry

A typical Sunday roast for us would be

Chicken (usually)
Stuffing
Yorkshire
Kale and/or broccoli
Gravy

So for us the "trimmings" are extra meat options, extra veg options, potatoes and cranberry sauce.

Not sure what it historically was.

Yup, so it apparently does differ quite a lot!

They served:
Turkey, Roast potatoes, stuffing balls, roast chestnuts, carrots and brussel sprouts.

I would’ve also served: pigs in blankets, roast parsnips, roast carrots and a couple of other veg and Yorkshire puddings! - And no chestnuts!

I am still massively grateful it meant I didn’t have to cook, but the pigs, parsnips and Yorkshire’s were very much missed!

Roast potatoes & optional mash
Carrots & parsnips (other root veg if liked)
Sprouts
Red cabbage
Stuffing for poultry or pork, yorkies for red meat (or both anyway if you like both).
Appropriate sauces eg cranberry & bread sauces with poultry
Several pints of gravy
Pigs in blankets

To me “all the trimmings” are the bits that are not turkey, roast potatoes, vegetables or gravy.

In our house “all the trimmings” are pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, cranberry sauce, bread sauce, Yorkshire puddings and potato croquettes. The bits we don’t necessarily have with an ordinary roast dinner.

Pigs in blankets
sprouts in an interesting way
cheesy cauliflower or leeks
homemade stuffing
red cabbage
roast potatoes and parsnips
posh gravy

Yorkshire puddings no those go with beef not Turkey. Mash is just plain weird.

Roast potatoes, sprouts, braised cabbage, cauliflower cheese, carrots, parsnips, stuffing, pigs in blankets, gravy, cranberry sauce

Turkey
Beef
Gammon
Pigs in blankets
Cauliflower cheese
Sprouts with bacon
Roasted carrots
Roasted parsnips
Broccoli
Yorkshire puddings
Home made gravy
Roast potatoes
Homemade bread sauce
Home made cranberry sauce

And stuffing

our trimmings were pigs in blankets
stuffing balls
Yorkshire puddings
cranberry sauce
roast potatoes
roasted parsnips
carrots
Brussel sprouts
red cabbage
gravy
and of course the turkey

All the trimmings which doesn't include pigs is borderline criminal 🤯

Roast potatoes. Roast carrot, parsnip, roast onion quarters, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, sprouts, braised red cabbage, pigs in blankets, two types of stuffing (sage and onion and chestnut).

Basically, different and much richer sides than we would have with a standard Sunday roast. (Which are already quite rich!)

Gravy, and cranberry sauce or whichever sauce goes best with the meat we're having, as we don't always have turkey.

I’m agog at all the mash and now cauliflower cheese has entered the trimmings arena!

Turkey crown stuffed
Roasties (always make twice as many as I think we’ll need)
Pigs in blankets
Chestnut stuffing balls
Sprouts with bacon
Roast carrots & parsnips
Cauli cheese
Yorkshire pudding
Braised red cabbage
Gravy
Cranberry sauce

I get a bit gluttonous at Christmas dinner but not everyone has everything. They help themselves.

For us it typically means

Yorkshire pudding
pigs in blankets
roast potatoes
mash
stuffing
large variety of vegetables
gravy

I served turkey with roast potatoes and parsnips, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, roasted and steamed carrots and Brussels sprouts, Yorkshire puddings and my vegetarian main (which was a strata). Then bread sauce, gravy (meat and vegetarian) and cranberry sauce (from a jar). To me that’s all the trimmings. I really dislike the word trimmings though.

The veg I did (so not the trimmings in our house) were roast potatoes, roast parsnips, boiled carrots, steamed sprouts, Cauliflower cheese, red cabbage and mashed Swede. It all got eaten.