What are ‘all the trimmings’?

[HurricaneZeldaAndToto]

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?

Ours were
gravy, apple sauce, cranberry sauce
roasy potatoes, dauphinoise potatoes, carrots, parsnip, peas, sprouts, cheesy leeks, swede mash, stuffing and pigs in blankets.

i could happily ditch most though and just have the roast potatoes, swede mash and sprouts

Basic Main Christmas Dinner:

Turkey or bird/meat of choice,
Roast Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Carrots
Brussel Sprouts
Roast Parsnips
Gravy

All the trimmings if having a bird:

Pigs in Blankets
Thick Bread Sauce - not pouring
Cranberry Sauce Plain
Cranberry Sauce with port
Chestnut Stuffing
Sausagemeat Stuffing

Boxing Day - Main Meal:

Cold Turkey
Cold Ham/Gammon
Bubble and squeak - mashed pots & sprouts

All the trimmings:

Cold Pigs in Blankets
Cold Thick Bread Sauce
Cranberry Sauce
Stuffings
Pickled Onions
Piccalilli
Pickled Red Cabbage - from jar.
😋🤤😋🤤😋🤤🎄

Roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, peas, cauliflower cheese, brussel sprouts (I don’t eat them but expect to see them!), gravy, cranberry sauce, bread sauce.

Trimmings in our house are roasties, pigs in blankets, broccoli, Brussels, beans, carrots, parsnips, stuffing made with sausage meat, cranberry sauce (bought and homemade), bread sauce, Yorkshire puddings. It used to include Delian’s Christmas red cabbage, Parmesan roasted potatoes and parsnips and bacon in the Brussels but DCs are too young to appreciate those so we stick to the basics atm.

Pigs in Blankets, Sausage Meat balls, stuffing, sprouts, peas, carrots, cauliflower cheese, gravy, roast potatoes and honey roast parsnips. Cranberry sauce/and or bread sauce is what I serve as "trimmings"

Alongside our meat we have:
Roast potatoes
Roast carrots and parsnips
Brussel sprouts
Red cabbage
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Yorkshire pudding
Gravy and cranberry sauce

Essential
Turkey
Stuffing
Gravy
Roast potatoes
Pigs in blankets
Some kind of veg, ideally sprouts, maybe a carrot and swede mash

Optional:
Cauliflower cheese
Cranberry sauce

I'd say a standard roast dinner is meat, roast potatoes, 2x veg, gravy, whichever sauce is appropriate.

So I consider trimmings to be anything over and above this. This year we had beef and with it we had:

Roasties
Truffle mash
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Red cabbage
Carrot and swede purée
Pigs in blankets
Sausagemeat stuffing balls
Yorkshire puds
Cauliflower cheese

I don’t go as overboard as some people do on here but no yorkshires is literally a sin!

It is not a roast without Yorkshire puddings!

We had roast beef, or veggie nut roast (none of us are turkey fans)

Trimmings included Savoy cabbage, roasted carrots and parsnips, roast potatoes, Yorkshires, horseradish.

Not what a lot of people might think of when it comes to Christmas dinner, but it was bleddy ansum!

Oh and sprouts obvs

Roast potatoes, roast carrots, roast parsnips, stuffing, sprouts, pigs in blankets, gravy.

I don't see the point of more than one type of potato, certainly not croquettes! Can't abide cranberry sauce (aka jam), don't like any sort of fruity accompaniment with meat. Yorkshire puddings belong with beef in my opinion.

Mash
roasties
roast parsnips
carrots
peas
cauli cheese
red cabbage
stuffing
nut roast
veggie pigs in blankets
sprouts
broccoli
cranberry sauce
best gravy ever

I think I’ve just had one of those brain exploding moments!

I always thought people put out a large horseradish sauce with Xmas dinner!!

It must be BREAD SAUCE! And I had no idea!!! 😂

I never tried it, as I always have cranberry. But it looks exactly the same!

I am going to buy some tomorrow!

Roast potatoes
Roast carrots and parsnips
Sprouts sautéed with pancetta and chestnuts
Sausage meat stuffing
Braised red cabbage
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

Oh and of course pigs in blankets!

Oh, I always thought yorkshires were only for roast beef?
Never even considered having them with turkey and ham.

Oooh I love a dauphinoise

Hm. I wouldn't eat turkey if you paid me, but I would guess most people expect pigs with it. I would want roast potatoes, mash, at least five different vegetables (savoy, carrots, swede, peas, green beans for choice), good gravy, two kinds of stuffing, bread sauce and cranberry sauce.

Are you from England OP? Might be wrong but I always assumed it was an English thing. Never heard of it/tried it until I lived there (I'm welsh).

I will try this, thanks @NeedToChangeName

I would never expect or serve any potatoes other than roast potatoes or Yorkshire puddings unless we were having beef instead of turkey.

There were just 3 of us for Xmas lunch this year so we had a chicken (TBF we had been away the week before and had a restaurant and pub Christmas roast/lunch).

Roast chicken (covered in streaky bacon to baste it)
Roast spuds
Roast parsnips
Sausage & herby stuffing
Pigs in blankets (forgot about those until 5 minutes before carving so we had those the next day)
Carrot batons
Runner beans (to use them up)
Sprouts
Cauliflower cheese (a controversial addition, but we all like it)
Creamed celeriac (again to finish it up; it wasn't so dissimilar to bread sauce by the time I'd added nutmeg)
Gravy from juices and veg stock

We were watching some sort of cheffy lunchtime programme earlier in the week in which he suggested partially cooking the veg (continuing to use the same water), plunging into iced water then draining. Then you just plunge it all into boiling water for a couple of minutes on the day. I'm definitely going to use that approach again next time.

Oh yes, good idea. Forgot about it this year.

Roasties, parsnips, pigs in blankets, stuffing, brussel sprouts, dauphinoise potatoes. I'm so disappointed that I forgot about the yorkies until everything else was ready