You can choose only one Christmas dinner item

[GloGirl]

You're going to someones house for a relatively standard Christmas roast dinner.

What one thing would you want to insist on having to make it a proper Christmas dinner?

Cranberry sauce? Brussel sprouts? Christmas pudding for dessert?

For me it is bacon wrapped cocktail sausages. I get a little bit itchy thinking "what if" they weren't there

I was also going to say pigs in blankets.

But then I remembered just how much I fucking love roast potatoes. Glorious little bastards.

Tough call between my mum's sausage-meat stuffing or her bread sauce...both are what make Christmas special for me.

What a good question!

Another vote for pigs in blankets! I love pretty much all of it, but the little piggies seem to make a roast dinner into CHRISTMAS DINNER!!!

I've never had a pig in a blanket. What are they exactly?

glo I have to buy mint sauce specifically for dp to have with his turkey! God knows why, even his mum can't understand it?!

Narcy at their most basic level, they're just a sausage wrapped in bacon.

But holy fuck they are DELICIOUS.

Sausage wrapped in bacon.

Roasties everyday of the week

The first time I had Christmas lunch anywhere but my Mum's it was at my MIL's after we got married. There was no bread sauce or pigs in blankets. I cried. (quietly and in private )

Ooh. Pig wrapped in pig. I can see how that would work and must now add them to the Christmas menu here for all eternity.

There's no narrowing it down to one item though. It's all interdependent; turkey wouldn't be right without gravy and gingerbread stuffing and chestnut and herb stuffing and bread and walnut sauce and roast cranberry and clementine relish, ham needs something creamy to balance the salt (sprout and bacon gratin here this year), everything needs roasties (light and fluffy within, crisp and crunchy without). And spouts and carrots need to be on there too as a token nod to healthiness.

Cripes, I'm hungry.

Pigs in blankets, I eat mainly these on Christams day with just a little bit of everything else.

Kilted sausages in a heartbeat.

My sisters trifle and my Mum's bread sauce!

Proper gravy.

Roast parsnips. End of discussion.

Roast potatoes! Obviously

Pigs in blankets. Without any hesitation.

Ideally they need to be made with the saltiest streaky bacon available, wrapped around chipolatas in a substantial casing that pops when you bite into it. Baked in the oven till crispy beyond belief

I don't understand the question. I mean the words are all in English but it makes bugger all sense. One thing? Just one thing?

Are you this cruel at all times or is it just Christmas?

I am generally a cruel person Show , I kick pigeons and eat chocolate buttons in front of my toddler without sharing

But I am shuddering at rosie's friend who doesn't serve roast potatoes. I mean - WHAT THE FUCK?

If you don't pick you have to eat only what's given to you, like mashed potatoes and no roast potatoes.

Homemade bread sauce. Mmmm.

Home-made chestnut stuffing!

I don't like pigs in blankets...so we don't have them.
I do chipolatas.
The bacon stops the sausages from going crispy and it all has a disgusting texture.

My item would be sausagemeat stuffing I think.

Roast potatoes.

To have Christmas dinner without roast potatoes would be sacrilege.

I really like bread sauce out of a packet.

Hmm...I'd go for cranberry sauce i think. But nice homemade cranberry sauce not that jelly in a jar shit.

Disappointingly, DHs family don't do bread sauce. I am debating taking so,e with me not really