does anyone else have this for Christmas morning breakfast?

[milkmilklemonade12]

Train of thought started up again by another thread...

Our Christmas Day breakfast consists of pork pie (a really nice one), cheese, crackers, pickles, then warm mince pies and a tot of something. Literally first thing we do.

Now, this was normal throughout my childhood, you'd go to my Nan's and other people in my family (all my nan's kids admittedly) and it'd be the same.

Fast forward a few years and it's mine and DH's first Christmas together and he was genuinely shocked to the core when I unveiled this little lot

Mum says it's a midland thing, and that both my Nan and Grandad's parents did it.

Can anyone shed light on this? Do you do this? Is it a Midland thing? Do you have Christmas food no one else seems to know about?

Never heard of it! We have breakfast rolls and bucks fizz (Scotland) followed by chocolates, nuts and nibbles before Christmas dinner at 4pm

Getting excited for Christmas already!

My BIL's family from Boston in Lincolnshire does this. My sister finds it very difficult to eat when she goes there every other year - it was a massive surprise the first time she went....

Growing up we always had smoked salmon and scrambled egg or croissants. With my kids now, they can't be budged from their normal breakfast (porridge or toast) so I put food colouring in the porridge to make it festive colours and that's their Christmas porridge.

I'm from the north west and we had smoked salmon and scrambled egg on toast but I'm preferring the sound of the midlands breakfast. Might have to adopt that one; thanks OP!

East Midlands here and have never heard of it! We have a full English and Bucks Fizz. Go to our local pub 12-2 so don't eat Christmas lunch til 4ish.

Yes we get up quite early and its more of a 'buffet' type thing with a few slices of cheese and a small slice of pork pie etc, then it all gets covered up and put out again that night for tea, so nothing goes to waste

Lunch is usually about 1ish, and a few glasses of something fizzy are consumed throughout the morning, and I've never felt the effect so it must be that breakfast! I've never struggled to eat Christmas dinner in the slightest; I'm sure it must be a case of the more you eat, the more you want to eat

Bucks Fizz and a tin of Fox's chocolate biscuits here.

I'm originally from Birmingham, as is my dad and at home we always had a tot of whisky in our morning cup of tea on Christmas morning (well, I did from about the age of 17). Then pork pie, pickled onions, pickled walnuts and bread and butter for breakfast. DH thinks I'm completely mad, but I still have pork pie and bread and butter for Christmas morning, I love it!

we don't do fancy breakfast. toast and coffee/cereals etc. like any other morning.

We had croissants and marmalade when we were little as a special treat. I tried to make eggs benedict a new tradition for DH and my first Christmas together, but I ended up getting food poisoning and can't face hollandaise sauce ever again sticking to croissants from now on.

My mum makes buckwheat blinis and we have them with sour cream and smoked salmon.
We usually pop the champers in the morning too but I might wait until later this time. The last two years have seen me fall asleep by 5pm!

We're having homemade cinnamon rolls, cinnamon toast, hot chocolate and squirty cream!

We've not had a set breakfast ever but discussed in advance what people would like. So we've done croissants warmed in the oven, Danish pastries, scrambled eggs and the like.

I started the same thread a couple of weeks ago. I think I've managed to convert a few MNers to the delights of a pork pie for Christmas breakfast.

I'm from the Midlands too, and have never heard of this. Sounds good, though.

We have whiskey in our tea on Christmas morning. It is the Best Thing Ever.

That's the kind of thing we have for Christmas tea.

For breakfast we have a croissant each and a big pile of fresh fruit.