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(Christmas) AIBU to not cook chips with Christmas dinner

179 replies

Palomb · 01/10/2016 18:40

I've just been asked by one of our potential guests via DH if we'll do chips for the kids. My answers was absolutely 100% not under any circumstances.

Dh said I'm being absolutely unreasonable.

Hell will freeze over before I'll cook fries on Christmas Day.

AIBU?

OP posts:
HeyDuggee24 · 01/10/2016 19:18

Chips at Christmas is just wrong. If it was me though, I'd agree to do chips and just chop a couple of portions of roast potatoes into chip shape and give em that feining ignorance.

snakesalive · 01/10/2016 19:20

Too much to write down...there's loads on net...it's not difficult...there's also loads in shops if you can't be arsed to make....I try to make..but have sometimes bought...I made vegan Victoria butter cream and jam cakes today....they've nearly all gone😥

Isitjustmeorisiteveryoneelse · 01/10/2016 19:21

I literally do not know what I would say if someone I was inviting, and cooking for, at Christmas said this. Probably unprintable. Presumably it's cos the visiting kids are fussy eaters? No sympathy. My DC know when they visit someone else's house, who are kind enough to be providing food for them, that

  1. You get what you're given
  2. You eat what is put in front of you.
arrrrghhwinehelpswithteens · 01/10/2016 19:21

No, no and no again you are most definitely not BU. I wouldn't cook chips on Christmas day either - and I do most of the prep / cook whatever can simply be reheated on Christmas eve!

I had friends over once, their DD wouldn't eat turkey, only chicken. Fine says me, I'll make her a chicken fillet yeah right like that was going to happen I simply sliced off some of the turkey breast in a chunk and told her it was chicken.

I would cut some of the roasties into chunks and tell 'em it's chunky fries!

And if your DH wants them to have fries so much then tell him he can do the whole damned lot, buy yourself a really nice bottle or two of wine, put your feet up and let him get on with it!

JacquettaWoodville · 01/10/2016 19:22

"know it's not tradition but will it harm you to put some frozen fries in the oven for twenty mins?"

It would in my house where turkey, roasties, sausages, other veggies etc are taking up all the oven!

ZippyNeedsFeeding · 01/10/2016 19:22

We've had chips for Christmas dinner before, it was ace. None of us like the traditional roast dinner and we don't gorge, we just have a normal sized diner. Every year we have a vote and some years it's fish and chips, some years it's oxtail stew, or whatever the kids like best that year. It's a joyful family event and it only has one real rule- no special meals for anyone. We don't have space for guests, but if we did, vegetarians would be catered for, or coeliacs etc, but fussy buggers wouldn't.

No child needs chips. They might need parents who don't encourage them to be fussy buggers though.

CalmYaTits · 01/10/2016 19:23

The fuck? Will they eat the chips with turkey stuffing and vegetables?!

snakesalive · 01/10/2016 19:25

I would say no to the chips ...there would be no room in the oven....why not suggest they bring a nice box of mcain micro chips and cook that in the microwave.ha ha...although.if someone did that to me ,when I've spent hours cooking...well unprintable

Cocolepew · 01/10/2016 19:27

I had steak egg and chips for Christmas dinner one year and always made chips for DD1 when she was younger.

greenfolder · 01/10/2016 19:30

You are not a short order chef.
I refuse to cook a roast dinner ever again for one branch of the family who helped themselves out the fridge and smothered their roast in tomato ketchup. All 4 of them. Now I only cook them food that should be covered in ketchup

PogoBob · 01/10/2016 19:33

It's their Christmas day too, is it so bad for them to eat what they want to eat rather than having to eat a tradional Christmas dinner just because it's polite and proper.

MrsJayy · 01/10/2016 19:33

The op has 3 types oftatties on the go no need for chips as well.

Inertia · 01/10/2016 19:39

There are 3 types of potato on offer- if they really can't eat any of them, and can't fill up on the numerous other vegetables and meat on offer, then perhaps they should cook their own Christmas dinner.

I'd be absolutely clear with DH as well- if he wants to cook chips when everything else is out of the oven that's up to him, but nobody will be waiting to eat Christmas dinner.

JacquettaWoodville · 01/10/2016 19:42

"It's their Christmas day too, is it so bad for them to eat what they want to eat rather than having to eat a tradional Christmas dinner just because it's polite and proper."

Not if they are in a restaurant, no.

As they are asking the host to do more, yes.

a7mints · 01/10/2016 19:43

I think as they have given you three months notice of this request, and it is something so simple to do, then I would do it in the name of good hosting.

WhatWouldLeslieKnopeDo · 01/10/2016 19:44

YANBU.

My mum once spent Boxing Day morning looking for a shop open to buy chips Hmm we were all going to my grandparents' and they had run out of chips for the kids. I was especially put out as when I was a child she would have told me to shut up and eat what was provided, or go without Grin

Eight year olds are old enough to either eat what you serve or go without. Especially at Christmas where there's usually loads of food. I don't like roast potatoes, but I never go hungry at Christmas dinner!

Gileswithachainsaw · 01/10/2016 19:49

Can't she just give them chips before they arrive.

They too old to be pondered to like that

deste · 01/10/2016 19:55

I suspect your DH has said that it's not a problem and doesn't want to go back and change it.

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia · 01/10/2016 19:56

he wants to cook chips for the guests, he can cook the whole kit and kaboodle

and plan
and prep
and and and....

chips at christmas indeed.

HSMMaCM · 01/10/2016 20:02

Offer dh to cook some for tea if they're still hungry and I bet you they'll eat the potatoes and you won't have to bother.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 01/10/2016 20:06

Sorry OP but you do sound a bit as if you're making a big fuss about very little. Your husband has asked, you've said 'no'... and clearly nothing is going to persuade you otherwise so why the fuss? Let your husband cook them/the whole dinner perhaps?

Christmas Day dinner really isn't much more than a roast and whilst oven space is at a premium, it's not something that should be sending you into a spasm. I like to make a bit of an effort but don't have pretensions of being Escoffier as some seem to.

00100001 · 01/10/2016 20:09

Come back OP, and let is know if DH is going to cook the whole meal

FurryDogMother · 01/10/2016 20:19

I feel so strongly about this I'm posting twice. No fecking chips anywhere, cooked by anyone, on Christmas day! It's pure insanity!

Original poster
Palomb · 01/10/2016 20:21

He could probably do a very good Christmas dinner tbh but I want to cook it as I enjoy doing it.

I have said NO to dh. I think he has yet to pass on the message. I won't be cooking chips in Christmas Day whatever he tells our guests.

I'm going to hide the ketchup now Greenfolder I think I'd actually keel over if anyone did that here.

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MorrisZapp · 01/10/2016 20:34

Those kids don't get to choose where to have Christmas. They'd probably much rather be in their own house, eating the food they enjoy without judgement. But for whatever reason the adults have arranged it this way, I think it's totally off to suggests the kids need to suck it up. If its not possible to make chips then fair enough, say so. But if your only objection to it is that it's oily potato in the wrong shape then I think that's just needless snobbery.