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What food / drink do you buy ONLY at Christmas?

36 replies

exhaustedbeans · 29/12/2022 22:04

Me and DP chatting about this earlier. Without fail the things we buy only in December are:

Pringles (they're just not a normal crisp to us if it's not Christmas Grin)
J2O in the glass bottle - even though we'd never have them from a pub for example, bang on December they're there in the fridge! As a child we thought they were very posh Xmas Blush so they've just become part of Christmas
Toblerone - they always tempt me when I've seen them in airports etc but no, no, no. Xmas only, soz.
After Eights - see above.

Anyone else?

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Soproudoflionesses · 29/12/2022 22:09

Pate!
Never occurs to me during the year to buy it!

ImHavingAnOldFriendForDinner · 29/12/2022 22:10

Definitely After Eights, Matchsticks, cheese other than your regular cheddar/feta etc..

Advocaat because I like to go back to the 80's and have a Snowball 😂

Nuts!

TheWayTheLightFalls · 29/12/2022 22:13

Party food. Come December all sense goes out the window and we live on pigs in blankets, breaded everything and cheese five ways.

Vermin · 29/12/2022 22:14

Twiglets, pate, Stilton.

EVHead · 29/12/2022 22:16

Cream
A cheeseboard
Mulled wine
Meat

MadeForThis · 29/12/2022 22:21

Baileys

Newdawnfreedom · 29/12/2022 22:22

Prawn cocktail
Sausage rolls
Baileys
If I could find the little green bottles of snowball I'd definitely have them for 80's nostalgia - my grandma used to give them to us as kids!!
Sherry trifle

Summerbubbles · 29/12/2022 22:23

Port, pringles, camembert

Clevs · 29/12/2022 22:25

Shloer

userxx · 29/12/2022 22:27

Tiger bread.

Jumbojem · 29/12/2022 22:29

Turkey, pigs in blankets (and those two only for DC as OH and I are veggie). Mulled wine (I'd buy all winter long but I've not really found it outside of Christmas?), fancy cheese, several different types of crackers, tubs of quality Street/heros.

templesit · 29/12/2022 22:32

Shloer
Cheese board
Family packs of snacks/ posh crisps
Chocolate tubs
Party snack foods

Bloody love it!

mistopheles · 29/12/2022 22:41

Pate, Quality Street, Toblerone, black pudding,

mamaduckbone · 30/12/2022 12:02

Quality street - they're not even very nice but the smell when you open the tub is just Christmas to me.
Twiglets
Dry roasted peanuts
Pigs in blankets - I've actually just bought some reduced ones for the freezer to go with a normal chicken Sunday roast. Why do we only have them at Christmas?

thisusernameisnotavailablepleasetryanother · 30/12/2022 12:20

Buck's Fizz

loudbatperson · 30/12/2022 12:21

Newdawnfreedom · 29/12/2022 22:22

Prawn cocktail
Sausage rolls
Baileys
If I could find the little green bottles of snowball I'd definitely have them for 80's nostalgia - my grandma used to give them to us as kids!!
Sherry trifle

My SIL had some of the snowball bottles this year, she found them in Asda.

FfaCoffi · 30/12/2022 12:34

Food:
Stolen
Chocolate oranges
Brussel sprouts
Cranberry sauce
Luxury nuts and dried fruit
We go early on mince pies, though - from November

Drinks:
Baileys
Panettone
Port
Bucks fizz
Shloer
Mulled wine from November too

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exhaustedbeans · 30/12/2022 13:50

@Newdawnfreedom Co-op sell them! I've been drinking them all December Xmas Grin £6 for 4 bottles though so I've not had many ....

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exhaustedbeans · 30/12/2022 13:52

Oh yes to Shloer too- goes with our J2O mentality!

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snowmanshoes · 30/12/2022 13:53

Advocaat
J20 glitterberry in glass bottle
port
bitter lemon

snowmanshoes · 30/12/2022 13:54

Oh yes Shloer - I buy randomly through the year but individual bottles only at Christmas

TheDuchessOfMN · 30/12/2022 13:55

Baileys

Sudename · 30/12/2022 13:57

Party food
Pate
Baileys

ElBandito · 30/12/2022 14:04

Tunis cake, although sadly they have fallen in standard from what they once were.

Willowswood · 30/12/2022 14:06

Why do people call Matchmakers 'Matchsticks'?