What do you judge about other people’s Christmas dinners?

[Talkingtomyhouseplants]

Lighthearted - we all know every other family apart from our own does it wrong!

Mine are:

• no pigs in blankets
• BOILED veg 🤮
• treating the Christmas cracker like a competition (we are are each person gets their own cracker prize family!)

I judge anyone who thinks they have to have a roast dinner just because it's Christmas Day.

Oh yes boiled veg, got to be roasted!

Genuinely nothing. I don't think I've ever been invited to a Christmas dinner and had a bad one. Plus if I liked someone enough to spend Christmas day with them it would have to be spectacularly shit for me to feel like judging them.

I've never made a Christmas dinner in my life and am a veggie so 🤷‍♀️ .

I judge people who all link arms around the table to pull their crackers all at once

Mash, peas, broccoli 🤣

People that have their christmas dinner at 12. Have it around 3pm/4pm for the King's Speech and stops you having to start cooking the roast during breakfast

A starter- how do you fit it in?
Cauliflower cheese as a side
Not a single sprout at the table, it’s the law to have them.

I'm a veggie too and love a Xmas dinner, just minus the meat.

Peas. Mashed potato.

Completely agree - psychopath behaviour!

See I love peas on the Xmas dinner - got to be petit pois though. I think it’s because they’re so green and everything else can be a bit brown!

Frozen roast potatoes

"Judge" like on Bake Off, or are you using "judge" to mean "disapprove of"?

I think mashed potato on any roast dinner is weird. You're giving up valuable toastie space!

I'd be disappointed not to have a Yorshire pudding, but apart from that nothing. I quite like doing it and don't find it a big job really, just a fancier roast than usual.

Frozen roasties. I have to stand outside on the step and hyperventilate if I am served a roastie that was previously frozen,

Which makes me a huge hypocrite because my Yorkshire puddings are all frozen, although nobody has pulled me up on this yet.

I have never eaten Christmas dinner during the day. Starters/canapés around 5pm, main meal about 6ish. As a child it was more like 8pm. But DM worked Christmas eve and wanted to not have an early start, and fit in a walk.

So yeah, I do find an early meal odd.

Me too. I've never understood why people have mash alongside roasties.

Having anything because it’s “Tradition” especially when people sat around that table don’t like it!

I’ve hardly ever eaten a Christmas dinner that wasn’t mine or my mum’s thinking about it… not much. Oh I know, gravy granules. Given that it’s actually easier to make gravy from scratch, I don’t get why people use them and never have, and it makes everything taste the same and people pour it in without asking. Apart from that it’s all good.

I judge people for not having cauliflower cheese!

People who allocate two roast potatoes per person. There needs to be a huge mound of them!

Not quite sure if OP is saying she would make a judgement that there should be no pigs in blankets or if she disapproves when there aren't any... From the vomit face next to the boiled veg I think the second, which is correct of course. You must have PIB.

People who make sage and onion stuffing without sausage meat. Just the dry stuffing mix made with water!

And yes, I second boiled vegetables. Everything must be roasted, or at a push I might allow for sprouts pan fried in butter with bits of bacon. But a boiled sprout is a sad thing.

And don’t get me started on pale, underroasted potatoes…

Mostly that they're cooking and eating animal carcasses.