cheese footballs, chinese figs, liquer chocs., Eat-Me dates.....who actually eats these ?

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or is it just traditional to have them knocking around the house in case ?

Violet creams... ah.

yep, and the cheeselets

Mixed nuts anyone?

I had never heard of cheese balls either... but everyone my post-natal thread told me last christmas that they were fabulous!
Hi Flame!

re Liqueurs- DH has just made me buy him some along with turkish delight(3 for 2 at M&S) last weekend! He has eaten 2 boxes already.... I think they're disgusting.

We never buy dates or figs.

Don't forget the massive plastic vat of salted peanuts.

M&S chocolate coated nougat is very nice

It is indeed.

Twigletts and Tizer for the kids and Watney's Party 7 for the dads

oh and the bowl of nuts complete with nutcracker (have you seen the price of nuts?

we do have a masssoooove tin of quality street/roses though

after eight mints love them a nice irish coffee too

DS2 adores cheese football and insists on them.

i love dates. cant stand cheesy footballs but then dont like any cheesy crisps except cheddars.

my mum knew I'd met the right man when he confessed to loving eat me dates..and he still is the right man.
But nothing would make me eat them...or chessy footballs but I think I'm developing snobby food attitudes...

We always have Stone's Ginger wine - mmmm!
I also always try Bailey's and remember how sickly it is !

LOL

My mum always bought all these things.

I must admit, although I don't buy the same stuff, I do completely over-shop on the snack front and then only me (Mrs Comfort Eeater) actually eats it all

Orange and lemon slices (the soft sweets, not the healthy fruit).

"Cheeselets don't taste the same these days" says my mum every Christmas, and every Christmas she still buys a small vat of them, along with Twigletts - mmmmmm.

And you must have a box of Ferrero Rocher on display on the coffee table

What is Eggnog exactly? Always wondered and was too ashamed to ask anyone in RL

your mum is right biscuitsmust - cheeselets don't taste the same at all...
think egg nog is eggs beaten up with alcohol,rum ? possibly...eeewww

Hubbie and son eat cheesy footballs. We take stones out of dates and replace with marzipan - Yumm!

Eggnog is just what we used to call advocaat. Have googled though, and it seems there's a whole eggnog world out there to explore.

I think I'm going to be sick.

Cheesy footballs are fab - but funily enough I only buy them at Christmas!

My mum will always have dates sitting around at Christmas, just incase someone is feeling constipated, I supose!
Surely nobody actually buys chocolate liqures for themselves...arent' they always won in a raffle, or given as a gift by old folk. And only consumed by teenagers desperate for a tipple.

Bailey's, creamy.

My nan always had a box of dates every Christmas which nobody ate. I wonder if she bought a new one each year or if it was the same one that she just left on the sideboard when it got to December.

I love dates!

My dcs are obsessed with dates, have to buy them year round though.

Matchmakers
Twiglets
pickled cabbage
Horrid cheeses
Schloer

All bought by my family because you have to.