Published on 12, July, 2020
What is everyone having for their Christmas dinner this year? I'm intrigued to see the variety
Mine is going to be pigs in blankets, stuffing and a potato (random I know)
Pork, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, roast tatties, yorkshire puds, gravy, loads of veg. It's just me for dinner and the size of the poultry was a bit large so bought a nice wee bit of pork for roasting. Excited much.
Roast pork, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, yorkshire puds, roast tatties, loads of veg, gravy and cranberry sauce (because I don't have apple sauce or any apples). I'm not fussy so I'm sure it'll be tasty.
Lamb is far too tender.
Turkey was imported from the American Colonies. Goose was the Christmas meat before.
However, I love turkey. Maybe because it's dry. Also, I was brought up with it.
We also have omnivorous nashers so we can eat meat and veg. :-)
Biologically it is certainly true. If we were meant to be primarily plant eaters, we would have longer colons, larger caecums (appendix) and a big abdomen (like great apes) to house the extra digestive apparatus.
We're having duck this year, none of the family like turkey. We have had goose a good few times, which is good, but a large duck is less difficult (not so much fat to drain off). The strangest thing we have had for Christmas dinner is stuffed monkfish tails, very good, but very fiddly. They have to be tied with string, like a joint. I cooked them, but I would not do it again.
I've heard its a much more game-y version of lamb. I quite fancy trying goat again, had some a while back, but cooked it too fast, so it was a bit rubbery
I was visualising an autistic satire where you have the two faces of Christmas. Taking the pi** out of our quirks. One side would be where everyone laughs and smiles and engages with masks on, like what we do to keep up with the Joneses. The other could be where all the lights/decorations/music disappears when the masks are removed and everyone starts a discussion about how much they hate Christmas except they are all stimming/ not looking at each other/people are interrupting each other and people are interjecting with random stuff that is offensive. That would make my day. :-) :-) :-)
Oh thank god! Lol. Tbf I did actually laugh, but then I cant pick up humour sometimes, so I thought if I write LOL it might be a bit insensitive... HAHAHA
It was a joke, sorry! I heard someone tell it and it got a very good reaction. Everyone assumes the grandad is British and died fighting... then you have the extremely awkward punchline!
That's quite unlucky! I remember when I was in Germany, there was a big kaffufle at the army camp... Turned out some of the squadies had gone to an Argentinian steakhouse on the anniversary of the sinking of the Belgrano... and put a model Belgrano in the fish tank...
Mutton..... I think I've tried and loved but I'm not a fan of lamb since I had my daughter as it tastes different.
So many stories. The one with my grandfather was quite unusual though. He got drunk one night and fell off the guard tower at a concentration camp.
I think if I was stuck on a desert island with a vegan and it was down to usand a pot noodle I would eat the vegan.
I will add, my German great-grandad got his friend to shoot him in the shoulder so he didn't have to fight as he didn't believe in it, we were eastern Germans, on the Polish border (which kept moving). Literally desperate times. His daughter, my grandmother then went on to work in an English army camp and married the quartermaster.
I am cooking the Cockerel this year on the BBQ for exactly this reason!
I would love this!!!
My grandfather died in Germany in World War 2. Sad story.