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Scarily i could cut n paste my old post, it still applies.
Turkey in our family.
And the auntie still makes xmas puds in bowls weeks before.
Oddly enough clearing garage recently i found an extra xmas pud in a bowl that hadnt been eaten....was yummy zapped with custard!
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Nov 27, 2019 - 9:53 AM
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Jim Phelps
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My favourite Christmas meal is teatime, cold cuts time. Cold turkey/ham/whatever else, a (tiny) bit of salad, cold baked beans, pickled onions, cheese & lots of wine...& bubble & squeak for Boxing Day breakfast. Mind you, I'm looking after my 90 year old mother this year, so it'll probably be a ham sandwich & cornflakes for breakfast...& EastEnders! Fellow Brits will know what I mean.
EastEnders isn't quite as old as, say, A Christmas Carol, so it's surprising that it's already legendary--maybe it's the catchy theme. Still, I've always preferred it to the much longer-running "Coronation Street."
I thought only Lionel Hardcastle ate cornflakes (and custard tarts, which I've never tried).
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So many things to comment on and haven't had the time 'till now...
Christmas Pudding is nice. I've usually eaten shop bought ones, but avoid ones with nuts. Not good with whole pieces of nuts in food, other than chocolate bars. Ok if they're ground in like when they use peanut butter in things etc. Most of my time growing up I had it served with custard, though in later life it's been rum or brandy sauce ( the white sauce made from cornflour and sweetened), and occasionally with the rum or brandy butter. But it is very filling and like others here we tend to have it a bit later.
Goose we had several years in a row, until I decided it tasted so similar to duck and felt that a couple of ducks probably had more meat between them. But both I prefer to turkey which I tend to go for if we have a pub Christmas dinner before the actual day, i.e. works outings etc. Goose might weigh a lot but that's a lot of fat. Useful fat mind, as I've usedit for everything from roasting potatoes and frying bacon and eggs! I let it collect under the trivet in the roasting tin and wrap in blocks. It can last all year there's so much!
Eastenders vs Coronation Street? The latter ITV series started long before we Brits used the term soap for 'continuing dramas'. The BBC series didn't start 'till the eighties. Both now staples of regular mainstream UK tv. Never had the snobbish attitude towards them that some have, though wouldn't break my neck to watch 'em either. Fine for not having to concentrate on whilst eating evening meals on the lap. The wife usually watches them out of choice and so I end up seeing them.
As for the theme tunes. My first ever film music concert was Filmharmonic 80 at the Royal Albert Hall, and as well as the reason for me being there - the John Williams section - it was also a celebration of ITV, and so many tv themes were played. All three they played - Corornation Street, Emmerdale Farm (never seen it since it lost the word 'Farm') and Crossroads were SUPERB I have to say.
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Red wine and white wine.
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Red wine and white wine.
Ditto. Plus in our household Cava.
Because my wife LOVES fizzy wine, and apart from the odd occasion, the Spanish one is fine. Loves it dry as a bone, and being a beer drinker (this is the way I see it of course being a highly hopped and bitter beer drinker), so do I.
Prosecco does sometimes get under the radar. Especially when the daughter comes to partake. And she and her other half are boarders at the mo. She also makes us have chicken as the Sunday roast every flippin' Sunday dinner too!
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If I had regular access to EastEnders, I have the tragic feeling that I would be hooked even though I don't normally take to soap operas outside of FSM message board dramas, of course. 