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Old 09-25-2009, 01:05 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Wait. Turkey? They are native to North America. Why would turkey be part of a traditional English Christmas dinner?

I expected goose. It think that's what Tiny Tim had.
We discovered The New World and then turkey. Gooses are greasy and a pain to cook. We eat turkey, cranberry, roast potatoes, Brussels sprouts etc. in Scotland too.
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Wait. Turkey? They are native to North America. Why would turkey be part of a traditional English Christmas dinner?

I expected goose. It think that's what Tiny Tim had.
Because in the 17th and 18th centuries, England owned most of North America.
They had India too, but there's no good birds there.
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Old 09-25-2009, 01:21 PM   #53 (permalink)
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If you're really worried about putting coins in food for bacteriological reasons, wash them as thoroughly as you would your cutlery and utensils first, and then remember to steam-treat your cutlery for two hours too or it'll be dirtier than the coins.

The dangers of choking and damage to teeth are far more bothersome.
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Because in the 17th and 18th centuries, England owned most of North America.
They had India too, but there's no good birds there.
We stole their curry instead
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If you're really worried about putting coins in food for bacteriological reasons, wash them as thoroughly as you would your cutlery and utensils first, and then remember to steam-treat your cutlery for two hours too or it'll be dirtier than the coins.

The dangers of choking and damage to teeth are far more bothersome.
You don't run your cutlery through the autoclave before each use?

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Corndogs, tomato soup from a can and Saltines. If you want to serve some snacks beforehand, go with nachos and a big bowl of Cheetos.

Never fails.

For dessert, shove a toothpick through a jumbo marshmallow and stick it in a Twinkie.
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You don't run your cutlery through the autoclave before each use?
Autoclaves are dangerous. I'm holding out for a domestic gamma-irradiator.
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Because in the 17th and 18th centuries, England owned most of North America.
They had India too, but there's no good birds there.
And those indian things named after birds such as Bombay Duck turn out to be fish anyway
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I have to make Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for my tables, and I was thinking of trying to get away with making the same turkey dinner for both, since a lot of Americans do have turkey for both. But it occurs to me that I have no idea what Brits eat for Christmas dinner -- not turkey I assume?
Turkey
Roast Potatoes
Roast Parsnips
Brussel Sprouts
Sage & Onion Stuffing
Gravy
Pigs in a Blanket [little sausages wrapped in bacon rashers]
Cranberry Sauce

These are the essentials... topped off with Christmas pudding and custard.
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An integral part of the British Christmas dinner is, while not food, always by the side of the plate - the Christmas Cracker. Filled with a cheap toy, like a mood fish or plastic red lips, and contain jokes such as:

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Why was Santa's little helper feeling depressed?
He had low elf-esteem.
Then you have to wear the bad paper hat which, as the meal goes on, gradually slips more and more down everyone's heads and if you drink enough, you find you're still wearing it when you go to bed.
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Don't forget the whiskey or brandy butter for the christmas pudding!
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I do like seeing Christmas pudding burst into flame, and hoping it will get out of control and cause havoc ... so I don't have to eat it!
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Turkey
Roast Potatoes
Roast Parsnips
Brussel Sprouts
Sage & Onion Stuffing
Gravy
Pigs in a Blanket [little sausages wrapped in bacon rashers]
Cranberry Sauce

These are the essentials... topped off with Christmas pudding and custard.
Even put sage in your stuffing, hmmm? How could I never have known all this???

I never heard of Brussels Sprouts being a holiday food. Guess that substitutes for sweet potatoes (or vice versa).

We eat Pigs in Blanket but more as an after school type snack -- sausage wrapped in biscuit.

The pumpkin pie is integral, but now I am thinking maybe a pudding, too, as a dessert option, one you can set on fire.
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We were in Canada a few Christmases ago and got to pull crackers and wear paper hats. I'm taking from the tone of this conversation that it was wrong of me to yell fire and beat the pudding down with my napkin. Those nice Calgarians were so polite they never mentioned it, just opened a few boxes of chocolates to pass around.
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Most English food originated from various contries we either colonised, conquered, or traded with back in the days of the Empire. So food from all over really. We kinda had to, otherwise we'd still be existing on a diet of turnips.

Christmas dessert is pretty much always the traditional Xmas pudding, often made 6 months or more previously and left to mature (i.e. soak up the alchohol) Often families make two puddings and save one for the next year. Its doused in warm brandy, set alight, and served with either custard, cream, brandy butter or all three.
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Just putting my support behind Brussels Sprouts here. Never had an English Olde Christmas (as I'm not English I just want to be when I grow up) but I would like to give making a Christmas Pudding a try. I'm good at starting kitchen fires too so this would give me an excuse
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Pumpkin pie is my favorite part of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, you scrote*.

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I've never had goose and no one makes it here. Is it similar to turkey?
its more similar to duck than turkey
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Chipolata sausages wrapped in bacon
pork/turkey/chicken
mashed/roasted potatoes

My holiday dinners always contain some combination of the above. Especially the first one!
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Think i will go find Max and have Xmas Dinner with him as i usually eat a leg of lamb (Welsh) on my own. This could be my age, but we had sixpences (Tanners) in our Xmas puds
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Think i will go find Max and have Xmas Dinner with him as i usually eat a leg of lamb (Welsh) on my own. This could be my age, but we had sixpences (Tanners) in our Xmas puds

oooo Posh - We had to make do with threpenny bits
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I'm told that the traditional "New England" (N.E. U.S. ) Christmas dinner is a bit different from other parts of the U.S. We may retain a bit more of the "old England" traditions

turkey
baked potato
yam
mashed potato
giblet and sausage stuffing
gravy
"brown bread" (molasses bread)
cranberry
turnip
parsnips
carrots
beets
winter squash (acorn butternut or Hubbard)
1 year old homemade fruitcake (no store bought crap)
mincemeat pie
apple pumpkin and rhubarb pie

and absolutely ...
always ...

Brussels Sprouts

I haven't eaten a traditional dinner like this in maybe 15 years. The traditional housewives who knew how to cook it are gone.

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