What we having?

Sister in law (modest handful) and her fella split, in-laws in France, so it's just the five of us at home. If I'm honest, I can't really be arsed; it's an early Sunday dinner, and will have all the fannying around without the extra gifts and booze.

 

Anyway, kids want turkey. They didn't have mash last year, and tbf I didn't miss it; however they insist. The wife usually asks for gammon, and that's my usual contribution to a family meal. I'm looking forward to making gravy, semifredo etc in advance. Go forth good folk of WWays; inspire me with your festive fayre 

57 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

Probably.

I unwittingly recommended the Asian Pork Ribs to my fellow partygoers, forgetting their faith. 

Are they allergic to Asians?

Were you out with Combat 18 again? 😁

On 09/12/2021 at 20:04, Dimron said:

Just given the farmer up the road 24 quid for an oven ready cockerel to collect on Christmas Eve and then heard on the news there is a bird flu epidemic doing the rounds!

So on Christmas day you can get your cock out.

And produce a roast fowl.

18 hours ago, Dimron said:

Brings back memories... I used to work for a builder in my early days who owned a turkey farm and everyone got a turkey for Christmas... the reception was stacked high with bloody carcasses waiting for us site men to collect.

My mate was tasked with erecting a bloody big tree on the grass outside, he tried to use the stores fork lift and broke the fkkr in half... we ended up with a miniature 8ft tree in the end and lots of firewood... happy days 

I know someone who raised them from chicks from about September as an earner.

Come Christmas He'd stick them in a cutoff traffic cone and lop their swede off with garden shears.

Nice.

Edited December 11, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

On 11/12/2021 at 14:00, Youri McAnespie said:

I know someone who raised them from chicks from about September as an earner.

Come Christmas He'd stick them in a cutoff traffic cone and lop their swede off with garden shears.

Nice.

Grim but funny

1 hour ago, Dimron said:

Grim but funny

True shit.

A fucking Cumbrian so no surprise.

If anyone is having to have Christmas dinner on their own this year, can you please please let me know.

Need to borrow some chairs. 

COBRA meeting at Traf Towers has decided we're not bothering doing a Christmas Dinner this year.

There's only the 3 of us nowadays, Jnr follows as near a plant-based diet as she can, I'm not a fan of a roast dinner (Xmas dinner is a glorifed roast) and the iwfe's not arsed about cooking one just for herself.

14 minutes ago, Traf said:

COBRA meeting at Traf Towers has decided we're not bothering doing a Christmas Dinner this year.

There's only the 3 of us nowadays, Jnr follows as near a plant-based diet as she can, I'm not a fan of a roast dinner (Xmas dinner is a glorifed roast) and the iwfe's not arsed about cooking one just for herself.

Mushy peas all round?

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Mushy peas all round?

a garland of mushy peas?

1 minute ago, Dr Faustus said:

a garland of mushy peas?

Classy 

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Mushy peas all round?

Having a bit of a buffet.

Cold lobby, peas two-ways (mushy and black), tinned ham with pineapple on cocktail sticks and mexicana cheese.

Trifle for afters.

2 hours ago, Rudy said:

If anyone is having to have Christmas dinner on their own this year, can you please please let me know.

Need to borrow some chairs. 

Chairs - out of my ears. Including some Bercol or whatever ones.

It's like that Stella advert in the understairs - they're the bane of my life, I sometimes toy with the idea of burning the house down to get rid.

7 minutes ago, Traf said:

Having a bit of a buffet.

Cold lobby, peas two-ways (mushy and black), tinned ham with pineapple on cocktail sticks and mexicana cheese.

Trifle for afters.

Hang on a minute 

first it was you Mrs Traf and Jr, now Bolty is coming ?!

I'm having LSD and amphetamine paste - with an imaginary goose.

And 24 cans of Guinness.

And a bag of Salt and Vinegar McCoy's.

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

19 minutes ago, Traf said:

Having a bit of a buffet.

Cold lobby, peas two-ways (mushy and black), tinned ham with pineapple on cocktail sticks and mexicana cheese.

Trifle for afters.

Washed down with lashings of Blue Nun

54 minutes ago, Dimron said:

Washed down with lashings of Blue Nun

No foreign muck, just Carling.

3 hours ago, Traf said:

COBRA meeting at Traf Towers has decided we're not bothering doing a Christmas Dinner this year.

There's only the 3 of us nowadays, Jnr follows as near a plant-based diet as she can, I'm not a fan of a roast dinner (Xmas dinner is a glorifed roast) and the iwfe's not arsed about cooking one just for herself.

Are you sure it was a COBRA meeting? It could just as easily have been COBRB, COBRC or COBRD as COBRA is simply an acronym for the first Cabinet Office Briefing Room.

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

Are you sure it was a COBRA meeting? It could just as easily have been COBRB, COBRC or COBRD as COBRA is simply an acronym for the first Cabinet Office Briefing Room.

I think it was all done via WhatsApp to be honest. that's how the three of us communicate nowadays.

I find shouting from upstairs to downstairs works too.

On 10/12/2021 at 17:19, Dimron said:

Pheasant for Sunday lunch this week, first of the year for me

Ooohh yes. Love pheasant so long as it’s not been hung too long and is too gamey

Mother grew up on a poultry farm and still had contacts in Yarkshire when I was a kid so it was always pheasant for my birthday in January. Only downside was having to spit out the lead shot that was inevitably buried deep in the flesh

Just now, MancWanderer said:

Ooohh yes. Love pheasant so long as it’s not been hung too long and is too gamey

Mother grew up on a poultry farm and still had contacts in Yarkshire when I was a kid so it was always pheasant for my birthday in January. Only downside was having to spit out the lead shot that was inevitably buried deep in the flesh

Cold roast pheasant sandwiches in my pack up too. 

The supermarkets probably don't sell it as they would have to put a warning on the packet... "Contains lead"

Came home and a couple of dead pheasants were hanging form my outside light, like a threat to the townie form the locals but I knew my opposite neighbour had been out shooting.

Get a goose from the Belgrade animal brothel - already internally basted.

13 minutes ago, MancWanderer said:

Ooohh yes. Love pheasant so long as it’s not been hung too long and is too gamey

Mother grew up on a poultry farm and still had contacts in Yarkshire when I was a kid so it was always pheasant for my birthday in January. Only downside was having to spit out the lead shot that was inevitably buried deep in the flesh

I remember my (then very young) daughter thinking Morrisons must shoot the chickens cooked on the rotisserie because a slice of breast had a bullet hole…

or maybe it was where the skewer went.

56 minutes ago, MickyD said:

I remember my (then very young) daughter thinking Morrisons must shoot the chickens cooked on the rotisserie because a slice of breast had a bullet hole…

or maybe it was where the skewer went.

😂😂

I learned very young where the lead shot in a pheasant was from the red stripe of the entry wound to the black circle surrounding the shot. Mrs Manc nearly threw up when my Mum first tried to serve her a properly wild shot pheasant

Get an Ak-47 off the black market.

Kill everyone in a hail of automatic gunfire.

Take a jerry can of petrol and torch the place then turn the rifle on yourself.