Are we really considering employing someone called 'Grandad Holy Ghost' as manager?

[Ash]

But come on! You must accept that there is no other point during the year when you would dream of putting poultry, ham, sausages, gravy and pork-based stuffing on the same plate - not because Christmas is a unique feast, etc, but because those things just don't go together and all their individual charms become lost in the meaty melée.

Because to do it at any other point of the year would detract from the occasion. The reason why we do certain things only at Christmas time is because that what makes it special.

Personally I can't wait for that massive, tummy-busting plateful of poultry and pork meats, stuffing, gravy, sprouts and ton of vegetables.

Just don't expect me to eat any puddings, cakes or sweets for the rest of the day.

[Sir C]

Because to do it at any other point of the year would detract from the occasion. The reason why we do certain things only at Christmas time is because that what makes it special.

Personally I can't wait for that massive, tummy-busting plateful of poultry and pork meats, stuffing, gravy, sprouts and ton of vegetables.

Just don't expect me to eat any puddings, cakes or sweets for the rest of the day.

Which vegetables though a? This is important. I do Brussels sprouts and red cabbage and parsnips and carrots, because that's what my mummuy used to do. But there's always too much.

[WES]

Because to do it at any other point of the year would detract from the occasion. The reason why we do certain things only at Christmas time is because that what makes it special.

Personally I can't wait for that massive, tummy-busting plateful of poultry and pork meats, stuffing, gravy, sprouts and ton of vegetables.

Just don't expect me to eat any puddings, cakes or sweets for the rest of the day.

Do you know how many Christmas puddings we had sitting in the larder from previous years that we couldn't eat? At one point it was about 4 of them and then we stopped buying them.

Nibbling on some cheese with post meal drinks is the closest we ever get to dessert on Christmas day.

[Sir C]

Just because they're called Hamas doesn't mean they like ham. That would be quite the faux pas.

Haha they're called ham-ass! I never thought of that before! I might wander round Gaza calling them all ham-ass! For the lols.

[Burney]

Whence I first arrived in England and was living in Barnes the local butcher (Bob, top chap) told me that English people eat turkey or goose on Christmas Day and leftovers and ham on Boxing Day.

I have eaten thus ever since. And sorry but I'm taking butcher Bob's view over yours.

I hate to break it to you, but your Butcher Bob was a communist and almost certainly a homosexual.

Besides, these 'leftovers' would presumably include turkey, yes? So this queer commie was in fact advocating the consumption of poultry and meat on the same plate.

[Burney]

Because to do it at any other point of the year would detract from the occasion. The reason why we do certain things only at Christmas time is because that what makes it special.

Personally I can't wait for that massive, tummy-busting plateful of poultry and pork meats, stuffing, gravy, sprouts and ton of vegetables.

Just don't expect me to eat any puddings, cakes or sweets for the rest of the day.

Look, as long as we're both on the same page about ham with Christmas dinner and can face down this pair of snobby spastics, I'm happy to concede your point.

[Burney]

Do you know how many Christmas puddings we had sitting in the larder from previous years that we couldn't eat? At one point it was about 4 of them and then we stopped buying them.

Nibbling on some cheese with post meal drinks is the closest we ever get to dessert on Christmas day.

Oh, no. You have to have trifle. Again, you wouldn't think of eating it at any time of years because it's basically gloop. But, made with Madeira (never sherry), it's delicious gloop.

I don't believe anyone who tells me they like Christmas pudding. It's actively horrible.

[WES]

I hate to break it to you, but your Butcher Bob was a communist and almost certainly a homosexual.

Besides, these 'leftovers' would presumably include turkey, yes? So this queer commie was in fact advocating the consumption of poultry and meat on the same plate.

It would be cold turkey, though. As part of a buffet with roast ham and other bits and pieces. That's different and perfectly acceptable.

Roasting a ham and a turkey and serving them together with meat based stuffing is what the Victorians did. Some of us have moved on. Sniff.

[Ash]

Just because they're called Hamas doesn't mean they like ham. That would be quite the faux pas.

Ironic etymological interlude:

Apart from meaning 'hamlet' or 'village' the saxon word 'ham' as a place-name refers to the land between two rivers. The most well-known of these in our parts being the West Ham and East Ham between the Lee and Roding rivers.

Now some say that the two blue lines on the Israeli flag represent the Nile and the Euphrates, with the space between them being the land that Israel aspires to. I'm not saying that, btw.

[WES]

Oh, no. You have to have trifle. Again, you wouldn't think of eating it at any time of years because it's basically gloop. But, made with Madeira (never sherry), it's delicious gloop.

I don't believe anyone who tells me they like Christmas pudding. It's actively horrible.

Yes agreed, although that Heston won with an orange in the middle was actually pretty good. And I love brandy sauce. But of my 24 years in this country I think we managed Christmas pudding twice that I can remember, too stuffed the rest of the time.

Trifle I love, Mrs WES makes a wonderful one. But we got tired of throwing 80% of it so we stopped. Chocolates, cheese, nibbles with a few Negronis is my post dinner approach.