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posted by [identity profile] sigisgrim.livejournal.com at 12:20pm on 10/12/2007
I'd far rather have something interesting like that (with the exception of the Christmas pudding) that traditional [sic] Christmas dinner. For my works Christmas meal I managed to advoid all the usual Christmas food: starter soup, main roast beef, dessert chocolate and pear tort.

But Malaysian sounds much nicer.
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posted by [identity profile] didiusjulianus.livejournal.com at 04:27pm on 10/12/2007
IMO home cooked traditional Christmas dinner type meals can be very nice esp as our roast dinner on a Sunday, if we even have one, is always a pale imitation due to time and money constraints. However, I agree that I'd go for something interesting like you did sigisgrim, they're usually not great roast dinners at work dos (the exception being one of our local pubs which has now sadly shut down, they did great work dos), and anyway if one is having a Christmas dinner on the 25th (or perhaps several with different relations on different days) you certainly don't need any more for the work do.

I don't think your non-trad Christmas dinner venue is that unusual, emperor, and you can often get twice the amount for half the price (and very nice food, too) at a lot of these Indian/Malay/Thai style restaurants. Trad Christmas dinner, eaten out, is ridiculously expensive round here, but we have toyed with the idea of going to one of the Indian restaurants instead and may well do next year. Have fun!
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posted by [identity profile] sigisgrim.livejournal.com at 06:10pm on 10/12/2007
If traditional[sic] roast turkey was the only option for a Christmas dinner (or indeed any other meal) I would think very hard about bothering of attending. I have yet to have a roast turkey meal that was worth the effort of cooking and eating. I find the breast meat dull and uninteresting and I don't particularly like the flavour or texture of the other meat. Usually the only meat I find worth eating are the sausages and and bacon. The bread sauce is always on the boring side of anaemic. And I don't particularly like cranberries.

Very often mass produced traditional[sic] Christmas dinners use reconstituted turkey instead of proper roast turkey which just makes it even worse.

I'm sure that many people enjoy roast turkey, but I just don't. Cooked in many other ways turkey is fine; indeed, for example, I quite like the things that Highlander does with chunks of turkey.
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posted by [identity profile] alex-downunder.livejournal.com at 02:39am on 11/12/2007
Indeed, turkey is overrated. I doubt I'll be having anything approaching a traditional Xmas dinner. I expect the most likely meal will be a packed lunch atop a blue mountain - that is assuming the sucky weather doesn't linger. I'm currently inside a large cloud.
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