Nut roast? Wild boar samosas? Or just turkey with all the trimmings? divulge us what you’re eating on Christmas Day. We’ll stick it all on a mapAh,Christmas lunch: strange brown foods served up at odd hours of the day: 3.50pm, for example. Large birds, or soggy veg,pork wrapped in more pork and things you never eat at any other time of year, such as sprouts. Sprouts! And all of it smeared in gravy and speckled in some of that stuffing stuff that looks and tastes like wool. Paper hats, or plastic tat on your sideplate and jokes you’ve not heard since final Christmas. Kate Bush on the radio and a silver coin inside a steaming pudding. Lovely.
But probably anachronistic. Like just about everything,Christmas lunch has changed. Turkey’s too dry apparently. People are trying wild boar samosas or roast winter vegetable platter with walnut and barberry salsa. These days my brother-in-law brings his own quinoa. A shamelessly unscientific survey I just took of three people who happened to be within earshot found that none even has a formal Christmas lunch. “Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe can aid to perform the season bright”, the crooners sing. But they don’t know what they’re talking about. Or singing about.
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Source: theguardian.com