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I hate having to pay and prepare Christmas lunch. A lunch that was shared with somebody that constantly moaned about being under paid in their job, while they earn 3x our household income for less hours then I alone work. Oh shut up!

Ha, fuck your awkward relation, you did a good job and I'm proud of you.

They are still here! The lazy shit! But thank you.

Do a League of Gentlemen style bill/invoice when they try to leave.

Some sort of cunty in-law?

Cunt-in-law? That works for me. He’s now moaning about his 21year old son being babied, while being waited on hand and foot by Liz and the MiL.

But people didn’t take him seriously until after his ascetic period. Sexy.

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Oh I wish!!

How expensive turkey is pisses me off. It's way overpriced for how nice it is.

All dead animal corpses are too cheap really, maybe these seasonal ones are just less so.
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I don’t know how people afford to eat carrion.

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My paternal grandpa was a butcher. He was always perplexed by the way turkey had become traditional for Christmas (although he sold plenty, because business is business) and thought that there were much nicer things to put on your plate.

He put a swing up behind his house for me and my wee brother to use when we visited, but since it was never used otherwise, we might go round the back to find a couple of pheasant carcasses hanging from it.

Like chicken, for instance.

Americanisms.

Goose is the way to go. Not that they're especially cheap.

It's a fair point. Some meat is so cheap it does make you wonder.

Goose is the way to go.

My dad always wanted to have that, but my mum thought it wasn't Christmas without turkey. The one year he got his way was also the year her dad and brother came for a visit and they were, um, trenchermen. They weren't impressed by the portion sizes; the argument that the whole point of stuffing is to give everybody a full plate while sharing the bird meat around a large gathering didn't mollify them.

Turkey was the mainstay of the Christmas dinner by the Victorian era, having phased out goose by virtue of being cheaper. Nowt to do with American cultural influence.

Americanisms.

Nah, been popular way before any American influence. It's just a massive bird looks impressive when you bring it out, they're way easier to rear than geese as well.

Agree that it's fucking shit though, I've never served it for Christmas dinner, also spent the last 15 chrimbos in France so it's thankfully never an option.

Surely geese are domestic to Europe whereas Turkeys are from the Americas?

Spanish brought them over to Europe but surely by Americanisms you meant copying thanks giving and Christmas traditions not just the fact that the Turkey comes from the americas?

Yeah, but they were first brought over in like the 1500s. Even by the Georgian era the turkey was rivalling the goose as the Christmas centrepiece.

Unless by Americanisms you just meant “brought over from the American continents”, but that’s pretty meaningless and it would be equivalent to say “ah yes, the Asian influence” when discussing the shooting and eating of pheasants. It would be more accurate to say “colonialism”.

Muntjac is particularly nice at this time of year. My mate, when he was a police firearms instructor, was also the control room's first port of call for animal destruction. As a result, particularly in the Autumn, everyone he knew had freezers full of venison.

All UK meat eaters should be eating more venison. There have almost certainly never been more wild deer in the UK than currently.

Added to New Year’s resolutions, cheers.