Breakfast
This is the ‘rents "standard special":
Grilled bacon, sausage, baked beans, poached egg, toast & marmalade, tea (and an extra coffee for Dad) orange juice
Mine
Cereal, de-caff tea
Dinner
Roast turkey crown, stuffing, chipolatas wrapped in bacon*, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes/ parsnips/ onion, sprouts, carrots, peas, gravy and cranberry sauce (optional)
Christmas pudding, soused in brandy and set alight, Pavlova
Cheese board (includes biscuits ie crackers)
After Eights/ liqueur chocolates
Liqueurs
Tea
Cold meats, cheese board, sliced bread and butter, pickles**, salad, pate, mince pies
*to me, Pigs in Blankets are sausages wrapped in bread. Otherwise wouldn't they just be Pigs in Pigs?
Then again Devils on Horseback are dates wrapped in bacon.
Angels on Horseback are oysters wrapped in bacon.
Go figure, but I did once win a pub quiz where that was the tie-breaker.
** this includes pickled onions, gherkins, red cabbage, piccalilli, beetroot and Branston Pickle
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