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15-10-2009, 21:03
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Absinthe
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Chrismas dinner?
Well as normal I will be doing a fake Christmas. But was thinking of doing a more traditional meal and no not turkey. IIRC the traditional Christmas dinner we know is only a few hundread years old.
Was wondering if anyone knew what was traditional before this, even back to the origins in Roman times. Googles no really helping me at the moment. Other than throwing up a hundred and one recipes for plum pudding.
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15-10-2009, 21:08
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Apparently it was a boar or a peacock in medieval times. Mmm, peacock. No idea what it would have been in Roman times tho. Pheasant?
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15-10-2009, 21:14
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15-10-2009, 21:15
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Are you going to eat it in the traditional manner too?
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16-10-2009, 20:48
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We don't tend to have a dinner, but just a late lunch - no idea what we're doing this year, we don't take it very seriously or make much of an effort really.
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16-10-2009, 20:58
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No idea what we're doing this year - in the past we've either gone out or gone round someone elses house; I've never had tried cooking a christmas dinner yet (this may actually be a good way of avoiding the complete fcuk up that I'm sure would be the result)
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16-10-2009, 22:00
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 why not. It is such a great time to meet up and party with friends on the run up and then spend time with the family. Everyone goes home for a few days.
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17-10-2009, 09:16
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Well we often go to France so that's not bad, but other than that it's just us 4 - we haven't got any family here in the UK.
We do have a pre-Christmas party that we throw for our friends (invites c.100 people) but you tend to get 50% turn up.  Christmas itself is a nice time to get together, but we get together on many other occaisions. As for the run up I've always worked up and including Christmas Eve. Besides from a religious background, for me Christmas was never until January (Greek Orthodox) - but more emphasis was put on Easter anyway rather than Christmas. Don't get me wrong I like the traditional side of things and when we had more family around we always used to get together, but that was more for the fact that there were lots of kids and it was easier to manage them all in one place than all over the place. On personal note, Christmas has some dark times associated for me so I don't really get excited about it anymore, I accept it and get on with it, but I'm reticent of enjoying it. Anyway back to the actual thread, boar rings a bell. In France we don't do Turkey at all for Christmas (well the do, but it's not "traditional".) A typical French christmas meal is typically consists of some of the following (but not necessarily all): Foie gras Oysters Salmon or Fish main Muscles / scallops / other type of shell fish Beef main Goose / Bird main Game main
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