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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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There's so many opportunities to be pigletty at Christmas foodwise and drinkwise.
Homemade sloe gin, champagne, whisky and the cheese selection, roast turkey/goose/pheasant, sprouts, Christmas cake or pudding etc.
What three drinks or foodstuffs particular to *your* celebration of Christmas are your favourite? It can be a specific version or recipe of the food or drink. How do you have yours, and what makes it Christmas for you? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Christmas pudding - homemade. Nearly kills the Kenwood Chef each year but it's great.
Only other tradition is turkey, chips and pickle for tea."
I'm sure Hatter won't approve pickle for tea!
(Although you've reminded me of one of my favs....pickled walnuts!) |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Christmas pudding - homemade. Nearly kills the Kenwood Chef each year but it's great.
Only other tradition is turkey, chips and pickle for tea."
I'm a KitchenAid gal  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"baileys creme brulee a speciality for me 
Ooooh yum!!
its lovely may try the mint choc next year "
That sounds 80s-tastic (I associate mint choc with the 80s but I've no idea why?!) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"baileys creme brulee a speciality for me
Ooooh yum!!
its lovely may try the mint choc next year
That sounds 80s-tastic (I associate mint choc with the 80s but I've no idea why?!)"
no idea but im sure theres a reason..... ah well |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Christmas pudding - homemade. Nearly kills the Kenwood Chef each year but it's great.
Only other tradition is turkey, chips and pickle for tea.
I'm a KitchenAid gal "
That'll be because you are stylish and I'm a brute  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My mam makes an amazing turkey pie with leftovers. I may have "accidentally" ordered a turkey crown that's way bigger than we need so I can get her to make me a couple of them 
Also, After Eights are compulsory from about the 15th December onwards. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Turkey, ham, stuffing and pigs in blanket sandwich
You can keep the stinky mince pies"
I'll ignore the mince pie comment given the porn you unleashed to start with  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My mam makes an amazing turkey pie with leftovers. I may have "accidentally" ordered a turkey crown that's way bigger than we need so I can get her to make me a couple of them
Also, After Eights are compulsory from about the 15th December onwards. "
Turkey pie sounds amahhhhzing! Good work on the accidental ordering  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Turkey, ham, stuffing and pigs in blanket sandwich
You can keep the stinky mince pies"
Per-meat-a Von Tease -- sounds like you're a protein lass! Yummmmmmy. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Hairy nuts
Quality Street fruit cremes
Cold turkey, jacket potato, piccalilli and bread sauce
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Piccalilli and bread sauce -- both a veritable triumph in my opinion!!
I'm less sure of the hairy nuts... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"All the cheese and crisps please
Ooooh any particular cheeses or crisp brands/flavours?!
Anything. I'm a savoury girl. Can I have chilli jam and crackers too please "
Hell to the yeah -- I may have to have a nibble! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
Stollen
Maraschino cherries (in Snowballs or on their own)
Cheesy Footballs (they're disgusting and I don't know why I used to love them so much but every couple of years I forget they are horrid and buy them)
Then there are the things that we don't have any more but were particular to us that Mum would make:
Duck curry
Pepperpot
Garlic pork and
Black Cake.
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"Turkey, ham, stuffing and pigs in blanket sandwich
You can keep the stinky mince pies
Per-meat-a Von Tease -- sounds like you're a protein lass! Yummmmmmy. "
It is delish but you have to put a third pice of bread in the middle which is dipped in gravy for extra moisture (an idea stolen from Ross in friends and known as 'the moist maker ) |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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My mum used to have a practice Christmas dinner a week beforehand so I used to get two. My favourite (before I went veggie for a decade or so) was boxing day though. Cold turkey, hot creamy mashed potato and farm shop pickled onions. Amazing! I like Christmas pudding as well, cold for boxing day breakfast with a cup of strong coffee. Plus all the cheese and biscuits I can eat for a week or so. Drool. |
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"All the cheese and crisps please
Ooooh any particular cheeses or crisp brands/flavours?!
Anything. I'm a savoury girl. Can I have chilli jam and crackers too please
Hell to the yeah -- I may have to have a nibble! "
I'm throwing some meats on this platter too. Salami and such |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Stollen
Maraschino cherries (in Snowballs or on their own)
Cheesy Footballs (they're disgusting and I don't know why I used to love them so much but every couple of years I forget they are horrid and buy them)
Then there are the things that we don't have any more but were particular to us that Mum would make:
Duck curry
Pepperpot
Garlic pork and
Black Cake.
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Yum!! Do you think next year you may have a go at replicating a mumma-dish?  |
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"Hairy nuts
Quality Street fruit cremes
Cold turkey, jacket potato, piccalilli and bread sauce
Piccalilli and bread sauce -- both a veritable triumph in my opinion!!
I'm less sure of the hairy nuts... "
They're irresistible actually ..... a bastardised Hairy Biker's recipe hence 'Hairy nuts'. Industrial quantities of mixed nuts baked in honey, chilli, lime, and spices until they're hot and sticky (oooh err) then consumed for around eight weeks thereafter until we're sick of them ...  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Turkey, ham, stuffing and pigs in blanket sandwich
You can keep the stinky mince pies
Per-meat-a Von Tease -- sounds like you're a protein lass! Yummmmmmy.
It is delish but you have to put a third pice of bread in the middle which is dipped in gravy for extra moisture (an idea stolen from Ross in friends and known as 'the moist maker )"
Lush. I'm drooling. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A cheese board and a bottle of port
I approve TOTALLY!
Any particular cheeses or brand of port required? "
Taylor's LBV Port and a good selection of cheese....smoked cheddar, Stilton blue and also with white with cranberries, Brie, Roquefort and a good roulade ..... should do the trick |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My mum used to have a practice Christmas dinner a week beforehand so I used to get two. My favourite (before I went veggie for a decade or so) was boxing day though. Cold turkey, hot creamy mashed potato and farm shop pickled onions. Amazing! I like Christmas pudding as well, cold for boxing day breakfast with a cup of strong coffee. Plus all the cheese and biscuits I can eat for a week or so. Drool."
Yes, leftovers and dishes to use things up are my favs. I adore the plethora of pickledy things and cold cuts and cheeses and popping to the fridge (a la nigella) and sneaking mouthfuls of things! |
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"Stollen
Maraschino cherries (in Snowballs or on their own)
Cheesy Footballs (they're disgusting and I don't know why I used to love them so much but every couple of years I forget they are horrid and buy them)
Then there are the things that we don't have any more but were particular to us that Mum would make:
Duck curry
Pepperpot
Garlic pork and
Black Cake.
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I could quite happily polish off a jar - or two - of Maraschino cherries in one sitting ! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Hairy nuts
Quality Street fruit cremes
Cold turkey, jacket potato, piccalilli and bread sauce
Piccalilli and bread sauce -- both a veritable triumph in my opinion!!
I'm less sure of the hairy nuts...
They're irresistible actually ..... a bastardised Hairy Biker's recipe hence 'Hairy nuts'. Industrial quantities of mixed nuts baked in honey, chilli, lime, and spices until they're hot and sticky (oooh err) then consumed for around eight weeks thereafter until we're sick of them ... "
Oh that makes *more* sense now!!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"All the cheese and crisps please
Ooooh any particular cheeses or crisp brands/flavours?!
Anything. I'm a savoury girl. Can I have chilli jam and crackers too please
Hell to the yeah -- I may have to have a nibble!
I'm throwing some meats on this platter too. Salami and such "
Oh sausage! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"A cheese board and a bottle of port
I approve TOTALLY!
Any particular cheeses or brand of port required?
Taylor's LBV Port and a good selection of cheese....smoked cheddar, Stilton blue and also with white with cranberries, Brie, Roquefort and a good roulade ..... should do the trick "
Sold! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Stuffing with sausage meat added and bacon over the top. Christmas cake for breakfast. And an almighty feast of cheeses n chutneys... Happy Days "
Chutneys for the win!!!! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Stollen
Maraschino cherries (in Snowballs or on their own)
Cheesy Footballs (they're disgusting and I don't know why I used to love them so much but every couple of years I forget they are horrid and buy them)
Then there are the things that we don't have any more but were particular to us that Mum would make:
Duck curry
Pepperpot
Garlic pork and
Black Cake.
Yum!! Do you think next year you may have a go at replicating a mumma-dish? "
Other than the duck curry the rest appear to be impossible to replicate. Whether it was the fact that pepperpot was eaten after Midnight Mass or that garlic pork was eaten for breakfast, I don't know. They're just not quite right and all of them take a lot of work.
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"Christmas pudding - homemade. Nearly kills the Kenwood Chef each year but it's great.
Only other tradition is turkey, chips and pickle for tea.
I'm a KitchenAid gal "
Me too, are you sure we aren' the same person? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Our family is legendary for our Christmas cake and stuffing recipes, and I love the cold meat with baked spuds and salads the next day, yum!!  "
Yum, I'm getting excited about food -- my happy place!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Stollen
Maraschino cherries (in Snowballs or on their own)
Cheesy Footballs (they're disgusting and I don't know why I used to love them so much but every couple of years I forget they are horrid and buy them)
Then there are the things that we don't have any more but were particular to us that Mum would make:
Duck curry
Pepperpot
Garlic pork and
Black Cake.
Yum!! Do you think next year you may have a go at replicating a mumma-dish?
Other than the duck curry the rest appear to be impossible to replicate. Whether it was the fact that pepperpot was eaten after Midnight Mass or that garlic pork was eaten for breakfast, I don't know. They're just not quite right and all of them take a lot of work.
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(((hugs))) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't get excited about Christmas food, I need gluten free everything and I'm not yet up for baking for no reason."
im trying not to get excited about xmas food can't help it though first xmas season cooking for guests in 5 years |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Christmas pudding - homemade. Nearly kills the Kenwood Chef each year but it's great.
Only other tradition is turkey, chips and pickle for tea.
I'm a KitchenAid gal
Me too, are you sure we aren' the same person? "
Haha! If we meet, will we open a portal to another dimension?! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Krokiety (Croquetes)
Pierogi (Dumplings)
Uszka w Barszczu (Christmas Eve beetroot soup with dumplings)
The translations aren't really selling it "
No! Still sound divine!
The soup sounds amazing -- I love beetroot! |
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"Christmas pudding - homemade. Nearly kills the Kenwood Chef each year but it's great.
Only other tradition is turkey, chips and pickle for tea.
I'm a KitchenAid gal
Me too, are you sure we aren' the same person?
Haha! If we meet, will we open a portal to another dimension?! "
We could have a bloody good try |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I don't get excited about Christmas food, I need gluten free everything and I'm not yet up for baking for no reason."
Actually I'm supposed to be gluten free.....!! I'm just naughty! |
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Sorry couldn't narrow it to three so went for three drinks and three foods but that failed
Jack Daniels,
woods rum,
red wine
vol-au-vents
king prawn garlic chilli balti and full trimmings bought Christmas Eve from my favourite curry house
Profiteroles
Fererro rocher
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By (user no longer on site)
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Love turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayo sandwiches for boxing day lunch.
And the leftover turkey gets made into a homemade korma for tea that night.
The korma has become a new tradition in this house x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Sorry couldn't narrow it to three so went for three drinks and three foods but that failed
Jack Daniels,
woods rum,
red wine
vol-au-vents
king prawn garlic chilli balti and full trimmings bought Christmas Eve from my favourite curry house
Profiteroles
Fererro rocher
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Sounds yummy!!
I fancy a profiterole now |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Love turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayo sandwiches for boxing day lunch.
And the leftover turkey gets made into a homemade korma for tea that night.
The korma has become a new tradition in this house x"
A great tradition-- love turkey sarnies and who could forget the cranberry sauce? Ooooh lovely! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A cheese board and a bottle of port
I approve TOTALLY!
Any particular cheeses or brand of port required?
Taylor's LBV Port and a good selection of cheese....smoked cheddar, Stilton blue and also with white with cranberries, Brie, Roquefort and a good roulade ..... should do the trick
Sold! "
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"May have to steal some ideas... our family dinner is a typical turkey roast with all the trimming, but this year I'm making it!"
Neeps - don't forget the roast neeps! And be generous with the sausage meat in the stuffing! |
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"May have to steal some ideas... our family dinner is a typical turkey roast with all the trimming, but this year I'm making it!
Neeps - don't forget the roast neeps! And be generous with the sausage meat in the stuffing! "
Oh yeah!!! Roasty neeps!! Joy! |
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"Sorry couldn't narrow it to three so went for three drinks and three foods but that failed
Jack Daniels,
woods rum,
red wine
vol-au-vents
king prawn garlic chilli balti and full trimmings bought Christmas Eve from my favourite curry house
Profiteroles
Fererro rocher
Sounds yummy!!
I fancy a profiterole now "
I'll save the last one for you or should that be a rolo
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Sorry couldn't narrow it to three so went for three drinks and three foods but that failed
Jack Daniels,
woods rum,
red wine
vol-au-vents
king prawn garlic chilli balti and full trimmings bought Christmas Eve from my favourite curry house
Profiteroles
Fererro rocher
Sounds yummy!!
I fancy a profiterole now
I'll save the last one for you or should that be a rolo
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Rolo yolo! |
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"I don't get excited about Christmas food, I need gluten free everything and I'm not yet up for baking for no reason.
Actually I'm supposed to be gluten free.....!! I'm just naughty! "
Ohhh, I really cannot not  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i fancy a nice foot long baguette filled with pigs in blankets
When you're home can you do myself and Estella a lovely gluten free meal? "
of course i can being two of my favs on here |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"i fancy a nice foot long baguette filled with pigs in blankets
When you're home can you do myself and Estella a lovely gluten free meal?
of course i can being two of my favs on here "
we can be gluten free gluttons! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i fancy a nice foot long baguette filled with pigs in blankets
When you're home can you do myself and Estella a lovely gluten free meal?
of course i can being two of my favs on here
we can be gluten free gluttons!"
give me ideas what you'd both like and ill see what i can come up with |
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"i fancy a nice foot long baguette filled with pigs in blankets
When you're home can you do myself and Estella a lovely gluten free meal?
of course i can being two of my favs on here
we can be gluten free gluttons!
give me ideas what you'd both like and ill see what i can come up with "
We will hold you to this you know |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i fancy a nice foot long baguette filled with pigs in blankets
When you're home can you do myself and Estella a lovely gluten free meal?
of course i can being two of my favs on here
we can be gluten free gluttons!
give me ideas what you'd both like and ill see what i can come up with
We will hold you to this you know "
I know and ill certainly live up to the promise also. and cook the best meal possible for two lovely ladies |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Time out chocolate always reminds me of Christmas at my parents
Bacon sandwiches for breakfast
Pigs in blankets and a prawn cocktail
Baked Alaska
G x"
Oh I do like a prawn cocktail! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I tell you what I noticed whilst trying to familiarise myself with my revamped Sainsbury's layout - both Jack Daniels and Jim Beam make bottles of BBQ sauce!!!
Whyeeee????  "
Oh my! |
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