What's Christmas in England like? | Rating your British Christmas food!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Come see what a British Christmas looks like from a foreigners perspective! Unfortunately Christmas is a bit different this year, but there's still plenty of British food to eat.
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a UA-cam video every Tuesday and an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:30pm GMT on Twitch.
Alanna x
#christmasinengland #britishculture #britishlife
Did you last long enough in the video to see the sausage roll dance?? Don’t forget to join me for our End of 2020 livestream tomorrow! 30 December at 7pm GMT here on UA-cam! Hope to see you there :)
It's. NOT possible to watch this w.ithout a great big smile on your face!
Loved the mimosa. Only found out on
Christmas Day that a mimosa is 1 measure of Champers/sparkling white w.ine to 2 measure of orange juice a Nd that Bucks Fizz is 2 of Champers to 1 of orange juice.
I had the second if those!
Good to see you are enjoying
Your Christmas.
Ooh, sausage roll, ooh sausage roll. :-)
Sausage rolls and dancing, who in their right mind would miss it?
A sausage roll on a plate in your hand while you danced would have sent me over the edge, good call!
Am I dancing? Am I eating?
Where's the gaviscon?
Loved it, Alanna! Hope to watch your livestream tomorrow. See ya 👋
7GMT=.....EST?
You didn't mention the compulsory wearing of the paper hat from the Christmas cracker while you eat dinner. See you tomorrow.
The my cousins always fight about who gets which color and try to trade with everyone 😅
The earlier you have Christmas dinner, the sooner you can have a nap.
I approve of this reasoning :D
Sound logic.
100% , having it later is just weird.
So god damn true.
I agree. I’m making mine ready for 1:30 this year. I’ve done it at 4pm every year as that’s when my Mum would have it ready. Only because we lived in a pub growing up and it’s the earliest she could have it on the table as we opened for a couple of hours Christmas Day. I don’t know why I kept up the tradition, so I’m scrapping it this year and making it much earlier so I can nap sooner!!
In the UK lunch is also alternatively called dinner. In schools, people who serve or supervise the mid-day meal break are often called 'Dinner Ladies'. They do not work evenings :)
For me there is Dinner Time (12-1) and Tea Time (5-6). There is no lunch, there is dinner and tea. The dinner lady thing is what I always mention when it is talked about.
@@necronom northern by any chance?
@@stav2002 Yes :-) Middlesbrough, North East.
For me lunch is cold midday, dinner is hot (midday or evening) and tea is cold in the evening.
@@necronom dinner is the main hot meal of the day, that can be at "lunch time" or "tea time", (if it is at tea time it's not tea it's supper whereas if it is at lunch it is still lunch, this in addition to it being dinner), lunch or tea are the smaller meal,
Thin sliced parsnips and roasted to a crisp is the way to go.
Hated parsnips as a kid but love them now, specially roasted in honey!
Roast them with grated parmesan on top.
That helps caramelise them, which is essential for parsnips IMHO. They're packed with starch, which turns sweet and yummy if they're nicely roasted.
Dinner in England is the main meal of the day, not the time it is eaten. Hence school dinners at midday.
Exactly. And anyway...."lunch" is not a common word where I live
@@sniffrat3646 I'm curious, where do you live (roughly) and what do you call it?
Here in middle England, I've only ever known it as lunch when it's a cold meal. I also agree with you both that 'dinner' is the main meal of the day, it should be a hot meal too. The time doesn't matter.
@@lwaves I'm in Leicester. We don't often use the word "lunch" - sounds southern to my ears ;) so it's dinner at midday, tea at 5/6pm.
@@sniffrat3646 Same place as you (south west of the city) and after many decades here, I've only ever heard lunch for a cold midday meal. A hot midday meal is a dinner and a cold evening meal is a tea, we'll agree there. That's kind of odd but it shows how much things can vary very quickly. :-)
@@lwaves oh....... 'ey up neighbour! 😁
The sausage roll dance at the end has earned a like from me! 😂
Given the amount of food we eat for Christmas dinner, its almost necessary to have it about 2pm to give your digestive system at least a fighting chance of getting through it before bedtime. Plus there are still chocolates and turkey sandwiches and picky bits to eat, which requires an evening vegging out in front of the TV to do that. Clearly Canada is far more posh when it comes to the eating part. We are all just slobs
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@@AdventuresAndNaps In Nova Scotia, eastern Canada, it is common to have Christmas dinner mid-afternoon. Nap time and then games time afterwards!
@@AdventuresAndNaps We have breakfast, dinner and tea.
No nonsense about dinner in the evening
PS. When to dine, seems you're on southern time... oop north we have breakfast, DINNER, and then tea. So Krissy dins, 2 - 3pm, the way to go. Plus, we can't wait any longer, all that food, all those smells... the sooner the better.
Christmas day is different - even in Kent. So yes that is the right schedule for that day. Actually Sunday generally is pretty much like that too.
Told you Alana 🤷🏻♂️
I'm so glad that you had a nice Christmas!! You're a really nice person and you deserve it!
You are so kind
Sausage rolls and cider. You are living the best life. Stay safe and best wishes.
Thanks, you too!
A year ago, I decided I needed to check out how London does Christmas. So I left Canada behind and spent two weeks in London in December. I did everything Christmas, from the Annual Christmas Pudding Race at Covent Gardens, to an evening of Carols by Candlelight at St. Martins in the field, to the quintessential Christmas experience, A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic. Such a wonderful experience over all.
The last time I've watched Alanna, she was still in Ontario but couldn't wait to move back to England. It's nice to come back here and see that her dream has come true. I'll try to come back more often to see what's happening in the world of Alanna. May everyone have a blessed 2021 and be able to live life again.
Alana my sweet - up north we have Breakfast / Dinner / Tea / Supper so when we say Xmas Dinner we mean, what you would call, Lunch.
Our Christmas dinner was a little different this year. My wife decided to serve our guests with a plated meal rather than put the food out and let them help themselves as in previous times. This was to minimise the handling of dishes and utensils by multiple people and thus preserve social distancing etc. So we made a menu of all the stuff available with tick boxes against each item and instructions to double-tick the things you want a lot of. So far so good. Dinner was scheduled for around 1.30pm. The menu listed: Turkey, Pork, Roast potatoes, Boiled Potatoes, Carrots, Peas, Sprouts, Parsnips (yum), Stuffing, Cranberry Sauce, Bread Sauce (Yuk), Apple Sauce, Yorkshire Pudding and Gravy. Well a lot of things transpired (as usual) not the least of which was the fact that "the electricity was going slow". This is a common excuse at Christmas and often coincides with a copious consumption of Gin and Tonic. We finally sat down to eat and most of us got the wrong stuff. Not to mention that there was no Bread Sauce (forgotten), no Peas (also forgotten), No Yorkshires (batter made but forgot to cook them) and it was just before 3.00pm! Nobody cared and some even had seconds! We had a little quiz, before desert, that involved reminiscing about all the things that have happened since I was born in December 1950. Y'know, important stuff like the first sex change operation in 1952, abolition of the one Farthing coin in 1960 and the introduction of Flora Margerine (high in Polyunsaturates) in 1965. We had Christmas Pudding, Malteser Cheesecake, Cream, Custard, Brandy butter and/or ice cream and finished the meal around 7.00pm. If you can't decide when it's dinner time, lunch time or teatime I find it best to blur them all into one, especially at this time of year. Merry Christmas everybody!
Brilliant 😂👍👏👌
I got an advert for Turkish airlines before the video, the first line of which is "so how was Turkey?". I found it rather fitting...
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Parsnips are delicious love the sweet taste they have best roasted of course.
I agree, I can't understand folk not liking parsnips.
honey roasted ummmmm!
The UK vegetables are basically winter vegetables i.e. those that are ready to eat in mid-winter! I suspect that is why traditional UK Christmas dinner has Brussels, Parsnips, Carrots and Turnips. As a youngsster our Christmas dinner was always ready at 2.00pm, so that we would eat it, wash up and sit down as a family in time for the Queens speech. Our presents were not given out by my father until after the speech so that my mother could sit down with us all and relax.
I always worry when you have a big knife after you cut that pumpkin ages ago! Panettone didn't put up much of a fight thankfully!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas & all the very best for 2021 for you & your 'coffee maker'!
Happy New Year!
What was that you had for afters? It wasn't Christmas pudding, but since everyone I know hates Christmas pudding I approve lol...in our house dessert is waiting until you've got room for more food, during which time you finish off the wine, and then the traditional Terry's Chocolate Orange, mint Matchsticks, After Eights, Quality Street, and Celebrations. We generally watch anything other than the Queen's Speech and spend the evening complaining that Die Hard isn't on when surely that's everyone's favourite Christmas film. Now THAT'S a traditional Christmas Day.
Growing up as a child, I was an immigrant to Canada while my cousins were born in Canada. Our Christmas dinners were always part traditional Western and part everyday Chinese. There would be turkey and mashed potatoes and candied yams, but there would always be steamed rice, stir-fried vegetables and barbecued pork.
And I like parsnips, but I love potatoes.
I've always understood that dinner is the main meal of the day regardless of the time of day. Christmas dinner would be sometime after the pubs closed at 2pm and would continue for much of the day. Handing out presents from under the tree had to wait until eating was finished. Early evening would be teatime, sandwiches, Christmas cake with icing and of course, tea. Then us kids were packed off to bed and the party would begin. Parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, probably Uncle Tom Cobbley as well, all singing, dancing and drinking ... but never really out of order. Us kids sharing camp beds in the cold attic and listening to it all. Happy days. ^_^
Growing up in British Columbia, the Queen's speech was on fairly early in the morning (GMT-8). We had to eat breakfast, and watch the speech before opening presents, which was a convenient way for my parents to teach us kids patience I think!
Cue the " who wants stuffing " Line . Never gets old
You are entering another “cream or jam first” minefield when you discuss meal times. Lunch - Dinner- Tea - Supper -. Ask your audience if you dare 😂😂
Breakfast...Dinner...Tea.
No arguing. 😁
The sausage roll dance was legendary. Only downside, I was expecting to see sausage rolls physically dancing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for sharing your Christmas. Thats is alot of food it look delicious though! I look forward to your live stream. I hope next year is happier for you!
Thank you so much!!
Glad you both had a lovely time Alanna and thanks for sharing your Christmas morning on your video. I'm a sucker for crispy roast potatoes and that trayful looked very inviting, and thankfully not a parsnip in sight...I have vivid memories as a kid of being told I'd get no Christmas pudding unless I ate my parsnips, and I still hate them now!!
I agree with having Christmas dinner at dinner time (after 5).
My mum always said “i’m the one making it and i’m not getting up at 6am on Christmas morning to start preparing it”. Can’t argue with that, lol.
Boil the sprouts until still slightly under done. In a frying pan cook some lardons or chopped bacon until we’ll done. Add in the sprouts, some peeled cooked chestnuts (you can buy them vacuum packed), and if needed some butter. Stir until the chestnuts are warmed through. Yum. By the way you MUST eat your Christmas meal at late lunch time as you will want to proceed to the cold buffet in the evening- cold turkey and ham, left over pigs in blankets and stuffing, pork pie, cheeses , pickles etc. Etc.
Your rundown of what makes a Christmas dinner sounds pretty spot on to me, especially the Yorkshires, some people don't think they belong on a Christmas dinner, those people are wrong. And it's heart warming to see so much hostility in the comments directed at that potato imitating abomination the parsnip, it's not food, it's sadness in vegetable form.
You didn’t say which sausage roll was best but I hope they were all great. Thanks for sharing your Christmas with us and thanks to your partner for putting up with you filming for us while he worked in the kitchen. I hope you’re both feeling well even if you’re going a bit crazy being in tier 4.
Thank you so much! To be honest, I've never had a sausage roll I didn't like!
HOW MANY roasters were there on your plate for Christmas dinner!!! :-) We had lamb shanks for our Christmas dinner - which were awesome - highly recommend that you try them when you can. Enjoyed the VAST amounts of food you prepared and agree that stollen sucks!! Have a great Christmas season and all the very best of continued success in all you do in 2021. xx
Panettone with Tea , thank you. Deliciously gooey chocolate bits with light bread like cake.
The main difference between lunch and dinner is how much of the plate is still visible when loaded up! 🤭 Honey roasted parsnips are fab 😁🇬🇧
well done this year 73.8k subs fantastic I will be there tomorrow for the live stream.
I thought wow u made a lot of roast potatoes for 2 people, then I saw how many u put on your plate😂😂 I couldn’t eat more than about 3 halves! I remember as a kid going to a friends house and her mum asked how many tats I wanted I said 3 she said are you sure and when my friend requested 10 I was flabbergasted! Her mum incidentally put way more potatoes on my plate and I couldn’t eat them in fact the whole dinner was too huge for me😂
I can however eat a whole packet of Jaffa cakes so I am totally not judging you on how many you can eat😂
Hope you had a great Christmas. 🎉 🎊
Very much approve of the sausage roll dance, the food of the gods deserves its own cultural dance before eating
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Glad you and the Butler had a great time at Christmas Alanna, here's to a Happy New Year.
Thanks so much! Happy New Year!
glad you enjoyed yourself. we used to have our christmas dinner at 2pm. the pubs were open from 12 'till 2 so we went to the pub while my mum was cooking the dinner. we had to be back by 2 or it was game over!! when dinner was over the men used to wash up and put everything away. i thought it worked really well. best wishes and a happy new year.
Maybe tea after that? Nothing else before bed?
Canadian dinner for our family....turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, rutabaga, sprouts, green beans, carrots, cranberry sauce...gravy. Dessert....plum pudding ...trifle!
Sounds great! Interesting that you guys are a mashed potato household like my family in Ontario!
We have dinner early so there’s lot of time to stuff our faces with chocolates and maybe have a food coma nap
Because of circumstances, i think wee should be able to have Christmas dinner every 25th of every month, for the next year, mmmmm, madera cake, sultana cake, trifle, shortbread and more cake. With a waffar thin mint to finish, what ya think?
I think one major difference between British and Canadian Christmases would be the relative prevalence of real trees as Canadians are more likely to have real trees. Rural families will tend to cut their own from their property. Here in Ottawa many of them later get planted into snowbanks to form rest areas on the Rideau Canal skateway and other outdoor trails before being sent for chipping into mulch later in the spring.
In the north of England:
Breakfast is breakfast
Lunch is dinner (dinnertime)
Dinner is tea (teatime)
Supper is supper
Watching your with all this food and remembering your UK slang videos reminds me of a fellow londoner I met when he first moved to Australia. He told me how the all went for a goodbye big lunch back in the UK, and when they got back one of the woman sat down at her desk and said "oh god, I have a food baby" I hadnt heard that comment in years and laughed so much
Thanks for the wonderful and inspiring Alanna's Christmas Message - I don't watch the other one coz I'm sure yours is better. Oh my don't even go down the lunch/dinner road that will never ever be resolved, a bit like whether the cream or jam goes on the scone (or scon) first. So pleased you had a lovely if quiet Christmas.
Xmas day here in Australia was 29C and seeing as my state hasn't had any community covid cases for over 100 days we had around 30 family members for Christmas dinner which is usually cold ham off the bone, chicken with salads and prawns and for desert it's a mixed fruit salad or pavlova with cream and tropic fruit slices.....washed down with something cold.....and then we all turn up on Boxing day to finish off the leftovers for lunch.
You are such a lovely, positive person Alanna. It's not surprising that you have nearly seventy-four thousand subscribers. I hope you have a Very happy New Year! ( What will your next video topic be, New Year traditions in different countries?)
Thank you so much!
We built this channel on saus - age rolls.
Merry Christmas🎄✨
Merry Christmas!!
Parsnips were THE staple veg in Britain before potatoes were discovered..all I can say is thank God for Walter Raleigh !! Glad you had a lovely Christmas 🤗
I spent Christmas in Toronto in 1982. They had the warmest Christmas day on record (at the time) - no bloody snow! I don't remember much about it, except that my half sister (who I stayed with), doesn't drink so in order not to upset her sensibilities too much, I didn't have a beer until about 6 pm, at which point she said to me - "You're starting early"!!!. In my family it's usual to start just after breakfast. I don't remember much about Christmas dinner though.
Our Gravy ended up on the floor!!!!!!.... Bisto saved the day...... Stay safe Dear Lady.. :-))) xx
The Christmas meal veg must include parsnips and brussels sprouts and part of a tradition, and I eat them whether I like them or not, and of course Christmas Pudding with cream for desert.
When I was a kid, the meal was usually about 2pm, then parents cleaned and washed up ready to slouch on the sofa to watch the Queen's speech on our new black and white Radio Rentals TV, at 3pm, although I just tucked into the sweets, mince pies, nuts and anything else I could lay my hands on....:)
Boxing Day was when my parents would nip next door to spend time with their friends.
Plus back then we even had real candles on metal holders clipped to the tree branches, and before fancy lights were common, and not once did we burn our house down. The tree also had some small pressies on it to open on Boxing Day, like a Diary or something, and a 5 or 6 pack of small cigars (I forget the brand now) for my father.
This was back in the 1950's....:)
So we finally have video prove that the real reason you wanted to be here for Xmas was for the sausage rolls...
Many Savoury Greetings for the New Year!
How things have changed! Back in my distant childhood in Wales (1950's) we had Goose. with Roast Spuds, Brussel Sprouts, Parsnips, Stuffing, Carrots and Stuffing, with lashings of gravy. No sign of any sausages...where did that come from? Followed by Trifle (I avoided this, as cream and jelly together make me gag!) and Plum Pudding with white sauce (heavily fortified with brandy) Crackers of coarse. My Grandad and Dad would then settle back with a Brandy and cigar. We also had a lovely homemade Christmas Cake. Up until this year in Australia where I have lived since 1962, it was Roast Lamb and mint sauce, with aforementioned veg , Plum Pudding (home made) and white sauce, and home made mince pies. I have now been relegated to 'visiting parent' status as the kids take over. Feel for you guys in isolation over there. Better things for 2021, we hope :)
Dinner is the biggest meal of the day. If you have your main meal on Christmas Day in the middle of the day, then that's your Christmas Dinner.
In the north, many people refer to a hot cooked meal eaten in the middle of the day as "dinner", and a lighter meal taken in the evening as "tea". And of course, if dinner wasn't eaten in the middle of the day, then we wouldn't have school dinners or dinner ladies...
Good to see a woman who likes her food god bless you and your other half
Definitely right about Christmas dinner! We eat ours 6/7pm.. but so many people I know eat it at lunch! Xx
To me dinner is your main meal of the day, regardless of what time you have it. Lunch and tea are both light meals, so if I have lunch I'll have dinner in the evening, if I have dinner in the middle of the day, I have tea in the evening. That's not really how my life works, because I rarely have three meals in a day and often don't have any big meals, but that explains the naming principle from my perspective. So you can have dinner at lunchtime or teatime.
In the olden days 😂😂😂 when we could go to the pub on Christmas Day Christmas Dinner was timed for between 2-3pm because the pubs opened 12-2pm. So the men would go to the pub wearing their Christmas jumpers, and reeking of terrible aftershave. Down as much drink as possible and then go home for lunch and then fall asleep during the Queens Speech 💤💤💤😌😌
It was just my wife and I for Christmas this year as we are also in Kent. It was the first Christmas on our own since 1988. Christmas Eve we had a Zoom call with our son (in Istanbul) and our daughter (who is in New Zealand so it was 8am Christmas morning for her). Christmas day we had a lie in and a late breakfast. Christmas dinner was at 1:30pm (we always eat at 1:30pm) and we had Prawn Cocktail, Turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, honey roast parsnips, carrots, brussels sprouts, pigs in blankets, gravy and cranberry sauce. I had Christmas puuding and custard and Sue had cheesecake. (she doesn't like Christmas pudding). After that we went for a walk. Normally in the evening we would have turkey, brie and cranberry sauce sandwiches, but we were too full to have anything else. P.S. The sprouts and carrots were boiled in a pan rather than being roasted.
Imagine if Parsnips were literally everywhere! Also I like the pizza decoration on the tree!!
Roasted sprouts are great.
Corn is a must.
Snips are a hard no.
We eat at 2:00 so everyone can get home and my sister can reclean the whole house before bed.
You did a full two bites so you get full credit.
WooHoo! I'm the 700th like!
Great job Alana.
Because of your video from Christmas 2019-last year, we happened to find (here in Central Texas) and incorporated Christmas crackers into our Christmas celebration. It was a hit at our house. Thanks and Happy New Year!
Oh wow! Happy New Year!
Hi Alana. hope you had a good Christmas & enjoyed your British Christmas dinner. We had our dinner at 1pm promptly to allow time for our full tummies to go down a bit & watch the Queen's speech on replay while we had Christmas tea/supper at 5pm for extra turkey with buttered rolls, pork pie, beets, salad, trifle, Christmas cake, all set out on a festive tea time table, then we played some board games. WE spent 10 yrs in wonderful Canada, loved the Christmas dinners we were invited to, & not forgetting the sweet potatoes Canadians love with Thanksgiving 2nd Monday in Oct. Yes Christmas dinner was usually @ 6pm just the same as their/our regular weekly dinners are. Enjoy your vids & good to get your take on the differences between Canada & England. Love Niagara Falls & had a blast on Maid of the Mist boat ride! The Rockies & Banff r fantastic. Drove all the way East 2 West in the middle of winter. Loved the Eaton Centre in "Torono" at Christmas it looked magical, also went to the Northern Lights sound & light show on Parliament Hill Ottawa. Awesome!! Timmies was a regular fave of ours, love the iced coffees, frozen lemonade, which is different to UK lemonade but still nice. Box of 20 or 50 Timbits, chilli soup, honey Cruller, cheese grills. Miss these little things so much. Oh & A&W root beer with ice-cream. So good! Canada very similar to UK still got the Queen on the coins & notes due to being part of the Common Wealth. Still kept some coins as a keepsake, used to get confused @ the 10¢ which is like the UK 5 pence. Spellings pretty much the same keeping the U in colour/Favourite etc A guy from Toronto said to me he hates the U left out of colour as he can almost hear the U in it as he says it. lol ! interestingly you have realize & tire though so a bit of a mix there. Majority of our Canadian friends say mum or kids will sometimes say mumma, Grandpa & Nana for Grandparents. Like you Alana, very friendly folk, direct, confident will talk to you in the street, ask the kids to come say Hi & pet their dog. Did find the summers too hot to sit outside in & kept getting bitten by annoying mozzies. loved the huge homes, yards, swimming pools, Have bought some screen nets for our windows here to stop flies getting in in summer, got them from JML Direct ordered online, also will get air con cooler box for summers we definitely need them as I get terrible headaches if it gets too hot indoors. Best we can do really!! Winters were a novelty at 1st, very pretty the snow , but lasted too long from Nov to mid April, never braved skiing during our time there. Many of our friends went snow-birding during winter for a month to warm Mexico or Florida. Miss our time in Canada it changes you for the better, We are more outgoing than we were before. Still find myself using Canadian words & expression, still say how's it going & will respond I'm good when asked am I alright. lol Anyways, have a great New Year 2021 & stay safe!!
Merry Christmas Alanna - looks like you got the main points spot on - I saw lots of alcohol, lots of roast potatoes, turkey pigs in blankets and some veg. I wish I'd taken a pic of our dinner. But a typical christmas fair at our place is:-
Champagne, smoked salmon & Creme Fraiche blinis around 11am
Some kind of starter - this year was prawn and lobster starter from M&S
Dinner around 1:30pm = Turkey, Stuffing, pigs in blankets, steamed carrot, turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, sprouts, roast parsnips, roast potatoes and yorkshire pudding all with a home made gravy.
- theres a reason you have your christmas dinner at lunchtime is so you can have all the other goodies later on. The danger of eating your dinner later is filling up on other stuff during the day and not leaving enough room:-
Tea/Supper anytime you fell ready for it - Turkey & stuffing sandwiches (home made buns) pickles optional, left over pigs in blankets. We tend to have our desert at this point home made chocolate and cherry roulade
Evening - bowls of crisps, nuts, nibbles.
And of course a steady stream of alcohol during the day, mainly red wine for us!
So glad you had a good christmas - heres wishing everyone a fantastic 2021 and hoping we all start to get some normalcy in our lives. :)
Dinner does mean midday here We call Dinner at like 4-7PM Tea So we call it Teatime then sometimes a meal following sometimes is called Supper. Cat was adorable
Your boyfriend is a very lucky man, love you happy new year
Commented on an earlier video - pleased to see you are back home!
Dinner at 2 p.m is ideal because you can do the washing up then you can veg out in front of telly to watch H M The Queen at 3 p.m. and then snooze with a good crimbo film on. A perfect Crimbo afternoon into the evening.
The Queen's Speech had the highest Christmas Day rating on TV with 8.4 million viewers, although I didn't watch it ! Second was Call The Midwife on BBC1 with 5.43 million.
2pm for xmas lunch was when the pubs used to close!! Guys went to pub while women cooked! Pubs opened at 11am and closed at 1pm so 2pm was ideal to get home from pub for xmas dinner!!!
As I have got older I have come to love sprouts and parsnips so much I eat them all winter. Yum. Roasted with lots of butter.
All that yummy food. Must've smelled so good in your kitchen!!
Turkey with either mash or roast potatoes, bit of peas & cauliflower and of course pigs in blankets! Yum. Happy livestreaming for tomorrow.
This year I made turkey, roast parsnip, diced turnip and carrots with pepper, roast potatoes and mash potatoes. Also pigs in blankets and stuffing and gravy- made with turkey stock- delicious!!!!!!
Mashed potato? That makes me feel so sad for Canadians. You need to become a missionary and preach the gospel of roasties to your unenlightened motherland!
Should we remind Alanna that Cadburys used to sell bucket-loads of instant mashed potato sachets in the 1960s -1970s - called "Smash"?!
Smash still exists today made by Bachelors
As a Canadian, I can say that I HATE mashed potatoes. Waste of good potatoes. My countrymen are fools to mash. Roasted all the way.
@@electricgecko8997 NO! Mashed. Half potatoes; boiled with the skin on, and half butter. Whip by hand, serve with gravy.
@@RiverMersey For mash get Smash!
We have roasties, mash and mashed turnips (swedes) as well as roasted parsnips and buttered carrots.
We definitely root for Christmas 😁
We always have mashed and roast potatoes, couldn’t choose between the two. Also, we’re northern, so Christmas dinner at 2pm makes perfect sense, tea at 6/7 😊
Christmas this year was different for sure. I ended up in hospital on the 22rd to have a tumor removed from my friggin bladder. I went home on the 23rd with a tube sticking out of my stomach. Surgery went well and I managed to roast a prime rib, baked potatoe, Yorkshire pudding with a salad. I amazed myself by cooking. I suppose I felt lucky to have made it home. Glad you had a lovely holiday!
Wow, what a Christmas! Glad to hear you're doing OK!
Haggis, Cumberland sausage, chicken, (lots of) roast potatoes, chipolatas, baked beans, toast, fried baby button mushrooms. but mostly just haggis and roast potatoes.
Lana in Edit: Do I keep the sausage roll dance in or not? Ah screw it! It's Christmas!
I had a lovely Christmas dinner with my parents. Turkey, Roast Potatoes, Roast Parsnips, carrots, garden peas, sprouts, Stuffing, Yorkshire Puddings. Christmas Pudding with Custard for dessert.
We ate it at around 1pm. Yes that is dinner time. fight me! or not. Dinnertime is between 1200-1400, Teatime is between 1800-2000 in our house. Oddly we tend to have roast dinners (so xmas dinner and sunday roast) in the dinner time slot, but all cooked meals for the rest of the week are in the evening slot. This is quite common in working class houses I guess due to work and school. This is also why we call the people who serve a meal in the 1200-1400 slot, in schools, Dinner Ladies, and not Lunch Ladies. Although you probably mentioned this in a previous video of yours. My best friend at school was from a more wealthy working class family and they called the evening meal Dinner, and not Tea, which always used to confuse me when I was little. We are a strange bunch I guess.
Happy New Year.
My mom use to make her own stuffing.The best part was I use to love it cold with either turkey or chicken on crusty bread.This was after the main meal.Never had the same stuffing since .
Christmas dinner is eaten at dinnertime, i.e., in the middle of the day. If we ate it in the evening then it would be Christmas tea.
Christmas dinner at midday is an abomination.
Good to see you had an enjoyable Christmas. For me, Christmas dinner has changed over the years, growing up (Mum, Dad, 3 brothers and me) dinner was around two o'clock but as my two older brothers got married and left home the dinners got later and when having dinner with the brother's new family the dinners got nearer to six o'clock. And now so many people book into a hotel for Christmas dinner I have friends where this will be the first time they have cooked Christmas dinner.
Anyway, hope you have a good new years eve and here's to a happy and healthy 2021.
Cheers.
We need to start eating early to be able to recover enough from the starter and main to be able to fit all the pudding courses in before bedtime! In my family we normally have Christmas pudding with brandy butter and cream for actual pudding (maybe an hour after the main course), then mince pies and/or Christmas cake in the evening and of course chocolates are available all day.
Your roast potatoes looked delicious.
I usually have Christmas dinner around 5.00pm.
In my youth , it would always be at 1.00 pm so as to leave time for tea at 5.00 pm and supper at 8.30 pm.
Happy New Year!
Here in Leicester this year,Roast duck, roast potatoes, carrots,brussel sprouts,parsnips,pigs in blankets, stuffing and Yorkshire pudding.mmmm
We have our Christmas and Sunday dinners earlier because its 2 meals in one, its so big that it covers both dinner and tea, so it goes between those times. Later than lunch so you are extra hungry snd earlier than dinner so you can recover and go again with snacks, cheese, leftovers etc.
I'm very late on the comment here, but don't want to miss wishing you a Happy Christmas AND New Year. Hope you're enjoying the best of Canadian and British holiday traditions. My wife's parents, who lived nearby, were transplanted Londoners who moved here in the mid-50's (postwar rationing had ended only shortly before!). We always had our Christmas dinner (around 2pm!) with them, pretty much typical Canadian-style, but topped off by a flaming Christmas Pudding! Yum! Anyway Cheers! to a happy and healthy 2021.
did you have a toilet brush stuck into your toaster??? ;p hehe, big love to all people :) and thank you for another year of joyous entertainment :)
Media people say 'Christmas Lunch', where ordinary people say 'Christmas Dinner'....even though it's probably at the same time.
Merry Christmas Alana! What a great yummy-looking spread - perfect for a Christmas food coma. When I was in England on a teaching exchange, the cat (that came with the house) jumped up on the counter while we were at the neighbors and ate our Christmas turkey! We ended up eating the New Year’s ham. Hope you’re out of T4 soon.
Happy New Year Alanna ! Like you. I never have parsnips or indeed Cranberry Sauce. For me, savoury and sweet don't mix ! We have the usual Turkey and the trimmings with gravy and British desserts....Gluten Free for me ! Of course, watching the Queen's speech is a must. Although I spent my only Xmas in Tronno way back in 1974, all the extended family piled into Aunt Leida's House but it was an ESTONIAN Christmas fayre and at a proper time LUNCH ! I never knew Canadians have their Xmas meal in the evenings ! I know it's called Xmas Dinner. So no, I've never had a Canadian Xmas I'm afraid. I'm afraid as usual Alanna, I miss your live podcast as I'm always working. Work nights ! Have a good 'un though. Ok, here's wishing for a much better New Year but I know my 5th holiday in a row next month will be cancelled ! :(
Here in Oz we start early, though mainly because we start drinking early, so the main meal is usually ready about lunch time. We have many foods inspired by the connections with England but also prawns (shrimp), lobster and other sea foods. Christmas day can be very hot here so also not unusual to see some salads.
Just watched this on a boring Sunday afternoon in August 2022 because I've found and like your other videos and this one interested me. I don't suppose anyone will read this comment as it's so out of date but I just wanted to say that the reason I do Christmas Dinner at lunch time is because I don't feel that MY Christmas starts til I've managed to get a passable meal on the table and cleared it all away. The afternoon is my time to stop worrying if it's all cooked at the same time and tastes good and just relax knowing that the stress is all over 😂😂 (I've had some disasters over the years which is why I get anxious).
Another reason is that we usually overeat at the main meal so have to wait an hour or 2 for dessert and some of us oldies can't be eating things like that so close to bed time.
Personally I look forward to the Boxing Day meal because it's so easy. Usually just cold meats, mash potato and an assortment of pickles and side salad. So easy and stress free.
I was surprised at the Stollen for dessert. I was expecting to hear your opinion of Christmas Pudding and/or Mince Pies. Much more traditional for us Brits I think. I love parsnips and yet I only ever have them at Christmas because I'm the only one that likes them so don't really bother with them but just treat myself at Christmas. xx
I love parsnips! Boiled, no, Roasted parsnips with honey, oh yes! Lol.
Turkey isn’t actually the traditional meat of Christmas dinner in the UK. It is in fact goose, but its more expensive and turkeys are generally bigger.
Roasted carrots with orange and thyme is nice too. This year I made my own cranberry and apricot stuffing, it was delicious!
Lunch is a light meal whereas dinner is the main meal therefore a Christmas lunch cannot be right lol
Christmas eating in our house consists of a late breakfast 10-11am with an equally late lunch/dinner around 4-5pm ish. with nibbles n drinks throughout the day. ✌️🐝. Tiz the season to be merry.
Alana, all the 'left-overs' usually get turned into 'Bubble & Squeak'.. Which is so wonderful..
On Boxing day I had it with a Fried Egg on top and brown sauce.. YUM YUM
It had, Lil Piggies, Stuffing Balls, Carrots, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Mash, Honey Roast Parsnips, and Mash.. There were no roasties left.. ;)
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yer 'Fella'..
hope to see you tomorrow on the live-feed :D
Best wishes from Wales..
Your Christmas dinner looked excellent. Perfectly done and presented!!! Well done! I ordered, from Fortnum and mason, their magnificent christmas pudding. They delivered it to Canada in like 4 days. I was impressed lol. The pudding was wonderful.... so yummy!!