Any dinner disasters today?

Many moons ago I had Christmas dinner with a boyfriend's family. For some reason he'd told his mother that I said she always boiled vegetables to shíte. I mean, she did, and I did say it, but why he went and told her I have no idea.

So she served me raw veg for dinner, a carrot that was only peeled and cut in half, and whatever other veg everyone was having, but raw.

Then she burned the mash and it tasted like cigarette butts.

The woman could not cook for shít.

troyzer wrote: »

My Mam forgot to put my vegetarian roast on. I'm the only vegetarian in the family, she also cooked all of the roast potatoes, parsnips etc in animal fat. She normally does vegetable oil.

I basically didn't eat.

There is enough work in a Christmas dinner and you expect her to cook a second? Could you not cook the veg option yourself next time.

Made the gravey from the juces of cooked meat forgot to serve it with the dinner:(

Cranberry sauce got forgotten about.

Sixth year in a row.

None today as I was only cooking for myself. But I do remember when I was 15 when my mum took turkey and ham out before we went to mass. After mass we went to friends house for a few drinks. Came home about 4 or 5 hours later when we were met by our golden lab Ben with that look in his eyes that you know he did something but completely satisfied with himself. All I heard were screams from my mum in the kitchen, little bollix had eaten both turkey and ham in their entirety. All we had were veg.we can laugh now but was a disaster that day.

blade1 wrote: »

Yip, 10 people so 2 turkeys.
One of the turkeys had an abscess.
I'll stick up a pic of it later.

Jesus

That sounds vile

lawred2 wrote: »

Jesus

That sounds vile

Yep.
It was on the leg.
Bought in a supermarket and was discovered Christmas Eve.
The butcher behind the counter of the shop said it'll be grand just cut the leg off!
Fair play to the shop owner though,as they had none left he sent some of his staff out around the town to try and find another turkey which they did and the shops supplier will be contacting us.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Feck! I only learned about that recently from another thread. Do post a pic, I'm curious!

You'll never again be curious when you see it.
It could put some people off turkey completely I'd say.

My first Christmas in Ireland was a total fail food wise. We all celebrated together at the In-laws, we talked about the timing of the ovens a week beforehand.
I am really not into Turkey or Ham but that's what they cook, fair enough. I told them I'll make a smaller roast too.
Thing is, they can't cook sh1t and apparently food is a sad affair every year. The day before Christmas the MIL, a lovely person, got really territorial over the kitchen even though she didn't do a single thing for Christmas because for some reason it's the FIL cooking, who can just about fry an egg at every other day of the year and even that he burns sometimes.
I offered to help where I can but I was met with disapproval.

So the timetable was meticulous, when suddenly they had guests and decided they need to whack on a whole load of finger food in the oven my roast was cooking in. So it was constantly open and closed for around an hour.
Then while the ham was getting to the critical stage of finishing, same as the turkey, FIL decided he needs to visit his sisters now and fecked off for two hours without telling anyone. So myself and himself were in the kitchen alone and had to finish all of it, it was super stressful and if they'd just told me it would have been fine.

Then MIL and her brother started an argument over gravy, they bought a tub of M&S gravy as every year and the uncle didn't understand why they wouldn't just do it themselves, it's so easy. MIL said over and over again, that FIL went into town just to buy the gravy so it will be used. All the juices went down the drain that day.

Christmas dinner was somehow magically put together, and while cleaning up my FIL sent all my roast drippings down the drain because he doesn't understand that it's tasty and you can do a lot with it.
I was in tears after that horror show of a day.

Needless to say, we now celebrate Christmas apart, it's better for everyone involved, it's too much of a culture clash.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

No, bar my mum forgetting to soak the peas.

When I was a kid I remember her leaving the ham and turkey out overnight on Christmas eve and the cat ate them. I still recall her chasing the poor cat all over the house with a sweeping brush on Christmas morning lol!

I love this post:)

Collie D wrote: »

Follow up to Christmas dinner disasters is the traditional Stephen’s Day greeting of “Jesus Christ! Who gave the dog sprouts?”

Maybe you could pick up some gas masks in an army surplus shop. Do those places have stephen's day sales?

^^^^^
Think it's time to start that new tradiation!