Be (very)different this Christmas (Alternative Christmas Dinner)

Member Name: jaybee

Product:	Alternative Christmas Dinner
Date:	31/10/00 (188 review reads)
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Advantages: No washing up - No cooking

Disadvantages: You might have to eat it

Fed up with the same old turkey and trimmings year after year?

Maybe your just fed up with all the preparation and cooking that goes into having a Christmas dinner.
Or maybe you’re like me and just hate all the tidying up and washing dishes.

Well I’ve got a few alternatives that might help anyone who feels like that.

If you are just fed up with the same type of meal every year why not try a traditional dish from another country?

In Finland for instance it’s traditional to have a casserole as the main part of the meal, one of the most popular being carrot casserole, this could be handy if you have any vegetarian friends or family coming for their Christmas meal.

In Australia some people celebrate by having a barbecue on the beach, as their Christmas meal. While it might be a little cold to go to the beach in Britain at this time of year, if you wrap up in your woolly hat and scarf that you get as a present (somebody always buys you one) and put on that new sweater your mother bought for you – it’s okay you can hide it under a large coat - then it might not be too bad.
Just a word of warning if you are thinking of doing this.
If you have any young daughters or nieces, don’t mention in front of them that you’re having a barbie for Christmas dinner, they will probably get very upset, because they’ll think you’re going to cook and eat their new doll.

If you don’t like the preparation and cooking that goes into a Christmas meal, why not avoid any cooking at all, and have Sushi as the first course, followed by a chicken pot noodle? The meal can be finished off with a mince pie as dessert.
If you just have the pot noodle and the pies you won’t have any washing up either.

Of course another alternative is to eat out, and where better to go than to KFC. If you are going to eat out this is the only place to go because of its stron
g links to Christmas. You might not know it but KFC is secretly owned by Santa Claus himself.
You don’t believe me?
Well look at the facts: KFC of course actually stands for; Kindly Father Christmas; It sells traditional Christmas fare – well chicken, that’s close enough; and what does it use as it’s logo?
An old man with a white moustache, (Sticking on an old pair of glasses and shaving the beard off doesn’t fool me!) doesn’t he look familiar? He calls himself Colonel Sanders, but look at those initials C.S. turn them round and it’s S.C. – Yes, Santa Claus. - I rest my case.

Well that’s just some of my ideas for alternative foods at Christmas; maybe they’ve given you some too? Whatever you choose to do for yours, just make sure you enjoy it and have a good time.

And a merry Christmas Dooyoo ALL!

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