Christmas When You Were Growing Up

[victorbrunswick]

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When I was in high school we would have a door decorating contest at Christmas time in which the winning homeroom class would get a pizza party. I had the same homeroom for two or three years and we always won.

[staffslad]

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I like Christmas Pudding, though I agree that it is rather heavy after a big dinner. Always have it with either rum or brandy sauce. It used to be all home-made, but the puddings are shop-bought now my mum is no longer with us.

Also mince pies. I also love them, but the very cheap ones often seem to have imo disappointing fillings. Home-made are best, but again we have to get shop-bought now mum is gone.

[Arran]

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It's possible to make a Christmas pudding at any time of the year...

My own cynical theory is that such a rich, heavy, and potentially alcohol infused concoction is just too unpleasant for most people to actually want to eat. They only force themselves to eat it on one day of the year, after forcing themselves to eat sprouts, simply because it is festive tradition.

An alternative to traditional Christmas pudding is college pudding. It's lighter than Christmas pudding and includes spices and dried fruit that isn't infused in alcohol. There are times when I think that shops should sell this instead of Christmas pudding as I could eat it regularly. Another alternative is St. Nick's pudding which is based on the old English plum pudding.

[tex]

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Orrible!....The last thing i want to eat after a heavy meal is an even heavier pudding plus the sixpence gets stuck in my teeth.

[George 1978]

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Two reasons why I don't really eat Christmas pudding, either at Christmas or at any other time of the year:

1) It takes ages to prepare and cook.
2) The taste is too rich and sickly for myself.

The Coop that I used to live near to had them almost all year round, although the word "Christmas" was not mentioned on the packaging.

[Zincubus]

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Why do all but a tiny minority of people only eat Christmas pudding at Christmas?

Isn't it only available in the shops then ??

I love it with white sauce or rum sauce


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[Arran]

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Why do all but a tiny minority of people only eat Christmas pudding at Christmas?

[George 1978]

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Christmas tree up at last - placed in a different place in the room as previous years.

If the baubles don't do it justice, then the lights will instead.

[George 1978]

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You can still buy them. They are sometimes used with a hand powered turntable below them often called a Lazy Susan that could once have been a brand name.

Lazy Suzie methinks.

[Arran]

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Weren't they served on what was similar to an artist's palate with different compartments for the food samples?

You can still buy them. They are sometimes used with a hand powered turntable below them often called a Lazy Susan that could once have been a brand name.

[George 1978]

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Are there any old fashioned Christmas food that not many people eat nowadays?

I was told that evening buffets were common from the 1960s to the 1980s but they have lost popularity.

Weren't they served on what was similar to an artist's palate with different compartments for the food samples?

You might inspire me for getting something like for my online Christmas food shop if they still exist!

[Arran]

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Are there any old fashioned Christmas food that not many people eat nowadays?

I was told that evening buffets were common from the 1960s to the 1980s but they have lost popularity.

[tex]

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latest christmas nibbles..

[George 1978]

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I remember glitter being a a feature of school Christmas cards, which seemed to get everywhere.

Even when I write out Christmas cards and put them in envelopes nowadays, the glitter seems to escape and goes everywhere - it happens almost every year.

[George 1978]

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Talking of cards, did anyone else used to make a Christmas card for their parents at school? It was an annual ritual in infants and junior school. Usually involved drawing a Christmas scene or a Santa, that white glue and cotton wool for Santa's beard, snow and so forth. It was also enacted at Easter, where chicks coming out of eggs was a popular motif.

I also remember that at Christmas at secondary school we would be shown a film in the hall. It was a feature film on 16mm rented from a film library. I recall seeing a spaghetti western called Ringo and his Golden Pistol, another western called The Rare Breed, and a Sean Connery film called The Anderson Tapes (with naughty bits removed).

I must have done a Christmas card like that at school (cotton wool for the Father Christmas beard and snowman to make it more 2D), and also a Humpty Dumpty one for Easter with a pop up chick inside the card.

Films were also seen at school in the week before Christmas - but it was on a TV screen that we used for showing schools programmes on. Oddly, my Infant school had shown Mary Poppins in the hall just a week or so before it was premiered on BBC 1. In the last few days before we broke up in July, our Comprehensive school shown films such as Jaws - I think it was business as usual then unless we had some special assembly or a special English or Drama lesson. Not quite the same thing, but our Drama teacher used that Channel 4 favourite The Snowman in his Drama lessons to make points about its animation and actions.