Wtf is wrong with people. Why do they do this every fookin time? A pile of shyt food yoy don't really want for a ridiculous price when you could have a glass of the best wine and a plate of the most amazing a la carte maih for half the cost. Oo lets PLAN OUR CHOICES fyckin two months in advance.
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nothing says christmas like eating two pieces of overcooked turkey on December 3rd
It’s September you know
Don't forget the tomato soup or gross pate starter and the CHRISTMAS PUD
ugh I would ban Christmas set menus
Book today for (one glass of flat) free prosecco!!!
Agree there is not much of worse value to be had then a set menu christmas meal. Trouble is not many restaurants will seat large groups in December for a la carte dining.
heh at pancakes.
I loathe xmas set menus. I am vegetarian and feel extra pissed off when the one main course I can eat is risotto or goats cheese tart (there's never a choice) while the meat eaters have a choice of 6+ options. And I am being ripped off even more. Bah humbug.
And the calories!
From the menu for our departmental Xmas lunch, the calories for starter, main course and pudding added up to 2,294 plus booze calories (lets say 800).
That is THREE DAYS' worth of food.
2,294 calories is 3 days of food?
But yeah I refuse to go to anything like this. I’ll meet them in the boozer later.
I like it. Gets people into the spirit.
Couldn't give a fig about calories obvs. It's Christmas!
2294 +800 = 3,094
Although I know strictly we should be fasting during Advent.
I have half a bottle of advocaat (sp??) from last Christmas in the fridge - I wonder whether it's ok to drink.
Should be OK.
Advocaat is back in the shops now.
oh I forgot an extra 170 cals for the "seasonal vegetables and roast parsnips" and 405 for coffee and a mince pie
That is a huge number of cals..
I think lots of companies and firms are cutting back on these completely. Last year we got free drinks and promised food..which turned out to be teeny canapés that looked unappetising so people left as they were so hungry. Other companies are asking staff to pay for their festive parties/ dinners.
Judy 3000 calories is only 3 days of food if you are on an extreme diet. For most people it is a bit over one days worth of food - too much for one meal though I agree.
Most people seem to be moving away from big parties. Nobody goes any more. Too risky to get drunk these days and without copious booze they are just plain dull/miserable.
I heard there is no Christmas, In the silly Middle East. No trees, no snow, no Santa Claus, They have different religious beliefs.
Christmas is a challenge to see how many times I can eat turkey, stuffing and pigs in blankets and 2,000 odd calories is a moderately large meal that would persuade me to only have a snack for dinner when I got home in the evening.
I remember the uni days when we used to polish three days' worth of calories in a single evening by having a big meal to prepare for drinking, then drinking a shedload and having a pizza on the way home.
Feed the world.
This is male privilege!!
These are my cal stats:
presume you are not entirely sedentary though Judy?!?
So...two days, Judes...
I have no idea what mine are and ignore the calories on things and just eat what I fancy but make sure that I'm not rapidly expanding.
I think we can all agree that every single calorie in a Christmas set menu is wasted and thus an affront to our bodies.
almost agree clergs although maintain pigs in blankets are nearly always a good use of calorie allowance - dry turkey, over cooked veg, uncripsy usually hard roast potatoes less so...
Little known but you need five pigs in blankets a day during the festive season.
No it’s still September
I can consume 2800 per day according to my Bupa doctor.
I can handle Xmas dinner. Bring it on.
According to another calculator, my daily calorie requirement is about 1,800 a day.
The *CURSE* of being sub 5' 4"
Hard agree with Clergs - waste of calories, usually dry horrible food
and the booze on offer is usually a waste of units (assuming you’re over 35 and have to worry about that sort of thing)
We had a fully decorated tree in our room when we spent Christmas at the Burj al Arab
Must remember to check with my accountant what the per person tax allowance is a for a Xmas party
I don't mind too much
It helps out the workers at the venue and the owners
If I want a high quality meal I don't go out with 40 odd people
No Santa nailed to a cross then?
Christmas menus are for ease of mass catering. Mmm delicious.
Yep, drying out nicely on the hot plate…
yeah, but the restos have the same number of covers on a good Friday/Sat night, so it's not as if they've suddenly had to serve 2x the number with the same staff. I am partial to a xmas special on the menu, but a full on xmas menu with no non-festive specials and having to order via an excel sheet 3 weeks in advance is a buzz kill. (sorry Buzz)
Yeah but they don’t all arrive at the same time and want to be served together
the main trouble with Christmas meals (and Sunday roasts in pubs) is that roast meals are most definitely not suitable for mass catering - a good roast has to be meticulously timed and each item served as soon as ready, once you start leaving it under hot lights it is ruined.
There is almost always a meat based option that is not turkey, I NEVER have the turkey.
but I still agree a work do is a waste of cals/units unless you are under 35 in which case it doesnt matter much and you can often dance off the excess anyway.
Wtf happened to you all at 35??
Is 35 the lawyers' equivalent of 27 for musicians?
Hahaha what die tragically or become fat and tragic?
I say no!
Roasts do not need to be meticulously timed
Apart from the meat, but then you can rest it for ages so claiming exemption
I love an xmas roast
The latter - tis a metaphorical death
We had
Roast beef, yorkies, cauliflower cheese, leeks, roast tats, peas, carrots, broccoli on Sunday. Absolutely superb
Oh and sweetcorn
Rodge u r very shyt at being veggie
Oh yeah, good point, I had some Quorn... genuinely
‘Wtf happened to you all at 35??‘
you get chubby or have to be up early in the morning to ferry people about
or both
The sh1t wine is my main issue. Quite like the terrine, roast and chocolate tart trio 😎
Bah, humbug.
Having say 150-200 covers all ordering and expecting an a carte meal all at the same would be challenging for even the most resourced and well-drilled kitchen.
That’s why there is a set menu at Xmas and New Year.
Marshall has it
Some of you Roffers just showing you grew up with BOMAD and never had a job in a restaurant
I don’t think anyone is saying it’s not easier for the restaurant
i think we’re just saying we’d rather not eat it
Sounds shit tbf Davis
Didn't have a job until I was 26
24 apologies
really rog? I think I had my first job at 13 …
never worked in a restaurant though, I have no patience with people so I wouldn’t be very good at it
back on topic - Xmas meals are ace
although tbf I may be looking back through rose tinted specs since I haven’t been working at Xmas since 2010
Yup school
University
Gap yah(s)
Probably explains a lot rog
Definitely does
I worked every summer holiday from age 16 and had a part time job in school evenings, and then worked most Uni holidays, incl Christmas and Easter.
Great fun mostly, lots of good banter from the full timers who loved taking a the piss out of us grammar school jessies.
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