LEAST favourite Christmas food - what is it?

[yvr girl]

Mine has got to be mince meat. :puke:

[AlCzervik]

1. agreed, absolutely disgusting.

[derby378]

2. Not a big egg nog fan

I know, it sounds silly, but I've only had one decent cup of egg nog. Just don't care for the taste that much.

And I'm one of those weirdos who enjoys dark chocolate infused with chili peppers.

[yvr girl]

8. I just had some eggnog

Course I added in a good measure of rum.

[Initech]

3. Fruitcake

:puke:

[Amaya]

6. A thousand times ditto

:puke:

[BlueJazz]

15. What's the difference between a Bowling Ball and a Xmas Fruitcake?

You could eat a Bowling Ball if you had to...

Ps: I can't stand the damn things.. :)

[mykpart]

19. Hubby loves fruitcake!

I hate it so much I don't even want to kiss him after he eats it!

When I was a kid, we would get Brazil nuts in the shell, and they looked like a shriveled-up orange segment! I hated them without ever tasting one!

[Radio_Lady]

35. Mine loves mincemeat pies -- neutral on fruitcake.

Mincement isn't all that bad, but the way. If you like candied fruit...

[cmkramer]

53. I love fruitcake!

Seriously, that's part of the fun of Christmas -- looking forward to eating fruitcake.

I'm not crazy about ham -- it's okay -- but it isn't something I'd base an entire holiday meal around.

[AtomicKitten]

26. a brazilian times ditto -- makes me want to yak

[drhilarius]

18. So there's a nuclear war...

and all that survives are rats, cockroaches, and fruitcakes. The rats and the roaches starve to death.

[lakemonster11]

24. For the last few years my mom has been making these

fruitcake squares. Nobody likes them, but she likes to set them out at our annual caroling party because they look pretty.

This year I talked her out of them---I made some cranberry squares instead. Beautiful and edible! What a concept!

[Patiod]

28. My mom makes incredible "fruitcake" - I've been campaigning

for a namechange. Too much baggage.

I've been trying to convince her to call it "holiday spice bread", which is really what it is - very, very tasty. It's so sad - no one will eat it because she calls it fruitcake.

[lakemonster11]

50. Does it have candied fruit in it or fresh/dried fruit?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

52. I love fruitcake

But only when it's good. Would she send some to me? :9

[Parrcrow]

33. The cinder block of yule tide food

[baldguy]

64. I actualy LIKE fruitcake.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Eggnog and fruitcake

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Oyster stew.

My family always had it on Christmas Eve, and I could never eat it. It's gross.

[MiniMandaRuth]

14. Oysters are Gods snot drops.

[johnnie]

7. Venison

That blinking red light shining through the oven window drives me nuts.

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. .

:rofl:

[amitten]

9. Gotta be mincemeat.

It even sounds disgusting. Unfortunately, it tastes even worse.

[Beausoir]

11. Lutefisk. Of course!

Every Christmas Eve platters of steaming fish jello would come jiggling out of the kitchen.
The smell was horrific. No matter how much melted butter I poured over it, I could never get it down.

My strange cousins would eat mounds of it. Very strange people.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Oh, I forgot about lutefisk, I guess because it isn't really FOOD.

Eww. Nasty stuff.

[tuvor]

16. Beat me to it.

The piece of cod which passeth all understanding.

May they rest in peace, but I'm so glad that tradition died with my grandparents.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

48. I was lucky--even though my father was 100% Norwegian, he hated

lutefisk, and my mother is German/Latvian, so I was never subjected to the stuff until I was in my twenties.

That's when our church began holding Lutefisk Suppers in December. I went once, decided that lutefisk was disgusting, and never went again. However, crazy masochistic Scandinavians from all over the Twin Cities came to our church for the annual lutefisk supper.

:crazy:

I heard from a Norwegian exchange student that modern Norwegians no longer eat lutefisk and consider it a quaint relic of the impoverished peasant past, sort of the way we view hardtack and salt pork.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. Cranberry sauce.

Never cared for it.

Although it IS a hybrid Thanksgiving/Christmas food....

[Dave Reynolds]

17. Pine needles.

Hurt to chew, hurt to swallow, and just taste naaaasty.

[ForrestGump]

20. Anything with marzipan

Blehhh

[KitchenWitch]

21. Lutefisk

[flamingyouth]

32. Yes

:puke:

My grandmother wouldn't allow it in the house, so my grandfather had to eat it out in the garage.

[AirmensMom]

44. Good one, KW!

:rofl:

[Hardrada]

58. Oh for gosh sakes, ludefisk is just fine

in moderation. My family still has it for the sake of Old Norway (or old Norwegians). When we Norse got to France though and became Normans we exchanged ludefisk for truffles.

[AntiCoup2K4]

22. Eggnog, definitely

even the smell makes me gag.

Of course, now that I'm sick once again during the Hell-iday season (second consecutive year) the one good side effect is that I don't have to inhale many eggnog fumes.

[oingecat]

23. Pan-fried Chia Pet....

It makes lousy Chia Pet sandwiches the next day....!

[newyawker99]

25. Artichokes.

:puke:

[kwassa]

29. Artichokes = Food of the Gods

Marinated artichoke hearts. One of the great culinary discoveries of mankind.

[Arugula Latte]

37. Costco has giant jars of them for about $6 -- and they're great!

They somehow remove all the fibrous parts so they're tender and yummy. :9

[kwassa]

40. Yes, we get 'em at Costco, too.

They are a major deal and are good in all kinds of dishes.

Just don't drop a jar on the floor.

We dropped a giant Costco jar of marinated mushrooms, in olive oil, on the kitchen floor. Nothing like cleaning up glass fragments in oil.

[Arugula Latte]

41. Oy vey!

Nothing like turning the kitchen into a giant spikey slip-n-slide! x(

[Heidi]

27. Anything with annis or cloves.

:scared:

[Arugula Latte]

38. Agreed. Why do people ruin sweets with that stuff? Also cardamon.

x(

[Heidi]

42. Ooooooooo, but I love cardamom!

I grind it fresh into my coffee every morning. When I'm baking for friends and neighbors, though, I always ask what they can and can't tolerate before giving baked goods as gifts. :thumbsup:

[Mizmoon]

30. Jellied fruit of any kind

Christmas is for chocolate baby.

[MN ChimpH8R]

31. Has to be lutefisk

The Norwegians uncles and cousins in my family loved the stuff. We Germans looked regarded them with a mixture of fear and horror. The smell alone is enough to make a buzzard yak up its carrion.

[Beausoir]

43. LOL. I'm a Minnesota Scandinavian.

Grew up with lutefisk.

When I moved to Michigan, they didn't even know what it was. I was astonished! I thought lutefisk was "normal".

I'm reformed now.

[WCGreen]

34. Figgy Puddin'.....

What the fuck is figgy puddin'...

And why do the british always want us to bring some...

[kwassa]

36. Christmas cookies

flavorless sprinkled things

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

39. Christmas Pudding

[AirmensMom]

45. Green bean casserole

With those nasty fried onions on top. :puke:

[Hand]

56. DING DING DING DING DING!!!! We have a WINNER!!!!!!

Ghastly stuff. Awful, awful... and some halfwit inevitably brings it to a potluck (another ghastly thing). :nuke: :scared: :thumbsdown:

[lady raven]

46. Fruit cake (I've never had mincemeat)

[JitterbugPerfume]

47. cranberry sauce

yuck BTW what IS figgy pudding? sounds awful

[Rabrrrrrr]

49. mincemeat and those &*@^^%$ Rosettes and those other

little cookies that are like small hills and covered in powdered sugar.

[Beausoir]

61. Yeah! Rosettes are awful.

So greasy. Yuk.

[Rabrrrrrr]

62. Yeah. Fuckin' disgusting!

And they have no flavor of matter. Not even a light delicate elegant flavor.

They just suck. Even with the powdered sugar.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

51. Mince pies

Sorry to our British friends. Mom used to make these for herself and Dad. Thank God she'd make pumpkin, too!

[GreenInNC]

54. chewy jelly candies

[Nicole]

55. mince meat pie

fruitcake is a close second.

[Wapsie B]

57. Mincemeat and fruitcake

:puke:

[Merrick]

59. Aspirin pie

gross.

[annonymous]

60. Marzipam and fruitcake

I only knew a few people who liked fruitcake and both of them were alcholics.

[baldguy]

63. My grandma was a wonderful cook, but....

Her jello salad was frightening.