[Misc] Christmas day disasters

[Normal Rob]

Anyone (other than me) have any?

I had to throw out the whole turkey. It didn't smell right from the off, and did not smell right when cooked. Had to improvise, but better than killing everyone..

 

[Taybha]

Some donut put chocolate under the tree on the 21st, we're fostering a Bulldog at the moment and she just loves Terry's chocolate orange washed down with a tube of Munchies! A £256 quid trip to the vet will serve as a expensive lesson learned. What a complete fluff bucket.

 

[Bodian]

My roasted chestnuts were a bit brown inside - so just went on the fire.

 

[Kosh]

Anyone (other than me) have any?

I had to throw out the whole turkey. It didn't smell right from the off, and did not smell right when cooked. Had to improvise, but better than killing everyone..

We had a very similar occasion, that’s the day we became vegetarian and never looked back.

The smell of that semi decomposed bird has never really left my nostrils.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Testing positive for covid 1st thing on Xmas day last year, shortly before relatives were due to arrive to have Xmas dinner here

 

[WATFORD zero]

Anyone (other than me) have any?

I had to throw out the whole turkey. It didn't smell right from the off, and did not smell right when cooked. Had to improvise, but better than killing everyone..

Not Xmas, but a couple of years ago I went to put a shoulder of lamb in the oven to slow cook when Mrs Wz commented that 'smells a bit whiffy' to which I sarcastically replied 'meat smells, well I never'.

Returning to the house 4-5 hrs later, the whole house smelt like a deserted abattoir at the end of the summer holidays. It took a further few hours of all windows open until the house was habitable. We had a take away

The foxes didn't seem to mind

 

[Papak]

Testing positive for covid 1st thing on Xmas day last year, shortly before relatives were due to arrive to have Xmas dinner here

A likely story!!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Main meal for 8 all done and dusted, went to put Xmas pud in the oven to heat it through...and sat on the top oven shelf was a forgotten dish full of Yorkshire puddings. Doh.

 

[Questions]

My wife and son in law forgot the parsnips yesterday…. It ruined my Christmas.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Forgot to cook the Pigs in Blankets

 

[hart's shirt]

I'm so upset as I'd taken the time to make a traditional German Christmas dessert.

But it was stollen.

 

[Taybha]

My thoughts are with you at this sad time

My wife and son in law forgot the parsnips yesterday…. It ruined my Christmas.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

A likely story!! Sadly true. I played poker in the pub a few nights before, and one of the players there

Sadly true. I played poker in the pub a few nights before, and one of the players there then tested positive the following day after the poker, so that's probably where i caught it from

Ended up spending the day isolating away from everyone else

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Sadly true. I played poker in the pub a few nights before, and one of the players there then tested positive the following day after the poker, so that's probably where i caught it from

Ended up spending the day isolating away from everyone else

No full house then?

 

[Papak]

No full house then?

I bet he felt flush with the money he won at poker and it went straight into his savings account.

 

[armchairclubber]

No full house then?

Best that he did check, even if the folks felt sold down the river

 

[maltaseagull]

Sadly true. I played poker in the pub a few nights before, and one of the players there then tested positive the following day after the poker, so that's probably where i caught it from

Ended up spending the day isolating away from everyone else

Peace on Earth then?

Sounds good to an antisocial so and so like me

 

[Weststander]

For the life of us, at serving time yesterday we just couldn’t find the jar of cranberry sauce.

(Bought a couple of weeks back).

No doubt it will surface in February.

 

[The Clamp]

Testing positive for covid 1st thing on Xmas day last year, shortly before relatives were due to arrive to have Xmas dinner here

A likely story

 

[drew]

Testing positive for covid 1st thing on Xmas day last year, shortly before relatives were due to arrive to have Xmas dinner here

Similar thing for us last year except we were due to travel to relatives. Still did but only to collect our share of the meal off their doorstep (in appropriate containers).