Yorkshire Puddings on a Christmas dinner? We ask people in Manchester to share their thoughts

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With Christmas just a few weeks away, many people may already be dreaming of the food and drink they will be consuming over the festive period.   Christmas dinner is a perfect time to gather with the family and tuck into delicious roast potatoes, a vegetarian or meat-focused centrepiece, vegetables, and gravy - but one item remains a little controversial... the Yorkshire Pudding.  For some, the Yorkshire pudding is a staple of any roast dinner - a tradition. For others, the common British side dish does not appear alongside Christmas celebrations.  We spoke to people in Manchester to find out what they think.

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00:00 "I would have Yorkshire pudding every night because I love roast dinners so I'd have roast

00:04 dinner every night."

00:05 With Christmas just a few weeks away, many people may already be dreaming of the food

00:10 and drink they will be consuming over the festive period.

00:14 Christmas dinner is a perfect time to gather with family and tuck into delicious roast

00:18 potatoes, a vegetarian or meat-focused centrepiece, vegetables and gravy.

00:24 But there's still one item that remains a little controversial - the Yorkshire pudding.

00:29 For some, the Yorkshire pudding is a staple of any roast dinner, a tradition.

00:33 For others, the common British side dish does not make an appearance alongside Christmas

00:38 celebrations.

00:39 We spoke to people in Manchester to find out their thoughts.

00:43 "Oh yeah, all day long.

00:47 Yorkshire pudding with anything.

00:48 Yeah, definitely with a Christmas dinner."

00:50 "What about you Gillian?"

00:51 "I'm a bit indifferent to it.

00:55 I can take it or leave it but if it's there, yeah, fine, yeah, I'm happy with it."

01:00 "Well I think it's because we don't necessarily always have turkey so if we have beef, we

01:07 might have both.

01:08 And if we have both, it's nice to have the Yorkshire pudding with the beef."

01:11 "Have the Yorkshire pudding as well, yeah.

01:13 And it adds more to your plate as well.

01:14 There's more to eat isn't there?"

01:16 "No, definitely not.

01:17 It just doesn't seem right.

01:18 Yorkshire pudding's for a Sunday roast but not Christmas dinner."

01:22 "Yes, but it's not my favourite.

01:25 Sprouts, roast potatoes, turkey, Yorkshire pudding.

01:32 It's not from Manchester is it?"

01:35 "I can see where they're coming from.

01:37 I'm just not crazy about Yorkshire pudding.

01:39 It's on my plate, I'll eat it.

01:41 I'll eat almost anything that's put on my plate and I'll eat Yorkshire puddings.

01:45 But they don't strike me as traditional Christmas, no."

01:48 "I always put a Yorkshire pudding with my Christmas dinner.

01:52 It's one of the things that is a tradition.

01:56 We don't tend to have the traditional turkey, we tend to have other meats.

02:01 So sometimes it will be roast pork, sometimes it will be roast beef, but those things go

02:07 well with Yorkshire pudding.

02:09 And you know, it's just a staple.

02:13 My mother came from Yorkshire and she made the very best Yorkshire puddings ever.

02:18 And so we never ever had a Christmas dinner without a Yorkshire pudding.

02:23 It was part of her family tradition.

02:25 So we've kept it going."

02:28 "I would love that, my favourite.

02:30 We were just talking about Christmas dinner and we've left that off the list."

02:33 "Yeah, we probably will do Yorkshire puddings."

02:35 "I was talking about exercising the pigs in blankets because they're also a favourite.

02:39 So just going for a whole sausage."

02:41 "Everybody likes those rather than the miniature ones."

02:44 "But we love Yorkshire puddings, yeah."

02:46 "Do you want a bit of that?"

02:48 "I always do.

02:49 It's not the same without a Yorkshire pudding.

02:51 The judges have always had a Yorkshire pudding.

02:56 I don't have a Yorkshire pudding with Christmas dinner, much as I like them.

03:00 And it's not because they're not traditional, it's because I think they fill you up too

03:03 much."

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