There are suggestions that there could be a shortage of potatoes this Christmas after crops suffered through the wet autumn. So we asked you what you'd miss the most from your Christmas dinner...
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00:00 There are suggestions that there might not be enough potatoes to go around for Christmas
00:05 dinner this year because the autumn has been such a wash out.
00:08 So we're asking the people of Lancashire today what they would miss the most on their Christmas
00:12 dinner if they couldn't have it and this is what they had to say.
00:16 Brussels sprouts, gravy, can't beat gravy, got to be swimming.
00:23 So with the sprouts how do you cook the sprouts?
00:30 Oh I don't cook.
00:32 Yeah boil.
00:33 Yeah you can't beat sprouts, I just eat them.
00:39 That's all I would live on that mashed potatoes, gravy, peas.
00:44 So the shortage of potatoes at the Seine could be a problem?
00:47 Oh definitely, my dinner won't be Seine without potatoes.
00:50 It's got to be potatoes and sprouts, lots of potatoes on Christmas dinner, I mean roast
00:58 potatoes, you can't miss them.
01:01 And then you want some mash to go with it.
01:04 You're saying sprouts are going to be smaller this year, would that be something you're
01:07 worried about?
01:08 They are, they've been getting smaller haven't they?
01:11 They've also been coming on them stalks now, but you still get them frozen.
01:17 How do you cook sprouts?
01:21 Boil them, I don't fry them, some people do.
01:25 Some people put them in with the dinner.
01:28 No I always boil them, some people say that boiling them to death.
01:34 Get a pan, shut your sprouts in with your carrots and just put them all on together.
01:40 Brussels sprouts, they say they're really lovely.
01:44 How do you cook them?
01:47 Just boil them.
01:48 Just boil them what?
01:49 Sometimes, no I don't put them in the microwave, they go all sloppy, so I put them in a pan
01:54 and boil them.
01:55 I'd say the parsnips, I really do like roasted parsnips.