The best meal of the year or simply a glorified roast dinner? Whatever you think of it, it's a tradition that, most of us, can't get away from. We've been on the streets of Liverpool to find out people's favourite items for a Christmas dinner, and what absolutely shouldn't be on the plate.
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00:00 Roast turkey, pigs in blankets and the ever controversial Brussels sprouts.
00:07 Christmas dinner is essentially a Sunday roast on steroids with those extra special added
00:14 elements elevating the scram into something special.
00:18 For some, it is the finest meal of the year.
00:21 Whether that's because of the company or the food, we have been on the streets of Liverpool
00:27 to ask you what your favourite items are and what absolutely shouldn't be on the plate.
00:35 The most important thing that belongs on a Christmas dinner is, gotta be, number one
00:41 is the Christmas turkey and stuffing, roast potatoes, parsnips and all your veg and the
00:53 gravy.
00:54 Turkey, pigs in blankets, stuffing, erm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:02 Sprouts?
01:03 Oh, sprouts, who doesn't love a sprout?
01:07 Yeah, and we always used to get sprouts, a £56 bag of them and we'd have curried sprouts
01:14 after Christmas.
01:15 My mum was a great cook.
01:17 Oh yeah, curried sprouts.
01:20 It was a moving experience.
01:21 Well we have turkey, obviously, erm, stuffing, roast potatoes, parsnips, marantina, erm,
01:28 water bugs, no sprouts, the devil's food.
01:34 Not saying a word about the place.
01:41 And that's about it.
01:46 Christmas dinner, I think, erm, I quite enjoy lamb, lamb and potatoes.
01:52 What should not be on there, I don't know, I've never really had anything that shouldn't
01:55 be on there, everything's pretty good, like veg, potatoes, things like that, yeah.
01:59 Family round the table, all being together, all being happy.
02:09 And pay for a place you haven't got to wash up.
02:11 I've never had to pay for a place.
02:14 No, but that'd be good.
02:17 Cabbage.
02:18 Cabbage should not be on a Christmas dinner.
02:22 What's wrong with cabbage?
02:24 What's cabbage ever done to you?
02:26 I just don't like cabbage, it's just vile.
02:31 I don't like cabbage and cabbage doesn't like me.
02:33 I think just the family getting together and, you know, having dinner with everyone.
02:37 I'm from India usually so we don't really celebrate Christmas but it's just, you know,
02:41 the time, it's cold outside, you get the family together and it's just nice, yeah.
02:46 Is there anything that definitely doesn't belong on a Christmas dinner plate?
02:51 Vegetarian food.
02:54 Sorry, controversial, it's what it's like though, isn't it?
02:58 You know, they don't deserve Christmas dinner.
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