Christmas Day Traditions/eating

Stealing this idea from another forum but i dont care, id prefer to discuss it with my online friends on a forum which matters.

Well what do you all eat do etc on christmas day? Just wondering is everyone the same is there a few irregulars and so on.

Personally me, I get up, head to me ma's she makes a big ulster fry up around 9am all pure quality meat, sit around eat quality street, head to the gaa after 1pm mass as it traditionally opens for 3 hours, have the craic come home open gifts from family members, have a couple of beers, then dinner, the lounge around with more beer watching movies! I wouldnt change it for the world, although this year my missus is working christmas day so ill be in my mas all day christmas, then have christmas day number two on stephens day.

Well what do all yous do?

And although we have our fall outs throughout the year online, i regard everyone here as my gaa forum mates! Happy christmas!

Santa is dead - Xmas is cancelled.

Get up around 9ish, open santy presents and then have breakfast. Get dressed and head up to Fingerlas to see my granda at about 12, be home for 2. Head over to my aunty's house at 3 for dinner and a bit of craic. The go to my dad's bestfriend's house at 8, for some crisps and soft drinks (or wine). Go home at any time. Next morning up at 9 to get all the food ready for Stephens' day. My mam's whole family come over to our house every year. Lots of deserts and food. Go to the pub to see the mummers. Back to my house for food. Collapse on the couch to watch a few movies with my cousins. Then go to bed whenever everyone's gone.

That's been my Christmas for the past 16 years but there'll be a few changes this year dua to certain circumstances so I'll let yous know next year what the updated version is.

Nice one sounds like so amount of craic RG, ive had the same christmas for a long time myself and long may it continue!

Im a big fan of stephens day too, much more drinking and a lot of sport lol!

Hate the spell between stephens day and new years seems to drag!

Free dinner for all the family at the RDS homeless gig. Great and a few free cans also.

Real Kerry Fan wrote:Free dinner for all the family at the RDS homeless gig. Great and a few free cans also.

Id say their'd be a few joining you this year RKF!

North Side Gael wrote:

Real Kerry Fan wrote:Free dinner for all the family at the RDS homeless gig. Great and a few free cans also.

Id say their'd be a few joining you this year RKF!

Yeah NG. But I noticed in previous years a tractor and trailer packed with hungry hoors arriving. Only clue was Leitrim reg plus bearded driver.

Real Kerry Fan wrote:[Yeah NG. But I noticed in previous years a tractor and trailer packed with hungry hoors arriving. Only clue was Leitrim reg plus bearded driver.

...This Christmas lark is beginning to annoy me more year on year.
The entire concept of Christmas ie. the birth of Christ, has been swallowed up in a frenzied maelstrom of commercialism, driven by purveyors of plastic Christmas trees and glittering baubles.
Throw in supermarket spivs with "half-price" plum puddings, boxes of chocolates etc., Nary a word about the starving millions the length and breath of the world...No Siree...

All this is then augmented by mad pageants such as "the 12 pubs of Christmas" and the work "Christmas party" ( I'll spare RG the lurid details of some of these events).. Oh! the 24 Heino are a bargain at €24, yelps a young cur of 18 or so, as he confides to me that he got 4 slabs with his weeks dole and got a few bottles of spirits to kill the weeks allowance off....

This year I'm planning on avoiding all places where such disregard for our fellow human being is flaunted. I shall thank the Lord for sparing me for another while, restrain myself to 1 small Jameson at bedtime and pray fervently for the beleaguered citizens of the nation, as we face the future in the aftermath of a swingeing budget, bleak prospects for our youth and a cut in the REPS payments.....

All this is purely aspirational of course....

Get up around 8 and open Santa presents (which I best still get at this age!), eat a load of chocolate for breakfast and head to church about 9.30.

Wander up the roads to the 'Christmas morning drinks' at a friend's house with strict instructions to go easy on the nibbles so as not to ruin appetites for dinner.

Back sometime between 12 and 2, parents get to work on the lunch whilst we sit around doing something ridiculous like playing Monopoly (which would never be done at any other time of the year).

Lunch, having taken hours to prepare, is devoured in about 20 minutes with a break between main course and pudding to watch the Queen at 3pm.

After lunch family presents from under the tree are opened. This takes a good 3 hours meaning evening is soon upon us and the TV goes on for Christmas specials etc.

By which point father will be stomping around with a big plastic bag picking up all the wrapping paper and complaining about how hot it is in the lounge.

SamiPremier08 wrote:Lunch, having taken hours to prepare, is devoured in about 20 minutes with a break between main course and pudding to watch the Queen at 3pm.

A wise call Sami. Better to leave the pudding until after "the Queen".....

SamiPremier08 wrote:Get up around 8 and open Santa presents (which I best still get at this age!), eat a load of chocolate for breakfast and head to church about 9.30.

Wander up the roads to the 'Christmas morning drinks' at a friend's house with strict instructions to go easy on the nibbles so as not to ruin appetites for dinner.

Back sometime between 12 and 2, parents get to work on the lunch whilst we sit around doing something ridiculous like playing Monopoly (which would never be done at any other time of the year).

Lunch, having taken hours to prepare, is devoured in about 20 minutes with a break between main course and pudding to watch the Queen at 3pm.

After lunch family presents from under the tree are opened. This takes a good 3 hours meaning evening is soon upon us and the TV goes on for Christmas specials etc.

By which point father will be stomping around with a big plastic bag picking up all the wrapping paper and complaining about how hot it is in the lounge.

The last bit is exactly what my da use to do when we were kids. Dont ever remember watching the queen though! lol

On a side note - Currently trying to put up some decorations. Having a few problems. Will have some up by weekend hopefully.

In this time of economic austerity, I'm pleased to be able to offer fellow forumites boxes of LED lights at a staggering discount....
This piece of good fortune stems from a canny investment last January, when I sprang to the aid of "a friend in need".

I'll be having a lock of 8' Christmas trees for a select few after the weekend at €30 and will throw in the lights to boot for €40......
The trees are available for collection from 6pm onwards any evening..