The Monday List

Ten Foods Everyone Has At Christmas Because They're Tradition, But No One Actually Likes
A turkey the size of Croydon, unless you're catering for a crowd.
A tin of chocolates with an inexplicable number of fruity-cream and toffee penny duds that get left in the bottom and finally binned in mid-March.
Spartan hard centres chocolates (now defunct, possibly because they were a bad pairing for dentists not being open).
Poncified Brussels sprouts (e.g. pan-fried with exotic spice combinations, in an attempt to cajole people who don't like sprouts into eating them. No, they'll still hate them – and so will the people who usually enjoy the 'classic' version.)
Unshelled nuts.
Christmas pudding.
Brandy butter, then.
Eggnog
Fresh cranberries – you bought a punnet because they look all lovely and festive, and people on American TV shows kept banging on about them intriguingly when you were a kid. But now you either haven't got a clue what to do with them, or you have but you can't be arsed.
Bread chuffing sauce.