7 Christmas Foods and Drinks We Need To Cancel Immediately

7 Christmas foods and drinks we need to cancel immediately; traditional or not, some things are just unforgivable when there are so many other delicious things to eat.

1. Christmas Pudding

It’s almost becoming as traditional to loathe this dessert as it is to eat it.

A slice of festive Christmas fruitcake isn’t too much to complain about, it keeps well and can be served in thin slices with a cup of tea or some salty cheese for balance. However, this pudding is just too much, it’s got to go.

Stodgy, heavy, alcoholic, I’m not just talking about your uncle, I’m talking about classic Christmas Pudding. Crammed with dried fruits that are plumped up with cheap brandy, sweetened too heavily with brown sugar, served hot and claggy by the spoonful. It’s a very British dessert that many around the world are quite rightly baffled by.

Not only is it an effort to make, it’s a real effort to eat. The traditional pudding must be steamed and can take over 4 hours to cook, taking up valuable space on your stove and consuming a hideous amount of your back-of-the-cupboard raisins. Following that, you have to force down mouthfuls of this heavyweight champion of pudding after an already belly-busting roast dinner. A truly privileged problem, but a…