Cheesy cracker jokes, polite conversation and the meat sweats are all on the menu at Christmas.
But do you know why we eat turkey instead of beef? Or where Bucks Fizz came from?
Just as well you’ve got this handy guide to everything on your Christmas dinner plate to impress / distract your family from arguing.
Turkey and stuffing
Every year we eat 10 million of the birds with the red dangly bits.
But why have we plumped for them as opposed to a mountain of Peperamis?
Native American traders brought turkey to the UK in the 1500s and it comes as no surprise that bird-lover (in all senses of the word) Henry VIII… Read the full story