Whether it's turkey, sprouts, bread sauce, Christmas cake, beetroot or your Dad's home made beer, are there things you eat or drink every year during the festive season but can't actually stand?

We are offering you this unique opportunity to place them in the Great Food Live Christmas Room 101.

All you have to do is Nominate your most loathed Christmas food or drink and tell us, in no more than 45 words, why it should languish in our GFL Christmas Room 101.

The most eloquently reviled items will be pitched to the GFL team Thursday 8th December.

Imagine! You could have a Christmas without candied peel!!!!!

Post your pet hates here!


P.S. Personally it's bread sauce - Why? oh Why? Oh Why? ...........

The one thing I could live without is the christmas pudd.I find it heavy,after the main meal.Where did the christmas pudd originate from.??

Next doors sausage rolls. A platefull is proffered every Christmas Eve. 2 glasses of best Sherry in return with thanks and they are great, thank you. Even the dog won't eat them, they are Bl**dy Awful.

Those stupid paper hats that you find inside crackers!! Regardless of how expensive the crackers are there is always this tissue paper hat that you feel obliged to put on and spend the whole meal looking ridiculous........

Just realised it is food only.............then it's definitely bread sauce!!! Absolutely disgusting white lumpy sauce..........what a way to ruin a good turkey!!!

I'd ban Christmas starting in the shops before mid-november!

I would put the compressed water filled turkey you get served when got go out for a Christmas meal with the folks from work.
Why do they think it is acceptable to serve this rubbish. It's bland, colourless and is just not nice.
Please sir, can I have some real turkey?

Id ban Turkey. Why use this godawful tasting meat when there are so many alternatives such as goose or duck.

yeah yeah bollydarling, i agree, ban the turkey, incinerate it in the GFL Christmas room 101 !!!

Sprouts - the smell of them just makes my stomach turn - but as dear hubby and son love them I make one concession and cook them on Christmas Day for them - the serving bowl I can assure you is the furthest distance from me when seated at the table - and yes I have tried different ways of cooking them - you know the saute way with the bacon and chestnuts - it doesn't hide the fact that those green monsters are still lurking in the pan. Ughhhh, even now I am grimacing at the thought. Please ban SPROUTS - even those new purple ones still won't do it - not unless they've changed the smell and taste of them as well. YUK.

This is for sending food or drink to Room 101.....I would send the christmas pudding...its too sweet & heavy to have after a full christmas dinner. If you extended this to other christmas things that I would send to room 101 it would be all those christmas queues & all those miserable people who hate christmas.....what a lovely time of year!!

This is for sending food or drink to Room 101.....I would send the christmas pudding...its too sweet & heavy to have after a full christmas dinner. If you extended this to other christmas things that I would send to room 101 it would be all those christmas queues & all those miserable people who hate christmas.....what a lovely time of year!!

I'd ban Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein - fed up with them telling us they can't get good food in England and that we're all no good at cooking - you can get wonderful food in this country, there's a great choice. I enjoy and do cooking, most of my friends do too - their books are not on my list for Christmas.

Mushy overcooked vegetables - YUCK!!!

I'd ban chocolate liquors, don't like them at all. Nor turkey, or christmas pudding. And the price of geese, 40-50 quid for something half decent? That's a rip off. Oh and all nuts, they're just bits of wood with or without salt on aren't they?

But I love the sprout, the small round king of vegetables.

People thinking ONLY about presents and food forgetting why we celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus. Also remember people worse off than ourselves and ?visit? phone? or invite someone who would be alone


Also people getting far too drunk and getting sick on the way home on the way home from the pub.

The one food that I would ban from Christmas is the mince pies made with puff pastry - yukyukyuk - stick to home made shortcrust rolled very thin, so that you can almost see the mincemeat through the cooked pastry, and small enough to eat in two bites, THEN it is a wonderful treat.
The other thing I would encourage at Christmas, is a group effort - if everyone does there bit, then Christmas is great fun, if it's left up to one person to slave away on their own, then there will be tears before bedtime!

Again, as already nominated, I would put in THE PUD! The Christmas meal is never small so there is NEVER room for that HEAVY, STODGY pud that weighs you down for the next 24 hours! It's flavour is too over powering and just one bite is one bite too much!

LEAVE THE GLORIOUS SPROUT ALONE! I love them. I'm really happy when I see them appear in the shops again and eat loads of them. Mmmmmm.

I too would ban the Christmas Pudding. Horrible things.

I'd ban shortcake/bread - I absolutely loathe the stuff - all that uncooked flour - yuk!

I would ban marzipan. It ruins a good cake. Cannot bear the smell or the taste.

Turkey sometimes is a bit too hyped up, at Christmas. How about an alternative, silverside beef? I might be moving over the festivities so I won't be concentrating on Christmas this year!

Sprouts any way you want to do them. Animals that have been raised for food that have not been treated properly, in life, death and as meat - not just at Christmas. I think turkey is a bit on the hyped side as well. Parsnips - please see above re sprouts. Anybody's sausage rolls, never mind next door's Barshedale, and I'm not struck on sherry either. I like Christmas pudding but I would ban brandy butter. Nuts can go in especially brazils as you cant open them. Cranberry sauce can go in as well. Carrots in honey and goodness knows what else.

But please keep out trifle, bread sauce, stuffing, pork pie, bacon sandwiches on Christmas morning, mince pies, Christmas pudding eaten on Boxing Day, home made ice cream and anything else that I like.

I'll have whatever Alice is having please!

Hello
I would ban cheap and disgusting chocolates. Those that have a sickly aftertaste.
Veronique