The top 40 most common Christmas disasters include burnt turkey, undercooked roast potatoes and forgetting gravy.
Image via PixabayA study of 2,000 adults who celebrate the festive season found many of the things that go wrong are centered around food with soggy vegetables and undercooked greens both in the top five.
Other top mistakes made on December 25th were forgetting vegetarian and vegan alternatives, not having enough plates to serve all guests and running out of wrapping paper.
It also emerged that while 44% of those polled think mishaps are simply part of the big day, 62% prefer to stick to what they know to avoid mistakes.
Conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by the bakery brand, St Pierre, the study found disasters especially leave people feeling frustrated (41%) and embarrassed (41%).
Although looking back, they now feel entertained (42%) and nostalgic (39%) with 43% claiming many of their fond festive memories centre around food.
The study also found people have typically hosted nine Christmases, experiencing three disasters each time, but 55% are confident they’ve made fewer mistakes over the years.
And 43% admitted such catastrophises create amusing stories to re-tell years later and hearing about other people’s mishaps makes 45% feel better about their own.
TOP 40 CHRISTMAS DISASTERS:
- Burnt turkey
- Burnt stuffing
- Undercooked roast potatoes
- Soggy vegetables
- Hard, under-cooked vegetables
- Forgetting gravy when serving up
- Food being served cold
- Forgetting to supply vegetarian/vegan alternatives for guests
- Forgetting Christmas pudding
- Lumpy gravy
- Watery gravy
- Fridge/freezer breaking so all food is ruined
- Not having enough plates to serve dinner to all guests
- Oven breaking
- Waking up late, meaning dinner will be late
- Running out of wrapping paper
- Not having enough chairs to sit all guests
- Microwave breaking
- Not putting name tags on gifts and forgetting what is for who
- Kid’s seeing me wrapping presents intended to be from Santa
- Present ordered online not arriving on time
- Forgetting to put food in the oven at the right time
- Undercooked meat
- Giving someone a gift intended for someone else
- Christmas tree falling over
- Finding gone off bread when making a Boxing Day sandwich
- Someone choking on the coin in the middle of a Christmas pudding
- Christmas lights blowing a fuse
- Forgetting to turn the oven on
- Breaking a Christmas present immediately after opening it
- Pet cat climbing and getting stuck up the tree
- Having to cook when hungover
- Presents going missing
- Forgetting to defrost a dessert
- Arguments over politics at the dinner table
- Table centrepiece catching on fire
- Writing the wrong person’s name on a card
- Leaving presents at home when visiting someone else on Christmas Day
- Forgetting to defrost the turkey
- Presents being stolen
Via SWNS
