Escape From Fireworksville

[EdRooney]

... whale into the booze without shame or remorse to line my stomach.

Sorry D2B, how does this differ from my usual holiday routine?

 

[pauper]

Anchovies, mayonnaise, tuna, boiled eggs - add sponge cake and 35+ degree temperatures and its amazing there isn't a Christmas tradition of handing out buckets to guests at the door.

 

[internationalguy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqfxmWbelcQ

 

[Page8383]

Anchovies, mayonnaise, tuna, boiled eggs - add sponge cake and 35+ degree temperatures and its amazing there isn't a Christmas tradition of handing out buckets to guests at the door.

YES! I too get the boiled eggs with tuna and I'm thinking "HTF is this Xmas food?!?". Is this traditional food here for Xmas? I thought it was just us.
Then I get told how good it all is, then the fireworks go off, presents are dished out and Xmas is over like that. No boxing day! Everyone is back to work.

I wouldn't mind a cold beer on the patio with some prawns and digging in for the boxing day test.

We should just keep cool with a litre of ice cream / Don Pedro each on christmas eve.

Sorry for the gripe, but the black outs and riots are starting to douse my festive spirit.

What was this thread about again?

 

[Page8383]

"Follow meeee" ...

That's gold.

Ends up in the dishwasher doesn't it?

 

[internationalguy]

"Follow meeee" ...

That's gold.

Ends up in the dishwasher doesn't it?

Yes it does. Hahaha

 

[Napoleon]

The greatest danger during this period is undoubtedly culinary: pionono, vitel tone, and ensalada rusa - just run if you hear those words mentioned at a festive dinner table.

I haven't had to eat any of these:

1) ???????????
2) Marinated tongue?
3) Something smothered in salsa golf?

I've only been to one Argie Christmas Dinner, at my girlfriend's father's house in 2009, but I think that we mainly ate asado. (We did arrive a little late due to me not realizing that transportation from the Facultad de Medicina to Palermo Hollywood (near Cordoba) is a complete B**** after 6pm. (Total rookie mistake.) And then ensuing argument and near breakup... (I didn't realize the pressure she was under by bringing the boyfriend to Christmas Dinner... it's like a statement of "HE'S THE ONE!!")

Last year I went to an expat/expat-friendly asado dinner and I brought a massive fruit salad because it was so hot the 23rd & 24th, I couldn't imagine consuming anything "heavy" without dying from meat sweats.

This year I'll be attending the Lufthansa Flight Crew's Christmas Eve Dinner, so maybe we'll have some traditional German stuff. But, the lady escorting me isn't Christian and I kind of doubt that many of the others will be either. Maybe we'll have a bunch of Jewish, Arabic, Indian, & Chinese food... (the Chinese food being the traditional Christmas meal for both Chinese people and Jewish people... I wonder if they'll also show Woody Allen's latest movie after the meal...)

 

[camino no tomado]

The greatest danger during this period is undoubtedly culinary: pionono, vitel tone, and ensalada rusa ...

Pardon my ignorance, but although I'm not keen on overwrought pastries or cold veal (with tuna, yuck!) but what's wrong with the Argie potato salad?

 

[internationalguy]

Pardon my ignorance, but although I'm not keen on overwrought pastries or cold veal (with tuna, yuck!) but what's wrong with the Argie potato salad?

Some people really hate mayo and its texture.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Pardon my ignorance, but although I'm not keen on overwrought pastries or cold veal (with tuna, yuck!) but what's wrong with the Argie potato salad?

Theres nothing horrendously wrong with it, however it conjurs up thoughts of cheap side dish doled out in a secondary (high school) school canteen, not the stuff of wild celebration!

Honestly, its one night to put up with me for me, then we're off to Rosario to really party for nye.