That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 21, 2023

My original post in 2017:

“Good thing we’re English or we would find this thing inedible.”

Merry Christmas

/// Christmas Pudding! It’s sweet, much like candy.

As it’s served, Timmy held up his hand. He

saw pale bluish flames hop

round the holly on top.

“Put it out… you’ll burn off all the brandy!!“

It’s spotted dick! The dessert where the only thing more disturbing than the name is the list of ingredients.

The traditional family cowpie.

A figgy pudding, maybe?

“Too bad that Rover died, but at least we get to eat this Christmas!”

Master Reginald was heard to exclaim, as he held up a crucifix to ward off the evil miasma, “OH NO! MEATLOAF AGAIN!!!”

It’s the annual brown DUMPling.

“Mrs Cratchit left the room alone – too nervous to bear witnesses – to take the pudding up and bring it in… Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper which smells like a washing-day. That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, with a laundress’s next door to that. That was the pudding. In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered – flushed, but smiling proudly – with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quarter of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.”

Outdid themselves with the fruitcake this year.

Mom, that’s a mighty big T.U.R.D!

That’s the biggest birthday potato they could find.

Sadly, while everyone posed for the portrait, no one noticed that Timmy, the eldest son, was choking.

Good news sweetheart, we found your pet chicken

The object she’s serving is brown/

You hope you can choke it down/

But don’t be a drag-/

Just try not to gag/

Til you’re back in your own home town.

It’s my new cake recipe. An adaptation of the pasture patty.

Mom couldn’t remember if the recipe called for a 1/4 cup of brandy or a 1/2. “What the hell!” she thought, and used the entire bottle.

The family was tipsy with joy!

Sounds like the “pumpkin dessert” my aunt always brought to Thanksgiving dinner. It wasn’t quite a cake, it wasn’t quite a pie, it wasn’t quite a cheesecake……and worst of all, she never added enough “pumpkin spice” to make it palatable.

“And here’s Bossie’s contribution to the Christmas feast!”

In an alternate universe where Scrooge was never visited by the Ghosts, the Cratchit family instead feasted on a rock some hooligan threw through the windows.

This year’s Edwardian Advent Calendar explains how to make plum pudding. I had no idea it was so complicated.

(Teen Boy) “Mom it’s still moving!”

It’s a mixture peas and pigs feet ./

It’s subjected to merciless heat./

After five days of heat,

it’s as hard as concrete:/

Missus Murphy’s renowned “Christmas Treat”.

So if you’re invited here/

To partake of their Christmas cheer/

Be wise and beware/

(Most of all, be elsewhere)/

If hope to ring in the New Year.

“Sigmund here tells me you kids really want to eat your Mama’s cake!”

Looks like typical Mary Worth fare.

British cooking, as most will attest/

Isn’t counted among the best/

Continental cuisine/

Was the choice of the Queen/

(But she’s gone to her heavenly rest..)

It’s not well known that this was the inspiration for the poop emoji.

Christmas: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:James Clark (artist)" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Christmas, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting, including a Description (what I wrote in January, 2018, updated today with an archive link, explaining why the artist has changed from the 12/25/17 strip, Object history has what I added explaining why the painting’s date has changed since then). Other versions has the small (due to archiving) strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1854 (12/25/17) (December 20, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by him used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the December 25, 2017, strip being its first use.

I don’t want any of that pudding, I lost a tooth on the shilling last year.

It’s tortillas in a warmer.

Marie Antoinette: See! They can have their cake … and eat it too!

But mommy! I wanted Grey Poupon!

Some comments from 12/25/2017:

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Funny_Ha_Ha The Lectors never could guess what was in Harriet’s Christmas surprise but it was always served with a fine Chianti and some fava beans.

Radish the wordsmith Its a Betty Caca recipe.

J Short It was her own recipe; tough an tasteless, it was known as The Kaiser’s Helmet.

WittyWeasel Who is this guy mabrndt and why does he have such an encyclopedic knowledge of art history anyway ? Scary, but I do enjoy his incredibly interesting commentaries !

Rum soaked Bread Pudding! With a chaser.

The brown thing is a dish covering the food. In theory, what’s underneath it is what you should eat. OTOH, in England you may find the dish tastier.

Mrs. Fogarty’s Christmas Cake