Sorry to hear that - done properly, they are great.
We probably didn’t do it right. And they weren’t what I expected. Maybe I was hoping for them to taste like peanuts, or sugar plums, or root beer.
One of my most favorite essays on the subject
I’ve gone to the movies and eaten Chinese food, so yes.
Sleigh ride, yup
Chestnuts roasted in a fireplace, yup, works if you use one of the wire popcorn poppers made for over coals.
gone caroling - did it most years from the time I was about 9 until I was 17 or so
Decked the halls with boughs of holly - decorated a feasthall for an SCA event so that would be a yup
Donned gay apparel - well, I had made a brand new red, green, white and embellished with gold German renn for said event, not colors or a style I would normally wear. It was pretty festive so I count that as a yup
made sugar plums, figgy pudding, plum pudding and done all sorts of fancy foods for various christmas dinners, including roasting both turkeys and geese, so yup
I have jingled bells, and napped in the winter, and travelled through snow to get to Florida to visit my grandmother [didn’t say granny had to actually be in the snow] and I have walked in a winter wonderland whilst bitching about the cold at least 3 times going out to hack down a christmas tree.
One year I gave my dad a cartridge in a bare tree - spent 223 round tied to a naked branch sprayed silver.
Chestnuts on an open fire. Very popular in Vienna and Munich when I was there. I was walking about these cities seeing the typical touristy stuff and it was very cold. Very nice to get a bag of hot chestnuts fresh off the fire and tuck them inside my coat until cool enough to eat. Seems a lot of people I know don’t care for the unique flavor or texture…their loss.
I actually got frostbite on my nose once, so definitely hit that mark.
One-horse open sleigh ride - yes, but it was a short one, no drifted bank but we were upsot - quickly and completely.
I’ve been kind and generous to the sick: Blackadder Christmas Verse
I’ve also gone a-wassailing.
I have found out, indeed, who is naughty and who is nice. I’m a moderator!
I was found in a strangers house with a sack and wearing a false beard.
And you tell the police that you were simply celebrating the Christmas spirit and they look at you as though you were mad!
I’ ve had open fire-roasted chestnuts more than once.
I’ve drank mulled wine.
Years ago Christmas dinner was a goose.
I have had a winter sleigh ride with jinglely-bells on the horse’s harness.
I have at one time or another done all the typical American Christmas traditions.
But I’ve never gotten a BB-gun as a present.
I decked a hall once, but then Arsenio had me banned from the set.
I did “let it snow” several times. It is good to be omnipotent.
That could also be interpreted as slang for snorting coke.
I have spiked my date’s drink to keep her from leaving during a snow storm.
I have heard the bells on Christmas day.
I was never forced to land behind the enemy lines by my foe.
I’ve been on a hay wagon ride for Christmas several times. It was a yearly event in my hometown.
Gone Caroling with a group.
Kissed under the mistletoe.
Like to deer hunt. Haven’t bagged a reindeer yet.
I’ve gone over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house. I’m pretty sure those woods have all been cleared to build subdivisions since then, though.
I’ve seen my step mom kiss my dad while he was wearing a Santa costume.
Hmm. Is collecting mistletoe mentioned in any Christmas song? 'cause I’ve done that. You have to go into the woods with a weight on the end of a long light rope, and yank the stuff down.
I’ve had my nose damn near bit off by Jack Frost.
I’ve walked in a winter wonderland. In women’s underwear, even.
I’ve never been permitted to play in any reindeer games.
Have been laughed at and called names…does that count?
I’ve ridden in a horse-drawn sleigh. Meh.