Be good, for goodness' sake

[venta]

Two important questions:

The other day, I read someone casually referring to "leaving milk and cookies out for Santa" - like it was a normal thing. Frankly, I feel t'old chap is getting rather a poor deal in that household. I always left a mince pie, a glass of sherry, and a carrot (for the reindeer). At lunchtime today I heard someone old enough to have grandchildren waxing quite irate about one of her grandchildren having mentioned leaving whisky out for Santa - she thought it should be sherry, too.

So, what did you leave ?

Owing to time pressures one evening last week, my evening meal was formed from a packet of Monster Much (pre-gig) and some toast and Marmite (post-gig). The packet of Monster Munch was very large, but the actual Munches themselves were disappointingly small. I'm sure you used to be able to wear Monster Munch as rings - and yes, I know my fingers are bigger than whenever I last ate Monster Munch twenty years ago - but now they're tiny little things.

Have Monster Munch gone a bit Wagon Wheels and shrunk ?

Comments

[dmh.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough it was also a mince pie, a glass of sherry, and a carrot. And Santa would invariably leave some sooty marks behind and a note saying how Rudolph was getting on and how we should look after our mum.

I may be wrong but I think Monster Munch shrank only a few years ago, I recall hearing it mentioned in an advert. A bit silly shrinking a "munch" that is supposed to be "monster", though. :o/

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

1) Traps. (no, really. My parents took to leaving the stocking elsewhere in the house)

2) Yes, definitely in the case of Monster Munch. In the case of Wagon Wheels I believe so, but I do have a larger mouth now.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Ditto on the mince pie, carrot and sherry!

And didn't Monster Munch used to be Smiths, and now they're Walkers? Maybe that Gary Lineker had something to do with shrinking them.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Yes, Monster Munch have shrunk.

We left an Eccles cake out once. He ate a bit of it, and left us some mouse droppings to say thank you. Mum said she'd take care of Santa's tea in future.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Nothing!

[venta.livejournal.com]

And did he still visit ?

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

No. But my dad did, and so I still got lots of pressies! Huzzah!

[venta.livejournal.com]

That's all right then; so long as there's some form of quid pro quo :)

[marjory.livejournal.com]

My lot never really went in for the leaving Santa stuff vibe. We also were never a sherry household... I did, however, believe in Santa until I was 8. dr_mitch rumbled the Santa thing when he was 3 and decided not to mention anything in case he didn't get any presents. This may well be an early indication of his sneakiness why he is Dr. Mitch and I am Commoner Frauts.

Monster Munch shrinking? I was annoyed enough when they brought in the cutsie monster puppet-things, as previously you got a picture and a description of a classic monster on each packet... Pah!

[reddragdiva]

My forthcoming spawn shall be firmly taught that Father Christmas favours a bottle of a decent Real Ale and a clean pint glass, thank you you little sod who'll be waking him at six in any case.

Have I missed something ?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Are these hypothetical forthcoming spawn, or are they, like, actually coming forth in the near future ?

[j4.livejournal.com]

I always left a mince pie, a glass of sherry, and a carrot (for the reindeer)

Same here. :)

Have Monster Munch gone a bit Wagon Wheels and shrunk ?

They have definitely shrunk. However, there are now Monster Munch which TURN YOUR TONGUE BLUE! They look like normal crisp-coloured crisps, but when you eat them your tongue goes blue. Magic! Doesn't that make you glad to be living in the 21st century??

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

1) Traps. (no, really. My parents took to leaving the stocking elsewhere in the house)

Do de do. I'll just pootle past looking innocent. I blame science myself.

Also we kind of figured Santa could go help themselves out of the fridge and drink most of the bottle.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Reindeer in our house are apparently being offered proper reindeer food in place of a carrot this year. "Reindeer Food" looks a lot like Tesco Value porridge oats in my considered opinion.

In our house, Santa prefers Port to Sherry but would still like a mincepie please.

Re: Have I missed something ?

[reddragdiva]

Theoretical May, maybe April. JESUS CHRIST IT'S A BABY GET IN THE CAR

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Mince pie, sherry and carrot.

I wonder what happened to the carrot?

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Mince pie, sherry and carrot. Traditionalist, see?

And a definite yes to monstroshrinkage. I don't know about Wagon Wheels since I haven't eaten one in... oh... 25 years, and they'd have been big back then, wouldn't they?

Re: Have I missed something ?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, blimey. Congratulations/good luck, all of you.

[paste.livejournal.com]

mince pie, carrots for the reindeer & BEER.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Only one mince pie?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It was a couple of fingers of whisky in my house. Because my Dad doesn't much like sherry.

Truly, the future is now!

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I still want my Princess Leia hologram projector, though.

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

Minced carrot and sherry pie.

[(Anonymous)]

Monster Munch and Wagon Wheels - gone the evil way of Penguins and Mars bars

[venta.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, have Penguins shrunk as well ? Scandalous.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Efficient.

[ebee.livejournal.com]

Sherry, SEVERAL mince pies- chimneys are hard work (with plastic holly leaves ornately decorating the plate), several carrots- cut into strips or snapped in half so that in case the oesophogus of a reindeer is like that of a horse they wont choke, and of course a note asking for the names of all the reindeer...odd how it varied year to year and seemed to depend on how recently we'd told my mum all 12 names- one year they sounded rather like the seven dwarfs had got confused into the mix...

[venta.livejournal.com]

12 names ?

In my house we had Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Commet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. Even if you count Rudolph, who are the other three ?

The other day, one of our sysadmins was in our office asking what games reindeer played. No one seemed to know, but it appeared to be bugging Sysadmin #1 as he wanted to know exactly what it was Rudolph wasnt allowed to join in with. He seemed happy when I suggested Reindeer Chess and Reindeer Backgammon (like ordinary chess and backgammon, but with more antlers).

Irrelevantly - I just got your sms. Glad to hear you liked them :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Commet had changed the spelling of his name to avoid confusing requests for electrical goods. Ahem.

[ebee.livejournal.com]

LOL. I'm now trying to remember the names..heck, I've not been child minding enough! A quick google would suggest my mum made them up and varied it year to year. BAH.
Reindeer games, my mum explained at length are similar to playground games- lots of running and exertion and mostly some variety of tag. Again with the horsey comparisons, they play tag a lot. And so we shouldn't leave people, or reindeer out of games coz its NOT NICE. Reassure Sysadmin that they were all childish energy exerting games that left the others too TIRED rather than snow-blind to pull the sleigh, hence Rudolf having the enthusiasm and ENERGY to lead them with cheery encouragements.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

It went back in the vegetable drawer, foo'.