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Although we don't do it so much now, we always used to have cold meats (ham, pheasant etc) and pickles (onions, red cabbage) for Christmas Day breakfast. I've no idea where the tradition came from, and never met anyone else who does it. I often wondered whether it was a Norfolk thing, but when my step-father first met my mother he'd never heard of such a thing. Does anyone else do it ?

Hello, We have cold meat and pickles for late lunch on Boxing day, cannot beat it. Merry Christmas.

no we don't ,its usually ferrero rocher,quality street or whatever we've had as presents----great at 4am!!!

Always used to have cold ham on Xmas morning and Mum's mum was a Norfolk girl.

son in law always has pork pie for christmas breakfast. Ann Glos

we do on Boxing day, but on my christmas dinner i love to have wallys! xx

Hehe - 'Wallys' - someone's remembered the sandwich thread ! That's interesting Brenda - perhaps it is a Norfolk thing. I remember that I always used to look forward to Christmas Day breakfast nearly as much as the lunch.

I have pork pie and pickles for breakfast on Christmas day morning too!

sandwich thread??? lol? cant remember hun...everyone always laughs at ,me wen i call them that! xxx

A random reference to Wallys - I like it ! : ) (There was a thread a while back on peoples' favourite sandwich in which I mentioned Wallys, with an implied challenge for people to admit whether they knew I was talking about gherkins).

Pork pie for us (actually, it's a pound of pork sausage meat, a couple of sliced chicken breasts and a pound of Cumberland sausage this year). I just took it out of the oven half an hour ago.

Sounds like our Boxing Day grub - cold meat, mash & pickles - yummy! Xmas breakfast is normally a glass of Bucks Fizz or OJ if driving and a biccy or six, from the jumbo tin of Xmas biccies. And a few Quality Street. Dates. Nuts. Then it's time for Xmas lunch. And Xmas drinkies. Then After Eights. Saz

I usually start christmas day with a cup of tea and a couple of slices of toast. I can't imagine getting up and eating pickles. Jack x

No. I imagine it was because it didn't involve any cooking as there was plenty to be going on with the lunch. When I was a child we had grapefruit for breakfast as it was prepared the night before and we wanted something we could eat quickly as we weren't allowed to open any presents until breakfast was over. When my bro & I grew up we also had champagne for elevenses and opened our presents then. Boxing day we have a brunch of bubble & squeak leftover veg & meat from the Xmas lunch. nell

We have a scrummy 'cold' lunch on Boxing Day. Hot bread, crackers, ham, massive selection of cheese, pates, pickles, pie, wallys, pickled walnuts, salamis.... oh... I'm so hungry now.... becx

Sounds awful!!Well for breakfast anyway,, Like everyone else we have it on Boxing day with garfield potatoes and all that jazz,,,,You cant beat leftovers on Boxing day,,,yum..

We usually cook our meat /fowl for Xmas day on Xmas Eve. Which means that on Xmas morning there is plenty of turkey and/or beef dripping to slather on hot buttered toast, liberally sprinkled with black pepper, and eaten with lashings of steaming tea or coffee! Nom, nom, nom.........
And, if we're lucky, some for Boxing Day breakfast, too!

Where did you find this one from Christopher :-D :-0 was it in the library vaults :-D

Cold meat and onion chutney with abit of cheese on the side for me :-D

Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for brekky.

Cold turkey, ham, baked potatoes, bubbly 'n' squeak, pickled onions and various pickles, including this year, for the first time ever . . . . . drum roll, da da da . . . . . my homemade green tomato chutney with a touch of crushed 'Chilli Willies' :-0 . . . . . Oh yes, hot, hot, hot :-D

What..... all at once, you'll put on weight :-D :-D