@@Yzariel I live in Germany and I joined a friend of mine a few days ago on a search for a perfect goose. The attention to detail was ridiculous, but it'll probably be worth it 😅😅
@@mihaelaskrabo1385 it will be Crispy skin. Moist meat... Can't wait to get mine in 2 days... luckily I'm not the one I Charge. More time to chill and drink
"chocolates usually don't have shots in them"... Oooooh boy, welcome to European chocolates, Mon Chérie, Kirschstengli, Edle Tropfen, Weinbrandbohnen, Schladerer Pralinés, Rumkugeln, ....
So true😂 fairly common here, but I was also confused when Mike asked Ben if he had heard of speculoos.... Like im Austria/Germany you get those in every supermarket and they are delicious 😂
Yeah same in France, they are fairly common. We also have chocolates shaped like liquor bottles and the inside is filled with alcohol (like champagne, cognac, calvados, etc.). I don't think this is only a French thing, maybe with different alcohols ?
Being unable to go back to France for Christmas this year, I must admit I got a little teary when I saw the 'marrons glacés' in their little gold wrappers. My mum and I usually make them from scratch, using the chestnuts from our garden, and that's one of my favourite thing about Christmas (with making and eating 'crème de marrons' which is very similar but in a paste form). And Mike is right, it takes about a gazillion hours to make but it's so freaking damn delicious.
Does "marrons" happen to be the word for brown on french? Because here in a Brazil we have something that looks a lot like marrons glacés and it's called "marrom glacê', marrom being portuguese for brown. It always seemed like a very brazilian treat to me but apparently we got it from you guys!
I live in the North of England and we have Canadian geese stop here from spring to summer each year, they crowd the canals and chase you and your dogs, especially once they have had their babies 🤣 such a viscous bird to hale from such a nice country!
We get Canadian geese down to our town here in Northern Illinois, and honestly, they're not at all aggressive. If anything, I can walk by them, dog in tow, and we leave each other alone. They do leave goose droppings ALL over the place, which my dog think is a delicacy. However, when I lived in the Netherlands in the early 2000s, the geese there were terrifying.
I like that Mike assumed that they were guard birds for noise and not because geese will kill you if you look at them wrong also because they can't be bribed like dogs
Some cannibalistic Pacific Islanders referred to human flesh as "long pig", so . . . Kinda puts a new twist on the marketing term "the other white meat".
I heard a guy from mexico who saw a goose for the first time, which was probably defending its territory and hissed at him, called the goose a "cobra chicken" xD
@@johnuferbach9166 Those fuckers are scary, my grandma lives in a village and I pass people who own geese on the way to her (on a bicycle) and they go for u the moment u get anywhere close... They're the size of a medium dog and always in packs and not scared of anything... Good thing they're slower than a bike otherwise I'd know what a bite of one feels like 😬
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the set Not a dish was cooking, not even reclette; The normals were snoring by the chimney so snug, Awaiting Ebbers and Currie to give them a hug.
"Don't get in a fight with a goose." Truer words are rarely spoken. I've seen trucks with serious dents made by pissed off wild Canadian Geese. These birds are not ones you want mad at you....
My fiancé got in an actual fight with a goose once and it was somewhat traumatizing for him. We all think it’s a great story, he still hates geese though
That's pretty much what the Norwegian term for the day before Christmas Eve. We call it "Lille julaften" or "Kvelden før kvelden" which mean something like "Little Christmas Eve" and "The evening before the evening" respectively.
@@LuckyDragon289 there are definitely a lot of French bakeries, and also pastries from Portugal (Castella cake) and Germany (Baumkuchen) are really popular across the country.
I couldn’t stop giggling, when Ben said Stollen and Lebkuchen. Spekulatius is super popular in Germany and basically THE Christmas cookie. I was totally suprised that Goose was so foreign to you as a Christmas meal. We have goose every year and it’s one of the best parts of Christmas. Although we have 1 goose per 4 people, so there are 2 servings each + leftovers. Traditionally it’s eaten with red cabbage, Knödel, an apple filled with marzipan and lots of gravy.
Lebkuchen (both bread and cookie forms) seems to have become a bigger thing amongst German descendants than it is now in Germany. Maybe I just don't know enough actual Germans, but it's an interesting difference.
I jones for the cookies, my maternal grandma made many cookies each year, including dark and light lebkuchen (and an old school German recipe black walnut). I'm drooling just remembering. Since her death I've been looking for real "old world" recipes that come out tasting like those did.
When I was deployed we weren't allowed to drink alcohol. But we always were gifted these liquor chocolates from the French military because we were all so "high strung." They will always have a warm spot in my heart. 🤣
I appreciated the wise observation about the Marrons Glacés, and how one would probably need to explain what they were if giving them as a gift, unless the recipient was well traveled and knew of them. A similar warning when gifting the Cerisettes would be wise, since one would hate to get the liqueur all over them when they went to take a small bit, or be unaware of the cherry pit and end up with a chipped tooth.
My mom used to get these liqueur filled chocolates from Germany and would always offer them to people without telling them what they were. There was always shock and liqueur dribbled down their chin.
Be the change you want, people love any type of humor from dad jokes to slow burns to innuendos and that’s just the boys. You just have to bewreath in yourself
Ooof. Y’all have made me so nostalgic for the Christmases of my youth that I’m almost in tears. I’m American but my mum isn’t which may be why I have had most of the treats in this video. Growing up it was quite common for us to have goose on Christmas. I think we alternated with duck. My mum is an excellent cook or she was. Her health doesn’t really allow her to cook any longer. But definitely the best meals of my life were prepared by her. My favorite meal ever was a chicken soup that it took her a week to make. She spent days defatting and clarifying the chicken broth. And then she steamed all the vegetables and placed them carefully in the broth. I know chicken soup doesn’t sound special but in the end it was this perfectly clear golden broth and the vegetables looked like little jewels. It tasted just as amazing as it looked. I’ve had marron glacé once. Hated it, so I’ve never bothered again. My mum spent years going on about this candy so maybe by the time I finally had some, it was impossible for anything to live up to my anticipation. Now it’s easy to buy some, but it the 80s it wasn’t. My bonus-dad had to special order them months in advance in order to surprise my mum for Christmas. The state that I’m from has a chocolatier that is known for their boozy chocolates, Ethel M. I’m not a fan, but it used to be that people would request these chocolates whenever I was visiting. Now days it is so easy to buy just about anything off the net, it seems like so much of the specialness is gone. I think alcohol is a good way to ruin chocolate covered cherries. I don’t think I’d be comfortable serving chocolate covered cherries that still had stones in them. The chestnut candy has me longing for Larimer Square in Denver, Colorado. We always used to go every Christmas to look at the gingerbread square. Specialty bakers would recreate all the buildings of the square right down to the cobble stones in gingerbread. We’d bundle up and look at Christmas lights. And we’d always buy roasted chestnuts from the vendors in Larimer Square. I must make a point of seeing the Parade of Lights in Denver one more time. We live in Southern California which means we can look at Christmas lights in our shirt sleeves. I do not miss the snow. Plenty of the beaches have fire pits where it’s jolly fun to make s’mores. These days I only eat s’mores on the beach at Christmas. So many traditions are out this year due to the pandemic. But at least we will be able to drive around looking at Christmas lights and singing rude Christmas carols. That’s a family tradition my husband and I started when our oldest was a baby. Our kids were so delighted by the obnoxious and disgusting things we let them sing. Lots of feces jokes to be sure. Have a safe, socially distant Christmas and happy holidays.
Goose is the traditional meat of Christmas dinners here in Germany. In fact, it's so traditional, many university cafeterias serve it right before Christmas.
Goose self defense tips, if a goose is attacking you grab there neck and throw them and then run in the opposite direction, they have very strong necks
If I have learned one thing from my time at a bird sanctuary it is that it is not Swan you should fear. Swans are chill and usually happy to see you. It is the geese (and duck) that will scratch you up and eat your face. And we were strangely enough not allowed to trow them.
We have Roast pork, roast Duck or Geese for Christmas every year. No exceptions! Nearly always both pork and a bird on the table. Red cabbage, glazed potatoes, regular potatoes and preserved half apples with a sphere of redcurrant jelly in place of the core. I think that is very traditional here in Denmark. Several people in my family do not like fat on their meat, so its most often a goose on the table. As a bonus, we have a summer cottage on a small island where there is a farm with fields of geese... no predators means they can let then roam the fields by them selfs. Why bother harvesting the crops, if you can let the geese roam and work for the food. Strong healthy birds, had a good life, and I don’t feel bad for eating that meat. SOOO GOOOD
@@gnomersy1087 I can see it sounded like that 🤔... might even have used the wrong translation. It’s a very small house owned by the whole family. Nothing to really brag about. And the fireplace does not work and the bugs, oh the bugs... Pretentious or not, you decide. (The description of the geese and ducks are pretentious AF, when they sell them to the mainland. They really just needed to tell the tale of no predators and free roaming birds.... although they have problems with wild peacocks in the fields too. Noisy f@€&ing bastards... Beside that, it’s just fields og happy birds)
I love your description of your traditional Christmas meal, it all sounds wonderful and I'm definitely borrowing the preserved apples with red current jelly. And the geese aren't pretentious...I'm glad they have a great life and then give their all for your family dinner.
the first one sounds a lot like "mon cheri" from ferrero. in germany its sold throughout the whole year. its dark chocolate filled with a cherry (but without the stone) and "kirschwasser" a cherry liqour. they are quite tasty.
Nonsense doesn't feel like the right word. It seems to apply a certain glib or flippantness to a year which has been damaging to physical, mental, Social and economic health of the world. But the sentiment of Sorted bring lightness and joy during a year with so much upheaval, counter-normal and dread is a nice one.
Goose was for a long time a traditional Christmas bird, before the turkey became popular. "Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat/Please put a penny in the old man's hat" goes the old rhyme.
My favourite thing about this channel is the completely believable, authentic relationships between the boys. The jokes, the teasing and the obvious love. Thanks for being a reliable and comforting part of an unreliable and uncomfortable year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Sorted!
Goose is actually pretty traditional for Christmas in Germany. But there are, of course, other dishes that are widely enjoyed as well. Also, the way Ben said "Lebkuchen" was just precious.
Here in Germany goose is very traditional around Christmas time, with many restaurants serving special goose menus in December. My family doesn't celebrate Christmas, but it has been a tradition with my parents to go eat a goose at one of those places this time of year, most often for my parent's wedding anniversary, which is in the beginning of December. It has been of the things that we missed this year because of the second lockdown here. My parents already had the table reserved and all... :-(
When we try something new and it doesn’t work out we call it “An Experience”. It might not have been a great experience, but an experience none the less.
In my country we actually still eat goose traditionally! However, not for Christmas or Yule, but for what we call "First Day of Winter", or "St. Martin's" (11th November). I prefer baking my own, but my mum is not terribly excited to spend the day in the kitchen, especially when it is not a national holiday and she needs to go to work, so we usually go to a restaurant. They all have special offers for the day, mostly including goose, bread dumplings, cabbage and goose broth soup (the variation is how you pick your favourite - the basic idea is the same but the recipes all taste different!). Another tradition is tasting young wine, "St. Martin's wine" with your goose dinner. Wine markets are everywhere, wineries compete for the best of the autumnal season, and everyone has a great time. This year, most places delivered both a whole roasted bird with all the accompaniments, but also a selection of locally sourced bottles.
@@LeeskiLeo Most people only go to Prague, which is very touristy and not really a good image of the whole country. I'd recommend the cities of Brno, Olomouc, Kutná hora, Znojmo, Český Krumlov or Litomyšl (or Karlovy Vary when the film festival is happening!). Also a good idea is just renting a car and driving around visiting our many castles!
Goose is still the most traditional Christmas dinner here in Germany. Although finding one that cost nearly a hundred quid is quite an achievement. I don't think traditional things can really be pretentious, unless you do something weird and pretentious with them, like add gold leaf or such. You sought out very expensive versions of these foods from the most expensive shop around. If you bought them from somewhere else, they would cost half as much and be just as good.
I feel like in America, there's a lot less traditional christmas food because all of that gets absorbed by thanksgiving. Which actually gives more space for christmas to be about presents or togetherness or whatever while Thanksgiving is the holiday about foods that you eat more out of obligation than anything else.
I don't really agree with you there, because while at thanksgiving there is only the traditional turkey dinner, at least in Germany every family has their own traditional Christmas food. And those can change. But traditional foods like roast duck or goose is something you also get at restaurants for example when you have a company Christmas party. And because having dinner together, just close family not the aunt that you don't actually like, is a important part it's more about togetherness then just about gifts
@@gingerfani i Agree. However christmas is more of a season in germany lasting several weeks. It includes lot's of activities spanning several days. christmas market, cooking christmas cookies, sharing christmas cookies with family, going to church, eating, visiting family &friends (sometimes with traveling for some days/a week), much much more. christmas is special in Germany
We often did a turkey at Christmas with similar winter veggie. But must haves on Christmas are olive/cream cheese stuffed celery and cranberry juice/ginger ale punch. For decades I've done a Christmas breakfast of beef hash (Who hash) and eggs because I am a huge Dr. Suess fan.
@@gingerfani The point here is about American traditions. I'm sure in Germany this is true, but the traditional American holiday meal is certainly Thanksgiving and not so much Christmas. I reckon, in part, this is because Christmas in immigrant communities in America still maintains ethnic traditions (e.g. Italian panettone, Mexican tamales, etc.) that haven't been flattened out by the national traditions.
in india, the nut brittle thing is called "Chikki" and is eaten as a snack like cookies. they are pretty yum and cheap (about 0.2 GBP)!! chikki also happens to be my nickname ❤️😂
Ben has been so excited in the Christmas videos and he makes me smile until my face hurts. You guys are the best! A real bright spot in this challenging year. Your delicious recipes are always fun to make. Love the Yippee ki-yay on the counter. Merry Christmas!
it was definitely extremely common in England in the Victorian era, with what we have now (turkey) being a symbol of wealth in those times, with the lower class members of society often eating goose at christmas time. the situation has now flipped, as goose is seen as 'pretentious' by many and therefore associated with the upper class and turkey is the norm. it's weird
@@jmp_fr I had no idea brits eat turkey at christmas, to me that's an exclusively american thing (I'm australian). I assumed they ate roast chicken and beef.
@@isthatrubble yeah no we do, i funnily enough always used to think it was weird you guys did turkey at thanksgiving and a ham at Christmas- but then I learned the story of thanksgiving and the turkey made sense
@@jmp_fr we don't do thanksgiving in australia, but I do think christmas ham is pretty popular here. in my family we just cook chops and sausages on the bbq, it's quicker than a roast and frees the oven up for other things
Found your channel early this year just before the crazyness started. Thank you so much for helping us staying sane during the past months. Merry Christmas to you guys and all viewers!
"These geese are made really tough. You know you think you might have a fight with one? Don't." Any Canadian will tell you that as soon as you enter the country.
Merry Christmas to the whole sorted team! Thank you all for the laughs, information and teaching us how to be better cooks while also entertaining ! Come on 2021!
Merry Christmas you guys thanks for keeping me sane this year and super impressed you never missed a video even in the midst of a global pandemic. Huge work must have gone into it all. So thank you 💕💕
Was talking just a few hours ago with a few of my colleagues from work about what they have for meals the next 3 days. And quite a lot of them will have goose on one of these days. I believe goose with potatoes and red cabbage is a typical christmas meal in germany. The second most named meal was salmon and eel. But that might be because we are in northern germany.
In Germany in November Goose is typical for St Martin the Guy who shared his mantel with a beggar as the townspeople want him to become the Bishop he flees in a goos hous but the get so noisy the townspeople find him and so we est a große every year im using a rub with mugwort and filled with Apples with mugwort and salt with it i serve potato dumplings and red cabbage with chestnuts Also as a chef in germany in a small restaurant we easily get over a hundred gooses out online in November
We eat tamales, menudo, rice, and beans! we also make loads of sweets like dedos de monja and gingerbread cookies! Would love yo see y'all try out any of these recipes btw!! Merry Christmas!! xx
I would be remiss if I didn't thank you guys for all the work you've done this year, and all the prior years as well, really. This has been a disastrous year here in the US. Like many, I have been destroyed financially and the stress has impacted everything else. One of the few truly bright spots has been discovering Sorted back around the first of the year. You'll never know how important your channel has been in the dark times. Thank You.
I can't BELIEVE Jamie hadn't ever had marrons glacés (glass-ays, please) before! I grew up with them, and always stock up when in France! Next year, if we're allowed to travel, then you guys really should do a day-trip to Calais and visit the big Carrefour in the Cité Europe, near the Eurotunnel station there. The French do Christmas supermarkets way, way better than we do. Yes, of course they have the piles of cheap sweets, but they also sell the premium kinds (liqueur chocolates full of real liqueur, marrons glacés, chocolate orange peels, etc), and vast fridges full of smoked salmon and foie gras, with the gingerbread and onion and fig chutneys that the French traditionally eat it with. It really is worth doing, and I'm sure your viewers would appreciate it. Also, Calais' Christmas lights leave Oxford Street standing!
We used to buy my Grandma marron glaces every single year! She absolutely adored them, but they are hard to find outside of Christmas. But because of this, they don't feel pretentious at all. Just a "hard to find" treat Interestingly, when I visited Japan last year around Autumn, there was a LOT of chesnut flavoured goodies! So, the flavour does remind of of my trip.
I'm stuck in my small flat alone this Christmas unfortunately. Thank you guys for the great content this year to keep us all going, and I will be using one of your recipes on Christmas day to get my through it!
I've been on the continent for 14 years. The UK's food prices are ..... aaargh HOW much for an organic goose? How much for Marron Glaces? This is the time of year you miss family especially this year - my normally smug "I've left before Brexit" is a sort of sad and angry feeling for the people who have to put up with it now. Love the channel guys, I'm wishing you and your families a safe and merry Christmas.
These are by no means normal UK food prices - most of the stuff is from Fortnum and Mason which is a very very high-end/luxury department store in London, really people are mostly paying for the brand for those items so they can gift it to someone and the recipient goes ooh, fortnum and mason! You could get the same items just as good quality for more reasonable prices elsewhere in the UK.
@@SortedFood the goose was good but all the grease and clean up made it not totally worth it. Probably going to do the same preparation for duck next year.
I think the idea of spending a bit on the center of your holiday feast is totally fine. It happens so rarely and usually in good company so it's generally worth it. My sister has been Prime Rib every year and I never miss it!!
Growing up (in rural Tasmania in the 80s), turkey was not part of our Christmas experience - but goose from my Grandparent’s farm was. Thank you for the nostalgia glow, and merry Christmas to you and yours.
Jamie again with the top notch observation: "it's a bird". 😅
LOLLLL 😂
It's a plane
@@lorale8095 looking up at the sky eh ?
Also known as a big duck. 😆
@@PyrozPlayground long chicken
Jamie: *gets a whole goose for his selection*
Also Jamie: *treats it as snacking meat*
He did right! The Goose was very much enjoyed by all the team afterwards :)
The goose is in some countries the first christmas dinner choice. In my family (In Germany) there will be a goose every 25.12. the last 35years...
@@Yzariel I live in Germany and I joined a friend of mine a few days ago on a search for a perfect goose. The attention to detail was ridiculous, but it'll probably be worth it 😅😅
@@mihaelaskrabo1385 it will be
Crispy skin. Moist meat... Can't wait to get mine in 2 days... luckily I'm not the one I Charge. More time to chill and drink
Next year, I’ll be cooking myself a snacking goose to enjoy while I’m cooking Christmas dinner
"chocolates usually don't have shots in them"...
Oooooh boy, welcome to European chocolates, Mon Chérie, Kirschstengli, Edle Tropfen, Weinbrandbohnen, Schladerer Pralinés, Rumkugeln, ....
Yes! I was very confused by this :D
So true😂 fairly common here, but I was also confused when Mike asked Ben if he had heard of speculoos.... Like im Austria/Germany you get those in every supermarket and they are delicious 😂
Yup! Glad someone else said it!
even as an american i was shocked he's never had bourbon balls or brandy balls lol
Yeah same in France, they are fairly common.
We also have chocolates shaped like liquor bottles and the inside is filled with alcohol (like champagne, cognac, calvados, etc.). I don't think this is only a French thing, maybe with different alcohols ?
“Small Turkey”
“Long Chicken”
“Big Duck.”
I just want Jamie to keep coming up with alternate names for Geese.
Hahaha, what else could we call it? 🤔
Water pheasants ?
@@SortedFood bipedal corgis
Feathered salmon.
@@SortedFood bastard knobhead pricks.
Wait, you guys don’t have to deal with migrating Canada geese over there...
Being unable to go back to France for Christmas this year, I must admit I got a little teary when I saw the 'marrons glacés' in their little gold wrappers. My mum and I usually make them from scratch, using the chestnuts from our garden, and that's one of my favourite thing about Christmas (with making and eating 'crème de marrons' which is very similar but in a paste form). And Mike is right, it takes about a gazillion hours to make but it's so freaking damn delicious.
Me too - I can't believe the guys hadn't had them before! I always buy them for my mother, who loves them.
Awwww, sending hugs!
Does "marrons" happen to be the word for brown on french? Because here in a Brazil we have something that looks a lot like marrons glacés and it's called "marrom glacê', marrom being portuguese for brown. It always seemed like a very brazilian treat to me but apparently we got it from you guys!
@@mariaah3073 Well chestnut is also a shade of brown in English so it makes sense if they’re called ‘brown’ because it’s like a double meaning
@@mariaah3073 Yes, marron is brown in french indeed ^^
"Geese were used to as guard birds"
Canadians: NO SHIT! *absentmindedly rubs scar*
I live in the North of England and we have Canadian geese stop here from spring to summer each year, they crowd the canals and chase you and your dogs, especially once they have had their babies 🤣 such a viscous bird to hale from such a nice country!
@@moondust1992 It's a little known fact that once a year Canadian's perform a ritual to place all of our evil into the geese.
We get Canadian geese down to our town here in Northern Illinois, and honestly, they're not at all aggressive. If anything, I can walk by them, dog in tow, and we leave each other alone. They do leave goose droppings ALL over the place, which my dog think is a delicacy. However, when I lived in the Netherlands in the early 2000s, the geese there were terrifying.
@@iamgerg hahaha 😆
I like that Mike assumed that they were guard birds for noise and not because geese will kill you if you look at them wrong
also because they can't be bribed like dogs
I will now only refer to geese as “long chickens”
😂
Some cannibalistic Pacific Islanders referred to human flesh as "long pig", so . . . Kinda puts a new twist on the marketing term "the other white meat".
I heard a guy from mexico who saw a goose for the first time, which was probably defending its territory and hissed at him, called the goose a "cobra chicken" xD
@@johnuferbach9166 Those fuckers are scary, my grandma lives in a village and I pass people who own geese on the way to her (on a bicycle) and they go for u the moment u get anywhere close... They're the size of a medium dog and always in packs and not scared of anything... Good thing they're slower than a bike otherwise I'd know what a bite of one feels like 😬
They're "mean chickens" to me 😂 when you're chased by an angry goose you really get the feeling of what dinosaurs would have been like 😱
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the set
Not a dish was cooking, not even reclette;
The normals were snoring by the chimney so snug,
Awaiting Ebbers and Currie to give them a hug.
Where IS James
@@noeinroad7294 Currie in the last line! (albeit misspelled)
@@macaoron Fixed it. :D
@@macaoron No I was looking for him in the video.
@@noeinroad7294 He was referring to my little rhyme. I spelled it 'Curry'.
6:25 The "As well as mince pies" elicited such genuine laughter from the boys, I have rewound it like 5 times
I still want to know where Mike was going with that.
"Don't get in a fight with a goose."
Truer words are rarely spoken.
I've seen trucks with serious dents made by pissed off wild Canadian Geese. These birds are not ones you want mad at you....
You can always count on one idiot to harass a goose and end up running for his life!
You mess with the honk, you get the bonk!
Geese are merciless and freakin terrifying
My fiancé got in an actual fight with a goose once and it was somewhat traumatizing for him. We all think it’s a great story, he still hates geese though
I've had to pull several dumb collies away from attacking geese bc the goose would win. I don't trust those honking little gits
As the poet-philosopher Phoebe Buffay once said: “MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE EVE!”
Merry Christmas Eve Eve.
We now need someone called Eve.
"Merry Christmas Eve Eve, Eve!"
Marry Christmas Adam
That's pretty much what the Norwegian term for the day before Christmas Eve. We call it "Lille julaften" or "Kvelden før kvelden" which mean something like "Little Christmas Eve" and "The evening before the evening" respectively.
@@RagnaN92 Little Christmas Eve.. love it 😊
Ben: It's not gold bullion
Jamie: Are they stock cubes?
Wrong kind of bullion, Jamie
Japanese foodie here. Maron glasse is fairly popular here in Japan especially from autumn to early winter.
I came to say the same. I lived in Japan for 4 years and loved when all the maron glasse seasonal items came out in stores!
I noticed when I visited Japan a couple years ago, that there are a lot of French-style bakeries, especially in the malls under the train stations.
@@LuckyDragon289 there are definitely a lot of French bakeries, and also pastries from Portugal (Castella cake) and Germany (Baumkuchen) are really popular across the country.
Came to say the same. :) So many variations of Mont Blanc style cakes/desserts on Japanese cooking channels, too.
Really ? in italy too . nice i love Marron glacès
I couldn’t stop giggling, when Ben said Stollen and Lebkuchen. Spekulatius is super popular in Germany and basically THE Christmas cookie. I was totally suprised that Goose was so foreign to you as a Christmas meal. We have goose every year and it’s one of the best parts of Christmas. Although we have 1 goose per 4 people, so there are 2 servings each + leftovers. Traditionally it’s eaten with red cabbage, Knödel, an apple filled with marzipan and lots of gravy.
Speculaas is more the Sinterklaas cookie here in Holland. (and also sold and eaten year round , on bread or just with tea)
Lebkuchen (both bread and cookie forms) seems to have become a bigger thing amongst German descendants than it is now in Germany. Maybe I just don't know enough actual Germans, but it's an interesting difference.
@@Caerigna Oh trust me, Lebkuchen are huge in Germany and Austria still. They start selling them in late August in some stores already.
@@Caerigna Germans are crazy for Lebkuchen. It is absolutely everywhere during the winter season. It’s right up there with Glühwein :)
I jones for the cookies, my maternal grandma made many cookies each year, including dark and light lebkuchen (and an old school German recipe black walnut). I'm drooling just remembering. Since her death I've been looking for real "old world" recipes that come out tasting like those did.
The expression on Ben's face when Mike told him the price of the goose was excellent!
The first thing is called "Mon Cheri" in the supermarket cheap version.
The sorted comments section is genuinely one of the most wholesome and goodhearted on youtube. A testament to the sorted team
When I was deployed we weren't allowed to drink alcohol. But we always were gifted these liquor chocolates from the French military because we were all so "high strung." They will always have a warm spot in my heart. 🤣
Why would you not be allowed to drink? Even in your down time?
@@SeraphimCramer have to be focused and ready 24/7. No sex either.
@@janellkendall12 Were you in an active combat zone?
They were warm in Mike's mouth... wow
When I saw Jamie eating his slice of goose with his fingers, I thought: "Snacking goose!"
I appreciated the wise observation about the Marrons Glacés, and how one would probably need to explain what they were if giving them as a gift, unless the recipient was well traveled and knew of them. A similar warning when gifting the Cerisettes would be wise, since one would hate to get the liqueur all over them when they went to take a small bit, or be unaware of the cherry pit and end up with a chipped tooth.
My mom used to get these liqueur filled chocolates from Germany and would always offer them to people without telling them what they were. There was always shock and liqueur dribbled down their chin.
@@deaaqua86 your comment made me smile!
But I think you could just say "candied chestnuts", right? No need for the whole history 😆
Merry Christmas everyone and thank you to Sorted for getting us through this year! 🎅
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Thanks for watching, Merry Christmas too!
@@SortedFood I'm thankful I found your channel this year!
The con of being this early is not being able to read the comments laughing at something one of you guys said
Be the change you want, people love any type of humor from dad jokes to slow burns to innuendos and that’s just the boys. You just have to bewreath in yourself
Just make something up! People are gonna hit you with a like anyways before they realize they've been conned!
When has a youtube comment made a normal person laugh, honestly.
@@LethalPigeon7 just because people don’t laugh at your jokes doesn’t mean people don’t laugh.
Ooof. Y’all have made me so nostalgic for the Christmases of my youth that I’m almost in tears.
I’m American but my mum isn’t which may be why I have had most of the treats in this video. Growing up it was quite common for us to have goose on Christmas. I think we alternated with duck. My mum is an excellent cook or she was. Her health doesn’t really allow her to cook any longer. But definitely the best meals of my life were prepared by her.
My favorite meal ever was a chicken soup that it took her a week to make. She spent days defatting and clarifying the chicken broth. And then she steamed all the vegetables and placed them carefully in the broth. I know chicken soup doesn’t sound special but in the end it was this perfectly clear golden broth and the vegetables looked like little jewels. It tasted just as amazing as it looked.
I’ve had marron glacé once. Hated it, so I’ve never bothered again. My mum spent years going on about this candy so maybe by the time I finally had some, it was impossible for anything to live up to my anticipation. Now it’s easy to buy some, but it the 80s it wasn’t. My bonus-dad had to special order them months in advance in order to surprise my mum for Christmas.
The state that I’m from has a chocolatier that is known for their boozy chocolates, Ethel M. I’m not a fan, but it used to be that people would request these chocolates whenever I was visiting. Now days it is so easy to buy just about anything off the net, it seems like so much of the specialness is gone. I think alcohol is a good way to ruin chocolate covered cherries. I don’t think I’d be comfortable serving chocolate covered cherries that still had stones in them.
The chestnut candy has me longing for Larimer Square in Denver, Colorado. We always used to go every Christmas to look at the gingerbread square. Specialty bakers would recreate all the buildings of the square right down to the cobble stones in gingerbread. We’d bundle up and look at Christmas lights. And we’d always buy roasted chestnuts from the vendors in Larimer Square. I must make a point of seeing the Parade of Lights in Denver one more time.
We live in Southern California which means we can look at Christmas lights in our shirt sleeves. I do not miss the snow. Plenty of the beaches have fire pits where it’s jolly fun to make s’mores. These days I only eat s’mores on the beach at Christmas.
So many traditions are out this year due to the pandemic. But at least we will be able to drive around looking at Christmas lights and singing rude Christmas carols. That’s a family tradition my husband and I started when our oldest was a baby. Our kids were so delighted by the obnoxious and disgusting things we let them sing. Lots of feces jokes to be sure.
Have a safe, socially distant Christmas and happy holidays.
Goose is the traditional meat of Christmas dinners here in Germany. In fact, it's so traditional, many university cafeterias serve it right before Christmas.
Jamie, as a Canadian, I can tell you don't pick fights with geese
My sister walked a little too close to a nest a few years ago. She still has PTSD from the attack 🤣
Goose self defense tips, if a goose is attacking you grab there neck and throw them and then run in the opposite direction, they have very strong necks
If I have learned one thing from my time at a bird sanctuary it is that it is not Swan you should fear. Swans are chill and usually happy to see you. It is the geese (and duck) that will scratch you up and eat your face. And we were strangely enough not allowed to trow them.
I am curious for the story behind this comment. I've never encountered a live goose or duck in my life, so I wouldn't know which birds attack you.
@@vixxiv_ they bite and if you're unlucky and their wings can break a kids arm. The hissing is normally enough to convince even toddlers to run away.
“As well as mince pies....”
With Jamie I assume there is much more
100%
We have Roast pork, roast Duck or Geese for Christmas every year. No exceptions! Nearly always both pork and a bird on the table. Red cabbage, glazed potatoes, regular potatoes and preserved half apples with a sphere of redcurrant jelly in place of the core. I think that is very traditional here in Denmark.
Several people in my family do not like fat on their meat, so its most often a goose on the table. As a bonus, we have a summer cottage on a small island where there is a farm with fields of geese... no predators means they can let then roam the fields by them selfs. Why bother harvesting the crops, if you can let the geese roam and work for the food. Strong healthy birds, had a good life, and I don’t feel bad for eating that meat. SOOO GOOOD
I feel like you started okay on it just being traditional. But the "we have a summer cottage" definitely bumped it into pretentious.
@@gnomersy1087 I can see it sounded like that 🤔... might even have used the wrong translation. It’s a very small house owned by the whole family. Nothing to really brag about. And the fireplace does not work and the bugs, oh the bugs... Pretentious or not, you decide.
(The description of the geese and ducks are pretentious AF, when they sell them to the mainland. They really just needed to tell the tale of no predators and free roaming birds.... although they have problems with wild peacocks in the fields too. Noisy f@€&ing bastards... Beside that, it’s just fields og happy birds)
Isn’t a goose fatter than a duck?
I love your description of your traditional Christmas meal, it all sounds wonderful and I'm definitely borrowing the preserved apples with red current jelly.
And the geese aren't pretentious...I'm glad they have a great life and then give their all for your family dinner.
@@harmvzon I think it depends.. I’ve seen lean ducks and very very fat ducks, but never a goose where I went all... whoa!
the first one sounds a lot like "mon cheri" from ferrero. in germany its sold throughout the whole year. its dark chocolate filled with a cherry (but without the stone) and "kirschwasser" a cherry liqour. they are quite tasty.
Had to think of those right away too but I despise them!
I'd rather just drink my cherry liquor as it is
Yes same! I was honestly surprised that things like Mon Cheri and marron glacés aren't common place there lol
Those cherries should have a tagline of "will punch you in the face."
I would happily be punched in the face by cherries 🤷🏻
Thank you sorted for giving us a whole year of great content eventho we’re in the midst of this nonsense!! Stay safe and merry Christmas 🙌🏼🙌🏼
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Couldn't have said it better myself. The boys have helped make this year bearable.
Nonsense doesn't feel like the right word. It seems to apply a certain glib or flippantness to a year which has been damaging to physical, mental, Social and economic health of the world.
But the sentiment of Sorted bring lightness and joy during a year with so much upheaval, counter-normal and dread is a nice one.
In Denmark, we usually eat roast duck or goose Christmas eve.
Same in Germany
Was just about to comment the same thing haha
Goose was for a long time a traditional Christmas bird, before the turkey became popular. "Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat/Please put a penny in the old man's hat" goes the old rhyme.
I am from the US but one year my Morfar made goose for Christmas and it was delicious! This made me remember that I need to ask him for his recipe!
@@jory728 Or you could just invite him over and surprise him. www.danishnet.com/food/danish-roast-goose-prunes-amp-apples/
My favourite thing about this channel is the completely believable, authentic relationships between the boys. The jokes, the teasing and the obvious love. Thanks for being a reliable and comforting part of an unreliable and uncomfortable year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Sorted!
Goose is actually pretty traditional for Christmas in Germany. But there are, of course, other dishes that are widely enjoyed as well.
Also, the way Ben said "Lebkuchen" was just precious.
I love how they said you'd look pretentious bringing out the marrons glacés, while here they are so normal I recognized them at first glance 😂
Here in Germany goose is very traditional around Christmas time, with many restaurants serving special goose menus in December. My family doesn't celebrate Christmas, but it has been a tradition with my parents to go eat a goose at one of those places this time of year, most often for my parent's wedding anniversary, which is in the beginning of December. It has been of the things that we missed this year because of the second lockdown here. My parents already had the table reserved and all... :-(
When we try something new and it doesn’t work out we call it “An Experience”. It might not have been a great experience, but an experience none the less.
Ben's face at the price of the goose is hilarious! 😂
It's not a pretentious ingredients video if Barry Taylor isn't there
Or James Currie
@@cass12234 and James Curry i forgot
Mr. Pretentious himself
But for Baz, “pretentious” ingredients are just pantry staples.
"Pretentious Ingredients" aka "We raided Barry's cupboards, let's have a taste-test"
The transition from festive music to dramatic revelation music in 14:18 was just so masterfully done.
In my country we actually still eat goose traditionally! However, not for Christmas or Yule, but for what we call "First Day of Winter", or "St. Martin's" (11th November). I prefer baking my own, but my mum is not terribly excited to spend the day in the kitchen, especially when it is not a national holiday and she needs to go to work, so we usually go to a restaurant. They all have special offers for the day, mostly including goose, bread dumplings, cabbage and goose broth soup (the variation is how you pick your favourite - the basic idea is the same but the recipes all taste different!). Another tradition is tasting young wine, "St. Martin's wine" with your goose dinner. Wine markets are everywhere, wineries compete for the best of the autumnal season, and everyone has a great time. This year, most places delivered both a whole roasted bird with all the accompaniments, but also a selection of locally sourced bottles.
What country is this? Sounds very worth a visit in normal times!
@@LeeskiLeo the Czech Republic, this tradition is much more common in the Moravia region!
@@drecellthealive8912 ahh! I love the Czech Republic! Didn't know about this tradition though!
@@LeeskiLeo Most people only go to Prague, which is very touristy and not really a good image of the whole country. I'd recommend the cities of Brno, Olomouc, Kutná hora, Znojmo, Český Krumlov or Litomyšl (or Karlovy Vary when the film festival is happening!). Also a good idea is just renting a car and driving around visiting our many castles!
In southern Sweden we do a similar thing the day before!
This series should be called "Fortnum and Mason's Product Line".
"The Geese are made really tough - you know you think you might have a fight with one - Don't" ... said every Canadian
Goose is still the most traditional Christmas dinner here in Germany. Although finding one that cost nearly a hundred quid is quite an achievement.
I don't think traditional things can really be pretentious, unless you do something weird and pretentious with them, like add gold leaf or such. You sought out very expensive versions of these foods from the most expensive shop around. If you bought them from somewhere else, they would cost half as much and be just as good.
That's kinda the whole point of this series... i hope in the year since you've made this comment you have grown intellectually.
would you mind reviewing the heroes' feast cookbook once the festive season is over, it's a D&D flavoured cookbook released recently
YES! Great idea!
I would like to see this too
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I’m just waiting to see what the SortedFood meme account does with this face
Merry Christmas everyone!
Oh my god! "He needs to stop requesting reindeer recipes" is both naughty and brilliant. Well done.
I'm so glad it wasn't just me 😂
I feel like in America, there's a lot less traditional christmas food because all of that gets absorbed by thanksgiving. Which actually gives more space for christmas to be about presents or togetherness or whatever while Thanksgiving is the holiday about foods that you eat more out of obligation than anything else.
I don't really agree with you there, because while at thanksgiving there is only the traditional turkey dinner, at least in Germany every family has their own traditional Christmas food. And those can change. But traditional foods like roast duck or goose is something you also get at restaurants for example when you have a company Christmas party. And because having dinner together, just close family not the aunt that you don't actually like, is a important part it's more about togetherness then just about gifts
@@gingerfani i Agree. However christmas is more of a season in germany lasting several weeks.
It includes lot's of activities spanning several days.
christmas market, cooking christmas cookies, sharing christmas cookies with family, going to church, eating, visiting family &friends (sometimes with traveling for some days/a week), much much more.
christmas is special in Germany
@@lichansan1750 I agree with you. All the little traditions that happen during Advent. I hope they can happen again next year
We often did a turkey at Christmas with similar winter veggie. But must haves on Christmas are olive/cream cheese stuffed celery and cranberry juice/ginger ale punch. For decades I've done a Christmas breakfast of beef hash (Who hash) and eggs because I am a huge Dr. Suess fan.
@@gingerfani The point here is about American traditions. I'm sure in Germany this is true, but the traditional American holiday meal is certainly Thanksgiving and not so much Christmas. I reckon, in part, this is because Christmas in immigrant communities in America still maintains ethnic traditions (e.g. Italian panettone, Mexican tamales, etc.) that haven't been flattened out by the national traditions.
in india, the nut brittle thing is called "Chikki" and is eaten as a snack like cookies. they are pretty yum and cheap (about 0.2 GBP)!! chikki also happens to be my nickname ❤️😂
That's really interesting to know - thank you for sharing!
"It's a big duck" is the sort of penetrating analysis we come to Sorted looking for. Congrats to Jamie for dragging the level down as always.
Ebbers face when Mike revealed the price of the goose is so underrated and brilliant xD
Ben has been so excited in the Christmas videos and he makes me smile until my face hurts. You guys are the best! A real bright spot in this challenging year. Your delicious recipes are always fun to make. Love the Yippee ki-yay on the counter. Merry Christmas!
Today I learned: Goose is practically unknown in Great Britain.
It's THE traditional christmas dinner in Germany...
it was definitely extremely common in England in the Victorian era, with what we have now (turkey) being a symbol of wealth in those times, with the lower class members of society often eating goose at christmas time. the situation has now flipped, as goose is seen as 'pretentious' by many and therefore associated with the upper class and turkey is the norm. it's weird
@@jmp_fr I had no idea brits eat turkey at christmas, to me that's an exclusively american thing (I'm australian). I assumed they ate roast chicken and beef.
@@isthatrubble yeah no we do, i funnily enough always used to think it was weird you guys did turkey at thanksgiving and a ham at Christmas- but then I learned the story of thanksgiving and the turkey made sense
@@jmp_fr we don't do thanksgiving in australia, but I do think christmas ham is pretty popular here. in my family we just cook chops and sausages on the bbq, it's quicker than a roast and frees the oven up for other things
Christmas goose is so traditional that there’s a Sherlock Holmes store about a gem being found in one
Found your channel early this year just before the crazyness started. Thank you so much for helping us staying sane during the past months. Merry Christmas to you guys and all viewers!
"These geese are made really tough. You know you think you might have a fight with one? Don't."
Any Canadian will tell you that as soon as you enter the country.
Merry Christmas Sorted! Thanks for all the videos to get us through 2020, it’s really made a real difference 🎄
Love the French pronunciation pending xD
Though it's fun to see the difference... Cos I immediately recognized the marrons glacés wrapping 😂
Merry Christmas to the whole sorted team! Thank you all for the laughs, information and teaching us how to be better cooks while also entertaining ! Come on 2021!
Merry Christmas you guys thanks for keeping me sane this year and super impressed you never missed a video even in the midst of a global pandemic. Huge work must have gone into it all. So thank you 💕💕
Thank you Sorted for everything you’ve done for previous years and this year. Cheers for the future and Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas to you, too!
Santa Jamie brings me more joy than you would ever know.
Merry Christmas, guys. Thanks for helping to keep our spirits up in a troubled year!
I often watch the people you’re not supposed to be looking at and 8:56 to 9:03 is a prime example of why that’s so much fun
Here in Germany I never had turkey for christmas but goose several times.
Merry Christmas from down under guys ❤️❤️
Love you guys. Please be safe, and the happiest holidays to all of you.
Was talking just a few hours ago with a few of my colleagues from work about what they have for meals the next 3 days. And quite a lot of them will have goose on one of these days. I believe goose with potatoes and red cabbage is a typical christmas meal in germany. The second most named meal was salmon and eel. But that might be because we are in northern germany.
"It's only 2 days till Christmas"
*Laughs in german*
“Geese are super hard to get hold of and very expensive” *laughs in German, again*
In Germany in November Goose is typical for St Martin the Guy who shared his mantel with a beggar as the townspeople want him to become the Bishop he flees in a goos hous but the get so noisy the townspeople find him and so we est a große every year im using a rub with mugwort and filled with Apples with mugwort and salt with it i serve potato dumplings and red cabbage with chestnuts
Also as a chef in germany in a small restaurant we easily get over a hundred gooses out online in November
Every single one of these videos sparks a big, fun, discussion in my house about what makes a thing pretentious, so thanks for that! Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas from Florida, USA. You all bring a lot of cheer all year.
We eat tamales, menudo, rice, and beans! we also make loads of sweets like dedos de monja and gingerbread cookies! Would love yo see y'all try out any of these recipes btw!! Merry Christmas!! xx
Merry Christmas. Winter Greetings from Scotland ♥️
I think my Family had Goose for Christmas every year I can remember, it's really what makes Christmas dinner for me.
Christmas ain't Christmas without my favourite chefs - Loved this episode and love your Christmas Sorted Club ad!!!
As a Belgian hearing speculoos as something just for christmas is weird. We eat them all year round and put them in all sorts of desserts and stuff.
They are more prevelant in december with Sinterklaas, tho. But you’re right. Speculoos is all the rage here. And the ice cream is to die for 🤤
Same for me as a Dutchie
Now you mention it, more for Sinterklaas, but otherwise, with every coffee I have, in vanilla pudding, tiramisu and so on, oh so delicious!
I personally don't like them, but yeah, it's mora a all year + Saint-Nicolas cookie!
What about the cherries in chocolat and liqueur.. Mon cheri is here all year round as well..
I want to eat those Cerisettes so much. They seem delightful, and I would eat the whole box and get buzzed with a stomachache....
I don't know why I love these types of videos so much but I definitely do! Keep em comin!
I would be remiss if I didn't thank you guys for all the work you've done this year, and all the prior years as well, really. This has been a disastrous year here in the US. Like many, I have been destroyed financially and the stress has impacted everything else. One of the few truly bright spots has been discovering Sorted back around the first of the year. You'll never know how important your channel has been in the dark times. Thank You.
I can't BELIEVE Jamie hadn't ever had marrons glacés (glass-ays, please) before! I grew up with them, and always stock up when in France! Next year, if we're allowed to travel, then you guys really should do a day-trip to Calais and visit the big Carrefour in the Cité Europe, near the Eurotunnel station there. The French do Christmas supermarkets way, way better than we do. Yes, of course they have the piles of cheap sweets, but they also sell the premium kinds (liqueur chocolates full of real liqueur, marrons glacés, chocolate orange peels, etc), and vast fridges full of smoked salmon and foie gras, with the gingerbread and onion and fig chutneys that the French traditionally eat it with. It really is worth doing, and I'm sure your viewers would appreciate it. Also, Calais' Christmas lights leave Oxford Street standing!
Merry Christmas Eve to everyone in the world!
Merry Christmas eve
In the UK we are still on the eve of Christmas eve 🤣
We used to buy my Grandma marron glaces every single year! She absolutely adored them, but they are hard to find outside of Christmas.
But because of this, they don't feel pretentious at all. Just a "hard to find" treat
Interestingly, when I visited Japan last year around Autumn, there was a LOT of chesnut flavoured goodies! So, the flavour does remind of of my trip.
I've loved all your holiday videos this year. Thanks so much for your hard work.
It’s my birthday and the only thing I want is a dad joke from Spaff
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa? Claustrophobic
Happy Birthday 🎂
I'm stuck in my small flat alone this Christmas unfortunately. Thank you guys for the great content this year to keep us all going, and I will be using one of your recipes on Christmas day to get my through it!
Stay strong Andy, you got this! Merry Christmas and enjoy the recipes. Send us anything you make on Twitter :)
@@SortedFood I don't have Twitter but I can send on Instagram!
Aww me too! A good meal is what keeps me in a good mood! Merry Christmas Eve from France!
Merry Christmas Sorted team and community! Thanks for getting me through another year! Xx
Thank you SORTEDfood for helping to cheer me (and i'm sure many others) up throughout this year
I've been on the continent for 14 years. The UK's food prices are ..... aaargh HOW much for an organic goose? How much for Marron Glaces? This is the time of year you miss family especially this year - my normally smug "I've left before Brexit" is a sort of sad and angry feeling for the people who have to put up with it now. Love the channel guys, I'm wishing you and your families a safe and merry Christmas.
These are by no means normal UK food prices - most of the stuff is from Fortnum and Mason which is a very very high-end/luxury department store in London, really people are mostly paying for the brand for those items so they can gift it to someone and the recipient goes ooh, fortnum and mason!
You could get the same items just as good quality for more reasonable prices elsewhere in the UK.
Having goose as our Christmas dinner centerpiece for the first time this year.
Nice! Let us know how you get on!
@@SortedFood the goose was good but all the grease and clean up made it not totally worth it. Probably going to do the same preparation for duck next year.
I think the idea of spending a bit on the center of your holiday feast is totally fine. It happens so rarely and usually in good company so it's generally worth it. My sister has been Prime Rib every year and I never miss it!!
Always love a Sorted Christmas! Merry Christmas all 😊
You know why I'm here lol. Ongoing petition for "Drunk chefs remote control sober Normals." Love you guys Happy holidays to all at Sorted Food.
Are chocolates with shots of alcohol not a thing in the UK?
Look up "Mon Chéri" or "Edle Tropfen in Nuss".
They are, i’ve definitely had them. Probably just not that common.
Love a Mon Cheri! I live in the UK and my parents would always buy them for Xmas when I was younger.
I'm scrolling through the comments looking for the "mon cheri" keyword
I love Mon Cheri but I think the booze in their ones might be a bit stronger!
The bloopers are just the cherry on top~ 😁
Growing up (in rural Tasmania in the 80s), turkey was not part of our Christmas experience - but goose from my Grandparent’s farm was. Thank you for the nostalgia glow, and merry Christmas to you and yours.
Ben rarely laugh but when he does it's so good i love it rly cheers me up
I thought they’d used split screen but it’s just a shadow in the wall 😂
I thought the same!
Love these !!! Merry Christmas Everyone 🎅🎄
I haven't quite figured out why anyone would thumbs down ANY of your videos. I love you guys!