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!
@@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
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 😬
"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 ?
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
'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.
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.
"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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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. 🤣
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.
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.
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.
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
you can definitely find cheaper “marrons glacés”, don’t need this wooden box for example lol. packaging or how to make people pay wayyy too much money for simple good product
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!
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... :-(
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 ❤️😂
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
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
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.
After watching about a million of these videos, I have a theory about how the boys are in bed. Oh yeah, I'm going there. Jamie is playful. James is gentle, respectful until things get going, then he throws it DOWN. Ben is a total Dom. Whips and Chains. Mike is a pleaser. Whatever you want, you get. Barry tries to bring in all sorts of new things. Not many of them are successes.
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.
I think the farther you go from your country/culture the more pretentious the traditions get. I live in Finland, if one of my Finnish friends offered me traditional French chestnuts instead of traditional Finnish christmas treats, I'd think they are a bit pretentious. If they offered, let's say, South African or Brazilian Christmas treats they'd be very pretentious but Swedish or Estonian treats I wouldn't count as pretentious, at all. Also if a French person (in Finland) offered those chestnuts to me I wouldn't count them as pretentious because it's from their culture. But this is just my opinion.
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 the traditional meat of Christmas dinners here in Germany. In fact, it's so traditional, many university cafeterias serve it right before Christmas.
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.
You should do a pretentious or not, but sub the items out for not pretentious things and see if they notice. Like the brandy chocolate cherries, give them cheap store bought chocolate cherries, but give them the whole story and box of the fancy item. See if they think things are actually fancy or not just because of a story. Maybe throw in one or two the opposite way, some like dollar store "Fancy" item that you have actually switched out with a high end item. Palette or Packaging?
I feel like this series has gone away from the 'ingredients' aspect, and more now just 'food items.' You wouldn't add any of the candies to another dish, you'd just eat them.
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!
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.
For everyone who could use a #dadjoke : This year, try Father's Hunt brand wild-harvested goose. Father's Hunt: It's dad-blasted. A very happy and merry Christmas, everyone!
@@socatwin I mean you could go and fork out 100 quid for one thats either like theirs from some small organic free range farm or already prepared from a good Restaurant and delivered or picked up with all the trimmings but as for your standard or even regular organic or free range Goose they are pretty affordable and readily available~ depending on size and quality somewhere between 25 and 50€ for a whole Goose. Or you can get Goose breast or legs separately if you don't want to roast the whole thing~ Same goes for Duck, which is usually tradition in my family on christmas day
My wife jokes about me enjoying and laughing at these vids, and says, "Oh, it's your pommy boyfriends." I like you guys and think you are great, please keep it up.
the French do it better guys hehe!! we have all kinds of fruits just like marrons glacés, you should try mandarines glacées/confites it’s very very sugary but delicious
Calling food organic is idiotic in my opinion. All food we consume, no matter how many chemicals are in, is still "organic". Instead of organic, there should be another, more suitable term.
in Germany goose is the normal Christmas meal for a family gathering. I'm gonna cook one tomorrow, even though we are only two people this year for obvious reasons! Happy holidays you all, and stay safe!
Do you guys have any plans to upgrade to 2k or 4k video any time soon? I love watching you guys on my TV and that's the only thing that could be better. Love the vids, guys
Geese is a very traditional meat from my heritage. Unfortunately I can't go back because 2020. I miss it so much I need to get myself some duck instead!
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!
that's a crazy price for goose my local grocer has goose in stock year round (don't ask me why it's the first time I've ever seen a store do that but it's true) and I think it's maybe $50 US per bird.
GOOSE!! I have never had turkey at Christmas my family always has goose bar the one year we had an argument with a 5 bird roast never again!! and every year I get told I am so posh and pretentious for my goose coz I am "too good for turkey" no Susan turkey is just crap if you want to go eat a dry piece of parchment paper and pretend you like it while I am over here with my succulent goose and free goosey fat potatoes
Absolutely could not stop laughing at the 6:20 exchange. Jamie: "Well, rather than mince pies, I thought we all might enjoy-" Mike: "Stopstopstopstopstop stop. HOW would you really say it?" Jamie: "... *As well as* mince pies-"
Marron-glacé is such a common dessert in Brazil... It's an "old lady" treat 😅 that you can find in every supermarket with the traditional sweets like goiabada and doce the leite, but in a cheaper version made with sweet potato. (It's delicious, I swear!) Or in fancy stores, the real ones, in boxes like that one you got or in jars with sugar sirup.
