Your favourite seasonal thing to buy

[debih]

What's your favourite seasonal purchase - you know, the stuff they sell in November and December and then gets put away in January for another ten months!!

Mine has to be flavoured cream. I love the thick stuff for piling on mince pies and the thin pouring cream for my coffee (which is what prompted me to post this thread - I was thinking that I will be able to have alcoholic cream in my coffee soon. ).

Babycham comes a very close second. However, they may well sell that all year round as I only look for it in December. I even have a proper Babycham glass to drink it out of now - Mick found it when he was doing some work at the Pavilion.

[JoM]

I'm not sure there's actually anything I buy that you can't get at other times of the year.
Joe has one though - those jelly orange and lemon slices that are packed in a circle He's been on at me since August to be on the lookout for those

[JoM]

BTW you mentioning Babycham reminded me that I meant to get some Cherry B last Christmas - I used to love that when I was 15 - but Tom got flu and I forgot all about it!

[tonicha]

Not looking at this one either

[debih]

I got very, very drunk on Cherry B once. It was my mums favourite tipple at Christmas (she is pretty much tea total).

I have never touched it since!

Fortunately nothing puts me off vodka, now matter how drunk it makes me.

[meriad]

hmmm.... thinking really hard here, but same as Jo, I don't think there is anything seasonal specific that I miss the rest of the year....

[Kaz]

Oooh I used to love those fruit slices Jo!!!!!! I think I'll get some

I used to buy Chocolate Brazils, only at Christmas, for my Mum as she loved them Now I thnk it's just the usual seasonal fayre - mince pies, brandy butter etc that I never buy at any other time of the year.

I was once so very very ill on Crème de Menthe one NYE that I now feel sick just at the smell of it

[meriad]

thought of something.... mulled wine!

(mine would be alcoholic, wouldn't it )

[saundra]

its the only time i buy a box of dates
i love them never think to buy them at other times

[Diflower]

Both of us discovered and loved Tia Lusso to have in a late night coffee - it's Tia Maria with cream, but they seemed to stop making it a couple of years ago, so now we get a cheapish Tia Maria imitation instead but it's not the same. We wouldn't use enough cream to be worth having it, most would get wasted.
You can get Tia Maria all year but probably not the cheaper imitations, and we wouldn't drink it all year, just the one bottle is an annual treat

And Lidl's mini buttery marzipan stollens are now an essential - and only dare buy one bag