Christmas lunch already ruined after Grandma forgets to start cooking sprouts before end November

A Rochdale family has had to cancel Christmas this year after Grandma admitted that she had forgotten to start cooking the sprouts in November.

Pamela Dickinson from Heyworth made the revelation during a family day out to Aldi on Saturday afternoon.

Sprout fan and former son Steve Dickinson said: “Mum told us all that she had completely forgotten to put the sprouts on before the 15^th of November.”

“Even if she had remembered to put them on to boil on the 15^th of November that would have given them barely six weeks to cook.”

“We can’t have Christmas without Christmas lunch and we can’t have Christmas lunch with raw sprouts. That would be unhygienic. As a family we’ve just decided to call the whole thing off.”

“I’ve no idea how Mum could have forgotten to put the sprouts on to boil, everybody knows they go on the hob the same day the turkey goes in the oven.”

“She’s either thoughtless or she needs a scan. Either way she’s going in a home after this.”