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A Deliciously Weird Throwback — Followed by the Best Sleep of Your Life

Australian Christmas food of decades past was… well, let’s call it bold. Our nannas and aunties were out there experimenting like culinary daredevils, armed with tinned fruit, cocktail onions, and a level of confidence we can only admire from a safe distance.

🍍 Pineapple-glazed ham
It’s clear Australians in the ’60s and ’70s were in a serious relationship with canned pineapple. Put it on ham. Put it on pizza. Probably slap it on a salad for good measure. Simpler times. Stickier times.

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🍤 The prawn cocktail
It’s retro, it’s iconic, and depending on who made it, it was either chef’s kiss or a vaguely seafood-scented crime. That cocktail sauce? Scientifically engineered to be 90% mayo, 10% mystery.

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🍒 Ambrosia salad
A “salad” in the same way a pavlova is a vegetable. Marshmallows, tinned fruit, and cream — it was basically dessert pretending to be healthy. Fake news before fake news existed. I've added an SBS recipe for this intriguing 'salad', just so you can try it! I will be for sure - I'm needing to understand what this tastes like, because my imagination cannot imagine. 

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🍮 Trifle
A towering masterpiece of jelly, sponge, custard and… was that a random canned peach slice from 1983? Who knows. Every slice was a gamble, and that was part of the Christmas thrill.

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🎄 The infamous Aspic
If you were lucky enough not to encounter this: imagine your leftovers suspended in a festive meat or fruit jelly. Somehow both ahead of its time and utterly wrong. It wobbled. We pretended it was food. We survived.

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And yet — we loved it. Because retro Christmas food wasn’t about being refined… it was about being memorable. And sometimes traumatising. Mostly traumatising.

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Recovering From the Feast: Enter Your Sheets

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After surviving — sorry, enjoying — this rollercoaster of flavours and textures, there was only one guaranteed Christmas tradition: the post-lunch collapse.

And this is where your beautiful Beddie sheets quietly save the day.

Picture it: You’ve just eaten your body weight in ham, prawns, custard, and three different forms of tinned fruit. You lie down “just for a minute” on cool, soft, breathable sheets. Suddenly your eyelids weigh 400 kilos. The sheets feel like a gentle hug with no judgment. They don’t care that you just inhaled a trifle that defied physics — they simply welcome you.

Five minutes later: you’re asleep, drooling blissfully, dreaming of pavlova that doesn’t contain gelatinous surprises.

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Why Great Sheets Matter After Weird Christmas Food

• They keep you cool when your digestive system is running for office.
• They’re soft enough to distract you from the pineapple glaze still stuck on your fingers.
• They turn your “I need to lie down before I see stars” moment into pure luxury.

This Christmas: Retro Food Chaos + Modern Sleep Bliss

So go on — embrace the absurdity of vintage Aussie Christmas food. Laugh at the jelly-based war crimes. Honour the classics. Add some pineapple if you must.

And when you’ve defeated the buffet? Melt into sheets so comfortable they should probably come with a warning. Beddie - trusted by thousands of Australians for a better sleep and beautiful colours, prints and customer care.

Merry Christmas darlings!