Movie Menus: "A Christmas Story"

By: Vanessa Greaves

All Ralphie wants for Christmas is a BB gun. All he's getting is grief from the grownups. Something's gotta give.

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Favorite Quotes

Santa Claus: "You'll shoot your eye out, kid"

Mr. Parker: "Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian."
Mrs. Parker: "I think that says 'fragile' dear."

Mr. Parker: "It's a major award!"
Swede: "Shucks, I wouldn't know that. It looks like a lamp."

Ralphie as an Adult: "Aunt Clara had for years labored under the delusion that I was not only perpetually 4 years old, but also a girl."

Mr. Parker: "He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny."

Schwartz: "I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!"

Ralphie as an Adult: "The heavenly aroma still hung in the house. But it was gone, all gone! No turkey! No turkey sandwiches! No turkey salad! No turkey gravy! Turkey Hash! Turkey a la King! Or gallons of turkey soup! Gone, ALL GONE!"

Curl up on the couch, pop in the DVD, and enjoy some foods inspired by this classic Christmas movie.

Shh, the Movie's Starting

Meet Ralphie Parker, a wide-eyed 9-year-old growing up in a small Indiana town during the 1940s.

The only craving on his Christmas list is "an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time."

Meeting with a solid front of adult resistance, Ralphie turns to the fat man himself and asks Santa to bring it. Would you?

Narrated by author Jean Shepherd and starring Peter Billingsley as the increasingly desperate Ralphie, with Darren McGavin as his furnace-battling, hound-hating, sweepstakes-entering dad.

If you can quote entire passages from this movie, you'll know exactly why the following recipes are recommended eating. Otherwise, watch the DVD and keep track of the food!