Once or twice a year, the Cratchits indulge and share a goose for dinner. It’s always the most incredible mouthwatering thing any of them have ever seen, and it’s always just short of being enough, not that anyone would admit it – it takes an outsider to see it, and an outsider to change the way things are.

The day after enjoying their magnificent and unexpected Christmas turkey, Emily gifts Ebenezer with a perfectly-roasted goose, since they had bought the bird already, and he can’t stop smiling to have received such a gift.