Christmas Differences UK vs US | British Christmas Traditions | Food Edition
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Since I’ve been aware for some time that I have about a 50/50 split in the people subscribing to me.. half UK, Half North American, I thought it might be fun to go through a few of the things that I think may be different between a UK Christmas and an American one!
Some of these things are generalisations, but I think you’ll get the idea! You’ll notice too that most of the things I list as differences are good related! What can I say.. I love food 😂
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Hi, Dan! It's fun to hear about all of these different Christmas holiday traditions. And NOW, you've got me craving this orange chocolate!😂🤣
Thanks Fraidy Zone! Your life won’t be complete until you’ve tried a terrys chocolate orange.. you must try and get your hands on one! They’re amazing!!
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I have a very old cookbook that belonged to my Scottish granny. The mincemeat tart recipe was pretty much as we know it today, but actually had a bit of minced beef and suet in it along with the sultanas, vinegar etc. Also the crackers were pretty popular in Canada when I was a kid, I remember a couple of years having difficulty finding Christmas crackers. My British family were beside themselves until we found them because we could not have imagined Christmas without crackers. Still a tradition today. Also my daughter doesn't consider it Christmas without a Terry's orange. 2020 I had to have one shipped from UK at a rather exorbitant cost. Thankfully found them again here. One last thing, I'll tell you what a candied yam is, it's horrible!
Oh wow… it’s amazing to hear that so many British Christmas traditions are also alive and well in Canada! And your daughter is 100% right.. Christmas isn’t Christmas without a terrys chocolate orange.
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I think the most American tradition is that some of my family goes shooting every Christmas… but we do also have yams, which are like a sweet potato covered in butter and brown sugar and marshmallows and baked. For some reason this isn’t considered a dessert but a side dish 😂 where I live skiing and snowboarding is big for Christmas time too
They sound like pretty awesome traditions to be fair, though we definitely don’t get enough snow for skiing or snowboarding.. we’re lucky if we get a slight dusting!
I have to say, having found out what candied yams are, I can’t make my mind up if it’s something I’d want to try or not 😂.. but something tells me I’d like it.. need to get the recipe!
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The orange is like our Cadbury chocolate egg at Easter.
Thanks for explaining the cracker thing. I'm 44 and only learned about them when reading Harry Potter and I've been sort of confused about it. The movies helped, but I still wondered why it was a thing.
You’re welcome. I’m not going to lie.. they’re confusing to us too 🤣.. we have them every year.. but know one really knows why we do it or where it came from? It’s fun though.
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This is great Dan! Thank you! My great grandparents are from England, so a lot of this was familiar to me. My mom LOVES mince meat pie and fruit cake. I have to say, I've never gotten onboard. Not a huge fan of dried fruit, but that's about as British as you get! In Canada, Christmas dinner is just as big of a deal and it's on Christmas Day. We also open our presents FIRST THING Christmas morning! Terry's Chocolate oranges are common here too! I'm not sure how long they've been here, but I make sure I get some to put in stockings as everyone loves them! Whack to Unwrap! Oh and yam is just a sweet potoato! So yummy! Thank you for pointing out the differences, it's always so interesting!
Thank you T J. It’s really interesting that so many of these things I thought of as so British, you can also find in Canada!.. and yet not in the US. I suppose that must show a deeper link between our two countries in some sort of way.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting, and I hope you enjoy your terrys chocolate orange 😂👍🎄👻
Actually Dan, in America we tend to have Christmas Dinner (usually similar foods to Thanksgiving because it is a magnificent spread - Goose is hard to find here, so Duck has been substituted) on Christmas Evening.
The gift opening tends to be on Christmas morning, but when I was a kid we opened them on Christmas Eve because my parents wanted to get it out of the way.
I haven't had Mince Meat Pie in years - I would just assume I have a great Pecan Pie.
Christmas Crackers are something America needs to embrace.
I bought Santa Claus's cookies already (I do it out of respect, not out of expectation) .
Yams are Sweet Potatoes.
Wow! Thanks Gareth! A lot of great answers there. I don’t know where I got this idea that you do Christmas dinner on Xmas eve? But in fairness it’s generally tradition in the UK that although we call it Christmas dinner, it more accurately is called Christmas lunch, as most families (including ours) will eat any time between 12 noon and at latest around 3pm. One of many reasons for this is that the Queen always gave her Christmas speech at 3.10pm and it seems somehow disrespectful to be stuffing your face while the queen is trying to talk to you. Going to be weird this year with Charles!
I couldn’t have a Christmas without mince pies… and at last I know what a yam is! Sweet potato! But what makes it a candied yam? More questions 😂😂
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@@HalloweenDan You probably got the idea of Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve from movies like Christmas Vacation, get the Dinner Scene out of the way so you can move on to the next scene.
Candied Yams are Cooked, Cut, and served in a tasty Syrup, Sweet Potatoes, are great alone but they also make for Sweet Potato Pie, which actually tastes almost identical to Pumpkin Pie.
Those candied yams sound pretty delicious actually.. might have to get a recipe and try them for myself 👍🎄👻
We had the tubs of those tasteless butter cookies in Chicago in the 70’s. Again most of us were Irish, close enough to England…
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We all know cause of Harry Potter. Sounds fun. The advent calendar and Christmas Eve box is what is weird. I mean we had advent calendars. I came from a fairly Irish neighborhood and sadly some things similar. They were cheap and the chocolate tasted terrible. Why do you have so much excitement to the lead up to Christmas? It’s already exciting.
Leave it to my brother from another to make me stark raving hungry this morning🤦🏿♂️. The really cool thing about America is that there is such a mix of cultures that make up the U.S that from state to state city to city there a bunch of different traditions and foods, my family for instance is a mix of Caucasian, Latino, African American, Greek and if I include family friends now we are talking Arabic, Indian, Asian so our foods and traditions can include a mix of all of the above, it's a foodies dream. Happy Holidays to you and Fam my friend.
Wow! That’s quite a mix there.. it sounds like food heaven! I bet there’s some amazing meals being cooked up in your household.
Sorry for making you hungry.. but if you can get your hands on one of those chocolate oranges, do so my friend… you’ll love it. Plus.. pigs in blankets.. get those little sausages wrapped in bacon!! You can’t go wrong.
Thanks for watching and commenting as always brother. 👻🎄
@HalloweenDanDcaff12 the pigs in the blanket is what got me drooling lol. We get those oranges in the states from time to time, for a while it was all the rage but you know how fickle us Americans are lol
😂😂.. fickle, fickle, fickle. I suppose you have to grow up with them to fully appreciate them😂.
But pigs in blankets with bacon.. it’s a taste sensation.. you’ve got to try it man!
Great Video
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@@HalloweenDan Your Welcome ❤️
Nice video!!!
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Santa exempt from DUI laws over there? LOL. Sorry. I’m sure your parents didn’t drive in the middle of the night.