I really like the idea of the 13 desserts of Christmas. That could easily fit into my family. When I was still young, we once had a very bad year and couldn't afford much food at all. My mother was able to buy the ingredients to make chilli con carne (made with packet seasoning), since the only really costly thing was the meat for it. We really enjoyed it and thought a lot about the real meaning of Christmas and money and all of that. We decided to eat it every Christmas, since it was something we all enjoyed and something that made us remember times when we had very little. There have been some very lean years here and there, and it was nice to be able to fix our dinner, without having to worry about the money.
In Poland we have a real feast! We're eating 12 different dishes on Christmas Eve and no meat that day. Dumplings, cabbage, mushrooms and fish are serving and of course poppy seed cake and gingerbread for the dessert. For the next two days we are eating the leftovers, ham, different salads with mayonnaise (for example: boiled vegetables diced, mixed with corn, green peas, boiled eggs, onion and pickled cucumber, covered with mayonnaise. Yummy!).
+ThePukStuk OHH that sounds so yummy...That one salad you mentioned (different salads with mayonnaise (for example: boiled vegetables diced, mixed with corn, green peas, boiled eggs, onion and pickled cucumber, covered with mayonnaise) is called Insalada Rusa (Russian Salad) in Latin American countries or OLIVIER SALAD. It is made all over the world.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad
In the Dominican Republic the main fest is eaten on Christmas eve. We usually have Roast pork, potato salad, lasagna, chrisms rice, quipes, empanadas, chicken, eggplant casserole, green salad, mature plantains casserole, pastel en hoja, casabe, bread, and in the end we usually have fruit like apple and grapes. On Christmas Day the family gathers together again to eat the leftovers for lunch.
Actually, Vittel Toné is part of the entrée (or however it is writen...). We usually get "Asado", grilled cow meat, chicken, pork... and whatever you can put on it... ANd for desert we have lots of sweets and fruit salad... I am from Argentina and feel quite honored that you picked us!! Thank you and Feliz Navidad!!!
+Hernán Guerrero In Italy too it is often eaten as an entrée. But in its region of origin, Piedmont, it's a second course dish. I was surprised she said that the sauce isn't for everyone's tastes. I don't think of it as weird, it's tuna and mayo, some pretty common ingredients all over the world... It's not like eel or tripes
It might be worth noting that in Japan, Christmas is not a family holiday, but rather a romantic holiday, much like Valentine's day. The KFC is consumed by couples from all ranks and classes, but seldom by families.
Valeria Del Rio-Rodriguez It was never a religious holiday for them, although some do celebrate the religious aspect. Japan has like three romantic holidays including Christmas.
Milton R. Oquendo Because they were smart enough to market in Japan in the 70s when everything was really starting to pick back up. the concept stuck around
I am a Dutch Canadian and my mom's family always makes Oliebollen for Christmas and new years. It’s basically raisin bread that has been deep fried until golden brown and rolled in powder sugar. For my work mates I’ll make some with apples and cinnamon and leave the raisins for my family.
Me too ✨ I always wished they'd show us some foreign countries during Christmas specials in Doctor Who haha Love your TARDIS profile pic! ☀️ (Also, not me watching this video in August, just time traveling! 🙈)
in Brazil we usually roast turkey (only time when we eat it) which can be stuffed with yucca flour and some dried fruit or decorayed with some fruit. side dishes are potato salad w Mayo , Rice, farofa (cassava flour cooked with spices, bacon and onion or bananas instead), some families cook codfish w potatoes and Black olives (as in Portugal). we also have panetone (italy) or its variation w chocolate chips instead (chocotone) pavê(sort of a trifle), milk pudding, fruit salad (Summer) and ice cream table full of nuts, dried fruit, chestnuts, and a basket full of fruit to bring richness home.
My family and I ALWAYS have seafood on Christmas Eve.We start with deep fried oysters as an appetizer,followed by New England clam chowder and popcorn shrimp and a main course of batter fried polluck fish....YUM!I cant wait.Then a traditional Christmas turkey on Christmas Day.Cheers and Merry Christmas Anglophenia.Love your videos,keep up the good work.Brett from Jamaica,Iowa
brussel sprouts are incredibly easy to ruin, by simply boiling them in salt water :D here's a redeeming preparation, a humble but delicious farmhouse winter dish: clean the sprouts, cut them in half, and nicely brown them in a hot pan with a bit of fat. add some really smokey raw ham (black forest style works great) a little garlic, some water (optionally a splash white wine or beer) and a hearty scoop of heavy sour cream. season to taste, cover, and simmer on low heat, until the brussel sprouts are still a just tad al dente. serve with boiled potato wedges and top with a bit of browned butter and chopped chives or parsley. incredibly tasty and filling.
Cuda FX for me they have to be steamed then roasted. I'm kinda the same way with broccoli, it has to be steamed then it can be roasted. I don't like the texture of non-steamed or boiled broccoli.
Dude, you added bacon fat, butter, garlic, beer/wine, ham and sour cream. Of course it's yummy! Jeez, you could add that to cat turds and it would be yummy. LOL.
My family does turkey for Thanksgiving AND Christmas. I really don't like turkey. I used to beg for something else, but no, my mum will not budge. So I usually just skip it and load my plate with side dishes. When I'm on my own at the holiday, I make a ham slice with apricot jam, and last year I made Yorkshire puds for the first time ever. They turned out great. :) Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it! :D
I'm from the US (Texas to be exact). I like your videos alot! Turkey and dressing, glazed ham, cranberry sauce, potatoes of some sort, green bean casserole, giblet gravy and dinner rolls is what going to grace our table. Not to mention the pies! pecan, chocolate (with calf slobber), lemon merengue, pumpkin and coconut! I love the Holidays. The three F's "Family, friends and FOOD!!!" .
We are 2students from northern Italy, near the border with Slovenia/Austria. In our city "Trieste" many people celebrate both on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Usually during the Christmas Eve we eat fish like cod fish, shrimps, calamari, salmon, past with shell fish and many dessert like putizza and presnitz and a lot of drinks (grappa and wine) and on Christmas Day lunch we usually eat tortellini broth, roasted meat with potatoes and vegetables. For dessert we have Pandora/panettone which are traditional sweets from Italy.
and Canada, though close to the US does things a bit differently. along with the mince tart is the butter tart, the nanaimo bar and every variation of short bread. we happily co opt cookies from all cultures. we observed the other the night that at least on the west coast we also have the Mclaren picked onion, gherkin and olive (usually the stuffed green but also the black) relish tray. in fact most of us of a certain age have a pinwheel crystal divided relish dish specifically for the onion, pickle and love component of the holiday buffet
+katee bee I'm from New England. We do "relish trays" like those you mentioned as well. Yum. I also lived in Canada (Ottawa) and love the Nanaimo bars. There are differences, but a lot more similarities. One thing no one has mentioned - apart from me - is the tourtiere from Quebec. My mom's family came from Quebec and we always had tourtiere on Christmas Eve.
+Leeroy Jenkins -- Canadians eat moose steaks smothered in maple syrup on Christmas, followed by Secord candies (which are named after the particularly vicious anti-American, Laura Secord). All is washed down with copious amounts of fortified Canadian beer---until, inevitably, the Mounties arrive to break the whole mess up. 😁
That was very educational. I'm german and I've never heard of any of our traditions. :D They seemed to pass by the last 18 years of my and the last 52 years of my father's life.
+fran flubbercrack Same^^ we always eat potato salad each christmas eve (which is typical as well isn't it?) - generally we have our own little traditions:)
Hermione Baggins We eat fish but I guess that's my mother's polish influence. I just know everyone else in this country doesn't do/believe/eat/whatever anything that she pointed out. And that's ok. I don't want to be rude. I guess there are a few people who are doing this but I personally wouldn't generalise it.
real christmas dinner in france : foie gras, oyster, capon or turkey or goose or lobster or comfit duck leg or stuffed fish + vegetables, trou normand (apple sorbet + calvados), cheese platter + green salad, yule log, 13 desserts (hazelnut, walnut, dry fig, dry grape, almond, fougasse (flat bread), white nougat, black nougat, date, calisson, white grape, clementine or orange or mandarin, fruit jelly)
+nanoo gatine Depends where you come from. In my family (South West), it's foie gras +figs jam/quince jam, sometimes oysters, turkey filled with stuffing and chesnuts with roasted potatoes. Then the desert is a bûche de Noël, sometimes with merveilles or one croustade. For the bread, it's fougasse also, but not the same kind as in South East. And for the beverages, we drink wines of Champagne, Pacherenc and Madiran. Anyway, it's definitely much more than the poultry only as showed in the video ! (and I wouldn't mind to try what you showed : it looks good !)
+nanoo gatine Oh man!! Now THAT'S a feast! And it's to the gym the day after I suppose though most French people I've met as quite skinny so I imagine it's the time to replenish their reserves. lol
Christmas Dinner in California -Turkey or Ham or Roast Beast (Roast Beast is roast beef, but is referred to as Roast Beast on Christmas because of _The Grinch That Stole Christmas_.) -Tamales! -Cranberry sauce from a can that comes out a glistening red cylinder and is sliced into rounds -Giblet gravy -Sweet potato casserole with browned marshmallow topping -Baby lima beans, drowning in butter -(S)mashed potatoes -Cornbread stuffing with sage pork sausage & pecans -Black olives packed in brine -Fizzy apple juice: Martinelli's -Whipped cream in a dispenser can which you sneak from the fridge and squirt directly into your and your siblings' mouths. Then there's none left for the pies, so a tub of frozen 'whipped topping' is substituted. -A box of See's Candies -Whole nuts. Before the rise of salty chips, orange puffs and other junk snacks, there would be a tray of whole raw nuts to crack & snack on throughout the obligatory TV football portion of the day. Must include walnuts, pecans, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts/filberts and NO peanuts. -Brussels sprouts, boiled to death and drowning in butter. -Green bean & bacon casserole with crunchy fried onions on top -Egg nog with Southern Comfort Then TV is watched: the Santa Claus Lane Parade, football, _It's a Wonderful Life_, and more recently, the all-day broadcast of a yule log burning in a fireplace, _Children of Men_ and/or _Life of Brian_. Merry Christmas, everybody!
+GildaLee27 Yes! It is absolutely not Christmas without a box of See's, black olives on my fingers like a martian and my grandfather cracking walnuts in the living room. :)
My dad is from England and mother is from central america, so we make ticucos, beans, tortillas, mince meat pies, potatoes, tostones and rice for dinner, and a trifle or figgy pudding or marquesote for dessert.
Polish traditions are intresting also, main dish is fish :) and we have 3 days celebration starting from 24 of december when we have big dinner and after that we open our gifts from baby jesus/star/ father snow etc depending on the region :)
In the southern United States, we eat Chicken 'n Dressin. In my home town, it is made from crumbled up cornbread, shredded chicken, chicken stock, and cream of chicken soup. Some put the traditional seasonings in the dressing, but my mom and I use seasoned croutons. After everything is soaked through with the stock, it is put in a baking dish and baked until golden brown on the top, then served with cranberry sause. Yum!
In Norway, they either have pork belly (eastern Norway) or dried and salted sheep's ribs (western Norway. The sheep's ribs are delicious, even my American hubby agrees! I'm hoping to be able to purchase some for next Christmas :) They're a bit pricey here in the US at $20/lb. It's traditionally served with boiled potatoes and mashed swede, not the people, but the root veg. And served with a side of gravy and melted butter.
In the north of Portugal dinner is on the 24 it usually starts with kale soup ( caldo Verde) and or octopus salad, for the main dish we have coad boiled with potato, kale, carrot, onion, rapini, etc and for desert we will serve our self's from a table filled with desserts and dried fruit and nuts, this table tends to stay for a few days .
I'm from the US south, Kentucky, in fact and we usually have Brown Sugar Baked Ham, hashbrown casserole, green beans, broccoli casserole and Parker House rolls. For dessert, we usually have Candy Cane Red Velvet Cake. There are usually bowls of mixed nuts and Check Mix and trays of fresh fruit with a marshmallow pineapple dip and a fresh veggie tray with either French onion dip or ranch dip for folks to snack on while the main meal is being cooked.
In my family, we have a big ole Southern brunch instead of Christmas dinner. We have biscuits and gravy, fried taters, bacon, and pancakes. Much better that dinner if you ask me!
I'm from the U.S., and in my house it went like this - Christmas Eve, it would be something small and not over the top. Meatloaf, soup and sandwiches, such like that. I got to open ONE gift Chrisymas Eve, which was always my Christmas pajamas. Christmas day was when all the major festivities went down. The stockings, opening up all the gifts, pancakes and the orange from my stocking for breakfast. We would then clean up, and start dinner. Christmas DAY dinner was the big event. That one was chicken or turkey, mashed or baked potatoes, various veggies, salad, bread, and apple or pumpkin pie for dessert.
In Spain we also dinner on Christmas Eve as in Francés, and we have cod or lamb, and our traditional "gulas" (imitation elvers) and as dessert: our "turrón"(nougat candy) and the famous " polvorones"(type of light, crumbly shortbread). Thank you for include Spain, I know you americans and british love us(notice the irony). Nevertheless, Merry Christmas to you all.
+Luis Antonio De Alcazar Gomez I love Spain because of my beloved exchange student brother from Cordoba and because my ancestry is from there and I have traveled to Spain. I miss it alot...Turron is the bomb! (the men too...:))
Love this! I love learning about different traditions. As an American, you're right, we have eaten way more than our share at Thanksgiving (can't wait for it tomorrow!). I love having ham for dinner on Christmas Day!
+J-Me Not weird at all. My family made that second casserole, too, although with ham. And my mom was a bit... skinflint on the ingredients, so ours had Wonder Bread in it. XD That casserole was probably the most important thing I learned from my parents, since it's my staple food now. And, ah, with homemade bread now. lol
I recently lived in South Korea for 5 years where Christmas day is an official holiday. However I was surprised to find that most people celebrate by going out with their significant other to a nice restaurant, or celebrating with friends. Everyone eats out. It's New Year's eve that they celebrate with family.
In Venezuela the center of attention are the Hallacas (A-Yaw-Kaws) which are like a tamale. Its usually made of chicken, beef, pork or fish mixed with capers, raisins and olives wrapped in cornmeal dough which is wrap in banana leaves and tied with string to later we boiled. This is served with a side of Pan de Jamón or Ham Bread which has of course, ham, raisins, capers and olives. We have this meal on Christmas Eve, but we like this type of food so much that we actually start eating them early in December until you run out around mid January.
Japan also enjoys a traditional winter dish called "oden" around Christmas time. This dish is composed of fish sausage known as "kamoboko," kelp, lotus root, potato balls, sausage links as well as any other vegetables one wants. It is all boiled together in broth overnight and then keeps for at least a week in the refrigerator. It is usually server with larger groups of people such as family or church gatherings.
Actually, in northern Germany there is a common tradition of having "Kartoffelsalat mit Würstchen" so potato salad with wieners for christmas eve (by the way, we get our presents on christmas eve aswell!). The real feast would thus be on the 25th. :)
Here in the Philippines we have our Simbang Gabi (Midnight Mass, although it's usually at 4AM rather than 12MN) for nine days leading up to Christmas. During those Simbang Gabi, outside the church are stalls that sell Puto Bumbong (which I think is steamed glutinous rice? That you can top off with coconut shards and mascuvado sugar) and Bibingka (which is rice cake) with butter and cheese on top. Eat it with hot choco. Usually Filipinos "meet" Christmas by celebrating on the 24th nearing midnight. In our family, we eat at exactly 12MN. Our feast (which is not much because we had dinner already) is usually Kakanin. Kakanin are food made of rice/corn that are more under the category of "dessert", I guess. Examples are Maja Blanca (made from cornstarch, coconut milk, and sugar; also called Coconut Pudding in some non-Filipino places), Kutsinta (another rice cake, but looks an awful lot different from Bibingka), Sapin-Sapin (which I think is glutinous rice flour), and a lot more! :-)
We eat hallacas in Venezuela. They are cornmeal dough with pieces of chicken or meat, raisins, olives, and other vegetables inside, wrapped in plantain leaves. What is inside of them varies, but that's essentially it. They are very good
In Trinidad and Tobago we have pastelles ( corn meal pies with minced beef or chicken, raisins and seasoning stuffed in the centre). They are wrapped in foil paper weeks before Christmas and put to freeze then steamed in a pot and served. Ordering and selling pastelles is a big Trini tradition.
My family and I are from the US, we usually has green bean casserole, candied yams, bread stuffing, ham, and pie for our Christmas feast. We also have a delicious breakfast after opening gifts that includes French toast, maple syrup, eggs, and bacon. We have candy in between meals.
What??? No Philippines?? Filipinos are like the biggest Christmas fans, even though it's a tropical country and no snow.. Christmastime is when most alumni gatherings and family reunions are held. Christmas dinners are never complete without the "lechon" or roasted piglet, fruit salad, mango float, leche flan, espasol, etc.
***** indeed, although some you mentioned are some general party foods. but yeah, fruit salad with cream, then lechon, then mango floatt, then honey glazed ham and queso de bola, plus imported grapes and apple, and the filipino espasol and puto. yeah. Filipino anglophenia fans
+Nath Anter. What the hell has snow got to do with Christmas? The vast majority of Christians live in climates where it does not snow at Christmas either because their winters are mild e.g. Southern Europe or it is actually Summer Eg South America, Southern Africa, Australia, NZ. Your concept of snow at Xmas is very Euro/North American centric. I grew up in Australia and for me Xmas is about lovely sunny days and balmy summer evenings (and when I was very little seeing the sun rise over eucalyptus covered hills). A lot of the idea of white Christmases in England (tho not Scotland) are based on Dickens writing his stories and the unusually cold winters he experienced as a child. It is unusual for it to snow in southern England at Xmas. Finally, although I think it can snow in parts of the Middle East, the traditional story of Jesus's birth means it was probably not winter, and there was definitely no snow. Shepherds did not take their flocks out in snow. I am happy that you like the idea of snow at Xmas, but it is not thankfully how most Christians experience Xmas. I really wish people who live in the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere would stop conflating Xmas and snow.
in hungary we eat fish soup at the day before christmas, and at christmas day there is a several dishes like: chicken or pork soup, stuffed cabbage, fried and/or roast meats (usually chicken and pork), with salad, rice and potato (mashed or roast), for dessert 3-5 different sweets, but you can find bagel (filled with poppisead or chestnut) That means usually 4-5 coars without the dessert
Still don't understand why Portugal is left out of this list. Specially since it has a very strong relationship with the U.K. (one of the oldest and still existing alliances in the world) and very good Christmas food. Hopefully it will be addressed in a future video. Good video though.
+Nuno Gomes I loved my first Christmas in Portugal - bacalhau de consoada, polvo, estufado de lulas, filhoses & rabanadas, arroz doce, bolo rei & rainha...the list goes on. Such festive people - Portugal is probably one of the most 'Christmas crazy' places I've ever lived, and I hope it continues to be a family holiday here and not sell out to the mass market 'traditions' of the rest of the developed world.
I'll be having roasted turkey, glazed ham, mac n cheese, fruit salad, mashed taters, the most amazing dressing, sweet potato casserole, pecan pie, half of which will be smothered in giblet gravy. Yum.
In Georgia (USA) where I grew up, Christmas morning was filled with the aroma of yeast biscuits and ham in the oven. The first thing my mother would do in the morning before anyone woke up was to make the biscuits, which filled the air with the aroma of sweet yeast dough rising. The ham that had been cooking overnight was meant for the largest meal that day, lunch.
In Denmark we have a wonderful dessert called "Risalamande" and it´s made out of rice pudding mixed with whipped cream, vanilla, and chopped almonds; and is usually served cold with a cherry sauce. In one of the bowls there´s a whole almond and if you find that, you get a present. Also, in december there a lot of christmas lunches(an excuse to get the whole family together or most work places does it too and get people in the christmas mood) we eat mostly herring and drink a lot of SNAPS We even start celebrating christmas before december! Every year, on the first Friday in November, Tuborg releases its new Christmas beer. Called 'Julebryg' in Danish and this day is called J-day, so most people go out and drink beer that day.
I love mince pies. Around my house we never actually stuff the bird with stuffing its always a side dish, and since my family is mostly Swedish on my mom's side we make our own korv for the holidays, which is a bland Swedish sausage flavored mostly with allspice, and served with a mild horseradish sauce for dipping. We also always have mashed turnips.
i'm from italy, and i want to let you know that, the traditional Christmas lunch, changes depending of the region where you live,sometimes on the city where you live. Normally whe have pasta and then meat, then sweets, a lot...starting with TORRONE a tipical italian christmas sweet, made of almonds, honey, sugar, egg whites. Then not only panettone but also Pandoro is eated.
For my American family and friends the big meal is a buffet on Christmas Eve when we get together and exchange gifts. The food is basic - Ring Bologna,kielbasa, assorted cheeses, raw vegetables, chips, pretzels and an assortment of dips.Also something called gehachtes which is raw fresh ground lean beef that has been seasoned and served with chopped onions on rye bread.Home baked sweets and coffee afterward !
My family is from America and we have a big split between ham and turkey finally mom has given in and just makes both for Christmas and thanksgiving, a win for all of us!
In the Philippines, we feast on spaghetti, sweet ham and a ball of cheese (quezo de bola) usually served with a loaf of bread. On Christmas Eve, we celebrate Midnight Mass, and the Christmas feast is celebrated right after the Mass on the first hours of Christmas Day.
+absentmindedprof If I can find them in New Mexico, then you can find them there. We have an International store and the tiny British section has them. Failing that, order them online. So worth it. Don't forget the double cream. Mmmm.
+absentmindedprof I, too, love mincemeat pie. Most people nowadays consider these a fruit pie, rather than a meat pie, but originally it was made with meat. My family has, for many generations, used the same recipe which is filled with meat, and fruit, and booze. It is so good! You make it, months ahead of time, store it in a tin, wrapped in whiskey or brandy soaked cheesecloth. Then you periodically refresh the alcohol on the cloth. It isn't difficult to make, just time-consuming in the sense that you have to let it sit and cure for so long. But it is so worth it! Find yourself a recipe with meat and suet, and enjoy it as it was originally intended.
In Switzerland many people eat raclette, which is grilled cheese with many side dishes. It's one of those dishes you usually don't make for only a few people, so family gatherings on christmas are perfect for this dish :)
+Jacob Kroon What do you eat for christmas? What is the traditional christmas food in the netherlands? I know we eat "kerststol" like the germans do but I don't think dutch christmas dinner is the same as the german one. When I lived at home with my parents we used to do "gourmet" as is "gourmetten'. I hated that. I loved it when my mother made stewed rabbit with prune sauce and I know that is a popular christmas dish but it's also not as widespread.
ART KNOWN "the World Cup where England suck each and every time" England have won the world cup, and usually reach the quarter finals. "who cares about tiny Europe and its little European cup" Everyone who's into football cares, it's the most prestigious continental cup. You're clueless.
I come from a British/French family so we have -melon -soup -shellfish -French types of sausage that I can't spell All for starter Then several birds (pheasant, guni fowl and goose being common) - but never turkey or chicken (too boring) and so much other food it'd take an essay to write. It often takes most of the afternoon then into the night to eat. We also have florentines all day and Gingerbread on Christmas Eve- which we have a pre-Christmas meal on
try buñuelos from Mexico, it's a thin piece of flour dough deep fried in a sweet glaze and covered in powdered sugar then accompanied with atolle or champurrado.
In my house, we traditionally have birthday cake on Boxing Day. But I think that has more to do with the fact that Boxing Day is my birthday than anything else...
Eastern Canada (especially the francophones): lobster, bacon wrapped scallops, shrimp, cheese, cured sausage, and champagne on Christmas Eve! :) Or maybe that's just my family? It's delicious either way. Most other dinners involve a turkey, stuffing, potatoes, some sort of vegetable, and lots and lots of sugar cookies. We don't have a traditional dessert, but the cookies are fantastic.
Czechs have christmas dish on Christmas Day (Štědrý den). We usually eat pea soup (or fish soup), sauerkraut (mostly in Silesian region), fried carp with potato salad and christmas candies, fruits and nuts like a dessert. Happy Christmas (Veselé Vánoce)
In Venezuela we have Christmas dinner on 24th, we eat hallacas (the main course of the night it's a yellow corn dough fill with a stew made of pig, hen and meat, and raisins, capers, olives, onion, peppers, pickles, almonds; everything it's wrap in plantain leaves and boil) , ensalada de gallina (it's a olivier salad with hen), pan de jamon (a roll bread fill with han, raisins and olives), pig leg (it's done in the oven and serve with gravy) and for desert we have torta negra (a spice cake with dry fruits), dulce de lechoza (papaya in syrup) and in some houses (like mine) we hace panettone and pandoro
Here in Norway the traditional festive meal is served on Christmas Eve and consists of pinnekjøtt ( translates roughly to "stick meat") potatoes and swede. The meat is smoked and salted lamb cutlets steamed for several hours. Best eaten piping hot otherwise the lamb fat starts to congeal on your plate. The Christmas Day meal is usually fresh cod but could be belly pork, Christmas sausage or lutefisk ( cod that been preserved in lye, yes lye, since the previous September). Some Norwegians have discovered turkey and they eat that on New Years Day. God Yule!
we are from Trieste. F on Christmas Eve we use to eat starter with toasts with butter and salmon or creamed dry codfish, then fisherman style risotto, boiled fish and many kinds of dessert and cakes (we prefer Presnitz or Torrone). On Christmas day we use broth with tortellini, roast meat and vegetables; we end the lunch eating Panettone and dry fruit& nuts! We always drink wine and spumante.
In Lebanon the cities with high Christians populations do a ton of Christmas decorating. There are alot of lights around the palm trees. We also tend to have our dinner on Christmas eve (atleast my family and relatives did) after we went to mass. Our dinner would usually be with fish and fish dishes. We also make meghleh which is a dessert traditionally made when a new baby is born. Also some people fast the few weeks before christmas and we make a bush de noel (yule log cake) thats decorated with christmasy things. It differs a bit from towns and from families but thats it!
Seafood has also become popular at Christmas in Australia, with prawns (shrimp in some other countries) as a frequent feature, even with news broadcasts commentating on prawn stocks at the markets.
I'm Canadian and we have our main dinner on Christmas day. In our home we have turkey, potatoes, stuffing, carrots, sweet potatoes, turnips and fruit cake for dessert.
In finland we celebrate christmas in 24th day. We eat huge christmas dinner. Ham, potato, carrot casserole, potato casserole, rutabaga casserole, traditional finnish food "karjalanpaisti" (karelian hot pot), gravlax, liver paste (my favourite), gingerbread, chocolate. These are my family's christmas dinner some finn family maybe have something else, but ham and casseroles are most popular here. Santa visits here in christmas eve.
In Brazil we begin to celebrate on christmas eve. Some, before midnight have a supper with parents, relatives, friends etc. People usually wear a new and formal clothes (for english people those clothes look casual). Even in hot nights! There's a lot of food! The traditional christmas eve supper consist: roasted shank (porky), shredded cod, roasted turkey, chester (a poor chicken full of hormones) or a simple roasted chicken! Rice with raisins, farofa (cassava flour fried with butter, small pieces of bacon, raisins, and others ingredients), mayonnaise salad (carrots, corn n greans, peas, potatoes, some put eggs) or salpicão (kind of mayonnaise salad, but with pieces of smoked chicken, pineapple and apples, some put raisins...😂). Tropical fruits, dried fruits, nuts, candied fruits, rabanada (kind of french toasts), manjar (kind of pudding-flan made of coconut), milk pudding (kind of pudding-flan made of condensed milk), decorated cake (some prefer naked cake), at least who types of ice cream, pavê (a kind of trifle made of lady finger cookies, pieces of strawberry and chocolate cream), PANETONE, chestnuts (here we call them portuguese chestnuts and they are not roasted, they are cooked) , wine, beer (usually lager), malzbier, cold cider, prosecco or lambrusco, several kinds of soda... after this some watch rooster's or shepperd mass - it begins at midnight. Roasted Vegetables and mincemeats are not common in Brazil. In my house we also make mincemeats (dried fruits pie) and christmas pudding... however it's hard to find 'suet' here... impossible!
I'm from the southern United States and we always eat a turkey with our Thanksgiving dinner and a ham with our Christmas dinner. It depends on the family though because some people have turkey or both at Christmas. We also have green beans, corn, sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing, cranberry sauce etc. And for dessert Pumpkin Pie and a second pie which sometimes is a Pecan Pie!!! Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!
My family always does turkey for thanksgiving, the picture-perfect Thanksgiving dinner with pumpkin pie, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. For Christmas, we always cook a large lamb roast and it is delicious.
So, here in New Mexico, USA we have posole (pronounced: po so ley). Not my fav, but it is popular. We also put New Mexico Red or Green Chile on almost everything. We have a green chile brittle - yum!! If you never heard of it, look it up and maybe order some. In Albuquerque we have a two famous candy places - The Candy Lady in Old Town and Buffett's Candies. They are both great.
NZ: when the family is at my place, we do a big barbeque at lunchtime on the 25th and probably a walk to the beach. Down at the beach, there'll be a crowd having the day there with barbeques, picnics, sports gear including volleyball nets and a bit of swimming. We still have songs about snow and sleighs though - what can ya do?
When I was a kid, my mom got tired of making what was basically a second Thanksgiving dinner for Christmas. I suggested we do 4th of July for Christmas, since "Christmas in July" is a thing... for some reason. My dad grills steak and chicken, and mom makes deviled eggs, baked beans, potato salad, greens, jell-o salad, and corn bread. Christmas cookies for dessert. We love it!
I'm American born, but my family traditions are Polish. Most Catholics don't eat meat on Xmas Eve and neither does my family. We usually have Sauerkraut or Sweet Farmer's Cheese pierogi, along with a mushroom borscht and fried fish. Being Marylanders, we also incorporate beer-steamed Old Bay Shrimp and sometimes even a Blue Crab Dip. Xmas day, we usually get rye bread and have a plotsek (Polish coffee cake) with Polish sausage.
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I really like the idea of the 13 desserts of Christmas. That could easily fit into my family.
When I was still young, we once had a very bad year and couldn't afford much food at all. My mother was able to buy the ingredients to make chilli con carne (made with packet seasoning), since the only really costly thing was the meat for it. We really enjoyed it and thought a lot about the real meaning of Christmas and money and all of that. We decided to eat it every Christmas, since it was something we all enjoyed and something that made us remember times when we had very little. There have been some very lean years here and there, and it was nice to be able to fix our dinner, without having to worry about the money.
What a beautiful family tradition. Merry Christmas.
In Poland we have a real feast! We're eating 12 different dishes on Christmas Eve and no meat that day. Dumplings, cabbage, mushrooms and fish are serving and of course poppy seed cake and gingerbread for the dessert. For the next two days we are eating the leftovers, ham, different salads with mayonnaise (for example: boiled vegetables diced, mixed with corn, green peas, boiled eggs, onion and pickled cucumber, covered with mayonnaise. Yummy!).
You're making me hungry!👌
+ThePukStuk You're lucky to be able to eat poppy seeds and not have to worry about being drug tested at work as can happen in the US.
I love how in this sort of video you can learn so much about other countries' cultures. Thank you for sharing! :-)
+ThePukStuk Oooh, I have a friend in Poland. I should visit her at Christmas sometime!!!
+ThePukStuk OHH that sounds so yummy...That one salad you mentioned (different salads with mayonnaise (for example: boiled vegetables diced, mixed with corn, green peas, boiled eggs, onion and pickled cucumber, covered with mayonnaise) is called Insalada Rusa (Russian Salad) in Latin American countries or OLIVIER SALAD. It is made all over the world.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad
In the Dominican Republic the main fest is eaten on Christmas eve. We usually have Roast pork, potato salad, lasagna, chrisms rice, quipes, empanadas, chicken, eggplant casserole, green salad, mature plantains casserole, pastel en hoja, casabe, bread, and in the end we usually have fruit like apple and grapes.
On Christmas Day the family gathers together again to eat the leftovers for lunch.
+Kawanna Pena Cepeda That sounds delicious!
+Kawanna Pena Cepeda
Sounds great
Actually, Vittel Toné is part of the entrée (or however it is writen...). We usually get "Asado", grilled cow meat, chicken, pork... and whatever you can put on it... ANd for desert we have lots of sweets and fruit salad... I am from Argentina and feel quite honored that you picked us!! Thank you and Feliz Navidad!!!
+Hernán Guerrero In Italy too it is often eaten as an entrée. But in its region of origin, Piedmont, it's a second course dish. I was surprised she said that the sauce isn't for everyone's tastes. I don't think of it as weird, it's tuna and mayo, some pretty common ingredients all over the world... It's not like eel or tripes
It might be worth noting that in Japan, Christmas is not a family holiday, but rather a romantic holiday, much like Valentine's day. The KFC is consumed by couples from all ranks and classes, but seldom by families.
The other John Smith Why KFC though?
Christmas is their valentines??? How do u make a religious holiday to one of love?
Valeria Del Rio-Rodriguez It was never a religious holiday for them, although some do celebrate the religious aspect.
Japan has like three romantic holidays including Christmas.
Milton R. Oquendo Because they were smart enough to market in Japan in the 70s when everything was really starting to pick back up. the concept stuck around
Don't they also have crucified Santas as decorations? I think I saw that on a documentary about Japan many years back.
I am a Dutch Canadian and my mom's family always makes Oliebollen for Christmas and new years. It’s basically raisin bread that has been deep fried until golden brown and rolled in powder sugar. For my work mates I’ll make some with apples and cinnamon and leave the raisins for my family.
I'm not religious. But I still find it amazing how different places celebrate the birth of Christ, in so many different ways. :)
Me too ✨ I always wished they'd show us some foreign countries during Christmas specials in Doctor Who haha Love your TARDIS profile pic! ☀️ (Also, not me watching this video in August, just time traveling! 🙈)
in Brazil we usually roast turkey (only time when we eat it) which can be stuffed with yucca flour and some dried fruit or decorayed with some fruit.
side dishes are potato salad w Mayo , Rice, farofa (cassava flour cooked with spices, bacon and onion or bananas instead), some families cook codfish w potatoes and Black olives (as in Portugal).
we also have panetone (italy) or its variation w chocolate chips instead (chocotone) pavê(sort of a trifle), milk pudding, fruit salad (Summer) and ice cream
table full of nuts, dried fruit, chestnuts, and a basket full of fruit to bring richness home.
R.I.P. The Netherlands
My family and I ALWAYS have seafood on Christmas Eve.We start with deep fried oysters as an appetizer,followed by New England clam chowder and popcorn shrimp and a main course of batter fried polluck fish....YUM!I cant wait.Then a traditional Christmas turkey on Christmas Day.Cheers and Merry Christmas Anglophenia.Love your videos,keep up the good work.Brett from Jamaica,Iowa
brussel sprouts are incredibly easy to ruin, by simply boiling them in salt water :D
here's a redeeming preparation, a humble but delicious farmhouse winter dish:
clean the sprouts, cut them in half, and nicely brown them in a hot pan with a bit of fat. add some really smokey raw ham (black forest style works great) a little garlic, some water (optionally a splash white wine or beer) and a hearty scoop of heavy sour cream. season to taste, cover, and simmer on low heat, until the brussel sprouts are still a just tad al dente. serve with boiled potato wedges and top with a bit of browned butter and chopped chives or parsley. incredibly tasty and filling.
Cuda FX for me they have to be steamed then roasted. I'm kinda the same way with broccoli, it has to be steamed then it can be roasted. I don't like the texture of non-steamed or boiled broccoli.
Dude, you added bacon fat, butter, garlic, beer/wine, ham and sour cream. Of course it's yummy! Jeez, you could add that to cat turds and it would be yummy. LOL.
My family does turkey for Thanksgiving AND Christmas. I really don't like turkey. I used to beg for something else, but no, my mum will not budge. So I usually just skip it and load my plate with side dishes. When I'm on my own at the holiday, I make a ham slice with apricot jam, and last year I made Yorkshire puds for the first time ever. They turned out great. :)
Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it! :D
I'm from the US (Texas to be exact). I like your videos alot! Turkey and dressing, glazed ham, cranberry sauce, potatoes of some sort, green bean casserole, giblet gravy and dinner rolls is what going to grace our table. Not to mention the pies! pecan, chocolate (with calf slobber), lemon merengue, pumpkin and coconut! I love the Holidays. The three F's "Family, friends and FOOD!!!" .
In Australia we often eat prawns or seafood as well on christmas because its usually hot outside and seafood is refreshing (:
We are 2students from northern Italy, near the border with Slovenia/Austria. In our city "Trieste" many people celebrate both on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Usually during the Christmas Eve we eat fish like cod fish, shrimps, calamari, salmon, past with shell fish and many dessert like putizza and presnitz and a lot of drinks (grappa and wine) and on Christmas Day lunch we usually eat tortellini broth, roasted meat with potatoes and vegetables. For dessert we have Pandora/panettone which are traditional sweets from Italy.
and Canada, though close to the US does things a bit differently. along with the mince tart is the butter tart, the nanaimo bar and every variation of short bread. we happily co opt cookies from all cultures. we observed the other the night that at least on the west coast we also have the Mclaren picked onion, gherkin and olive (usually the stuffed green but also the black) relish tray. in fact most of us of a certain age have a pinwheel crystal divided relish dish specifically for the onion, pickle and love component of the holiday buffet
+katee bee I'm from New England. We do "relish trays" like those you mentioned as well. Yum. I also lived in Canada (Ottawa) and love the Nanaimo bars. There are differences, but a lot more similarities. One thing no one has mentioned - apart from me - is the tourtiere from Quebec. My mom's family came from Quebec and we always had tourtiere on Christmas Eve.
This host is so cute.
but she has shit for brains, as apparently in her mind Holland is part of Germany
FlyingDutchman19801 which video is that?
I'm surprised since most Anglos tend to be ugly.
@@onestate3074 Nah, probably just world stereotypes
No one cares about Canada?
It is because Justin Bieber is Canadian?
+Leeroy Jenkins Being from Vancouver, I can say that canadian christmas is an exact mix of both american and britsh christmas
+Leeroy Jenkins Yes, that is the reason.
+Leeroy Jenkins What would Canada set apart from all the other countries that weren't mentioned? It's not like they could in a 6 minutes video.
+Leeroy Jenkins No! It's because you bloody won't take him back!!!
+Leeroy Jenkins -- Canadians eat moose steaks smothered in maple syrup on Christmas, followed by Secord candies (which are named after the particularly vicious anti-American, Laura Secord). All is washed down with copious amounts of fortified Canadian beer---until, inevitably, the Mounties arrive to break the whole mess up. 😁
That was very educational. I'm german and I've never heard of any of our traditions. :D They seemed to pass by the last 18 years of my and the last 52 years of my father's life.
+fran flubbercrack had the same thought. Never heard of these traditions. :D
+fran flubbercrack That's some maximum level cynical sarcasm right there.
Are you sure you're not British?
+fran flubbercrack Same^^ we always eat potato salad each christmas eve (which is typical as well isn't it?) - generally we have our own little traditions:)
***** Thank you very much. I worked hard on it.
Hermione Baggins We eat fish but I guess that's my mother's polish influence. I just know everyone else in this country doesn't do/believe/eat/whatever anything that she pointed out. And that's ok. I don't want to be rude. I guess there are a few people who are doing this but I personally wouldn't generalise it.
real christmas dinner in france : foie gras, oyster, capon or turkey or goose or lobster or comfit duck leg or stuffed fish + vegetables, trou normand (apple sorbet + calvados), cheese platter + green salad, yule log, 13 desserts (hazelnut, walnut, dry fig, dry grape, almond, fougasse (flat bread), white nougat, black nougat, date, calisson, white grape, clementine or orange or mandarin, fruit jelly)
+nanoo gatine Depends where you come from. In my family (South West), it's foie gras +figs jam/quince jam, sometimes oysters, turkey filled with stuffing and chesnuts with roasted potatoes. Then the desert is a bûche de Noël, sometimes with merveilles or one croustade. For the bread, it's fougasse also, but not the same kind as in South East. And for the beverages, we drink wines of Champagne, Pacherenc and Madiran. Anyway, it's definitely much more than the poultry only as showed in the video ! (and I wouldn't mind to try what you showed : it looks good !)
+nanoo gatine Wow, that is quite a feast! Put me down for the duck comfit! I've seen different versions of the yule log, how is yours prepared?
+nanoo gatine Oh man!! Now THAT'S a feast! And it's to the gym the day after I suppose though most French people I've met as quite skinny so I imagine it's the time to replenish their reserves. lol
Thanks for the suggestion at the end. Will definitely try that one.
Well if you're a Hispanic we tend to eat turkey on thanksgiving and tamales and menudo on Christmas
Latino o Hispanico? Acá no comemos tamales :/
You mean Mexico, right?
+Jaime Hernandez No, Hispanics in the U.S, unless people in Mexico do that too lol
I'm Puerto Rican and we don't eat tamales. We eat rice with beans, pork and pasteles.
We have bread and pebre 8). Also a hella lot of asado.
I live in india and have never heared of that biriyani-kheer thing .we have traditional Christmas cuisines in the state of kerala and northeast india
Christmas Dinner in California
-Turkey or Ham or Roast Beast (Roast Beast is roast beef, but is referred to as Roast Beast on Christmas because of _The Grinch That Stole Christmas_.)
-Tamales!
-Cranberry sauce from a can that comes out a glistening red cylinder and is sliced into rounds
-Giblet gravy
-Sweet potato casserole with browned marshmallow topping
-Baby lima beans, drowning in butter
-(S)mashed potatoes
-Cornbread stuffing with sage pork sausage & pecans
-Black olives packed in brine
-Fizzy apple juice: Martinelli's
-Whipped cream in a dispenser can which you sneak from the fridge and squirt directly into your and your siblings' mouths. Then there's none left for the pies, so a tub of frozen 'whipped topping' is substituted.
-A box of See's Candies
-Whole nuts. Before the rise of salty chips, orange puffs and other junk snacks, there would be a tray of whole raw nuts to crack & snack on throughout the obligatory TV football portion of the day. Must include walnuts, pecans, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts/filberts and NO peanuts.
-Brussels sprouts, boiled to death and drowning in butter.
-Green bean & bacon casserole with crunchy fried onions on top
-Egg nog with Southern Comfort
Then TV is watched: the Santa Claus Lane Parade, football, _It's a Wonderful Life_, and more recently, the all-day broadcast of a yule log burning in a fireplace, _Children of Men_ and/or _Life of Brian_. Merry Christmas, everybody!
+GildaLee27 Yes! It is absolutely not Christmas without a box of See's, black olives on my fingers like a martian and my grandfather cracking walnuts in the living room. :)
+Jeannette McDonald Yes!! The olive finger busbys!
+Jeannette McDonald +ELWest1000 OMG -- we, too, used to cap our fingers in black olives!!! :D
+GildaLee27
glistening red cylinder is the best
this is so accurate for my family xD
My dad is from England and mother is from central america, so we make ticucos, beans, tortillas, mince meat pies, potatoes, tostones and rice for dinner, and a trifle or figgy pudding or marquesote for dessert.
Polish traditions are intresting also, main dish is fish :) and we have 3 days celebration starting from 24 of december when we have big dinner and after that we open our gifts from baby jesus/star/ father snow etc depending on the region :)
Merry Christmas to you as well Kate! Thanks for the year of Anglophenia!
Dam she's so charming
ART KNOWN who cares she's hoooot
What happened to the other girl?
+ART KNOWN Butthurt becase she only mentioned a selection of the many countries in which Christmas is celebrated. Stupid.
+MVFCfan12 Siobhan has moved to College Humor.
+ART KNOWN Kwanza?They don't celebrate Christmas in Africa,they celebrate Kwanza.
In the southern United States, we eat Chicken 'n Dressin. In my home town, it is made from crumbled up cornbread, shredded chicken, chicken stock, and cream of chicken soup. Some put the traditional seasonings in the dressing, but my mom and I use seasoned croutons. After everything is soaked through with the stock, it is put in a baking dish and baked until golden brown on the top, then served with cranberry sause. Yum!
In Norway, they either have pork belly (eastern Norway) or dried and salted sheep's ribs (western Norway. The sheep's ribs are delicious, even my American hubby agrees! I'm hoping to be able to purchase some for next Christmas :) They're a bit pricey here in the US at $20/lb. It's traditionally served with boiled potatoes and mashed swede, not the people, but the root veg. And served with a side of gravy and melted butter.
Sounds good
In the north of Portugal dinner is on the 24 it usually starts with kale soup ( caldo Verde) and or octopus salad, for the main dish we have coad boiled with potato, kale, carrot, onion, rapini, etc and for desert we will serve our self's from a table filled with desserts and dried fruit and nuts, this table tends to stay for a few days .
A Christmas dinner in the south includes collards and for dessert, pecan pie.
my college boyfriend's family did chess pie
NunyaDammeBiznis collards? not in my south
NunyaDammeBiznis I'm in the south, bullshit
Love me some pecan pie! One question though, what's the difference between pecan pie and shoo-fly pie, other than the nuts of course?
I'm from the US south, Kentucky, in fact and we usually have Brown Sugar Baked Ham, hashbrown casserole, green beans, broccoli casserole and Parker House rolls. For dessert, we usually have Candy Cane Red Velvet Cake. There are usually bowls of mixed nuts and Check Mix and trays of fresh fruit with a marshmallow pineapple dip and a fresh veggie tray with either French onion dip or ranch dip for folks to snack on while the main meal is being cooked.
In my family, we have a big ole Southern brunch instead of Christmas dinner. We have biscuits and gravy, fried taters, bacon, and pancakes. Much better that dinner if you ask me!
+Ashton Farmer
This comment made me hungry - and it's almost bedtime :(
I'm from the U.S., and in my house it went like this - Christmas Eve, it would be something small and not over the top. Meatloaf, soup and sandwiches, such like that. I got to open ONE gift Chrisymas Eve, which was always my Christmas pajamas. Christmas day was when all the major festivities went down. The stockings, opening up all the gifts, pancakes and the orange from my stocking for breakfast. We would then clean up, and start dinner. Christmas DAY dinner was the big event. That one was chicken or turkey, mashed or baked potatoes, various veggies, salad, bread, and apple or pumpkin pie for dessert.
In Spain we also dinner on Christmas Eve as in Francés, and we have cod or lamb, and our traditional "gulas" (imitation elvers) and as dessert: our "turrón"(nougat candy) and the famous " polvorones"(type of light, crumbly shortbread). Thank you for include Spain, I know you americans and british love us(notice the irony). Nevertheless, Merry Christmas to you all.
+Luis Antonio De Alcazar Gomez I love Spain because of my beloved exchange student brother from Cordoba and because my ancestry is from there and I have traveled to Spain. I miss it alot...Turron is the bomb! (the men too...:))
Love this! I love learning about different traditions. As an American, you're right, we have eaten way more than our share at Thanksgiving (can't wait for it tomorrow!). I love having ham for dinner on Christmas Day!
I'm from the US and my family usually eats breakfast casserole around 10 AM. It's delicious. (ham, potatoes, scrambled egg, cheese.)
+J-Me Not weird at all. My family made that second casserole, too, although with ham. And my mom was a bit... skinflint on the ingredients, so ours had Wonder Bread in it. XD
That casserole was probably the most important thing I learned from my parents, since it's my staple food now. And, ah, with homemade bread now. lol
We make that but with ground sausage instead of ham. And then we usually eat a ham for Christmas dinner.
I recently lived in South Korea for 5 years where Christmas day is an official holiday. However I was surprised to find that most people celebrate by going out with their significant other to a nice restaurant, or celebrating with friends. Everyone eats out. It's New Year's eve that they celebrate with family.
Zupa grzybowa (Polish mushroom soup), karp (carp), pierogi (dumplings) and sernik (Polish cheesecake)... I can't wait! Greetings from Poland. :))
In Venezuela the center of attention are the Hallacas (A-Yaw-Kaws) which are like a tamale. Its usually made of chicken, beef, pork or fish mixed with capers, raisins and olives wrapped in cornmeal dough which is wrap in banana leaves and tied with string to later we boiled. This is served with a side of Pan de Jamón or Ham Bread which has of course, ham, raisins, capers and olives. We have this meal on Christmas Eve, but we like this type of food so much that we actually start eating them early in December until you run out around mid January.
In Estonia we eat Black pudding or roast meat, sauerkraut and potatoes in any form. Happily no salad
+Heinrich Deer Of course because Estonia was under german rule over 700 yrs
Estland ist halb deutsch
+Rasmus Ihermann Black pudding.
I like you guys already
Did you know Estonia has the highest alcohol
dependency rate in the world
+JazzKeyboardist1 Nah pretty sure my source was accurate
Japan also enjoys a traditional winter dish called "oden" around Christmas time. This dish is composed of fish sausage known as "kamoboko," kelp, lotus root, potato balls, sausage links as well as any other vegetables one wants. It is all boiled together in broth overnight and then keeps for at least a week in the refrigerator. It is usually server with larger groups of people such as family or church gatherings.
Actually, in northern Germany there is a common tradition of having "Kartoffelsalat mit Würstchen" so potato salad with wieners for christmas eve (by the way, we get our presents on christmas eve aswell!). The real feast would thus be on the 25th. :)
Yes it awesome!!
Here in the Philippines we have our Simbang Gabi (Midnight Mass, although it's usually at 4AM rather than 12MN) for nine days leading up to Christmas. During those Simbang Gabi, outside the church are stalls that sell Puto Bumbong (which I think is steamed glutinous rice? That you can top off with coconut shards and mascuvado sugar) and Bibingka (which is rice cake) with butter and cheese on top. Eat it with hot choco.
Usually Filipinos "meet" Christmas by celebrating on the 24th nearing midnight. In our family, we eat at exactly 12MN. Our feast (which is not much because we had dinner already) is usually Kakanin. Kakanin are food made of rice/corn that are more under the category of "dessert", I guess. Examples are Maja Blanca (made from cornstarch, coconut milk, and sugar; also called Coconut Pudding in some non-Filipino places), Kutsinta (another rice cake, but looks an awful lot different from Bibingka), Sapin-Sapin (which I think is glutinous rice flour), and a lot more! :-)
Anyone notice the Italian family is is fact the family from beetlejuice?
+Maica Terina You're right. That's hilarious.
+Maica Terina I saw that. I wanted to find a clip to verify. :)
Yep, except that got their faces grabbed by a tentacle instead of shrimp hands. Very funny.
We eat hallacas in Venezuela. They are cornmeal dough with pieces of chicken or meat, raisins, olives, and other vegetables inside, wrapped in plantain leaves. What is inside of them varies, but that's essentially it. They are very good
In Trinidad and Tobago we have pastelles ( corn meal pies with minced beef or chicken, raisins and seasoning stuffed in the centre). They are wrapped in foil paper weeks before Christmas and put to freeze then steamed in a pot and served. Ordering and selling pastelles is a big Trini tradition.
No Christmas dishes from Antarctica? This has got to be the most racist thing I've ever seen!
😂😂
ART KNOWN that would be interesting to know.
+ART KNOWN They probably didn't do Africa because most of them celebrate Kwanzaa.
+unknown No,we Africans celebrate Christmas not Kwanzaa, what is that anyway?
Sarah Pink It's a celebration of African culture that we do. It starts December 26 and ends January 1st.
My family and I are from the US, we usually has green bean casserole, candied yams, bread stuffing, ham, and pie for our Christmas feast. We also have a delicious breakfast after opening gifts that includes French toast, maple syrup, eggs, and bacon. We have candy in between meals.
What??? No Philippines?? Filipinos are like the biggest Christmas fans, even though it's a tropical country and no snow.. Christmastime is when most alumni gatherings and family reunions are held. Christmas dinners are never complete without the "lechon" or roasted piglet, fruit salad, mango float, leche flan, espasol, etc.
+Nath Anter You forgot the queso de bola!!!
kimkishineegirl and that too! Although i don't really like it that much.
***** indeed, although some you mentioned are some general party foods. but yeah, fruit salad with cream, then lechon, then mango floatt, then honey glazed ham and queso de bola, plus imported grapes and apple, and the filipino espasol and puto. yeah. Filipino anglophenia fans
+Nath Anter. What the hell has snow got to do with Christmas? The vast majority of Christians live in climates where it does not snow at Christmas either because their winters are mild e.g. Southern Europe or it is actually Summer Eg South America, Southern Africa, Australia, NZ.
Your concept of snow at Xmas is very Euro/North American centric. I grew up in Australia and for me Xmas is about lovely sunny days and balmy summer evenings (and when I was very little seeing the sun rise over eucalyptus covered hills). A lot of the idea of white Christmases in England (tho not Scotland) are based on Dickens writing his stories and the unusually cold winters he experienced as a child. It is unusual for it to snow in southern England at Xmas.
Finally, although I think it can snow in parts of the Middle East, the traditional story of Jesus's birth means it was probably not winter, and there was definitely no snow. Shepherds did not take their flocks out in snow.
I am happy that you like the idea of snow at Xmas, but it is not thankfully how most Christians experience Xmas. I really wish people who live in the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere would stop conflating Xmas and snow.
+nath anter. I apologize as my diatribe is based on what may be an incorrect assumption that you are from Nothern Hemisphere.
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in hungary we eat fish soup at the day before christmas, and at christmas day there is a several dishes like: chicken or pork soup, stuffed cabbage, fried and/or roast meats (usually chicken and pork), with salad, rice and potato (mashed or roast), for dessert 3-5 different sweets, but you can find bagel (filled with poppisead or chestnut)
That means usually 4-5 coars without the dessert
Still don't understand why Portugal is left out of this list. Specially since it has a very strong relationship with the U.K. (one of the oldest and still existing alliances in the world) and very good Christmas food. Hopefully it will be addressed in a future video. Good video though.
+Nuno Gomes I loved my first Christmas in Portugal - bacalhau de consoada, polvo, estufado de lulas, filhoses & rabanadas, arroz doce, bolo rei & rainha...the list goes on. Such festive people - Portugal is probably one of the most 'Christmas crazy' places I've ever lived, and I hope it continues to be a family holiday here and not sell out to the mass market 'traditions' of the rest of the developed world.
Hi there, I would like to know when you are going to produce new videos. Can't wait to watch them 😍😍😍
I'll be having roasted turkey, glazed ham, mac n cheese, fruit salad, mashed taters, the most amazing dressing, sweet potato casserole, pecan pie, half of which will be smothered in giblet gravy. Yum.
I'm coming to your house!
You don't ...
+Chris Whatley YOU don't
+Louis Morris WE do.
At the same time? What's the dressing anyway?
In Georgia (USA) where I grew up, Christmas morning was filled with the aroma of yeast biscuits and ham in the oven. The first thing my mother would do in the morning before anyone woke up was to make the biscuits, which filled the air with the aroma of sweet yeast dough rising. The ham that had been cooking overnight was meant for the largest meal that day, lunch.
Ham, Black Eyed Peas, and Cornbread (US Southern) in my family.
+SGlitz Cornbread is SO GOOD.
+SGlitz We always had ham, hominy, spinach, and cornbread with molasses.
+SGlitz Ox tail and greens with homemade mac-n'-cheese. Much love for a Southern Xmas.
+Andrew English
molasses corn bread? sounds great
pumpkin & pecan pie in my part of the south.
We save the black-eyed peas for New Year's Day, along with jowl meat for luck. lol
In Denmark we have a wonderful dessert called "Risalamande" and it´s made out of rice pudding mixed with whipped cream, vanilla, and chopped almonds; and is usually served cold with a cherry sauce. In one of the bowls there´s a whole almond and if you find that, you get a present.
Also, in december there a lot of christmas lunches(an excuse to get the whole family together or most work places does it too and get people in the christmas mood) we eat mostly herring and drink a lot of SNAPS
We even start celebrating christmas before december! Every year, on the first Friday in November, Tuborg releases its new Christmas beer. Called 'Julebryg' in Danish and this day is called J-day, so most people go out and drink beer that day.
Pecan pie is more traditional then Apple at Christmas in Texas. Also fudge is a must at Christmas.
I love mince pies. Around my house we never actually stuff the bird with stuffing its always a side dish, and since my family is mostly Swedish on my mom's side we make our own korv for the holidays, which is a bland Swedish sausage flavored mostly with allspice, and served with a mild horseradish sauce for dipping. We also always have mashed turnips.
The international dishes and their traditions are varied. The dishes are wonderful,sub and like,share
i'm from italy, and i want to let you know that, the traditional Christmas lunch, changes depending of the region where you live,sometimes on the city where you live.
Normally whe have pasta and then meat, then sweets, a lot...starting with TORRONE a tipical italian christmas sweet, made of almonds, honey, sugar, egg whites.
Then not only panettone but also Pandoro is eated.
+Genta me too I eat lasagna because I don't like fishes hahaha yeah it's a very southern thing!
is abruzzo...an italian region...i love lasagna!!!
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KFC & curry! Happy Christmas from Malaysia :D
Happy Christmas to you too!
XD
MyLifeAsLouis I'm American and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!🎄✝️💚♥️👼🙏🤶🎅
For my American family and friends the big meal is a buffet on Christmas Eve when we get together and exchange gifts. The food is basic - Ring Bologna,kielbasa, assorted cheeses, raw vegetables, chips, pretzels and an assortment of dips.Also something called gehachtes which is raw fresh ground lean beef that has been seasoned and served with chopped onions on rye bread.Home baked sweets and coffee afterward !
I'm doing an Icelandic Christmas skit at my American school.
Also U.S. still eats turkey on Christmas.
My family is from America and we have a big split between ham and turkey finally mom has given in and just makes both for Christmas and thanksgiving, a win for all of us!
But, not all Americans eat turkey on Christmas. Some eat standing rib roast or ham.
Our family usually alternated: one Christmas turkey, the next Christmas, ham. For dessert, we ate sweet potato pie or pecan pie.
Misti Munson what do you mean by icelandic skit? U mean the grinch or something?
In the Philippines, we feast on spaghetti, sweet ham and a ball of cheese (quezo de bola) usually served with a loaf of bread. On Christmas Eve, we celebrate Midnight Mass, and the Christmas feast is celebrated right after the Mass on the first hours of Christmas Day.
I love mincemeat pie! Hard to find these days here in New England. 😡
+absentmindedprof If I can find them in New Mexico, then you can find them there. We have an International store and the tiny British section has them. Failing that, order them online. So worth it. Don't forget the double cream. Mmmm.
They're not called mincemeat pie. Just mince pies.
+absentmindedprof I, too, love mincemeat pie. Most people nowadays consider these a fruit pie, rather than a meat pie, but originally it was made with meat. My family has, for many generations, used the same recipe which is filled with meat, and fruit, and booze. It is so good! You make it, months ahead of time, store it in a tin, wrapped in whiskey or brandy soaked cheesecloth. Then you periodically refresh the alcohol on the cloth. It isn't difficult to make, just time-consuming in the sense that you have to let it sit and cure for so long. But it is so worth it! Find yourself a recipe with meat and suet, and enjoy it as it was originally intended.
In Switzerland many people eat raclette, which is grilled cheese with many side dishes. It's one of those dishes you usually don't make for only a few people, so family gatherings on christmas are perfect for this dish :)
All the countries on the map that are covert are red, except the Netherlands (red on the map, but not covert). WHY!?
+Jacob Kroon What do you eat for christmas? What is the traditional christmas food in the netherlands?
I know we eat "kerststol" like the germans do but I don't think dutch christmas dinner is the same as the german one.
When I lived at home with my parents we used to do "gourmet" as is "gourmetten'. I hated that.
I loved it when my mother made stewed rabbit with prune sauce and I know that is a popular christmas dish but it's also not as widespread.
+ART KNOWN Except when they don't qualify for the upcoming European championships, while England aced their qualifying group.
+ART KNOWN waiting till the netherlands win.
ART KNOWN "the World Cup where England suck each and every time"
England have won the world cup, and usually reach the quarter finals.
"who cares about tiny Europe and its little European cup"
Everyone who's into football cares, it's the most prestigious continental cup.
You're clueless.
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Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, butter and gravy, green beans, baked potato, garden salad with Roquefort, stuffed dates and cream torte
Argentina and Chile eat asado and that's all.
+Pia Lorena I was thinking the same thing! It's asado, empanadas, and wine.
Maybe asado, but is true stupid vittel thone, ensalada rusa and Pan Dulce every year.
I come from a British/French family so we have
-melon
-soup
-shellfish
-French types of sausage that I can't spell
All for starter
Then several birds (pheasant, guni fowl and goose being common) - but never turkey or chicken (too boring) and so much other food it'd take an essay to write. It often takes most of the afternoon then into the night to eat. We also have florentines all day and Gingerbread on Christmas Eve- which we have a pre-Christmas meal on
no slavic country? :c we are all over uk, why do you ommit us D:
She asked others to share. Perhaps you could share your traditions.
try buñuelos from Mexico, it's a thin piece of flour dough deep fried in a sweet glaze and covered in powdered sugar then accompanied with atolle or champurrado.
In my house, we traditionally have birthday cake on Boxing Day. But I think that has more to do with the fact that Boxing Day is my birthday than anything else...
Eastern Canada (especially the francophones): lobster, bacon wrapped scallops, shrimp, cheese, cured sausage, and champagne on Christmas Eve! :) Or maybe that's just my family? It's delicious either way. Most other dinners involve a turkey, stuffing, potatoes, some sort of vegetable, and lots and lots of sugar cookies. We don't have a traditional dessert, but the cookies are fantastic.
No east Europe or Africa or middle east
Poland
Thank you for this video ☺ Merry Christmas!
Czechs have christmas dish on Christmas Day (Štědrý den). We usually eat pea soup (or fish soup), sauerkraut (mostly in Silesian region), fried carp with potato salad and christmas candies, fruits and nuts like a dessert. Happy Christmas (Veselé Vánoce)
I melted when she said "Merry Christmas" in all those different languages...
In Venezuela we have Christmas dinner on 24th, we eat hallacas (the main course of the night it's a yellow corn dough fill with a stew made of pig, hen and meat, and raisins, capers, olives, onion, peppers, pickles, almonds; everything it's wrap in plantain leaves and boil) , ensalada de gallina (it's a olivier salad with hen), pan de jamon (a roll bread fill with han, raisins and olives), pig leg (it's done in the oven and serve with gravy) and for desert we have torta negra (a spice cake with dry fruits), dulce de lechoza (papaya in syrup) and in some houses (like mine) we hace panettone and pandoro
Here in Norway the traditional festive meal is served on Christmas Eve and consists of pinnekjøtt ( translates roughly to "stick meat") potatoes and swede. The meat is smoked and salted lamb cutlets steamed for several hours. Best eaten piping hot otherwise the lamb fat starts to congeal on your plate. The Christmas Day meal is usually fresh cod but could be belly pork, Christmas sausage or lutefisk ( cod that been preserved in lye, yes lye, since the previous September). Some Norwegians have discovered turkey and they eat that on New Years Day. God Yule!
we are from Trieste. F
on Christmas Eve we use to eat starter with toasts with butter and salmon or creamed dry codfish, then fisherman style risotto, boiled fish and many kinds of dessert and cakes (we prefer Presnitz or Torrone). On Christmas day we use broth with tortellini, roast meat and vegetables; we end the lunch eating Panettone and dry fruit& nuts! We always drink wine and spumante.
Skate: yummy. Fermented skate: I think I'll stick with pigs in blankets thank you. The "Beetlejuice" at 3:53 homage was greatly appreciated!
What a cheerful person.
In Lebanon the cities with high Christians populations do a ton of Christmas decorating. There are alot of lights around the palm trees. We also tend to have our dinner on Christmas eve (atleast my family and relatives did) after we went to mass. Our dinner would usually be with fish and fish dishes. We also make meghleh which is a dessert traditionally made when a new baby is born. Also some people fast the few weeks before christmas and we make a bush de noel (yule log cake) thats decorated with christmasy things. It differs a bit from towns and from families but thats it!
I love this video because it appeals to everyone 👍🏼
Seafood has also become popular at Christmas in Australia, with prawns (shrimp in some other countries) as a frequent feature, even with news broadcasts commentating on prawn stocks at the markets.
I'm Canadian and we have our main dinner on Christmas day. In our home we have turkey, potatoes, stuffing, carrots, sweet potatoes, turnips and fruit cake for dessert.
In finland we celebrate christmas in 24th day. We eat huge christmas dinner. Ham, potato, carrot casserole, potato casserole, rutabaga casserole, traditional finnish food "karjalanpaisti" (karelian hot pot), gravlax, liver paste (my favourite), gingerbread, chocolate. These are my family's christmas dinner some finn family maybe have something else, but ham and casseroles are most popular here. Santa visits here in christmas eve.
In Brazil we begin to celebrate on christmas eve. Some, before midnight have a supper with parents, relatives, friends etc. People usually wear a new and formal clothes (for english people those clothes look casual). Even in hot nights!
There's a lot of food! The traditional christmas eve supper consist: roasted shank (porky), shredded cod, roasted turkey, chester (a poor chicken full of hormones) or a simple roasted chicken! Rice with raisins, farofa (cassava flour fried with butter, small pieces of bacon, raisins, and others ingredients), mayonnaise salad (carrots, corn n greans, peas, potatoes, some put eggs) or salpicão (kind of mayonnaise salad, but with pieces of smoked chicken, pineapple and apples, some put raisins...😂). Tropical fruits, dried fruits, nuts, candied fruits, rabanada (kind of french toasts), manjar (kind of pudding-flan made of coconut), milk pudding (kind of pudding-flan made of condensed milk), decorated cake (some prefer naked cake), at least who types of ice cream, pavê (a kind of trifle made of lady finger cookies, pieces of strawberry and chocolate cream), PANETONE, chestnuts (here we call them portuguese chestnuts and they are not roasted, they are cooked) , wine, beer (usually lager), malzbier, cold cider, prosecco or lambrusco, several kinds of soda... after this some watch rooster's or shepperd mass - it begins at midnight.
Roasted Vegetables and mincemeats are not common in Brazil. In my house we also make mincemeats (dried fruits pie) and christmas pudding... however it's hard to find 'suet' here... impossible!
To everyone reading this, have a holly jolly Christmas
I'm from the southern United States and we always eat a turkey with our Thanksgiving dinner and a ham with our Christmas dinner. It depends on the family though because some people have turkey or both at Christmas. We also have green beans, corn, sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing, cranberry sauce etc. And for dessert Pumpkin Pie and a second pie which sometimes is a Pecan Pie!!!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!
My family always does turkey for thanksgiving, the picture-perfect Thanksgiving dinner with pumpkin pie, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. For Christmas, we always cook a large lamb roast and it is delicious.
we are having smoked pork shoulder in sandwiches, Brussels's sprouts, potato salad and a few other yummies this year.
So, here in New Mexico, USA we have posole (pronounced: po so ley). Not my fav, but it is popular. We also put New Mexico Red or Green Chile on almost everything. We have a green chile brittle - yum!! If you never heard of it, look it up and maybe order some. In Albuquerque we have a two famous candy places - The Candy Lady in Old Town and Buffett's Candies. They are both great.
Adorable and informative. Good on ya Kate.
NZ: when the family is at my place, we do a big barbeque at lunchtime on the 25th and probably a walk to the beach. Down at the beach, there'll be a crowd having the day there with barbeques, picnics, sports gear including volleyball nets and a bit of swimming. We still have songs about snow and sleighs though - what can ya do?
When I was a kid, my mom got tired of making what was basically a second Thanksgiving dinner for Christmas. I suggested we do 4th of July for Christmas, since "Christmas in July" is a thing... for some reason. My dad grills steak and chicken, and mom makes deviled eggs, baked beans, potato salad, greens, jell-o salad, and corn bread. Christmas cookies for dessert. We love it!
@monny287 nope. Mid-Atlantic region. Sometimes my dad was grilling in the garage (with the door and windows open).
I'm American born, but my family traditions are Polish. Most Catholics don't eat meat on Xmas Eve and neither does my family. We usually have Sauerkraut or Sweet Farmer's Cheese pierogi, along with a mushroom borscht and fried fish. Being Marylanders, we also incorporate beer-steamed Old Bay Shrimp and sometimes even a Blue Crab Dip. Xmas day, we usually get rye bread and have a plotsek (Polish coffee cake) with Polish sausage.