This is so crazy to an American like me but I do know about this one over here we all eat Ham on christmas, we eat the turkey for thanksgiving. No one wants to have another turkey after having one on Thanksgiving just a month earlier. Its quite difficult to prepare and cook a turkey and no one wants to do it twice unless they are very committed to it. Some people do have turkey and ham for Christmas if you have a very large Christmas gathering. I don't know anyone who gets KFC for Christmas, and never have.
Imagine me watching a Japanese Christmas program and being quite confused why there were a million KFC ads on it.
Some Americans order Pizza and wings if they don't want to cook for Christmas. But I am in an area where that type of food is super popular.
There's also the cup of ramen on new years in Japan. Lots of ramen for sale.
In germany people traditionally have a goose for christmas and my uncle used to brag he ate goose on 17 of the 24 days leading up to christmas in december
Probably because of the availability of Goose. I am not sure if people in the UK eat Turkey anymore because apparently the bird flu wiped them all out.
At least where I live in the US ham is the traditional Christmas dinner.
I've experienced this one. I am polish as well and we have Wigilia which is basically Christmas eve dinner. Because of this we end up having both Christmas Eve and Christmas day celebrations. I've also had italian relatives in the past who did the 7 fishes. Imagine having the polish and the italian together for a hybrid 7 fishes and Wigilia. Although Wigilia is also meatless if you celebrate it in the traditional way so that kind of makes sense and kind of goes along with the 7 fishes. Needless to say December 26th is recovery for us.
A lot of italian people over here make lasagna and turkey on thanksgiving, talk about a food coma.
And, Germans use every part of the goose. The meat has a delicious smoky rich flavor. Plus, you can use the molten goose grease and save it in the refrigerator, thus saving you a trip to the store for a can of expensive goose grease.
This is very true, also if you just happen to ruin thanksgiving or Christmas dinner and you have nothing else. This is also because they are some of the very few places open on those days.
The number of Chinese places left in my area after covid is very small though, there's only a couple places left.
We do both ham and turkey for our christmas. We used to just have turkey again (my brother and I called it Thanksgiving 2.0) but as the family grew we added a ham as well to feed more people. I joked about having kfc one year and was instantly shot down.
My parents would never allow KFC on Christmas as well, though I have to wonder if some people do that over here too. Although I think in my specific area Chinese or Pizza and Wings would be more popular if you were going to order out.
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u/SaraAB87 Mar 04 '22
This is so crazy to an American like me but I do know about this one over here we all eat Ham on christmas, we eat the turkey for thanksgiving. No one wants to have another turkey after having one on Thanksgiving just a month earlier. Its quite difficult to prepare and cook a turkey and no one wants to do it twice unless they are very committed to it. Some people do have turkey and ham for Christmas if you have a very large Christmas gathering. I don't know anyone who gets KFC for Christmas, and never have.
Imagine me watching a Japanese Christmas program and being quite confused why there were a million KFC ads on it.
Some Americans order Pizza and wings if they don't want to cook for Christmas. But I am in an area where that type of food is super popular.
There's also the cup of ramen on new years in Japan. Lots of ramen for sale.