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Christmas traditions - national and international
- Thread starter Daveysgingerlovechild
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Czechs celebrate Christmas on the evening of the 24th. Fried carp schnitzel, potato salad and pickled gherkins for the dinner.
Like most Slavic countries where lunch is the main meal, there is a kind of novelty to having a big dinner.
The weirdest part is the 24th is not a holiday, but the following two days are. Basically, you go to work, knock off lunchtime, then either slave over a three station breadcrumb process at home or get slaughtered with colleagues in the pub.
The rest is a blur. But carp schnitzel is utterly inedible.
Like most Slavic countries where lunch is the main meal, there is a kind of novelty to having a big dinner.
The weirdest part is the 24th is not a holiday, but the following two days are. Basically, you go to work, knock off lunchtime, then either slave over a three station breadcrumb process at home or get slaughtered with colleagues in the pub.
The rest is a blur. But carp schnitzel is utterly inedible.
BlueStevie35
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In Japan they eat KFC on Christmas Day instead of turkey
FrenchDarrenBent
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Don't they keep a Carp in the bathtub the days before christmas.
Theres a pat and mat episode about that.
Mutzo Nutzo
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Boxing Day - Welsh types comb the edges of major A roads looking for roadkill otters.
Massive festive delicacy in Aberystwyth, served up with spuds and baked beans apparently
Massive festive delicacy in Aberystwyth, served up with spuds and baked beans apparently
Billy Dean
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The Germans eat frankfurters and potato salad apparently
Yes. My wife grew up in Poland and she has memories of the Christmas carp swimming in the bathtub…and my father-in-law putting it in a bag, taking it outside and hitting it with a hammer.
Alanbileysfeathercut
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Mostly me being lazy.....
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
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A guy I work with has Polish heritage. I was speaking with him about Christmas. He said on Christmas Eve they have a dinner with 12 fish courses, with a shot of vodka between each course. This is then followed with the time honoured tradition of sleeping through midnight Mass.
Taking it outside first, never heard of that before. Might try it this year.
Americans don't shoot anyone on Christmas day as a mark of respect to Saint Nicholas.
My wife befriended the Christmas carp in the family tub when she was a kid.
Her dad claimed he had let it go, then proceeded to eat it for dinner. Standard Christmas fare over here.
Doesn't sound dissimilar to my in-laws in Romania. I've not actually spent a Christmas there yet - we go before because its less stress and expense. But I'm told the main day is Xmas eve, there's a meal ususlly featuring pork and cozonac (a kind of sweet), presents are exchanged, before everyone goes to mass. Even the atheists.
Christmas day is just lounging about doing nothing. Because there is bugger all to do.
It just sounds less full on or pressured.
Quite the opposite. My sister is a 911 (999) dispatcher. She has stories. The holidays are some of the worst times for family disputes and with all the guns in the US….
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