What do you eat for Christmas- and what cultural background are you?

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Just interested really. This came up at work today. My colleague with a Greek background always started a Christmas meal with egg and lemon soup. My Australian colleague always had prawns and lobster. In my family (Jewish father, Christian mother) we always had honey pancakes somewhere on the day.

My big interest is food and culture, so I would be very interested to know what special meals people have and what your background is.

Turkey and all the trimmings- mixed English/Indian heritage.
Christmas Eve we have Indian food - spiced potato in pastry, late evening but ham and pea soup for dinner. Fusion food😂.
At Easter we eat a Shri Lanken/South Indian meal.

bog standard caucasion brummie, prawn cocktails or pate starter, roast beef roast potatoes, sprouts, parsnips, carrots yorkies gravy mains. whatever dessert I get from Iceland boring but nice

Hungarian here: our traditional evening meal was always on the 24th consisting of a paprika-heavy carp soup, breaded deep fried carp slices (this is just our family and stupid to have the same fish two ways), with potato chips, a salad, and dessert was traditional bejgli or something similar to a bread and butter pudding drowned in ground poppy seed.

I usually cook different vegetarian meals for Christmas but this year my sister is jouning us so 24th will be Hungarian, 25th turkey with all the traditional things and Christmas pudding.

DH is German and for many years we had goose but we just go out for a curry these days.

Parika carp soup! mmmmmm.... that sounds good. Big fan of parika anything.

*paprika

Aussie of British heritage - we have turkey with all the trimmings

Indian here. The Christmas Day roast always starts with a fried food fest of Gujarati samosas (they are the crisp filo pastry ones, rather than the shorter Panjabi version), Gujarati green peas kachori, and paneer spring rolls.

Turkey with all the trimmings. British/Irish heritage.

Same generally as you folk without the pigs in blankets. Never heard of them. But they sounds very nice indeed! Only do two or three veg. The amount of side/veg dishes sounds amazing to me. We keep it simple though, just honey roast carrots and roast parnsips, and if I could be arsed a little (bought from M+S) braised red cabbage. NO sprouts!

Spiced beef is for Boxing Day. Gorgeous, look it up.

Irish heritage. And proud of it too!

I just have whatever DP and I feel like eating. This year it'll be paella de marisco, last year it was ribs, and the year before we had salmon! I'm a New Zealander through and through and she's a Brit living in NZ.

English here so typical roast with lots of sides (i am veggie so sides are important to me). Traditionally my family do prawn cocktail to start but as i am veggi and DH doesn't eat fish we usually do a mushroom dish or soup.

Always Pavlova -New Zealander (maori)

My husband is from country where the tradition is to have KFC as the traditional Christmas lunch. It's booked out months in advance 😅

Northern Irish. We have vegetable soup for starter. Turkey and ham main with cocktail sausages not pigs in blanket. Carrots and parsnips two ways, Brussel sprouts, roasties and mash, stuffing and cranberry sauce. Never Yorkshire puddings on Christmas Day. Dessert can vary.

My husband is from country where the tradition is to have KFC as the traditional Christmas lunch. It's booked out months in advance 😅

All thanks to bloody good marketing by KFC Japan decades ago!!

English/Welsh. Starter is usually prawns, smoked salmon terrine and salad with brown bread, sometimes just slices of smoked salmon with no terrine. Main is turkey, pork, roast potatoes, yorkies, mushy peas, red cabbage, carrots, sprouts, roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, homemade stuffing (which we call Jacksie Meat because it goes up the turkey), packet stuffing, cranberry sauce and apple sauce with gravy. Usually too stuffed for pudding but there is always the option of Xmas pudding, cheesecake, trifle, or Xmas cake. Usually have a bowl of trifle much later in the evening.

So much food. Can everyone actually eat all that?

I love a bit of (moist) turkey and ham, stuffing, a big spoon or two of veg, then roast spuds and nothing else. Stuffed and full after that. Prefer it in January though. Don't get the tradition shite.

Cannot wait for the dessert though!

However, when just us two codgers it is salmon with hollandaise sauce (bought) and all the usual trimmings. Love it.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, and toasted muffins for breakfast (my childhood tradition that I've kept). Lunch has coquilles St Jacques to start (5yo DD1's demanded this 😂), then traditional roast turkey with roasties, yorkshires, brussels, red cabbage, broccoli, carrot and swede mash, roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, stuffing, a ham, macaroni cheese, and rice and peas. And lots and lots of gravy! Pudding will be Christmas pud with ice cream or custard. Dinner will be leftovers plus cheese and crusty bread...
Boxing day will be a buffet with the leftover turkey and ham, all the trimmings above (freshly made), plus a side of salmon, roast beef, curry goat, and a groaning pudding table (we have a lot of us gathering on boxing day!).
We are a mix of white and black British.

All sounds so good.