| Christmas Meal - What people eat during Christmas? |
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Christmas is a most important religious holy day for Christians, who attend special church services to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Many non Christians also celebrate this festive by eating special food, decorating trees and so on.
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| Christmas meal varies with geography. It is interesting to see beside the Turkey there are many other foods are served. |
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| Australia |
| Christmas is in midsummer. Lunch is often a barbecue of prawns, steak and chicken with ice cream or sorbet for desert. Sometimes celebrate at the beach.
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| Belgium |
| Christmas breakfast is a special sweet bread called 'cougnou' or 'cougnolle' - the shape is supposed to be like baby Jesus. Some families will have another big meal on Christmas day.
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| Brazil |
| A special Christmas meal will be chicken, turkey, ham, rice, salad, pork, fresh and dried fruits, often with beer.
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| Czech Republic |
| Traditionally the celebration starts on the Christmas Eve. The meal consists of fish soup, salads, eggs and carp.
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| Finland |
| Traditional Christmas dinner will be a casserole of macaroni, rutabaga, carrot and potato, with ham or turkey. A mixed platter of meat and fish is also popular. After the meal it is traditional to have a sauna and then to visit the graves of relatives.
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| France |
| The Christmas meal is an important family gathering with good meat and the best wine
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| Germany |
| Roast Goose is the favoured Christmas meal, accompanied by potatos, cabbage, carrots, parsnip and pickles. The meal is usually eaten on Christmas Eve.
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| Greenland |
| The Christmas feast may include Little Auks (seabirds), wrapped in sealskin and buried for months until decomposed.
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| Hungary |
| Families usually cook festive dinner for that night. An example would be fresh fish usually with rice or potatoes and home made pastries as dessert.
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| Italy |
| Christmas lunch can run to seven course including antipasto, a small portion of pasta, roast meat, two salads, two sweet puddings followed by cheese, fruit, brandy and chocolates.
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| Jamaica |
| The traditional Christmas dinner is rice, gungo peas, chicken, ox tail and curried goat.
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| Latvia |
| Christmas Dinner is cooked brown peas with bacon sauce, small pies, cabbage and sausage.
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| New Zealand |
| Christmas lunch either at home or at one's parents place. Turkey or chicken with all the trimmings is eaten. Then come tea time, it is a Bar-B-Q for friends and family to get together. Beers or wines are essentials with the meal!!
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| Norway |
| The Christmas meal is eaten on Christmas Eve and for coastal regions is traditionally cod, haddock and lutefisk. Inland pork chops, Christmas meatloaf and special sausages are eaten. Farmers leave a bowl of nisse (gruel) in barns on Christmas Eve for the magic Gnome who protects their farms.
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| Portugal |
| A special Christmas meal is salted dry cod-fish with boiled potatoes eaten at midnight on Christmas Eve.
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| Russia |
| Christmas food includes cakes, pies and meat dumplings.
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| South Africa |
| Christmas is during the hot summer season but the traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings is eaten at Christmas.
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| Sweden |
| A smorgasbord Christmas meal eaten on Christmas Eve includes varieties of shellfish, pork, cooked and raw herring fish, caviar, cheeses and brown beans.
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| Ukraine |
| Huge meat broths are eaten on Christmas Eve after which children await "Father Frost" to bring presents.
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| United Kingdom |
| Christmas pudding and mince pies are top grub. Turkey with trimmings is also common.
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| USA |
| The culture is so diverse that you may find many types of Christmas meal. For small town and rural America, traditionally goose, turkey, a variety of vegetables, squash, and pumpkin pie are eaten during Christmas lunch.
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