What´s the typical christmas meal....

[BeBMan]

....in your country or your family esp.

The only foreign I know is turkey in the US, if that´s right (or do they eat those only at thanksgiving )

Traditionally in Germany it is usually goose. But not in my family, we eat something else at x-mas, and always different things.

So teach me about your favourite/traditional x-mas meals. I´m hungry

[Harry Tuttle]

Being in the U.S., my family has always eaten Turkey. In fact it's almost the same meal as the one at Thanksgiving. Other favorites are: Beef Tenderloin and Ham.

[oedo]

curried sausage with sauerkraut.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by oedo
curried sausage with sauerkraut.

I don´t believe you.

What do the French or the Brits eat? Or the other fellow eurocoms?

[Agathon]

Beer, followed by more Beer, and yet more Beer, followed by a Beer chaser and drowning in your soup.

[Dis]

Turkey for our family.

Though my sister-in-law made ham.

Ham is also very popular in the U.S. But not as much as turkey.

And throw in egg nog, mashed potatos, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pies. All of that.

Our meals end up a lot like Thanksgiving meals . Except maybe someone makes some kind of christmas cookies.

[Provost Harrison]

The British traditionally have turkey too, often pork as well with stuffing and chipolata sausages (little sausages wrapped in bacon). And lots and lots of sprouts

[Provost Harrison]

...ah yes, cranberry sauce too. Basically identical to the US...

[Peter Triggs]

I had a 'Special Christmas Lunch' at the pub earlier today:

Turkey,
sausages wrapped in bacon
bread stuffing
roast potatoes
mashed potatoes
roast parsnips
carrots
peas
sprouts
cranberry sauce.

I don't think the cranberry sauce is traditional, but it's becoming more popular.

The pub:

[Dis]

that's a pub? looks awefully small

[Snotty]

Cranberry is the norm here. I hate the stuff. Every 'special edition' christmas sandwhich has it spread over the inside to ruin the entire thing.

Turkey, roast potatoes, stuffing, gravy etc.

[Inverse Icarus]

... the hell? it's always been a christmas HAM as far as i know!

[molly bloom]

In Australia it used to be a very British meal, until the great cultural gustatory shift of the Seventies when people realised that cooking for six hours in 30 degree plus heat was madness, and trying to digest turkey, green vegetables and carbohydrate in the equivalent of a notheren summer heatwave as folly.

Now people have fish, chicken or barbecues with tiger prawns, and chorizo and cevap and suchlike (down in the south- I expect over Darwin way things may be more Asian influenced).

We're having chilled coconut and shrimp soup with wasabi crackers to start, and because my partner requested it, kangaroo with kakadu plum preserve, kipfler potatoes and puree of broad beans with lamb's lettuce and mizuna salad, and golden roma tomatoes.

Lemon and rosemary sorbet for dessert, Turkish coffee and Iranian candy floss to finish.

[Peter Triggs]

that's a pub? looks awefully small

There's another room but the whole thing is probably about 5x that size. It's a 'local' pub as opposed to one of the town center pubs. Years ago in that neighbourhood there used to be tons of them; it seemed like almost one on every streetcorner. At that time a lot of people would go out to the pub almost every night. Especially older people: they'd go out, meet their friends, have a couple of pints, and play cribbage, bar billiards or shove-haepenny (a game that involves polished coins and wooden surface). But there's only about 5 or 6 of those pubs left in the neighbourhood now.

BTW, I went out with the camera today cause I want to start a 'Christmas Pictures' thread. I've seen people get more than one picture in per post. Anybody know the trick involved in doing this?

[Solly]

You have to use the (img) (/img) tag and link to the pictures Peter.

Yep, Turkey every Christmas here. Lots of sprouts for post-Queen's speech farting competitions.