Christmas dinner: talk about Christmas eating customs?

Christmas dinner is very rich. All kinds of delicious food are full of color and flavor, which makes people feast their eyes, so it is also called Christmas dinner. On the dining table, orange slices in yellow circles express good wishes. Roses, walnuts, cinnamon and brightly colored fruits are traditional table decorations for Christmas. The main course of Christmas dinner is an indispensable traditional dish-roast turkey. In the eyes of westerners, there is no Christmas dinner without roast turkey. Some westerners are used to putting a whole roast suckling pig on the table of Christmas dinner, while British and Americans like to put an apple in the pig's mouth. This habit may come from some big families, because only big families can eat a pig. Later, some ostentatious people followed suit when they invited guests at Christmas. There are usually plums, puddings and minced meat pies for dessert after dinner-British and American people think they will be lucky after eating these foods. In the United States, there is also a special food in Christmas dinner-roasted corn porridge with a layer of cream and some fruits on it, which is sweet and delicious.

In Denmark, when Christmas dinner begins, people must eat almond pudding before they can start eating other things.

In France, romantic French people like to sing and dance on the night of 65438+February 24, accompanied by the rich fragrance of brandy and champagne, and get drunk before Christmas.

In Britain, besides drinking beer to the fullest, British people also like to travel to other places. More conservative families get together on Christmas Eve.

In Germany, Germans who have always been strict should drink beer, wear white wine, eat sweets, sour food, sour pig's trotters, beef stew with beer, dairy products and all kinds of lettuce.

In Italy, although you usually eat and drink well, at Christmas, it's really a time to eat and drink. Delicious delicacies are wonderful, and it's also a time for gluttons to show their talents.

In Australia, every hotel has prepared rich food for Christmas, including turkey, preserved chicken, pork leg, wine, snacks and so on. In the evening, people, old and young, or with relatives and friends, go to restaurants in droves for Christmas dinner.

Britain, England

English people pay the most attention to eating at Christmas. Food includes roast pig, turkey, Christmas pudding, Christmas meat pie and so on.

The earliest popular is the traditional Christmas dinner, roast pig and ham, because in Catholic countries, pigs symbolize "wealth". Whether it is the early roast pig with ham or the later turkey with salmon, in short, it is mainly meat. Because "hunger" is a common occurrence in the period of depending on the weather, it is always a happy thing to enjoy a "big piece of meat" dinner at the end of the year.

In addition to meat, there is red wine at Christmas dinner. The reason for this tradition is that meat symbolizes the body of Jesus Christ and red wine represents his blood. We should remember Jesus' suffering for others and his crucifixion.

Christmas red wine has a special drinking method: add brown sugar, orange peel, meat orange, orange core, raisins and other ingredients to the wine, then stir while heating on the fire (be careful not to boil), and finally pour in a little vodka. Have a drink after taking the pot. It's really fragrant and warm. Think about it, in the cold Christmas, relatives and friends visit each other, guests come in, take off their hats and gloves and grab a drink. How warm it is!

Another part of the Christmas dinner is dessert. Such as cookies and cakes. This kind of food is usually prepared on Christmas Eve. Families sit together to cook, and children like to participate in things that they find interesting. Because Christmas cakes can be made according to their favorite shapes and tastes. When making Christmas cakes in Swedish-speaking countries, there is a custom similar to China's wrapping jiaozi, that is, deliberately putting a whole almond in the almond-flavored cake, and whoever eats the only whole almond will be the lucky god of the new year. Of course, luck will win the prize. Nordic people often give fortune a big biscuit with a red bow tie on it. In Holland and Germany, it's little black Peter, palm-sized. It can be seen that eating Christmas dinner in the west can not only satisfy your appetite, but also appreciate a very interesting food culture. (Source: Food Weekly)