You will not believe what Germans eat for Christmas Eve, one of the biggest holidays in Christian nations.A potato salad with a sausage.
As opposed to your delicious bathtub Carp?
>>217832278my family never did this and I find it weird toobut I think this tradition is only for lunch on Christmas eve because proper Christmas only starts in the evening on Christmas eve and then the next two days
>>217832299Fish is only one of the dozen dishes we'll eat tomorrow. In my family we eat salmon though.
>potato salad with sausage>bathtub carpWe do not do this in America.
>>217832309How big portion of families do you think do it?>>217832322Good. You probably eat a Christmas bucket of Fried Chicken, like you taught Japs to do, right?
>>217832278Let me guess...you want more?
>>217832359>You probably eat a Christmas bucket of Fried Chicken, like you taught Japs to do, right?I would, but KFC sucks now.Ham and goose are traditional. I personally am having homemade ham soup.
>>217832359>How big portion of families do you think do it?idk but it's common from what I've heard
>>217832315Bathtub Salmon sounds nice but Carp are just trash fish
>>217832278That sounds kinda comfy...
Respectfully, every country except mine has terrible Christmas food. Both of our common Christmas dinners are delicious, and the third less common type is not bad either.
>>217832409Red meat for Christmas just feels wrong. Needs to be nice and easy to digest. Red meat is for summer.
>>217832457doesn't goose / turkey qualify as red meat in America?
>>217832363Yeah? Some more celebratory dishes, that maybe take more than 10 minutes to prepare? Something delicious to share with your close ones on this special night?
>>217832457No, Christmas is for stuffing yourself with fatty meat and washing it down with dark malty beer and akevitt.
>>217832477>>217832457Also the other anon mentioned ham; I thought that ham is traditional for American Christmas as well. Ham isn't red meat?
>>217832409>>217832528I really like what we eat for Christmas Eve:- barszcz, tasty and fun to eat because of uszka (small dumplings)- mushroom soup- fish soup- pierogi- small sauerkraut & mushroom pies- fish- kutia- kompot z suszu, as long as use only dried fruits, not the smoked onesEvery savory dish is filled with sweetness, umami, sourness; a lot of sauerkraut, a lot of mushrooms; in desserts a lot of honey and poppyseeds.But it little bit falls flat on proper (25th / 26th) Christmas. We don't have good, banger meat dish that is special and proper for this holiday.Also>beer on ChristmasNo thank you
>>217832679Dumplings (especially the Euro ones that are tricky to make) seem like the perfect thing to have at Christmas. Difficult to make but very homely and tasty
>>217832457It is easy to digest.
>>217832715What you mean they are tricky to make? Dough is extremally simple (flour and water, maybe one egg and a little of oil), you cut a little circles and put filling in them, that's it.They are a little time consuming - I'll give you that. But the thing is, it's just not worth it to make them in small scale - you make like hundred or two of them, eat some while they are fresh and freeze the rest.
>>217832715Uszka (litterally "little ears") for barszcz seem more fancy, but unless you've got some kind of troll hands, you can do it.Honestly, if your family eat some clear / brothy soup for Christmas, why don't you give them a try and prepare them this year? Ingredients shouldn't be hard to find in Brittish stores.
>>217832510There is enough shit to get stressed about on Christmas Eve, why add having to cook a three course meal to that? We save the big feasts for Christmas Day
>>217832870>We save the big feasts for Christmas DayLet me guess, you eat Butterbrot with ham AND cheese on that day?
Christmas eve isn't that special here.Christmas day is for presents and a big dinnerBoxing day is for leftovers and a buffet
>>217832409what's the less common one>>217832956do you do any shopping on boxing day?
>>217832981Lutefisk. a lot of people might eat it during the Christmas season, but the most important is the Christmas eve dinner and there it is the least popular option.
>>217832981I won't go shopping in boxing day myself, as I hate busy shops. Will go a few days later
Christmas food that represents the best food you can traditionally get your hands in in winter in your country is basedThat's why I'm goosepilled
>>217832510That's the decadent Catholic way. Protestants respect simplicity and tradition.
>>217833045>shops open during christmassoulless
>>217833014Dried fish is good, gelatinous fish is also good (generally, savory jellies are better than sweet ones) but I don't think I've ever eaten anything with lye. What does it taste like?>>217833106Yeah totally, so they eat ham, turkey, goose, lamb and fishes. Got it.Germans are just soulless robot nation.>>217833099It's usually duck with apples in my family.
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>>217833167Nah it's just banter, I wish all German anons a very Merry Christmas.
>>217833142Tastes like almost nothing, the fish only has a faint fish taste and more or less just acts a sponge for the accessories, quite boring really. Pinnekjøtt (cured and dried lamb ribs) is probably the most flavorful option.
>>217833115Boxing day isn't Christmas, there's no religious aspect. It's another bank holiday
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>>217833215It's literally The Second Day of Christmas and St. Stephen's Day.>>217833242Original post wasn't about Poland, also, Merry Christmas my friend >>217833190
>>217833115They're shut on Christmas day, but boxing day is a shopping day. Only Sunday opening hours though.Shops will also close very early on Christmas eve.We don't have anything open christmas day, no trains, no buses, nothing.
>be me>go to Germany>eat in a restaurant every day because it's vacation>they serve potato snot with every mealI like German food. But they really should cut it out with the potato snot.
>>217833215Even from a secular perspective in terms of labor rights it is good to suppress the power of mammon for as many days as possible.
>>217833215>>217833266How come shops are open on bank holiday? Doesn't make sense. Do all of Britts work in a bank?
It ain't Christmas without some kind of big meat. Ham, turkey, whatever. Fish is a side dish.
>>217832299freak status: bodied
>>217833292Bank holidays have Sunday shopping hours, like 10am-6pm. Shops are only banned from opening on Christmas and Easter.
>>217833293It's traditionally "fasting" day on Christmas Eve (last day of Advent) so no meat allowed.>>217833275Nah the German food is very mid. The only actually good dishes in their cuisine are either Hungarian, Austrian, Turkish or Czech, like Gulaschsuppe, Doner or Wiener Schnitzel.Which is weird, cause they make probably the best overall beverages in Europe: fantastic beer, wine and schnapps, great variety of sodas, etc. Second best or the best bread in Europe, also.
>>217833321What do you eat on Christmas Eve, Svenanon?
>>217833373Curry Wurst was also invented by a Dutch migrant to Germany.And our version of dishes are also superior to the German versions. Like the Weihnachtsstollen in German. The Dutch kerstol has a almond core.
>>217832394Any traditional Christmas dishes in 'Stralia that are unheard of in rest of the Charles III dominion?
>>217832278>one of the biggest holidays in Christian nations.Christmas is pagan.
>>217833513And our alphabet is derived from Phoenician, are we speaking Punic right now?
>>217833482>WeihnachtsstollenWe also eat something similar called keks. Although I assume it's German influence & it's not really traditional for Christmas.>curry wurstThat's a good one. I've never been in Netherlands, I want to go prob in 2026 and try your bitterballen.>>217833513Yeah so is Christmas tree, so?
