In Denmark, when the Christmas dinner begins, people must eat an almond pudding before they can start eating something else.
In France, romantic French people like to sing and dance on the evening of December 24th, accompanied by the rich bouquet of brandy and champagne, and get drunk before Christmas.
In Britain, British people like to travel to other places besides drinking beer heartily. More conservative families get together on Christmas Eve.
In Germany, strict Germans always drink beer, wear white wine, eat sweets, sour food, sour 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, with delicacies, delicious dishes and wonderful dishes. It's a time for gluttons to show their talents.
In Australia, every hotel has prepared abundant food for Christmas, including turkey, preserved chicken, pork leg, wine, snacks, etc. In the evening, people, old and young, or with relatives and friends, go to restaurants in groups to eat Christmas dinner.
Britain
British people pay the most attention to eating at Christmas. The food includes roast pig, turkey, Christmas pudding, Christmas minced meat pie and other traditional Christmas dinners. At the earliest time, roast pig and ham were popular, because in Catholic countries, pigs symbolize "wealth". Whether it is the early roast pig and ham, or the later turkey and salmon, in short, it is mainly meat. Because "hunger" is a common occurrence in the period of eating by 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 eating meat, there is still 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. Jesus' suffering on behalf of others and crucifixion should be commemorated.
Christmas red wine has a special drinking method: add brown sugar, orange peel, meat orange, orange kernel, raisins and other ingredients to the wine, then stir while heating it on the fire (be careful not to boil the pot), and finally pour a little vodka on it. After taking the pot, a cup is 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 rush to have a drink. How warm it is!
Another part of the Christmas dinner is dessert. Such as biscuits and cakes. This kind of food is usually prepared on Christmas Eve. Families sit together and cook, and children love to participate in such things that they find interesting. Because Christmas cakes can be made according to their favorite shape and taste. When making Christmas cakes in Swedish-speaking countries, there is a custom similar to China's wrapping jiaozi, that is, a whole almond is deliberately put in the almond-flavored cakes, and whoever eats the only intact almond is the lucky god of the New Year. Of course, the God of Luck wins prizes. The Nordic people often give the God of Luck a big biscuit with a red butterfly bow tie. In Holland and Germany, it's little black Peter, the size of a palm. It can be seen that eating Christmas dinner in the west can not only satisfy one's appetite, but also appreciate a very interesting food culture. (Source: Food Weekly)