Christmas Dinner

Always on Christmas Day, at 5:00 p.m.
Later in the evening, my sister & I would sneak into the kitchen to make a turkey w. dressing sandwich :)
 

When I was little we always had a traditional roast beef dinner on Christmas Day.

When I was a tweenager we went to a breakfast or brunch style buffet for anyone that happened to drop in.

Eventually my parents spent Christmas Day visiting family and friends so the small children in the family could be at home with their new toys.

Christmas Eve was never a special meal in my family. Sometimes oyster stew and after midnight church services homemade pizza or sausage sandwiches with peppers & onions.
 
Christmas Day, around 1 p.m. was our big holiday meal. Christmas Eve, we would have a light late meal (ham and rolls, salad) after we came home from church.

Christmas morning, of course, nobody had time to worry about eating.....LET'S OPEN PRESENTS!!!......but after the frenzy was over, there were wonderful sugary yeast rolls my mom made every Christmas morning.

Christmas night was leftovers from the feast of earlier in the day.
 
🎄🎄🎄In France we go to church on Christmas Eve, then returning home presents are opened and we have a light dinner or heavy depending if there are small children. Christmas Day, more food, and friends and relatives getting together.

Here in Australia we are having a zoom get together on Christmas Eve with the grandchildren in France to see them open their gifts. Then on Christmas day, we are invited to have Christmas dinner with friends. They have asked guests to come at 4 for dinner at 5.🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
 
When I was in college (early 1970s) I dated a fellow and was shocked to learn that his family had their "big" celebration on Christmas eve - main meal and gift exchange. That occurred on Christmas DAY with the families in my childhood neighborhood. He explained that his family was of German ancestry and that's how it's done there. At least they had a tree. Where I grew up, it was mainly second generation Italian-Americans and they had a creche in place of the evergreen tree.
 
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