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British Christmas

British Christmas

Within this Thread you can discuss how Christmas is celebrated in this country.

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Most people start to put decorations up around the first weekend in December, followed by hectic daily shopping sprees, trying to cram last minute shopping in right up until Christmas eve.

Most houses have a christmas tree, and there are plenty of lights around windows and peoples gardens.

Christmas day generally tends to start early with the opening and exchanging of christmas gifts,whilst for those who attend church, there is normally a church service running in the morning.

Main christmas meal normally consists of Turkey, although there always people who eat other types of meat instead, then there are mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, vegetables(sprouts are normally always included amongst others)
stuffing, gravy etc, followed normally by christmas pudding and white dessert sauce and wine.

Followed later normally by a buffet, there is always plenty of eating chocolate and consuming alcohol, and christmas crackers with a gift inside are normally pulled at meal times.

There are obviously variations to this, as each household celebrates in their own way, but on the whole I think this pretty much sums up a British Christmas day!

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Having lived in both the UK and USA, I can say that I do not find the Season celebrated differently from the US save for one or two small traditions. Christmas there and in the US seems to be the same like DianeC said: lots of eating, drinking and shopping.

Rather off topic, but... I miss the excellent British deserts - they put away the US variety easily!

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'Very high risk': Insane scenes in London. Thousands of shoppers have flocked to London's high streets as the city faces a tightening of coronavirus restrictions before Christmas. Source 6p.