Christmas dinner is the primary meal traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Christmas dinner around the world may differ and the traditions present below can reflect the culture of the respective country it is being celebrated in. Turkey is present in a fair number of these meals.
Read more about Christmas Dinner: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Iceland, Ireland, India, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Famous quotes containing the words christmas and/or dinner:
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“Ask a wise man to dinner and he’ll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you’ll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people’s entertainment.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)