United States
- apple cider
- boiled custard
- candy canes
- Champagne, or sparkling apple cider
- chicken and dumplings, primarily in the southern states
- chocolate fudge
- Christmas cookies
- cranberry sauce
- Dungeness crab, primarily in California
- eggnog
- fruitcake
- gingerbread, often in the form of a gingerbread house or gingerbread man
- Christmas ham
- hot buttered rum
- hot chocolate
- lutefisk (among those with Scandinavian ancestry)
- mashed potato
- mixed nuts
- oyster stew, composed of oysters simmered in cream or milk and butter.
- persimmon pudding
- pie
- apple pie
- mince pie
- pecan pie
- pumpkin pie
- sweet potato pie
- Prime Rib
- plum pudding
- Russian tea cakes
- Tamales
- roast turkey, less often roast duck, goose, or pheasant
- Smithfield ham, often served on a biscuit or a roll
- stuffing, also known as dressing, particularly in the Southern U.S.
- lefse rolled with butter and sugar, particularly in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota
See also: Thanksgiving (the dishes tend to be similar)
Read more about this topic: List Of Christmas Dishes
Famous quotes related to united states:
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)
“When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing to the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The United States is a republic, and a republic is a state in which the people are the boss. That means us. And if the big shots in Washington don’t do like we vote, we don’t vote for them, by golly, no more.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)
“United States! the ages plead,—
Present and Past in under-song,—
Go put your creed into your deed,—
Nor speak with double tongue.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)