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EDHS Contemporary World Affairs -> Discussion Topics, Week Fifteen -> Tradition or Turducken?
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If you celebrate Christmas, does your family eat... [24 vote(s)]

...seafood on Christmas Eve?
0.0%
...turkey on Christmas Day?
20.8%
....ham on Christmas Day?
50.0%
...lamb on Christmas Day?
4.2%
...something else?
20.8%
...or do you not celebrate Christmas?
4.2%
MrsCavalluzzi


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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year - all that yummy food and family  and gratitude for all that we have - packaged with the start of the Mock Trial playoffs and in the midst of November sweeps so usually containing some great TV - the greatest!!! But I also love it because it is the kickoff of the holiday season in general with all of the traditions and celebrations said holidays entail.

SO, a question - what are some of YOUR favorite traditions at this time of year?  Do you have special foods/gatherings/events/games/conversations/decorations/gifts that define the holidays for you?  Traditions that have existed in your family as long as or longer than you have?  New traditions that you're trying to get off of the ground?  And, has anyone had turducken (I share Stephen Colbert's fascination with this most unbelievable of meats)?!

I'm so thankful for you all, and for what great citizens of our class you are - you've really made this inaugural semester of our course a success, and a teaching experience that I'll always remember!! Have a WONDERFUL and delicious holiday!!!  (and don't forget to do your Story Corps assignment!!)

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-- Edited by MrsCavalluzzi at 23:37, 2008-11-26

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Our family traditions include driving through Eagle Heights and looking at the Christmas lights. We meet with my dad's side of the family on Christmas Eve, and my mom's side on Christmas Day. We always have "A Christmas Story" on TBS playing all day long. Then we watch some college football bowl games.


Turducken=AMAZING!!!!

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I eat turkey on Thanksgiving and ham on Christmas. My mom says that it would be wrong if we had turkey on both holidays.. i wouldn't mind, but that's just her. It's a tradition that every year we get a family Christmas tree ornament with all our names on them, like last year I think we got one with 2 big snowmen (my mom and dad) and 3 little snowmen ( my brother, sister, and me). Other than that we really don't have any traditions..my family likes to do different things all the time!

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we re having tofurkey and wamb for christmas
but for thanksgiving we were traditional

im excited for the tofurkey though aaahhahah

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for thanksgiving we have a family gathering at my house, and i truly enjoy it. we have a larrge family so i am a great help to my mom as she prepares the more than enought delicious foood! we cook 1-2 turkeys, prime rib, and honey baked ham everrry year! its such incredibly yummy foood, but my favorite part is spending time with my family, were all togther in one house and theres alllot of us! my favorite part is when my dad says the dinner blessing before we eat! we make on biiiig circle around the food table and hold hands, and my dad has a way with his blessings!


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I'm half Mexican so on Christmas Eve we have a big party at my house with friends and family. We get together and make hundreds of tamales. We give them to everyone we know and yet we still have enough to last us for months.

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It's ALL family when it comes to these holidays. Just kickback, grub, watch sports, play a little poker. Ahhhhhhhhh Love it! =D

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ham=christmas, turkey=thanksgiving, usually traditions include my aunt and uncle coming down from Washington and staying with us

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I eat tri-tip on thanksgiving.
But on Christmas, I eat enchiladas!

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turkey for thanksgiving,
i dont like goose, but i thought it was for christmas...hmm
stuart denton

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we have recently started eating lamb at big celebrations, and will be incorporating it into our christmas feast. Another classic is on Christmas morning my mom always makes home made McMuffins. What could be better?

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on thanksgiving, me and my family go out and eat, sometimes we have japanese food, italian food, mexican food... ect, i really enojy it.
but, the weekend before thanksgiving, (that saturday) my family comes over for thanksgiving dinner. its nice, to have everyone come.
oh and one thanksgiving we went to San Jose/San Fran to visit my awesome uncle Mikee.

during christmas, my and my sisters help my mom with the holiday decoractions, puttin up the 11 treess... yess i have a 11 trees in my house, we go christmas happying. each of our rooms and one hall way have a theme, my theme is the New York Treee, which is the best tree in the house, and then for me and my sisters, we have a little christmas party for our close friends. and on the 24th we each get to open one present, and on the 25th we go hangout with my amazing aunt Benna, and the fathers side of the family, and talk, and exchange gifts.
its really fun. oh, and finally after 4 years i get to see my cousin who has been in Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam! whoot whoot.

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turkey on thanksgiving and ham on christmas.

on my mothers side we celebrate christmas a week before christmas day.
we have a feast and exchange gifts. my grandmother always without a doubt gives me pjs. we also tell the same funny stories that we hear every year.

on my dads side the feast is even larger. because on my dads side we are mexican we have a tamale making party a couple weeks before and eat tamales so we pretty much eat tamales the whole month of december. we go to my grandparent house christmas eve, eat (my grandmother makes the BEST scaloped potatoes everr!), exchange gifts and just hang out. the men usually play a poker game till the late hours and the women watch the kids and chit chat.

on christmas day we usually go to church in the morning and just hang out as a family in our pajamas. my mom usually makes a really good breakfast consisting of more tamales and waffles and lots of yumminess.


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my mom side of the family is italian so we usually eat manacotti or spaghetti. but the thing is my Grandma refuses to use anything out of a can or jar so we get homemeade noodles homemade sauce and homemade bread. it is oh so yummy. my other grandma makes all the families homemade cinnamon roll that we have for breakfast. on christmas day if were in the country we go to my dad's parents for lunch and presents. when we do presents the youngest gets to open them first and then the oldest. but my grandma always gets the girls all the same thing and then the boys get all the same thing, so if you what to be suprised you'd better close your eyes and plug your ears until it's your turn. then we stop by my mom's parents and have some yummy italian cusine. then we drag our stuffed bodies to my Stepmom's parents where my sister my stepcousin and myself take it upon ourselves to sort out all the presents. then we watch old christmas classics. my favorite is the Family circus christmas or a charlie brown christmas or elf or the chrismas story or santa clause or rudolph the rednose reindeer etc. i love love love christmas!!!

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We have quite a few traditions in my family (I LOVE holidays!!!)...

on Thanksgiving, we usually go to my aunt's in Pasadena - most of that side of my family is vegetarian, so for years we had exciting dishes like tofurky (usually just in an oval shape, but this year it was actually sculpted to look like a turkey) and nutloaf (instead of meatloaf), but now that I and a variety of my cousins have gotten married, our gathering has expanded to include enough carnivores that the menu has expanded to feature actual turkey :) .  All of the cousins make a dish - our favorite Thanksgiving side - to bring, so I always bring mashed potatoes - and it's a super fun day because at this point, we have seven kids under six, including my cousin's twin girls, who are just nine days younger than my daughter, so it's a kid frenzy :).

In December, I always host a cookie exchange with some of the other girl teachers here at EDHS.  On Christmas Eve, Santa's elves bring us an early present, which is always pajamas to wear that night (a tradition from when I was little that I'm now passing on to my kids).  Then we go to my in-laws' for a giant Italian Christmas Eve seafood fest.  Christmas Day we always get oranges at the bottom of our stockings (everyone in my fam has one that my grandma made for them) because when my great-grandma was growing up in Ohio, her family was poor and the only Christmas gift they got was an orange from California, which seemed so exotic and exciting to them, so we try to honor that sense of appreciation for all gifts, large and small, and to have the orange as a reminder to be thankful that our Christmas is full of so much more.  We usually make breakfast/brunch our big meal rather than Christmas dinner, and then Christmas afternoon/night is pretty quiet - sometimes we spend it with our good pals the Switzers, and other times we just watch A Christmas Story (BEST holiday movie EVER!!!).

I am SUPER excited for this Christmas because both of my kids are really old enough to get into it and they are SO delighted about every aspect of the season :).  Having little kids around at Christmas is the only thing more exciting than BEING a little kid at Christmas. :)  Last year, Lucy asked me on Christmas Eve before she went to bed if she could show Santa Claus her new jammies when he came to our house.  I told her that she'd be long since asleep when Santa arrived, and she looked at me like I was a complete idiot and said, "Mommy, he SEES you when you're sleeping!!"   

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P.S. as to the "seafood on Christmas Eve?! Who eats SEAFOOD on Chrismas Eve?!" comment that I just overheard (Drew biggrin), it is a tradition in many Italian families...so much so that it's even a graphic novel:

http://feastofthesevenfishes.com/ 

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we usually do ham and turkey on both thanksgiving and christmas, us crazy germans.
we celebrate christmas on the 24th and 25th. in germany christmas is on the 24th, so yes. i go to the germans house on eve and my house on the day. its pretty gnarly, im not gonna lie.

sweeeeet

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actually
because of my japanese heritage sometimes my grandma would make sushi or sashimi for christmas

but now shes gone so we havent had it for a few years
but my dads gonna make an attempt this christmas he said since we re already going crazy with the tofurkey and wamb


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ps
as of yesterday
i plan to make mud football a holiday tradition in my family


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