Around the world, it is not unknown that everybody eats differently.
- Here in America, our typical meal consists of ham, roast beef, or turkey, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, and desserts. Desserts usually consist of pumpkin pie or apple pie.
- In Britain,you sometimes start your meal out with some sort of seafood, eat Turkey, pigs in a blanket, roasted potatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnips, and then sit in for a mountain of Christmas pudding (a mixture of dried fruits, eggs, bread crumbs, nuts, and beef or mutton fat).
- In Italy, you would eat a variation of pasta dishes. The typical pasta is Lasagna Verdi alla Bolognese, but in other regions of Italy you would eat a pasta dish called Passticio al Forno. As a second course you would eat a wide variety of meats such as braised beef, roasted chicken, or veal. Common desserts are nougat or traditional cake, il pandoro.
- In Germany, the typical christmas meal consists of duck, goose, rabbit, or roast. This is accompanied by foods such as apple and sausage stuffing, red cabbage, and potato dumplings. Dessert would be Christmas Stollen.
- In Iceland, on the Christmas dinner table you will find Skate, a large type of fish, with potatoes and lamb fat. There might also be lamb meat served with potatoes, vegetables, and a white sauce. At the end, for dessert, you would typically have cookies and chocolate cake.
- Japanese families typically eat fried chicken from KFC on Christmas and sponge cake for dessert.
- In Egypt, Christmas is not celebrated until January 7th. For dinner, they eat foods only consisting of eggs, butter, and meat. The most popular meal is Fata, a lamb soup with bread, rice, garlic, and lamb.
- In Australia, Christmas is celebrated in the middle of summer, therefore Christmas dinner consists of mainly salads. Some families will wait until later in the night and have the typical roasted meats, vegetables, and plum pudding.
- In Mexico, the dinner table will be filled with Russian potato salad, pavo, which is a roasted stuffed turkey, served with gravy, ensalada de noche buena, tamales, and dessert would be pineapple upside down cake.