Traditional Christmas Dinner: but whats 'traditional' where you come from ?

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When I was a lad, 'traditional' Christmas dinner meant we got to eat a couple of wood pigeons, tenderised with a steak mallet and then cooked crispy, and served with a variety of English root vegetables coated in the pigeons juices.

But these days a 'traditional' Christmas dinner seems to involve some sort of over fattened Turkey with loads of oven based frozen things ready made by somebodies aunt Bessie.

Whats 'traditional' Christmas dinner mean where you come from ?

Source: my table
 
In South-Africa cooking a huge Christmas meal is just horrible, it is too hot so we used to have a massive braai [barbeque] with cold salads and cake etc afterwards, then down to the beach to catch a tan and a dip. AAAHH i miss it, now i sit in front of the heater all day long watching tele.
 
Christmas Day was not even a holiday in Scotland, within living memory, but we've succumbed to advertising.

So we don't have our own traditions, we've borrowed other folks'.
 
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