A CULTURAL INSIGHT OF CHRISTMAS IN UK.

 

 

   All through December people get ready for Christmas by listening to Christmas pop songs on the radio and opening their advent calendars. These are calendars made from card with a door that you open for each day of December. Some have a picture inside, and others have chocolate!

    In schools children typically do a nativity play. People decorate their houses with Christmas trees, holly, mistletoe and lights.

   In the UK, Father Christmas comes on the 24^th of December (Christmas Eve). People put up their stockings on the fireplace or next to their beds. 

   On the 25^th of December, (Christmas Day), the children wake up and open their presents from Father Christmas. 

   When everyone is at the table, people pull Christmas Crackers, tubes made of cardboard that have a paper hat, a little toy, and a joke inside. 

Christmas dinner

    On Christmas day British people eat Christmas Dinner around 2 o’clock in the afternoon. This is composed of Turkey or Chicken, and lots of roast vegetables!  It is accompanied with stuffing, and a very delicious sauce called gravy!

In the evening on Christmas Day, people only eat some cheese and crackers, with pickled onions.

Christmas pudding and Christmas cake are typical desserts at Christmas.

Mince pies is probably the most important sweet food that people eat at Christmas. These are pastry with mince meat inside, it’s not real meat, it’s just dried fruits and syrup.