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I'm the most Kkkrackkkers of Amerikkkans so my tradition is just getting drunk off mulled wine and re-watching bad holiday movies with relatives I only kinda like.

I'm sometimes a little jealous of people who have weirder shit going on, like gremlins who slam doors and steal sausages or shitting Christmas logs. We need to bring back weird ass half-pagan shit.

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[–] Egon@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dancing around a tree we've decorated while singing songs about how we're going to eat it (okay just one song, other songd are about other stuff).

Competitively eating a form of rice porridge mixed with whipped cream and almonds, until one of us gets a whole almond and they get a present.

One of the elders of the family will abandon us in the night, only to don a garment of mixed red-and-white fabrics, stuff their pants and belly with hay or cloth so as to simulate obesity, wear a fake beard and then return claiming to be a man called "Santa Claus". They will then go to each child in the den and interrogate them on their behaviour for the year. If the child is deemed worthy then it is handed a preset. If not it will be handed coal and scolded for all to see.

And then there's the Thor-feud ofc

[–] sawne128@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Omg, I have a Danish relative who does the almond in the ris a la malta thing, but I thought that was something her family made up.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Nope. We all do it, turning Christmas celebrations into an eating contest.

[–] PigPoopBallsDotJPG@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

We have two Christmas Days, on December 25 and 26. For people in relationships that usually means one day celebrating with your parents, and the other with your inlaws. Lately a lot of people have started observing an unofficial third Christmas Day on the 27th to celebrate with friends.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Only tangentially related to being a Christmas tradition, but the weirdest thing I grew up with was Knut. 20 days after Christmas you’re supposed to take down all Christmas decorations, and this coincides with children dressing up as old men to beg for treats.

There were other regional variants of this as well. But it was very much a hyperlocal event that is as close to doxing myself as I’m going to get here.

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah I have done this too, on the 13th of January. We dressed up in any costume. It basically was like Halloween for us well before Murican Halloween made landfall here.

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[–] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Half of the country eats Bratwurst (or some other kind of wurst) with Sourkraut and potato salad for dinner on the 24th.

This is a fact and entirely not made up.

[–] Katra5Lives@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

a bunch of the christmas movie "classics" are absolute garbage, but i watch them anyway because its too much energy to hate on them too on top of the rest of the shit in the world

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I'm Polish-American, so we break bread, specifically these church wafers called pwatki(sp?). Also around that time and New Years, there's the tradition of "Cannibal Sandwiches". Despite making plans of being pescatarian in 2 years, I will be enjoying some raw beef on rye this year.

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

malcolm-checks

Monitoring this thread for blackface Santa

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