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The big thing in the uk, for Christmas, is that Michael buble gets wheeled out of his hibernation, and does a load of Christmas singing, then he won’t be seen again until the next christmas
They start to thaw him out slowly about September. He's ready then for Dec
Sharon Lock Hahaha...screenshotting this one
Beer for santa? Nah, in the UK we leave brandy and mince pies for santa and carrots for Rudolph
Yep, nothing like a drunk Santa.
Yes definitely the carrot for Rudolph !
In my house we always leave Santa 2 grams of cocaine
@@christophertolley2972 what's your address, by the way this is Santa@
I believe my brother and I used to leave sherry for Father Christmas.
There are no such things as weird British Christmas traditions.
Hear, Hear @mike04535
Christmas is portrayed as the Birthday of Jesus Christ. In fact the early Christians took over existing Pagan Feast Days. Christmas was the mid-winter feast, triggered by the shortest day on the 21st December. It took 4 days to prepare the food, fuel and getting the people together.
This has been going for over 1.5 THOUSAND YEARS in the UK. Australia has only had a white population for less than 250 years. So clearly British Traditions have a long pedigree and it is the Australian traditions which are weird.
@Hammer 001 In business training it is called, "Initial Market Penetration."
In teaching you start off with something the child is already acomplished with.
The heathen tradition of having a feast, to make people feel content, during the long winter has its pedigree long before the early Christians hijacked it, therefore these traditions are well established and the norm, hence not weird.
The Jehovah's Witnesses seem to have worked out his birthday was in April sometime from what they read in the bible, so they do not celebrate Christmas, throwing out all the good these ancient traditions do.
The Holy Roman Catholic Church was set up on the Orders of Emperor Constantine in 313 AD when he realised a unified simple religeon could be used to create power for himself. It is therefore a complete bastardisation of Christianity but they still celebrate Christmas, as it is good for business.
@Hammer 001 I agree with most of what you say. The Georgian Calendar was zeroed on the birth of Christ, whatever the carpenter was called in reality. It is a difficult concept to zero a calendar on an Era (CE) when that era is of indefinite time. Hence when using the Georgan callendar I use BC and AD. It is of no more significance than whether you measure the length of a piece of wood by the Imperial or Metric system. The Imperial system is more useful as it is based on the development from the Babylonian and Egyptian, a yard being a Man's stride whereas a Metre is a fraction of a long length through Paris which the French got wrong by over 2 Kilometres, and is therefore totally arbitrary. You can estimate length, acreage and many other things by eye with a sound knowledge of the Imperial System. Yet people are expected to prepare estimates for say painting the Forth Road Bridge measuring in Millimetres - barmy. You cannot estimate by eye with the Metric System, it does not relate to anything tangible.
After 313 AD and the Constantine Power Play, the Christians who still wanted to be able to study all the books about their religeon were labelled Gnostics and persecuted by the sword. It was these people who secreted away the Dead Sea Scrolls and the others. I agree that we have all had to suffer the ramifications of this Roman Tyrant, especially the babies whose bones fill many cellars in Ireland.
I had my daughters till they were 7 and 8, and we always celebrated the midwinter with a feast, warmth and togetherness. I always taught them that Father Christmas was a concept, which was personified. It is about giving and empathy even to those people who have slighted you throughout the year, to endevour to make life better for the next year.
I haven't seen my daughters since they were 7 and 8 for no good reason. This is only recently becoming recognised as Child Psychological Abuse by the Alienating Parent they cling to as all abused children cling to their abusers.
It will be 36 years this Christmas.
@Hammer 001
"Give me the English Metric system any day over the French introduced "Imperial" system."
Says it all.
@Hammer 001 Well first, "Jesus Christ" as a name is a result of transliteration from Hebrew/Aramaic, via Greek and Latin and is a combination of his name and what he was revered as, (A truer translation to English of his name alone from to English would be Yeshua Ben Yosef,) but the Romans certainly had records of an unnamed 'prophet' in the same area at about the same time, who was executed by crucifixion around 4BC. This particular prophet's followers claimed that he could perform miracles, though there is no recorded evidence of the truth of this. Everything else about Jesus comes from testaments of his disciples and of followers who came after them, so though the Christian church sees everything in the bible as truth and claims it as 'gospel', one has to consider the option of "Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?"
The people who like christmas pudding aren't as vocal as the ones who don't.
Love Christmas pudding!
Jemma James me too!
Do agree, my parents love the stuff and buy lots of it and eat it throughout the year
Home made pud is best pud, with cream not that brandy butter insanity.
In my family dessert was wither xmas pud of trifle, I hate them both obviously my family hate me.
Churches do nativity plays - everyone is welcome
Pantomimes are also a xmas tradition I’d recommend you go see one and try to get on the front row seats!!! 😉😉😉😉
Sadist! LMAO
@Amanda lewis..... Oh no she shouldn't.
He's behind you!
OH NO THE'RE NOT ! :)
neil thurlow oh yes she should! 🤣
I was always told to leave mince pies and a glass of sherry for Santa... I have suspicions that my mum liked the sherry🤔
Same here mince pies and sherry or port
Sy Xs Me too that’s what we left for Santa. And carrots for Rudolph. 😀
Same here.
Agreed. Mince pies, some Christmas cake and sherry left on the table as we kids went to bed. Of course, the adults would return from midnight mass and partake of this little repast. Then the kids would get up the morning to see that Santa's snack had been consumed and were thus extremely excited as this confirmed that he had been and there must be presents awaiting.
Me too.
If you like Christmas would recommend attending a Carol Concert, especially on Christmas Eve, it can really set the tone for the holiday. In the day of the great houses Boxing day was the day the house servants would go to visit their families and they would be given a 'box' to take with them, now it is more a day to get outside into the fresh air, walk off the excess of Christmas day and meet friends.
Larger churches, minsters, etc. around the country often hold a 'carols by candlelight' event after sunset on Christmas Eve, where all there are invited to sing carols whilst the church choir carry the candles down the aisle. There's no requirement to be religious at all: I went to one with a group of friends, during a Christmas Eve pub crawl in my late teens, and they didn't mind that we were all a bit drunk either. Mind you they weren't too pleased when one of our pissed up mates blew the candles out as they were carried past. 🤔
Bread sauce is amazing. You have to make it yourself though. The Queen having an easy life! She’s 93 and still working! Would you still work at the age of 93? Christmas pudding with the flaming brandy - brilliant!
Even works on Christmas Day.
R. Brooks The Christmas broadcast is taped weeks before. When my dad was with the BBC Outside Broadcast he did a Queens broadcast. They had to set it up and then all retire out of the room. Only the cameraman and producer were allowed in.
I love Christmas Cake and Christmas Pudding it's not just an adornment
Same
Ahh Christmas Pudding, that thing you buy every year and are always too full to have after the meal so it sits in a cupboard until you rediscover it in June. For the last three years in a row we have had our Christmas Pud after a barbecue.
me to, my mum used to make a cake every year when we were young, I like everything in the dinner.
I do too
Christmas cake and Christmas pudding are not the same thing. Americans get so befuddled. Who sets light to their cake? 😀
Traditional Christmas family argument, almost every UK household.
Some things are universal haha
I avoid that by living sufficiently far away from anyone I am related to that visiting would be unreasonable.
@@Embetebe This will be the 10th year without be seeing any family at xmas no arguments and no gifts to buy
Normalised by Eastenders
Johan MB me too and I love it
I couldn’t imagine Christmas without the cold weather
Am from Barnsley Yorkshire and it’s cold but no snow yet!
I can! To feel warm and no joint pain 😎😎😁😁
Kane used to have to work on xmas day when I lived in Saudi where it is completely banned,you will be arrested if caught celebrating Christmas
I love xmas in the sun. Have spent many in canary islands loved it.
@@kane211 snap not seen snow but freezing cold i live in wosbrough common
I believe the stocking tradition is that if you'd been good you got an orange. If you were naughty you got a lump of coal just to keep it nice and random.
Hi, a few things, the goose was traditional to the UK, the Turkey is/was and American import. Bread sauce is the bomb, don't bother with the packet mix nonsense, Onion, studded with cloves, cooking in milk with butter, double cream and nutmeg and a bayleaf and stale breadcrumbs to thicken... well worth making from scratch. 🍜 P.S. Mince pies, sherry and 2 carrots for the Reign dear to be left out on Christmas eve.
Tim Covill I live in East Yorkshire and never knew anyone who had bread sauce, of course we saw it on the tv. Is it regional?
@@jemmajames6719 Not that I know of, give it a whirl...
Christmas cake and Christmas pudding are amazing. Definitely not just decoration.
For the nativity you could watch the nativity films
I think churches do it too but I'm not religious so you won't often find me there
"A goose seems more like a farmyard animal." Yeah? more like a farmyard animal than a turkey or a chicken then?
Dave Bartlett. I was thinking the same thing. 😂🤣.
Yeah, bizarre. Also, hasn't she been stuffed with A Christmas Carol yearly from birth? Where they get a goose as big as the boy? Also, turkeys are an American animal, so that couldn't be too long-standing of a tradition.
@@jenniferpearce1052 . Goose or capon was served at Christmas as far back as the 16th century.
Wassail:
Middle English wæs hæil meaning be in good health with the reply drinkhæl meaning drink in good health.
Wassailing:
The tradition of going around singing seasonal songs and also in some parts of the country around the fruit orchards where songs were sung and a lot of noise created to scare away any bad fairy folk or bad spirits from the trees that might interfere with next year's crop. Also some would also care long staves and beat the tree trunks for the same reason.
There is not a drink called Wassail but much will be drunk, as you said Mulled Wine or more traditionally Mulled Cider, Mulled Perry or Mead.
It's a very old custom possibly introduced by the Danes and or the early Saxons.
Hope that helps, the closest you with get today and in London is Carol Singing.
You might find a Nativity at a local Church put on by an associate school, usually all are welcome.
geese were used before turkeys were introduced to Britain
We celebrate the winter solstice and have a lot of pagan traditions that are now also Christmas ones. Think you’d find that really interesting.
Ohh!! I am so interested in this! I have to do some homework
@@YvettesVibes Have a cool Yule, (or a Happy Saturnalia, if you go along with those new-fangled Roman ideas.)
I actually love Christmas pudding. I buy all the reduce ones after Christmas and eat them usually into Feb at least. I have my pudding with double cream and a large splodge of brandy butter. The most traditional option. Not watched the whole vid yet but did you mention pantomime. Its an essential thing to experience at Christmas time in the UK.
And Boxing Day is usually the day, you get presents from other family members and travel to see family, mostly means we don't have to leave the house on Christmas Day x
The queen is a amazing lady who is 93 years old and still working.
Working... shes never done a days work in her fuckin life
@@albertrobinson7392 Aww, come on - look at all those holidays she goes on every year and.... Oh yeah: you're right!
I wouldn't want her life, she doesn't get much say about who she has to meet and what she she does. She dose work it's just a different kid of work.
@@albertrobinson7392 you seem to know very little about her then, she was a mechanic in the army during WW2 for example.
jakiiboi8 what do you think about harry trying to become independent
Traditional for the last ten years is for me to cook christmas dinner. I get up in the morning, me and a bottle of Irish whiskey go into the kitchen, start preparing the food, etc... just me, left alone. People try to add their 'ideas' for the meal, I remind them, they have five minutes to make their tea or coffee and to get the hell out of my kitchen.
When we were younger we'd go to my uncle and aunt's pub. My uncle was a great chef. We'd sit with all the family, the occasional argument, bit of laughter, me and my sister would look at each other bored out of our minds because it was too cold to play outside, but too many things to knock over and damage to play inside, not allowed to go watch TV because it's christmas and we were supposed to entertain and be entertained by being with family. A few days leading up to and after christmas we'd do the rounds of friends and other family members for coffee and to exchange christmas presents.
My best christmas was when I had the house to myself, I drew the curtains, turned off the phone and made a bed up in front of TV for three days. It was glorious, no stressful family, calls at all hours wishing a merry christmas, etc...
It's great to see you so excited about experiencing christmas in the U.K. for the first time, I truly hope you have an amazing christmas and it's all you want and expect it to be.
It’s quite a northern thing, but Christmas cake with a slice of cheese on it. Preferably Wensleydale.
Or Cheshire cheese, it has to be a crumbly cheese Yum 😁
Really? Never heard of that (I'm from the West Country), but I can see how the flavours would complement one another.
Mmm, Wenlseydale. "More cheese Gromit?"
Christmas Pudding is awesome, I love it, where did you get the idea that nobody likes it?
I thought she was talking about Christmas cake? Which can be too rich for some people.
Never really come across anyone who doesn’t like either, so I’m puzzled by that as well. The only thing now that isn’t really popular is the tradition of putting money in the pudding, when I was a kid it used to be 5p, but they were much, much, larger than the modern 5p’s so not as bad a choking hazard. Probably leached all sorts of dodgy chemicals into the pudding though when cooked.
Love it,
Probably got this idea from the same people who don't like proper wedding cake and have a sponge concoction with fondant icing instead.
I must confess I do like a slice of cold Christmas pudding. Even better than Christmas cake.
Wassail is warm cider with orange and red berries in the pot. It’s a tradition in the south west of England where Cider is a big drink.
Having been a chef since 1987, I cannot remember how many people I have cooked for on Christmas Day. On your first Christmas, either have it at home, or book an Airbnb in Cairngorms/Glencoe in the far north of Scotland, it’s isolated, you’ll get a white Christmas with snow too!
Buy a mini Christmas pudding, get a table spoon of brandy and warm it (make sure you don’t set it on fire),:pour it over the pudding and then set it on fire (you cannot set fire to cold Brandy and too much kills the pudding taste. Have Custard/Cream/Brandy sauce (your choice which) over it. Just have it around two hours after you finish eating your dinner to enjoy it more.
Don’t bother with Bread Sauce, it’s a traditional accompaniment from the time when people could not afford as much meat. The bread sauce bulked everything out.
If there’s two of you buy a fresh 5-6lb / 2.5 kilos, it will be enough to give you cold cuts (with some very good quality Ham)the next day. Put lay streaky bacon over the breast of the bird before you cook it. Typically you would cook it for 50 minutes per kilo with a further 30 minutes for the bed to rest (on a plate, covered in foil out of the cold).
Any other questions DM me. Regards Ian the chef.
Bread sauce is the best thing with turkey. Its milk and onion with breadcrumbs, butter, seasoned with nutmeg, clove, bay leaf, pepper, and salt. Its yummy.
That’s a matter of opinion. I can’t stand the stuff.
@@MeStevely I love loads of it.
Steve Young I love it but I guess not everyone likes cloves.
Bread sauce recipe: On Christmas Eve, peel one onion [keeping it whole - do not chop it up]. Stick whole cloves into the onion and then simmer it in a pint of milk for with some added whole peppercorns for about 2 hours. Remove from the heat and leave the onion, cloves and peppercorns to steep in the milk overnight. On Christmas Day morning, strain the milk and get rid of the solid ingredients, retaining the milk [do not accidentally strain the milk down the sink like I did one year!]. Make some breadcrumbs using white bread - about half a loaf will do. Add the breadcrumbs to the flavoured milk and simmer gently, stirring a lot as it tends to stick. The consistency should be quite thick. Add salt to taste. Serve as a condiment with the turkey. It's really nice!
It's very common to leave out a glass of brandy or whisky for Father Christmas, and a carrot for Rudolf. So not too different!
And you’d wake up to an empty brandy/whisky/sherry glass, mince pie crumbs, and a carrot with a bite taken out of it 🙂
Surely Santa can't fly the sleigh drunk!
Clearly got a problem with drink...... Because whisky is NOT what any normal person leaves out 😂😂 get ya self to AA 😂
@@drdank1295 I don't get the milk thing. I don't want Santa farting down my chimney because he's lactose intolerant 😂
The John Lewis Partnership is the UK's largest employee-owned business so that may play a part in our affection for it.
The John Lewis advert has only been a thing in the last 10 years. I think it was the songs that got it going, they used to chart high.
Just to reiterate John Lewis xmas ads are very recent. But they are quite a thing now.
That has led onto each big company trying to out do each other now
@@lesleymitcheson8439 Of course the biggest advertising Christmas tradition is the Coca Cola advert but I think that is the same in other english speaking countries too
You should watch the Vicer of Dibley Christmas special.
The Christmas lunch episode is the best one
Vicar *
Edward Knight Vicer? Freudian slip maybe.
Just got a mental picture of the Queen wearing a paper hat at Christmas 😂😂😂
I understand that she does indeed wear the paper crown.
You should try "bubble and squeak".....keep the leftovers from Christmas dinner and when you're hungry again, mash all the leftovers together and fry it in a frying pan!
I have fond memories of my dad cooking bubble and squeak made with the sprouts and cabbage mashed into any roast potatoes / boiled potatoes and bacon left over. He also fried Xmas pudding in butter, all this done as the breakfast for boxing Day.
@@peterj.h.2697 it's a pucker traditional breakfast! If you're lucky enough to have a few pigs in blankets left, you've got a treat on your hands!
I purposefully make too much veg for Christmas dinner just so I can do bubble & squeak on Boxing Day.
When I was growing up it was essential to have a copy of The Radio Times or TV Times for Christmas. It was the first time you got to learn what would be on for Christmas. With the Internet and many other TV guides it isn't quite as important to many but I still have to buy it out of tradition. I still look forward to reading what specials will be on when they release the Christmas radio Times edition.
I remeber the days when you'd get a pen and plan out what your going to watch.
Now we can just stream what we want, when we want.
Buying the Christmas Radio Times each year, also helps toward the other tradition of being absolutely skint after Christmas. Have you seen how much it costs these days? £4.95.
Years ago when Radio Times only covered the BBC and TV Times covered ITV programs, you needed to buy them both and it was only a few coppers each. I'd rather rely on internet of EPG's on my devices and spent my fiver on a couple of bottles of beer. (The Radio Times never lasts for the full two-week period it usually covers anyway: you can guarantee the outside cover with separate from the staples on about day two or three, and by day 12 or 13 most of the inner pages have detached from the rest too.)
@@DaveBartlett or just don't waste time on the old box at all. It's all crap.
There's also the Christmas number one tradition, Secret Santa, Christmas carols, Norway sends London a huge Christmas tree to thank the UK for helping in WW2, advent calendars, pantomimes, The Snowman with its iconic theme tune, burning a Yuletime log, and every now and again a Wallace and Gromit special. I've heard that in Somerset or the westcountry area there's a tradition of watering a tree with wassail, or something along those lines.
PS: goose used to be the Christmas staple, turkeys being indigenous to North America and all. It was supposedly Queen Victoria who started the turkey culling craze, as she liked it for her Christmas meal and people just copied her.
Yes! Watching The Snowman at Christmas is a must.
I once put a Mandarin in my stocking. He wasn't happy.
could have been worse , it could have been a MANDERLORIAN ! :)
At least it wasn't Mandalay.
Hugh Tube. Found a Tangerine in mine. He wasn't happy either. I was very unhappy the following year because there was a Frankfurter on top of a Hamburger. Not at all sure what they were doing in there.
We left out a mince pie and sherry for Father Christmas as he was known in my day, which was also my granddad's favourite tipple funnily enough 😜👍
And carrots, for the reindeer!
@@graceygrumble of course, which contained teeth marks similar to my granddad's dentures funnily enough😂
@Mich W I'm trying to break this gently to you, so as not to hurt your feelings and shatter your illusions, but that's because Father Christmas doesn't really exist, so your grandad was eating/drinking Santa's treat. Sorry mate! 😉
@@DaveBartlett Well David, quite clearly you have no concept of "coincidence", of course Father Christmas exists silly🙄😜😂
Love to hear the Christmas songs on the radio and the British make some of the best.
Also pantomimes at the local theatre would be an experience- super cheesy but something everyone should do once
Surprised no one else has mentioned this. Absolutely recommend a Xmas Panto for anyone in the UK, visiting or otherwise.
J Lincoln. Oh, no it isn't. It's addictive.
The crowns are from medieval times when on 12th night The whole of the castle would eat heartily and the one of the peasants would be chosen as Lord of Misrule to preside over the games and drinking and General misbehaviour. They were given a crown to wear to show them as the misrule King for the night. Christmas Pudding has a long tradition of having a silver coin mixed into the mixture and all the family gave it a stir before it was baked. It was good luck all year to the one who got the sixpence(when I was young) in their pudding. Think most now still have the pudding as not to mess with the good luck part. And you always get one in the family who loves it🤣
I guess more recently (but still not very recent) there's the tradition of the servants being served by their employers in the grander houses as well.
Easy life being queen? I think not! Goose is lively too!
In South West England as well as wassailing and singing Christmas carols door to door, we have mummers (usually students) who go round the pubs. Christmas is also the start of the panto season. He's behind you.
People don't seam to realise how lucky they are. My Grandmother (born 1902) only had dried or preserved fruit during the winter, any kind of orange was a very rare thing. We keep the tradition going as a reminder of how well off we are now.
It's against the law to wrap christmas presents without a glass of Baileys.
Amy Pocock well I keep breaking the law then, can’t stand the stuff. I prefer a good G&T or a beer.
@@katashworth41 shocking behaviour!
This year, my wife has found herself back with Baileys. In recent years she's strayed toward Dooley's (Toffee Liqueur) and Sheridan's (The one with a split bottle - Coffee & Whisky Liqueur in one side, and White Chocolate & Cream Liqueur in the other)
Another tradition is to start on the sherry/bucks fizz at 10.00am :)
Or as one Gordon's Gin Christmas poster advert said beneath a picture of said gin bottle, "stuff the turkey"
This has to be the cutest video I've ever seen. I've never known anyone to be so happy to spend Christmas in the UK and it is warming my heart. Hope your Christmas goes as well as you wish xoxo
As kids we used to watch Santa Clause: The movie on Christmas Eve. Then before bed we'd leave mince pies and a glass of sherry for Santa. And a carrot for the reindeers. Me and my sister used to get stockings (hung on our bedroom door handles) with various bits and pieces, some chocolate and a Satsuma.
For Christmas dinner the meat eaters in my family have chicken (instead of turkey) and "pigs in blankets" (bacon wrapped around mini-sausages). The rest of us have a Quorn roast and Linda McCartney sausages. But the things I look forward to the most are the roasted potatoes, chestnuts and parsnips.Then we usually have a Christmas chocolate log for desert. We used to have Christmas pudding too but most of it would end up going to waste so we don't bother now.
After dinner we play board games, and my nieces usually put on some kind of little play, which sometimes ends with an argument and my youngest niece throwing a tantrum, lol. Then I get made to dance and make a fool of myself (in my paper hat...which is always pink for some reason - it's a niece conspiracy I tell you, haha). Then we all watch The Snowman cartoon and some Christmas specials or a Christmas movie, whilst passing round a big box of chocolates.
I've never even heard of John Lewis tbh, but the Coca Cola Christmas truck ad is a classic.
Best part of Christmas crackers: That fortune telling fish!
Omfgggggg I LOVE BREAD SAUCE 🤤🤤🤤 I will seriously eat a bowl of it like soup 🤭🥰 xx
My paper hat stays on all day part of my Christmas family tradition
My paper hat doesn't go on because my hair just floofs out and rips the paper.
I work with a couple from Cuba ... and they told me the weather there at Christmas 37c .... I was like` that is just crazy. Nowadays we have a peaceful Christmas` my wife and I just visit my mother and have dinner there before coming home again and then visiting a friends house for a drink or two later. But until about 5 years ago` we had Christmas dinner at three different houses and we cooked a meal at home for a old man who came to share Christmas with us because he had no family ... and then we would go drinking until about 3 in the morning at our friends house. Sadly since then both our fathers have died and the old man too .. plus our friend is not too well recently .. so sadly` no more crazy Christmas gatherings for us anymore. I can understand what you were saying about a crazy Christmas... because my gran had 13 children and we got to spend every christmas surrounded by many people that we felt were strangers .. and visiting people at christmas often started at 8 a.m. and did not finish until well after midnight. These days it`s a relaxing meal followed by christmas dinner and a christmas movie and then later on a evening we will maybe visit our friends house` where the girls catch up on gossip while me and my best friend call Kirk` normally watch Doctor Who ... while we are playing chess and drinking Brandy. talking of Doctor who` my favourite Doctor was David Tennant and my favourite show was the one with Titanic in it. ... ( along with Kylie ) when see turned into a star or something ! ... oh yes` I also love Billie Pipper ... and of course Bernard Cribbins .. who I believe is the only Actor who has starred in every Doctor Who Series. The Queen`s Speech is like Marmite ... you either love it or hate it ! ... I am not a Royalist` so I only watch it if nothing else is on at the time.
I'm a fan of the royal family but I don't like the Queen's Speech. But then again it was never a tradition in our house when we were growing up. I had plenty of friends though whose parents watched it religiously every year.
A bread sauce is a warm or cold sauce made with milk, which is thickened with bread crumbs, infused with cloves, onion and bay typically eaten with roast chicken or turkey.
It must taste better than it sounds haha
It used to be the woolies advert when i was a kid. god i'm old.
I really enjoy your Christmas vibe Yvette, one tradition you must have by your side for Christmas is a tin of Cadbury's Roses chocolates, I always treat Boxing day as a day of recovery. lol. I remember my Nativity play, I held the donkey and he wasn't happy. looking forward to your upcoming Christmas videos.
The dried orange slices and cinnamon just make the house smell like christmas. The orange /satsuma is from times when that was rare expensive treat you only got when they were in season and maybe a few chocolate coins.
Decorations apart from the tree . .Christmas wreath on the front door, and deck the halls with boughs of Holly . . singing tra lala la la optional . . also Carols !
Bread sauce is the best. Make sure you get a 'luxury one' if you get a packet. Or you can make it from scratch. ;)
I feel like going for a Christmas walk is a big thing here, we have always done it and everyone Ik does it, like a short walk after presents
Yup , gives you time to think about that other great Brit tradition. Which gifts you will return on boxing Day , 👍
christmas eve - go the pub - get smashed, go home, eat 'christmas food' that should be eaten later in the day). christmas day - wake up and have bucks fizz, get jolly, eat loads, DRINK even more, open presents, DRINK, watch the queen, DRINK, sleep, DRINK play a board game (but don't complete it) DRINK more, eat more. boxing day - get up, DRINK, start eating leftovers, DRINK, sleep, repeat everyday until work returns in january then just say your christmas was alright.
You're doing it wrong
You should go to midnight mass after the pub for a good sing song "When shepherds washed their socks" etc.
Bread sauce is my mum's favourite part of christmas dinner. It's beautifully creamy and goes wonderfully with turkey or chicken. The bread part is actually really fine breadcrumbs, to thicken it up. Seriously, give it a go I doubt you'll be disappointed.
Going into town to see the Christmas tree and Christmas lights getting turned on 🎅🤶
It was traditional to have a goose at Christmas before we started having turkeys instead.
Yep, turkeys come from America. We didn't have them until we started travelling over there.
Katrina Campbell we always have a goose at my boyfriend’s, so much tastier
When the John Lowis advert is out Christmas starts and u do the nativity almost every year at primary. My fam don’t call mince pies mince pies we call them mouse pies cos of a typo in a Christmas booklet at the Christmas service once. Christmas pudding is amazing and a proper Christmas cake is soooooo good
mince pies, a carrot for rudolph and it’s usually brandy or sherry but tbh it’s whatever your parents favourite alcoholic drink is
I used to eat bread sauce like it was soup at my grandmothers Christmas meals. Love the stuff.
I'm like Yvette, I've always been a bit afraid of it. We never had it anyway. What does it actually taste of?
@@EASYTIGER10 It is hard to explain it's taste, I haven't had in a few years either but I remember it being creamy.
I’m 40 and lived in the uk all my life but I’ve never heard of bread sauce so what is it
@@thelmok From what I understand it is milk and breadcrumbs with some seasoning, have a look on google for a recipe and try it out.
46 here, Born and dragged up in the UK and also never had bread sauce!
I wish mammy and daddy didn't send their 'children' - grown-assed students - bloody Advent Calendars, through the post! (I'm a postie).
It IS quite funny when a lad who looks like a prop forward, who's been out on a bender the night before, answers the door and his face lights up at the thought of a 'micro-treat' every morning.
But, Advent Calendars don't fit through the letterbox and the 'children' are usually either at uni, or in bed, hungover! I'm sick of trying neighbours' houses, to take in the parcel, then writing out card after card, informing the 'kiddiewinkies' that there is a parcel to collect at their neighbour's, or at the depot.
Bah, humbug!
Ho-ho bloody ho! ;)
Yeah, people should stop sending things through the post so you don't have a job.
There were NO turkeys around - the places where turkeys live had not been discovered yet - goose was what people ate at Christmas
Bread sauce is basically a herb and / or spice flavoured sauce made from milk thickened with breadcrumbs. It's from the days (going back to medieval times) when sauces were thickened with bread as a way to void wasting crusts and stale or dry bits of bread.
It can be hideous, or it can be wonderful - it depends what it's flavoured with.
In our house when I was a kid, it was a mince pie and rum for Santa (my dad), and milk and biscuits for Rudolph (my mam).
Apple and satsuma in the Christmas stocking.
And the roast oranges, yes, they go in wreaths - goes back to Tudor pomanders.
Wassail is just mulled cider. Same principle as mulled wine.
Look up Fenwick's Christmas window (the original Newcastle branch only). Total Christmas tradition in the North East.
Morning swim in the sea on Christmas Day, you can’t beat it.🥶
Or you can do a Boxing Day Dip or New Years Day swim. I give them all a miss though.
Did you get an advent calendar? One little chocolate a day!
Back in the sixties, all kids got when we opened each day of our advent calendar, was a seasonal picture, (always the nativity scene for the 24th,) - no chocolate in sight, and we still got excited about opening it each day. We ate enough chocolate once Christmas arrived, so fattening kids up pre-christmas seemed more of a tradition to be reserved for turkeys rather than children,
Dave Bartlett someone’s jealous they didn’t get a chocolate advent calendar as a kid
@@rebeccawilliams139 Sorry? I think the point of the comment was that the chocolate wasn't necessary and that we were just as happy with the process of merely opening each window.
In our family we have bread sauce all year round, whenever we have roast chicken. It’s lovely.
Yes to the dried/ roasted oranges, normally a collection of dried fruits & spices together for scent. You can buy them, it’s called Pot Pourri
Christmas cake and Christmas pudding are 2 different things
Please tell me your favourite Christmas Traditions! I can't wait to try them all out!!
Not a tradition, just came from another video where you said the UK doesn't have chicken salt. Had a look at the ingredients and they are very similar to something we do have called chip spice, hopefully that will get your fix.
Think queens speech is so we know she still alive and kicking
My sister likes to keep the traditions my parents did when we were kids. This entails opening up gifts from 'santa' with my parents, in their bedroom. She picks a parent, and they pass the gifts to us to open. She is 28 and I am 30! More than happy to let this tradition end at this point.
If you can find any spare kids around take them to a 'Pantomime' ie panto. Audience participation is welcomed plus they usually have faded stars in, some once well-known names from Australia and the US slumming it over here but enjoying it.. www.bigpantoguide.co.uk/. Mince pie tip put in microwave for 1 minute then drench with Carnation evaporated milk mmmn.
Christmas Eve Pub Drinks with friends, Singing along to Muppets Christmas Carol, Christmas post meal nap.
Wassailling is a tradition of wishing good health and is a cider based drink usually one on 12th night. it is a celebration (Pagan Tradition) and many dance around Cider Apple Trees and sing the Wassailling song and bless the tree with Cider to ensure a good crop for the ensuing seasons. Great fun, lots of cider and singing and dressing up in costumes - look for it on the net and go and watch it. Or take part.
Where I live we always go hiking or for a long country walk on boxing day. We also go for a short walk in the village after eating Christmas Dinner and before pudding. Remember to go to a Carol concert in the run up to Christmas. We usually go to a large one in the city and the small one in our village hall. Lots of people also go to church on Christmas eve for midnight mass.
I love Christmas pudding with either custard or brandy cream
Christmas cake with cheese 🤤
Is it Wensleydale, Grommet?
My mother always had to listen or later watch the queen’s speech (17:55). She was born in 1920 in Newfoundland, which was a British crown colony before it joined Canada in 1949. In the 60s (when I was growing up) in Ontario, we would rent a black & white television for a month so mum could see Christmas programs, the queen’s speech and the Tournament of Roses parade live from Pasadena, California. In retirement I have occasionally watched the speech, tho more as a tradition and a bit of curiosity. I live in the USA now, but I’ll probably watch it this year, if it’s on RUclips..!!
Christmas cake and Christmas pudding are very different. I think what you were meaning to refer to was Christmas pudding, which people who dont like it will tell you everyone hates it, but actually there are plenty of us that love it. I personally love it with brandy butter and clotted cream (be warned it is VERY rich and it is definitely not for everyone, but I truly love it).
Boxing Day is generally being chilled and eating left overs and/or seeing family you didnt see on Christmas Day (I know lots of people who will spend 1 day with the husbands family and the next with the wifes and then reverse it the following year rather than trying to do everyones family in one day - lets face it no one wants to run around after all that food)
We do start drinking early in Xmas day; like it becomes perfectly acceptable to start drinking at 10am and some people will even have a drink with breakfast.
The whole putting an orange in the stocking thing harps back to when oranges were expensive and considered exotic so getting an orange was a real treat at xmas. Obviously not the case now and I think its a dying tradition but I expect some people like to keep up with it just for the tradition of it
Yes slow roasting oranges is a thing and putting things like cloves and cinnamon in wreaths and decorations is also a thing. We love an immersive experience and the smells they give off just smell like Xmas and they look really good, so no you were not being pranked. Loads of tutorials on RUclips if you want to give the roasting orange thing a go (its low and slow - you cant just whack them in the oven)
We leave out mince pies and some form of alcoholic drink for Father Christmas (some people will call him Santa because of the amount of American culture we have adopted, but the traditional figure in Britain is actually Father Christmas). Beer isnt uncommon to leave out, or stout or glass of wine (basically whatever the parent plans to drink once the kids have gone to bed). Please be very careful with mince pies - every year vets are inundated with cases of dogs that have been poisoned by eating mince pies. They can cause death so be careful around Bambi
Chocolate Advent calendars - if you havent got one already then get thee one asap
I know my family has loads of traditions but I dont know if they are specific to us or lots of people do them. Hard to know. but if you like chilled days with lots of food, drink, playing games and TV/films then you've come to the right country. We do the lead up to xmas hard so by the time we hit xmas night we are tired and full but (hopefully) happy
Wow, you make it sound like Australia has never heard of Christmas.
And, I have it on good authority that the Queen's Christmas message is broadcast every year in Oz.. 😕
It is and at least five other things mentioned are normal here too.
Yeah, it's like she kept her eyes and ears closed from mid-september to January lol
The Queen herself and her Estate do pay Taxes, please amend your comment, otherwise a super Video 👍🙏👍
Like all wealthy people the Queen is tricky to pin down on tax. She does have estates which pay taxes, but equally there are properties 'owned by the country' to which only she has access, but which the country must maintain. I'm sure she has a very good accountant.
British Christmas tradition is a mincepie with either Sherry or Whiskey for Father Christmas and a carrot for Rudolph and Wassailling is where a Cider apple orchard is visited and blessed with cider soaked toast is put in a tree and a shotgun is fired through the branches to ward of evil spirits and ensure a good garvest the following autumn as two centuries ago farm labourers were paid in cider!
You need to watch a panto, never had a Christmas since I was 4 without one! we always get oranges in our stockings but I don't like them so I always got a chocolate orange and my siblings get a real one! We always have a full English breakfast in the morning sooo good!!
Go to a pantomime. A real British Christmas tradition.
"Ohhhhh nooooo it isn't!" ;¬)
Box of chocolate celebrations need to be on the table. While watching Christmas movies
In London so excited to wake up to our Christmas stockings hanging at the bottom of our beds filled with oranges and nuts. We also loved our Christmas cake and pudding.
..... small glass of port to help keep Father Christmas warm, a mince pie ( and a carrot for the reindeer - when the kids were little ). .... bake dried orange ornament / smell .... bread sauce mixed with the gravy etc ... is AWESOME ! Been out to family in ' Straya ' many times ( Perth ). You are right it is just not Christmas at all. Having bad TV there, it doesn't get any better at Christmas. The meat and veg out there is big and looks great ..... but not a lot of flavour. But I love the large spacious houses , the people are lovely ( the younger - the ruder ! Manners don't seem to be a thing out there ...... very American unfortunately ). But it is all about being with family isn't it ! Then add snow ....... magical.
Aw I really hope you have the best Xmas ever here in the UK 🇬🇧 🎄🎅
Just imagine The Queen taking off her real crown and then putting on a paper crown, and imagine her wearing it during her Speech.
Buck's Fizz (orange juice with a little bit of Champagne or Prosecco in) and Smoked Salmon + Scrambled Egg on toast at Breakfast. I think Americans might do that too, years ago I thought it was a weird tradition in my family but loads of people seem to do this. Especially here in Essex.
Hi, BTW. You were randomly recommended to me just now I'm new here, ha.
So you're telling there are people who dont like Christmas pudding and Christmas cake? This is an alien concept as far ss I am concerned. Bread sauce is the Devil's concoction though, I'll give you that.
You must have had a bad bread sauce because homemade or the Swartz (sp?) make packet mix is lovely with chicken or turkey.
You should do a reaction video to Sainbury's Christmas 2014 advert. :)
The Sainbury's ads have been much better than the others for years now
That advert made me cry
Is that the mog one?
@@joylessdave the WW1 one.
@@bigjon0072 ah right yeah that is a good one.
Setting fire to the pudding.
@Bryony Weston depends how much alcohol you use. We usually have an inferno!
roast chestnuts, Brussel sprouts, kissing under mistletoe, snowball cocktails, ice skating in the park (if near London book in advance) Christmas festivals are less crowded and larger up north like say Leeds Castle.
The tradition of having oranges/satsumas/apples stems from ye olden days when the poor could not afford to buy fruit for their kids - even 55 years ago, when i was small and from a large family, we rarely had fruit other than at Xmas! - therefore to find an orange or apple in your stocking was indeed a treat!
I’m ‘old’, and have never seen bread pudding, let alone tried it!
Christmas eve log onto www.noradsanta.org and watch santa fly around the world starting in OZ great to excite the kids.
Les Brewster. You do realise some plum is going to be googling this. 😂🤣👍.
@@drac1st it's something they have every year for the kids, check it out.
@@drac1st sorry its not nasa it's noradsanta.org my mistake.
Since I've been in the US, I've discovered myself doing British Christmas traditional things that I didn't do when I actually lived in Britain. Probably because I took them for granted when I lived there. Mince Pies are now a favourite and Christmas Pudding, I only ever really had it a couple of times at Christmas but now I find myself craving it!
Goose came before turkey and is more traditional. Boxing Day, go for a walk with friends then off to the pub.
You are quite right about oranges in our Christmas stockings - it was quite a treat in the immediate aftermath of WWII when rationing was still enforced and oranges were seen as an exotic luxury. However, I think the origin of the practice is the actual St. Nicholas who, with 3 bags of gold, saved 3 daughters from an impoverished family being forced, by their economic circumstances, into prostitution. Most British people are entirely unaware of this tale - but still have the oranges.