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Turkey for Christmas or Thanksgiving?

Westerners eat turkey at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Turkey is a very traditional food, turkey meat is tender and flavorful. In addition to eating meat at Christmas you have to drink red wine and eat cakes, cookies and other desserts. On Thanksgiving Day westerners also eat ham, cornbread, pumpkin pie and these, while in China on Christmas Day will eat apples, meaning peace and security.

The American way of cooking, ingredients, and condiments are all too single, and the recipes are generally very simple, with not too many options to choose from, so they can eat the flavor of turkey after getting used to a few things. Another key point is that Americans already like this kind of dry, woodsy texture, that's why they like turkey. By the same token, Americans are very fond of chicken breasts with a similar texture, while chicken thighs and wings are not so popular, while in my country it's the complete opposite.

Christmas Customs:

Christmas Day starts with an almond pudding before Christmas dinner, and whoever can eat a whole almond is a lucky person in the coming year.

Christmas dinner officially starts after the pudding. The first course is the Christmas turkey, which British families love to cook themselves.

Plenty of fruits and vegetables, such as asparagus, celery, onions and chestnuts, are stuffed into the stomach of a 10-pound turkey, which is then rubbed with a variety of spices before being roasted in the oven. After the Christmas turkey, there will be some cookie cakes for dessert, and the trunk cake is the most famous Christmas treat.