Merry Christmas!

[Yowie]

Hi, I hope all of you and your families have a fantastic Christmas and a great New Year.
Thanks for all the entertaining posts from everyone in 2011.
Yowie

Current Conditions for Christmas on the Gold Coast ......
Somewhere around 28c and humid......

[ak70g2]

Thank you brother! Let's go surfing!

[rationtin440]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours as well Yowie and to everyone else in forums! It is so refreshing to see/hear someone say "Merry Christmas" instead of "happy holidays." I'm not sure how it is in Australia, but here in Massachusetts and many other American states, Walmart employees, bank employees, and even hospital workers are not allowed to say "Merry Christmas" for fear of offending someone's religious beliefs So thanks very much Yowie, it really means alot to see/hear "Merry Christmas." Just curious, what are the customary foods you eat on Christmas? Where I am, my family eats a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, similar to our Thanksgiving.

[Yowie]

Just curious, what are the customary foods you eat on Christmas? Where I am, my family eats a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, similar to our Thanksgiving.

We eat a lot of seafood, prawns oysters and bugs and such. There is still alot of traditional food ( turkey ham etc)as well but because it is so hot here the trend seems to be moving towards colder stuff and outdoor bbq's.

You are right about the merry christmas stuff. Political correctness gone wild. Hope you have a great day

Yowie

[Bypah]

Remember you guys are in summer now.....

[dirtbag]

We eat a lot of seafood, prawns oysters and bugs and such.
You are right about the merry christmas stuff. Political correctness gone wild. Hope you have a great day
Yowie

Mmmm, love the seafood!
Agree about the PC crap, very annoying!

Merry Christmas, God bless us, one and all!!!

[housil]

Merry Christmas to all of you all over ther world!
I realy enjoy to to read your posting and watch your pictures.

Our tree and dinner table

[German_EPA]

[luis0449]

Well, here in Spain we say "feliz navidad" (merry Xmas) and we just don`t care about other people being offended or not. What we eat the most in my area is roast lamb but don`t get confused, I mean little sweet sucking lamb, of the small ones that have been feed nothing but milk straight from the sheep. Forget the ones feed with a mixture of water-flour-hormones, we take nothing of that. We also eat as much as we can of "turron" (nougat), marzipan, "chorizo" (spiced sausage"), pig loin, "morcilla" (blood pudding), "mantecados"(shortbread), dried nuts, and roasted chestnuts (ever since I was a little kid I can`t remember a christmas without chestnus), all this washed down with Ribera del Duero wine, and champagne being the french one called "champagne" or the one of spanish origin called "cava", as good as the french if not better. I know it`s a lot of calories but Burgos is one of the coldest cities in Spain. I hope you`ll understand, hahahaha

Some people may go for the seafood menu, but here is regarded as of new rich people who just want to show off.

For most of the spaniards (and me among them) the really important day is not the 25th, but the night of the 24th (Nochebuena) which is when all the family get together for dinner and as we drink just a little too much you`ll se my father who is now 82yrs old stating how excellent food was during his time in the service (no MREs at the time) and arguing against everybody that he scored a bulls eye at 800 mts with a mauser (it can be possible, but he sould be an excellent shooter).

All the best people and Merry Christmas.

- Luis -

Note: The 1st of April is when everybody plays jokes on everybody all over the world but in Spain when it`s the 28th December. Be alert as luis0449 is a f***g bastard who is always playing jokes on that day.

[mreheater72]

Yesterday some hours before Christmas Eve I made a walk through the woods near my home. Nearly no snow that year in Frankonia, Germany, but some interesting devoured trunk of a fallen spruce :







Merry Christmas !