Christmas dinners all over the world!

Ho, ho, ho!

(that’s “hello” for Father Christmas).

We know not all of you celebrate Christmas, but we think this is still interesting: what people eat for this celebration all over the world. Below you will find the text and the vocabulary you might not understand.

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USA 

Roast turkey, squash, roasted root vegetables and mashed potatoes.

Roast – cooked by roasting. To roast is to cook (food such as chicken, potatoes, or beef) with dry heat in an oven or over a fire.

Turkey – a large American bird that is related to the chicken and that is hunted or raised by people for its meat.

Root vegetables – a vegetable (such as a carrot or potato) that grows under the ground.

Mexico

Salt cod with salad made with beets, nuts, lettuce and a variety of fruits.

Cod – a large fish that lives in the northern Atlantic Ocean and is often eaten as food.

Beets – the rounded red root of the beet plant that is eaten as a vegetable.

Peru

Turkey garnished with fresh fruit.

Garnished – to put something on (food) as a decoration.

Brazil 

Turkey, fish or pork with rice, fruit salad or Brazil nuts.

Argentina

Steak stuffed with hard-boiled eggs, onions and spices.

Stuffed – to fill (something) so that there is no room for anything else.

UK

Roast turkey, cranberry sauce and roast potatoes.

Cranberry – a small, dark red berry or the plant that produces it.

France

Roasted goose stuffed with chestnuts.

Goose – any one of many different kinds of birds that swim, that are larger than ducks, and that have a long neck and webbed feet .

Spain

Seafood dishes.

Poland

Fish dishes and pike with hard-boiled eggs and boiled potatoes.

Pike – a large fish that lives in rivers and lakes and that has a long body and sharp teeth.

Germany

Roasted goose, potatoes, braised greens and sauerkraut.

Braised – to cook (food) slowly in fat and a small amount of liquid in a covered pot.

Italy

Roasted meat, antipasti, pasta and sparkling wine.

Ghana

Tfufu and okra soup.

Tfufu – a food made by boiling starchy food crops like cassava, yams or plantains and then pounding them into a dough-like consistency.

Okra – a tall plant whose pods are eaten as a vegetable and are used in soups and stews.

Russia

Four-bird roast.

China

Roast barbecued pork, chicken and soup.

Philippines

Coloured steamed rice served in a bamboo tube and flavoured with coconut and brown sugar.

Steamed – to cook, heat, or treat (something) with steam.

Australia

Barbecues with prawns, chicken, pork, lamb and beef.

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What dish do you think sounds more delicious?

 

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