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So what's your culture's weird ass Christmas tradition?
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Having the main Christmas celebrations the night before Christmas and spending Christmas day relaxing while constipated and slightly hungover.
Making offerings of porridge with butter on top to minor pagan household spirits that lives in the attic. These pagan spirits are far more popular as Christmas ornaments than Christian symbols.
Dancing around the Christmas tree while singing a mixture of hymns and secular Christmas songs, then dancing through every room in the house while singing a nonsensical song about Christmas lasting until Easter.
Drinking mulled wine with raisins and chopped almonds. Often spherical pancakes are served with this.
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They're called "æbleskiver", which means "appleslices" because we used to make them by battering slices of apple in a dough that would raise a lot. They're made in a specific pan, which you can get shipped to you from the town Elk Horn apparently, which was founded by Danish immigrants. They eat it as breakfast, which strikes me as odd, but Americans eat pancakes for breakfast so it makes some sense. They're traditionally served with jam and powdered sugar.
Hey Christmas doesn't last until easter, there's a fast in between! The song even says so.
Can confirm the first one is true for Brazil (At least northeastern Brazil) as well. We all celebrate on the 24th at night and the 25th is largely ignored.