Henya & Ironmouse Share Their Christmas Tradition

[@juliomiguelbabilonia4541]

The pig itself is not in a pit in the ground when getting cooked, is stuck on a metal pike constantly rolling above the fire/coals to get an even cook. Most people don’t kill their pig, they buy them “freshly killed” from a farmer or butcher. But of course there are still families in rural areas, with pigs that do their own thing. My dad as a child lived on a farm and would hold a basin under the pig to collect the blood when it was killed.

[@kamatong]

I need to have Lechon before I die. It always looks so damn good in the food travel videos.

[@anthonylagunas6737]

Some people still put it in a pit, just your preference.

[@petercooper456]

I imagine it’s delicious, pork when it’s roasted properly doesn’t even need other ingredients it can be so good in fact that some religious folks consider it a sin to eat it. I mean there are other reasons but that’s the one which makes sense to me and I’ll take my chances.

[@SquidJoe]

I miss those days, man. I lived in Comerio and my family always had that tradition.

[@Chocoffee_battery]

Same in philippines too, when you hear a pig loudly screaming in 2-3 am, everyone knows its gonna be a celebration.

[@lanehacker4545]

Mouse telling her stories from her childhood while it’s coming from the kid like model makes it so funny and cute

[@LughLamhfhada0609]

💢?

[@verdatum]

Their conversations with each other restores my metaphorical soul.

[@Ojisan642]

These two are so adorable together 😊

[@Dorian_Scott]

Any time these two are together, they just heal my soul in a matter of seconds.

[@aazak8174]

Those two are so adorable. I can listen to them talking all day.

[@Hyparbeem526]

Henya's instant "It's ok! You can hang out with me!" just brought tears to my eyes.

[@justinbutcher2183]

Henya having to play out side so she can sleep a nap for Christmas is so cute 😂

[@ryuzakikun96]

Two very adorable young ladies who've brought so much joy and Christmas cheer to everyone.

[@diofelles]

I love how there are so many similarities, we always opened everything on the 24th except for "Santa's" presents, which was perfect to wear us out so we slept that night.

[@MangetsuSAMURAI]

We have a similar thing here in Hawaii. The method is called "Kalua" and it's basically a pit fire that you cover with rocks, then you put a whole pig (or whatever animal) on top of that, then you place something like banana leaves over that to lock all that smokey goodness in.

[@joelbraithwaite1390]

Turn the cuteness up to 11! Why not just make 10 cuter? But this one goes to 11!!

[@mrfriespotato2834]

Idk about u guys but this fairly-new friendship is like the greatest thing ever

[@shindoushuichi0287]

Oh those two little gremlins are always a hoot.

[@dirzz]

It make me so happy seeing them talk about these different life topics and having fun together 😊

[@shadow_eclipseXD]

ahh lechon a Filipino/Spanish dish and as a Filipino when i was a kid our neighbours use to cook lechon but they gut them while alive.....jesus i still remembered the screams the pig makes besides our house when its new years or its Christmas and birthday party's and special days.....🥲

[@acasualgachagamer6816]

I live close to a slaughter house. We hear those everyday! I'm still normal tho... or am I?

[@shadow_eclipseXD]

@@acasualgachagamer6816 maybe you should go to a doctor or a therapist if you said I'm still normal from all of the screaming...

[@jdeltwoone]

the thing is... its really one of the best tasting food there is... Lechon's probably my favorite food there is

[@Chocoffee_battery]

You forgot to say the pig fucking demon screams at 3am, because that's usually the time they're prepping it.

[@shadow_eclipseXD]

@@Chocoffee_battery well in our neighborhood we got a river behind us next to a slaughter house on the other side we hear the screams but not at 3am it's when I *was a kid the neighbours sometimes brought a pig besides our house/wall and it's literally besides our window while screaming like it's giving birth or getting it's dick cut/gutting or creaming like a literal demon from hell* god the memories 🥲

[@Lianpe98]

Correction: She said "parranda", not "barana"

[@Scudboy17]

I grew up on a farm where raised cattle, pigs, chickens, and even a few goats. I can tell you getting emotionally attached to an animal you raised from its birth until its time to cook it is a real thing. It was actually a good life lesson. You learn to appreciate the animals for the sacrifice they suffer for us, it taught us lessons on life and death and how to appreciate what you have when you have it, and it taught us how to plan ahead and take responsibility for our own needs and the costs of that.

[@masterkenobi3666]

Thats why in our country it is a somewhat tradition to take the kids to the farm, they will learn so much about life and sustenance and to appreciate all that we consume

[@Kamina.D.Fierce]

One of the things that is on my bucket list is to spend a Christmas/Christmas Season in Japan and top it all off with a traditional Christmas Japanese KFC Dinner I've heard so much about.

[@Sutchii_]

So glad they found a friend in each other. Has ironmouse sing villancicos before?

[@CandyBoinz]

I just recently like last year i think learned about the whole KFC christmas tradition in Japan. I found this on google "The campaign started in the 70s to tempt tourists and expats with chicken on Christmas Day when they couldn't find turkey to eat, and was the the brainchild of Takeshi Okawara, the manager of the first KFC in the country, according to the BBC" That is so friggin' interesting that it is still alive today

[@mdb45424]

Most people don't cook in Japan, not enough room for ovens, the fast food and 7 11 food is cheap and healthy enough

[@Force-hiddenmasquerade]

“We can spend Christmas on stream!” Ohhhhh my little heart 😭😭

[@Skelyos]

I am looking forward to the Chritmas collab, sounds like it'd be fun

[@ayseee0522]

Henya's fucking adorable lol

[@AhHereWeGo]

I can only imagine how Connor’s eyes were tripping out with all those blue LED’s.

[@Penultimeat]

Hmm. Yes. Cutie Pie to Cutie Pie communication.

[@kwizzeh]

Filipino lechon is the toppest of the tiers over any other former Spanish colony's lechon. Nothing will change my mind about it lol

[@RaccKing21]

I remember when I was at my grandparents (ones from my dad's side lived with us, ones from my mom's side lived in a neighboring country), I think it was Christmas or something, and they were gonna roast a pig. So my brother and I sat on an unfinished balcony near the pig pen, and watched my granddad and his neighbors kill the pig. It's probably one of the loudest things I've heard in my life. We even stuffed toilet paper in our ears since it was so loud. They then roasted it on a spit, granddad constantly checking in on it and basting it with beer.

[@Magcargopasstheblunt]

My families tradition is throwing a family get together with my grandfathers prime rib recipe.

[@frostare]

Ohhh so Parrandas is like Posadas here in Mexico! And yes a lot of people stay up, sing villancicos (carols) and get drunk.

[@skyler3295]

Here in the Philippines we make those every bday or event

[@octopus189]

6:30 "villancicos", which is Spanish for Christmas carols.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

When i was like a 4 year old kid my mum would decorate the tree with chocolate coins and stuff, i was so smart that I'd carefully unwrap the chocolates to eat and form the foil back to it's original shape, i wasn't so clever as to check my mum wasn't watching 😂 She has photographs of me stealing chocolates off the tree and loves showing people them at Christmas

[@lerneanlion]

Just waited until these two heard or saw of what people in Wales do on every Christmas. They go around towns and caroling with a guy dressed up in a white robe with a horse skull on the head for free foods by talking in poems. And I know this by watching Monstrum a few days ago. And this is real and no, I am not insulting this Welsh tradition or anything. After all, this tradition means free foods for everyone who participated in it. It's just that this deserved to be more well known like the whole eating KFC tradition in Japan.

[@ryuzakikun96]

You could ask Connor about that, he might know

[@lerneanlion]

@@ryuzakikun96 Who's Connor?

[@justine-3667]

They are so adorable. ❤

[@csehszlovakze]

0:35 it looks like a Protomolecule infection. :D anyone who hasn't read/watched The Expanse yet, this is your hint!

[@NinthSettler]

I am going to have copious amounts of chow mein, yakisoba, orange chicken and KFC fries and gravy.

[@Amarok1886]

Man that's wild, getting vivid memories of when I was really young while mouse was talking about how the pig ended up on the grill. Haven't done it since my grandpa passed though. Southern US so we did things a little different, the pig would be like a massive boar that has been raised by someone in the family for a full year so it's like 300 pounds. Usually, we did like 3 or 4 pigs becuase we had a huge family (120 of us gathered up once, whole farm was covered). They'd set up huge barrels of boiling water and kettles over campfires. The pigs were shot once behind the ear so it would be instant and then they'd bleed it out, dunk it in the boiling water, scrape the fur and mess off the hide, butcher it, throw loads of fat into the kettles and fry pork rinds while the hog roasted over a fire pit for hours. It was like a massive feast where you got together and goofed around with family you wouldn't see at all for a year or two at a time. Miss those days

[@arickpalaganas5894]

Lechon. Giving tito's and Tita's heart attack since the rise of spanish colonial empire.

[@autohmae]

Amazing how much similar energy they have !

[@Garik_2182]

at 6:30 she says they sing "villancicos",wich are carols

[@magnetmannenbannanen]

they are besties.

[@A1phaDrag0n]

Hey, we do something similar in NZ. We call it a Hāngī, it's a bit scary a first (eating food from a hole in the ground) but if you heat it right there's no issues (also we use a lot tinfoil, but that wasn't an option historically).

[@koigaming406]

We use to open 1 present on Christmas eve night.

[@jacob_n_r_z8755]

When mouse said Lechon my pinoy senses are through the roof

[@Mrshoujo]

So "Buta Yarou Seishun" properly translated means *"Rotten Teen"* instead of just -"Rascal."- _Rotten Teen Doesn't Dream of Bunnygirl Sempai_

[@Broken-Flesh]

Whole pig roasts are awesome!!! Havent had a dinner like that since I was a kid.

[@Skeiths]

As a Puerto Rican I've never heard of the whole pit on the ground or buying a pig just to kill it, some people slowly roast it above the fire themselves after it's already dead but most Puerto Ricans my family included just buy a freshly killed pig and just serve it to everyone in a party on the 24th.

[@popenieafantome9527]

Might also depend where you live. My family has a similar tradition, but with goat rather than pig, and my father has mentioned they used to cook it in a pit when he was younger. However, we now live in an apartment, so we can’t go around digging holes. Making a hole big enough for a whole goat/pigis is difficult to do even if you could. Instead, in recent years we just cut up the goat and cook it on a extra large pot outside. Big enough that my grandpa has what looks like a shortened wooden oar for that pot.

[@DarkBunnyLord]

So wild to me that Japanese people got fooled into thinking KFC had anything to do with Christmas to the point it’s just become a commonly accepted national past time lol.

[@pyr0.04]

"Welp! Time to kill the pig." 😂😂😂❤😭❤❤

[@codesymbi]

Here in Mexico besides from *Puerco* and *Cerdo* we also say *Cochino* and *Marrano* It has many names that also means disgusting or dirty Funny enough, we don't say *Lechón* when it's cooked, it stays with one of the other names But i don't know anyone that eats pig in christmas, we also eat Turkey or KFC, some even eat pizza but we mostly prepare a *_White Salad_* prepared with a bunch of white vegetables like potato, coliflower, mayonis/cream and chicken It also has carrot and other veggies but it looks mostly white I've only eated Turkey once in my entire life and it was freaking delicious

[@shun0825]

because of Spanish influences in the Philippines we have that lecheon too but not just pork it could be chicken or cow/beef too

[@moenrhebgallantes2048]

As a Filipino too bad we can't afford to buy a Lechon

[@abrahamkuyoc7311]

😢 yeah they r expensive. Here un México we dont have It for christmas but usually Is for special celebrations

[@seulbilee1025]

unless you work at a lechon house and cook it yourself, got to be the first to taste hot lechon,

[@e11even-o1p]

you can buy per kilos and not necessarily whole pig.

[@Nymphonomicon]

Le Chonk.

[@rovidelarosa]

We also have lechon in the Philippines. Though not cooked in a hole, just spit roasted. We also use the Filipino word for pig (baboy) to insult someone being disgusting.

[@OGMikeonthemike]

This is awesome and so wholesome

[@willku9000]

I’m half Ohioan Half Floridian and I don’t really have many Christmas Traditions outside of Getting my picture taken with santa (the same guy has been playing Santa at my local mall since i was little and I see it as checking up as an old friend. I’ve been going to see him for years and have taken 2 Girlfriends from different points in my life with me to see him as well), Writing A note to put with Santa’s cookies on Christmas eve (serving as a yearly affirmation ritual of sorts) and walking around in public through the month of December wearing my “Edgelord santa hat” which I got when I was a kid in 2004 from a relative that used to work for Spencers Gifts (corporate not retail). It’s black and red striped with a black faux leather trim and ball, covered in spikes… THANKFULLY the spikes are just silver colored faux leather as well because sometimes if i run too fast the ball pokes me in the ear 😂

[@derpdankstrom]

*now im sure pig is an insult in any language*

[@harkbelial]

Almost any animal is used as an insult

[@yasha22126]

ahh yess lechon when i was a kid i saw how they kill the pig and the process to cook the lechon

[@spiritdetectivesteve4691]

Not Lechon, but I've had the Hawaiian equivalent: Kalua.

[@scottbraun2457]

Santa went south..and melted..lol.!

[@Shiirow]

feliz navidad

[@dragonknight2785]

Pre ordering fast food? Wtf lol. I didn't even know such a thing existed.

[@jorgeweisson4807]

don't forget chancho! tambien algunos Latinos le llamamos chancho al cerdo

[@cyberdogrc]

Well I know what I'm doing for Xmas now

[@gabbywill3588]

In hawaii we do something similar to Puerto Rico. It is called an imu

[@sarahlachman1349]

Huh......the Peutorican tradition must be more Euopean with the roast boar thing. Most in the US either may or order precooked or ready to cook preped meals for the Holidays. Roast beef and pork being popular along with fish and turkey.

[@CodyTran3]

Cute❤

[@ErikPT]

I am ashamed no one brought tamales for noche buena, noche de paz (same night), navidad, and then ano nuevo. It's a tradition that Texas adopted we make tamales and eat until we're sick of them! I love how we pretty much got everyone in North TX to the South TX to see... forget the turkey (we already had it) make some tamales compa! Truth be told making a Christmas ham is also good but no... strictly tamales or it's sacrilege lol. Interesting we also eat the marrano in Mexico, my tias made one when we were in Michoacan attending a primo's boda. It was good! Also when I was in HK the KFC was dry but it had a kick to it but it was small lol.

[@johnmartinez-valentin5427]

I'll be making budding for Christmas 🎄

[@titan133760]

Fun Fact: The primary reasin why it's a japanese tradition to eat KFC on Christmas is because of a successful marketing campaign run by the first KFC branch in Japan back in the 1970s

[@bthsr7113]

If I had a nickel for every Vtuber who had to eat an animal after getting to know it, I'd have 2 nickels, and you know the rest.

[@SenUehara]

the translator is fluent in English, daily dose really decrypted the deep meaning of CdawngVA's name, Connor at around 00:09

[@juanjosemendivil1626]

We will marry Henya for her KFC reservation... and VISA.

[@kristopherdorsey8561]

Not gonna lie kfc does go hard for real.

[@digitalta]

But if the pig got fed REALLY well before becoming food would it be LeChonk?

[@johnmartinez-valentin5427]

Until you can't eat no more 😂

[@okazakikun1]

the pokemon lechonk

[@angeknowsit]

It is so funny to me how KFC managed to hook a whole country and tell them KFC asociated with christmas in america, honestly same thing happened in Mexico with Coca-cola (Coke) every winter season you will get the ads of coke and there is merch even a parade, there is a Coke parade every winter!! 😅

[@joekerssb302]

Wait so if Lechon is what they call it when it’s dead, then shouldn’t Lechonk from Pokémon be a Ghost type?

[@bennett475]

Lechón is pig in Spanish.. Lechonk is a pokemon.. why am I so late realising this

[@DanteEyeoftheTower]

It’s pronounced “PARRANDA” (in phonetic English alphabet it’s [paˈranda] according to an internet phonetic translation) This is assuming that the “barana” that mousey said was a mistranslation because I’ve never heard of “barana” and I’ve yet to leave my country.

[@YukonWilleh]

Dont tell Henya Santa isnt real

[@YukonWilleh]

Dayo

[@callofseiiki]

lechon and kfc XD are they hitting me personally?! i dont aprove the alive part but sadly that is a think that happen

[@rovidelarosa]

Mouse's story is like the anime "Silver Spoon / Gin no Saji". The MC had to raise a pig and give it a name knowing that one day it will be butchered. Highly recommended anime that has the same author as Full Metal Alchemist.

[@SHADETHEDARKKNIGHT]

Well that explains why in some "Nacimientos" they have a guy butchering a pig.

[@OrbObserver]

Very interesting she called it lechón and not perníl. Lechón is more commonly a Cuban or Filipino way of saying roast pig, in Puerto Rico it's more commonly called perníl. She could be getting really specific with the language though as Lechón refers to the entire roast pig while Perníl is a Puerto Rican specific way of preparing pork shoulder, but it is commonly also used to refer to the whole prepared animal.

[@lmstrata]

Pernil in Puerto Rico only refers to the shoulder, my family always says lechon for the entire pig

[@OrbObserver]

@@lmstrata I've heard it both ways.

[@enlightenedarsonist3908]

ah yes the Japanese tradition of watching American's go to KFC on the 25 of December after realizing it's next to impossible to get a turkey in japan.

[@williamfalls]

Henya: _explains that KFC is a traditional Japanese Christmas meal they have to reserve days/weeks/months in advance_ Me: _has just ate KFC today without a reservation_ "Skill issue."

[@dragonhitman1071]

Mouse insta lost her vegan viewers that day. Lol

[@bennett475]

jesus.. Puerto Rico don't fuck around

[@lordhirudo5311]

Yeah, I can get why pig is used as an insult in so many languages; they’re some of the most disgusting creatures on the planet until they’re cooked. Then they become the most delicious creatures on the planet. It’s quite a paradox!

[@bbad00]

Mouse sometimes must be hate her life.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Cultures that roast a pig in the ground used to be cannibals just fyi. They replaced the "long pork" (the name for human) with actual pork

[@ambrnonya]

How the hell did they call it long pork if they didn't have pork before?

[@EmoEmu]

I like how the fatty vtubers just get normies to go outside and film for them, so they can stay home and talk about pork.

[@mrMickio]

To be fair, ironmouse has like an autoimmune disease iirc.

[@EmoEmu]

@@mrMickio yup. She has to basically be a bubble-gal. My post was just a joke on vee-tubbers.

[@redshirtman1907]

According to the Abroad in Japan book, the KFC Christmas dinner is pretty shit. I feel sorry that Mouse has to spend Christmas separated from her family. That must feel pretty lonely.

[@mrmxypltk]

At least now she gets to spend it online with friends, as opposed to completely alone.

[@redshirtman1907]

@@mrmxypltk Very true. But it's not quite the same is it? And a lot of them are going to want to spend it with their families. Time zones help though.

[@mrmxypltk]

@@redshirtman1907 some people to spend time with is better than no people. Trust me, I've been there.

[@redshirtman1907]

@@mrmxypltk I would never argue with that. Hope you have a good Christmas dude 😉

[@Bigpepeman69]

In philipines We order Lechon already a Cook it cost Alot amd we eat Bibingka soft bread