American Reacts to Top 10 British Christmas Traditions! *is this real?*

[@carlchapman4053]

A great Christmas pudding should be "More fruit than cake and more booze than fruit"

[@sameebah]

My mother used to dose her cakes so much that a second slice would put you 9ver the legal limit to drive. Damned fine cakes 🙃

[@tonycasey3183]

Boxing Day breakfast bubble n squeak is the best bubble n squeak of the year. Left over picky bits for lunch and Turkey Curry for dinner. Boxing Day is the best

[@LukeEbejerPT]

Love your videos I’m giving something small as appreciation. You both built my confidence to post on this channel. Now let’s help those beautiful fur babies together- spreading love and kindness

[@quball4256]

Thanks for the videos and hope the fur babies enjoy their treats.

[@TheAndyC]

Thanks for entertaining us all year, you and Anna are the best.

[@Fiorra91]

Merry Christmas to you and Anna and all of your animals from Becki & Mark

[@BexDavies84]

It's such a lovely thing the two of you are doing to help the fur babies ❤. I look forward to seeing your video at the animal shelter. Love your channel and Reactmas has been great as usual

[@melaniegriffin1457]

Love from Steve and Mel in the UK

[@lemasander4932]

Danke!

[@jamiegrimes2462]

Love to you, Anna and the fur babies this Christmas. Hope this helps the shelter, love Jamie and Stu x

[@Kari_B61ex]

I heard an American say today that American fruit cake is nothing like British fruit cake. She enjoyed the British fruit cake and said it was nothing like the one she had eaten in the US - I actually enjoy Boxing Day more than Christmas Day... It's a chill-out day, eating leftovers and doing not a lot other than watching TV.

[@Vyperus69]

my nan used to put so much brandy in her fruit cake that a single bite would get you drunk lol

[@Andreaod73]

We have fruit cake too, ‘Christmas cake’, it’s a rich fruit cake topped with icing but mince pies or Christmas pudding are far more popular with most people, I think, aswell as chocolate Yule log. My brother had a friend whose parents made him wait until after the queens speech before they could open their presents, although he was allowed his stocking in the morning x

[@jameslewis2635]

Christmas pudding is a great end to a festive lunch. It is made up mostly of dried fruit and suet that have been compressed and soaked in alcohol (usually strong spirits like brandy). It is served hot and traditionally a final portion of brandy gets applied before it is cut up and set on fire as a final 'set piece' of the meal. Generally it is served with cream and by itself has both an intense flavour and a heavy consistency. If you weren't feeling full before the pudding is served, you surely will be afterwards! Like you I am not keen on wines in general but I make an exception for mulled wine. It is essentially a red wine that has been mixed with citrus (sometimes rum) and spices that is served hot. It is a perfect winter warmer for when you come in on a cold day.

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

I prefer mulled cider.

[@skootertoffeepup7845]

Let's help those fur babies. Toffee here.

[@davonuk1]

Thanks from a fellow animal lover

[@jacksonmacmanus1001]

13:35 most christmas puddings dont have money in now coz its a choke hazard, but yes, a christmas pudding is basically loads of fruits and berries mixed with suet with alcohol added to it, on christmas its then, and brandy is poured on it then the brandy is set alight to give it the flame, not everybody likes christmas pudding but you cant deny it is a tradition

[@betterspud21]

Mulled wine is awesome. Lots of citrus and cinnamon flavours and it's served hot! So good! Only at Christmas though.

[@TimGooding-dn4or]

Im a Brit and i agree with you . America should have a Boxing day , two days in a row to spend with family and friends , tbh when i was working i had a whole week off ...PAID

[@HC_Productions_UK]

Sausage wrapped in bacon ...we call them Pigs in Blankets 🙂

[@anit4525]

What do snowmen have for lunch? A : BRRRR...... ITO

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Families, wherever they live, always have some of their own traditions to add to the common ones. For example, we eat Goose at Christmas, not turkey. After Midnight Eucharist, we each have one, warm mince pie with added melted cheese, and each child may open one, pre-selected gift, before going to bed at about 01:30, with sleep assured thanks to a generous cup of brandy-laced wassail (for the over 5s). 🎉

[@lillired857]

cheese?

[@JamesSmith-zk8gl]

Yep Stilton ,raspberry jam on rich Christmas cake ,you can’t beat it 😊

[@williamevans9426]

Are the over-fives hungover on Christmas morning? 🤢😆

[@anit4525]

Mulled wine is served warm it's a lovely warming mixture of wine and either tonic water or lemonade and spices it's tasty.

[@DaveBartlett]

Mulled Wine is wine with spices added and then heated ('mulled') if you want to add tonic water or lemonade to it, that's up to you, but they aren't ingredients of mulled wine!

[@stevieduggan1763]

What did one snowman say to the other snowman? Can you smell carrot?

[@nickirichardson2977]

Hi JT. Me and my family have a very funny tradition we do every year, usually Christmas Eve when all the prep and baking is done, we finally sit down with alcohol and watch the Muppet Christmas Carol lol. It's something we have to do every year lol x

[@Elfdaughter]

Hey JT - so, the 'stick' on top of the mulled wine is a vanilla pod, it just shows that there's spices added to it. Also, mulled wine is drunk warm as well, not cold, and yes, it's very much a winter only drink because of that. What you thought were grapes are the mistletoe berries. Mince pies - yes, we eat meat pies all year round, but mince pies are, as you found out, filled with something called sweet mincemeat - which is actually fruit like currants, sultanas and a mix of spices like cinnamon, and are very much a Christmas treat. The christmas crackers are usually placed at the table and pulled during the christmas meal. You HAVE to wear the silly hat for the whole meal!! Turkey is actually a fairly recent tradition - it used to be that Duck was the traditional meat (we're actually having that this year!). As for the pudding - it's made a month or so in advance, and the fruit that goes into it is 'fed' with alcohol for that month. It's a very boozy fruit pudding!! It's soaked in rum and set fire to before it's brought to the table - makes for an amazing end to the meal! The person who finds the silver coin (it's not a modern coin, a silver sixpence has to be used as it is can be cleaned and is hygenic, and is also much larger so you can;t choke on it!!) has good luck for the rest of the year.

[@katiperry8533]

Goose (for us) 😉 ... we haven't had turkey since the 90s

[@barbara184]

Up till the last 50 ish years it was very common to have goose for Christmas (or duck). - You are supposed to take a berry off the mistletoe after getting your Christmas kiss, but Do Not Eat it because the berries and the whole plant is poisonous to humans.

[@monkeyknuts321]

I'm English so I can corroborate all that, but also I live in France now and on 6th January for Ephithany they eat a "King's Tart" which is an almond pastry which contains a ceramic token and a bean. If you find the token it's good luck (like the sixpence) but if you find the bean you have to buy the next tart 😝 So I guess in Europe we just love sticking wee surprises in food! 😂

[@angelahawman4263]

Someone sent you a sixpence recently.

[@katiperry8533]

@@angelahawman4263 my hubby (before he passed) had a collection of them ... I made them into bracelets for our daughters

[@DaveBartlett]

JT: one thing we should mention - people from Wales are not 'Wales People', they're "WELSH People".

[@Dasyurid]

Where did they get the idea a shilling is the equivalent of 5p today? The shilling coin was used interchangeably with the then new 5p coin from decimalisation in 1971, but a shilling in 1843 would have had the buying power of a lot more than 5p today. I guessed 4-5 pounds and the Bank Of England inflation calculator suggests about £5.37. Which is probably about what you’d spend on a very good card today.

[@Ross-df6ge]

So back then you couldn't buy a car for the equivalent of £90 today then? 😔😅 Don't know how the video got the money exchange so wrong

[@Dasyurid]

@ You certainly couldn’t buy a car for £90 in 1843. 😜

[@tracyhagan6222]

You mature a Christmas pudding for months before, my grandfather would make the Christmas pudding on boxing day and mature it for the year! You "feed" it brandy every month and dont drive after eating it

[@DaveBartlett]

JT, Don't hold your breath expecting a 'boxing day' tradition in the USA. You're bloody lucky to get Christmas Day off in the states. God forbid that your oppressive employers would actually give something to the workers when they could just get their noses back to the grindstone instead. (It's 'The American Way'!)

[@KSmeaton1]

Merry Christmas 🎉

[@tonythemadbrit9479]

Thanks!

[@Sharon-jh6xs]

Thanks

[@codenamedemon7639]

Love your videos bro keep it up and I hope you and Anna have a great Christmas.

[@the-icephoenix]

What's brown and sticky? A stick

[@sammi.mack.]

😂❤

[@DaveBartlett]

OK, so we're having a crappy joke time. Here's one that JT might appreciate: "Two birds are sitting on a Perch, when one of them says: "Hey, can you smell fish?"

[@BenBallard13]

​@@DaveBartletttwo goldfish in a tank. One turns to the other and says "You drive, I'll man the guns."

[@KathBlount]

Can't wait to see the look on the faces when you rock up. Much love

[@kipp-lindz5689]

Mulled wine is also served hot not cold 😊

[@Jules-fz5sn]

That Christmas dinner & pudding looked rank 😂. I prefer a up north uk Christmas dinner that's got mashed potatoes & yorkshire puddings on it as well as everything else. The sausage wrapped in bacon are usually half the size & are more commonly called pigs in blankets. The twelfth night is called epiphany (that's when the three wise men arrived at the stable). Also the Christmas putting can be served with cream, brandy butter, brandy cream, brandy sauce, custard or on its own. Love boxing day, it's much more relaxed & time to play games. Merry Christmas

[@williamevans9426]

I grew up in Wales and I, too, prefer a plate of turkey with garden peas, roast potatoes and parsnips, sprouts, carrots, stuffing, pigs in blankets and home-made gravy (not forgetting the cranberry sauce, of course), followed by pudding with cream.

[@chriggle1]

Hi JT and Anna, it looks like you like most of our traditions for Christmas. In our family, it was always Christmas Eve that the tree would go up, and that my dad would make his amazing and very alcoholic trifle. He would pour out the measure of alcohol (usually cherry or apricot brandy),drink it, then liberally add the rest of the bottle to the trifle. You couldn’t drive after having it! Christmas Day would start with bacon sandwiches, then church, then back to the house for preparation for dinner. We would be allowed to open one gift before church, as it was part of the service to show something you had been given. Lunch would be late, after the queen’s speech. Presents would be unwrapped while the cooking was happening. We would also have had a gift from Santa left at the foot of our bed to open when we woke up. Boxing Day was always a day of celebration too in my family. It was my maternal grandparents wedding anniversary. We would go to see them, then head to my paternal grandparents for a buffet style tea and games at the dining table. The children would eat first, then the adults. The Lego came out for those who didn’t want to play card or board games. My grandad’s birthday is the 22nd, so it was also a way to celebrate his birthday, mine (the 21st) and my aunts (20th). As they got older, into their 80’s, they stopped having the celebration tea. By then my mum had died, so my dad did it at his house instead. Boxing Day would also have some form of football game on, my brothers would go if the local team were playing. Our maternal grandparents died when I was 11, so then it would be just my dad’s side of the family. I’m one of 5, so there was always noise and plenty going on. When we got married and had kids, Dad started making 2 trifles, one for the adults, and one for the grandchildren. Now most of those children are adults themselves. My dad died in 2011, but all the children know the story of grandad’s amazing trifle. In this house, Christmas starts with my birthday. I am allergic to oranges, so many of the traditional foods are off limits to me. One year my lovely sister in law handmade her own Christmas recipes without any oranges, so I could have them. It turned out I am not a huge fan. On my birthday, my husband takes the day off work, and the day starts with salmon and cream cheese bagels in bed. We have a day doing something fun, and in the evening we either go out for dinner or get a takeaway. This year our daughter won’t be home from university in time, it’s the first birthday I have spent without her. She has already asked us to save some birthday cake for her for when she gets home on Monday. I think we are going to spend the afternoon decorating the tree, then we are going to a local restaurant that used to be a railway building. It’s next to the main railway line into London. My dad loved trains, so I always think of him when we go. Sunday will be my grandad’s 98th birthday! We adore him, and know he will be spoiled by the staff at the residential home he lives at. On Christmas Day we will have the traditional turkey lunch, and instead of Christmas pudding, my daughter and I have a chocolate pudding and custard, my husband has the traditional pudding. We are getting the cheapest Christmas crackers, they are usually the ones with the corniest jokes and most useless and funny gifts. We listen to carols during dinner, and light a candle to remember all those who we have loved and lost. We watch the Doctor Who special on TV and I watch Eastenders. We sit by the light of the fairy lights and Christmas tree light to watch tv. Boxing Day (sometimes called St Stephen’s feast) is usually a chill out day for us. We eat leftovers, call family members and most years, stay in our pyjamas. We relax and just enjoy each others company. It’s my sister in law’s birthday, so we make sure we call her. This year we have no plans as yet for anything else. My husband finishes work tomorrow until 6th January, and our daughter is home for 2 weeks. She will be revising for her uni exams most of the time. The one thing I really do miss is my mum calling us at 8am on the morning of my birthday. She always made sure I had a call, and most years would come to our house with birthday cake. She always made sure my birthday was celebrated properly, something my husband does now. She’s been gone for 20 years, and I still miss her. On our tree we have decorations that signify people we have lost. My dad’s is a train, both mums have angels, my father in law a purple heart, my grandmother a butterfly. One dear friend who died of Covid has a Yoda as his decoration. They remain in our hearts and we talk about them when we see the decorations on the tree.

[@trevorveail]

Boxing day used to be thestart of the winter sales. The sale were worst than Black Friday. Whilst the women were fighting over bargins the men folk would go and support5 their local soccer team As most soccer matches were very local games fighting may also have been at the soccer matches.

[@williamevans9426]

I remember seeing, on TV as a child, footage of the Boxing Day sales in London. In some of the main department stores, women (yes, in those days, almost exclusively women) would be queuing outside the doors for the stores to open then would rush to their chosen department. I've seen women literally piling dozens of pieces of plain white crockery into their shopping trolleys, using their arms as scoops, and not even being concerned by a few broken plates and saucers amongst their haul. The idea of the 'reserved and polite' British character truly was left at home!

[@docksider]

In my family it was traditional to take down the decorations on 12th night, and only put them up on Christmas Eve - to do otherwise would bring bad luck.

[@Kazza_8240]

I was always told put them up no sooner than 12 days before, and take them down before or on 12 days after...it really grinds my gears to see decorations go up earlier and earlier....it sucks all the joy out of them well before Christmas even arrives...just an irrelevant old Scottish woman's opinion 😅

[@iceetmarne3571]

12:28 - you broke me JT. Ive not laughed so hard in a very long time. Its a very valid question, but I never really thought about it. Oh my goodness, I cant compose myself. Ahh stomach ache. Thank you, merry Christmas mate.

[@iceetmarne3571]

The look on your face! XD

[@elaineshakeshaft2830]

Red Bull is bad for your heart JT😳

[@rosemarymcgrory-eb2gd]

Yep , I’ve got a bad heart .. and I’ve never even tasted Red bull 😊

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

and kidneys

[@sandrabutler8483]

Christmas pudding and Christmas cake have almost the same ingredients in, however cakes are baked puddings are steamed and yes they contain a lot of alcohol, we would eat them each year and they might be a couple of years old, mincemeat also a similar mixture of fruits and generally no alcohol but you can add it, cake would have marzipan and icing on, pudding eaten with cream or brandy butter, mince pies might be with a drink of your choice or just with a cuppa. I would like too have seen you fighting the late Queen Elizabeth taking the Christmas decorations down, at Sandringham where her father passed away nothing was taken down until February

[@IDyce88]

these are must haves at our christmas eve and christmas day: christmas eve: oysters as a starter with bloody mary shots (alcohol in the shot optional, some members of the family don't drink for health reasons), we have a variety of things to have with the oysters. lobster for mains. there are sides but i can't remember them off the top of my head. christmas day: goose (usally two due to number of people), sweet potato mash, stuffing on side as option, brussel sprouts, sweetcorn and pickled pears (goes great with goose). dessert is christmas cake, mince pies (some with brandy... some not) and chocolate roulard. my brother and sister in law do most of the cooking so i take my hat off to them for the hard work and delicious food.

[@williamevans9426]

'Not so keen on the decidedly 'fishy' Christmas Eve fayre. Christmas Day, however, sounds more like it, 'though I'd certainly swap the sweetcorn for some green garden peas, glazed carrots, and roast parsnips and potatoes.

[@jeanproctor3663]

Mulled wine - and mulled cider are both lovely. The wine (or cider) is gently warmed with sliced fruit and spices, then it is ladled up and drunk. In the picture, the "stick" is a vanilla pod, by the looks of it. It's great to drink all through Winter, when it's cold, not just at Christmas. Mistletoe used to be cut with a gold sickle by Druids because of its magical status. The berries are mistletoe berries and are toxic - so you don't want to eat those "grapes"! There are certain trees that it grows on better than others, such as apple and oak. It used to be a big thing with it growing in apple orchards and the mistletoe itself is a parasitic plant. It's also becoming a lot rarer as time goes on. Sausages wrapped in bacon is also known as pigs in blankets. They're lovely! Years ago my Mum used to make her own Christmas cake and puddings. They were all very boozy! She would start soaking the fruit about 2 months before making them, but my Dad would sneak extra booze in, thinking that Mum never knew. But Mums see everything, don't they? Her cakes and puddings were fire though, but she never put coins in them. A Christmas pudding is a bit like a Christmas cake, but without the icing and marzipan and cooked in a different way (cakes being baked in an oven and puddings being boiled in water in the pudding bowl for what feels like about 50 years!)

[@donnaarmitage9194]

Omg seeing the queen got me emotional 😢

[@MrSheepmaster]

Great video, as always, loved your reactions 😂

[@cefngwyn]

Yo JT! I hope that you, Anna and all the furbabies have a fabulous family Christmas together. Chili for Xmas dinner sounds like heaven to me.

[@TanyaRando]

I was so disappointed to find just a hat and a quiz question in the cracker I pulled last week!! No bad joke and no plastic toy! Disgraceful! I'm all for making your own traditions, we had Christmas dinner when I was a kid, and did the whole shebang when my kids were little. But i'm fine with no Christmas pudding, and no Christmas dinner, it took hours and hours to cook, then it seemed like days to wash up! I I don't even know what we're having this year, but the main thing is .... I'm not cooking it! 😂

[@THC-TheHieronymusComplainer]

The royal family open their presents on Christmas Eve! You know, traditional German!

[@Kazza_8240]

🤣

[@jasonsmart3482]

Not only did we first have Christmas cards we also issued the first postage stamp -the penny black. which revolutionised postal service. This is why stamps issued in the Uk do not have the country's name on them - we were the first.

[@michaelmcdonald6567]

the christmas pudding was on fire as normally soaked in brandy

[@xiz0808]

Hate Christmas pudding myself but its a family fave, my dad makes one a couple of weeks before and does exactly what they say in this video, he puts it in tupperware in a cupboard an feeds it a little booze everyday (usually brandy butter or brandy but folks use mulled wine too). Then on Christmas day, splash a little more brandy on, set it on fire and serve! Even though I don't like it I do love the smell and the flaming pudding just feels like Christmas to me.

[@Delicious_J]

Yes these Mince pies r strictly a seasonal christmas food in britain, same as hot cross buns for easter, think your confusing with minced beef and onion pies lol you can have them all year round And yeah you could put a load of sausages wrapped in bacon, sage and onion stuffing, and gravy on christmas and in a bowl on the floor and id sit there happily

[@anta3612]

I used to have an elderly neighbour who'd leave his Christmas tree up all year. He would never take it down. He also kept some presents under the tree. He told me that he kept them so he could open one when he felt a bit down.

[@rosemarymcgrory-eb2gd]

😭😭😭💔💔oh bless him

[@anta3612]

@@rosemarymcgrory-eb2gd I used to visit him regularly. The loneliness of older people, who have lost everyone they love, is heartbreaking.

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

You'll be able to buy birds for the cats, rabbits for the dogs.... btw did you know in Anglo Saxon " Mistletoe" translates as " sh*t- twig " because the berries are so sticky the bird that eats them has to stick its poo to a branch and fly away to get it off.

[@Mitchell4892]

I don't work in the office anymore (WFH), but mulled wine is amazing. The firm would stack so many bottles of it for us to warm through in the microwave and drink throughout the day (risky behaviour but also fun). Coming in at 8.30am and getting hit with that amazing smell of warm mulled wine every morning was great. You'd be fighting to stay awake at your desk by 2pm, but December is always thankfully a very quiet month for us. Can't start Christmas day without a mug of mulled wine and a long dog walk.

[@chaoticreign179]

Been having Turkey xmas dinners for 45 years lol. I remember when i was a kid my parents would buy the biggest turkey they could and we would land up having it for xmas day and every meal for a week afterwards lol. Xmas pudding is amazing, my mum now home makes these and they taste sooooooooo much better than supermarket bought ones. I'm surprised the video didnt mention xmas cake as a lot of my family traditionally have one every year. It's a fruit cake thats usually baked a few months before xmas, the fruit is left to soak in alcohol before going into the mixture. Then just before xmas the cake has a layer of marzipan added and then a layer of royal icing. A tradition for me is get drunk new years eve and then watch the London firewaorks display on tv.

[@paddyturner1568]

A Boxing Day tradition for a huge number of families is the dinner. Boxing Day is cold meat and pickles day. Everybody comes round to help eat the turkey, beef gammon and other leftovers. We might bubble and squeak the potatoes and veg and serve the whole lot with mashed potatoes, pickles, Branson, pickled onions, gherkins etc. We ‘steep’ the pudding, it’s fed either daily or weekly with alcohol. A lot of people start decorating their houses the day after Halloween, but most start on the 1st of December. It’s not unusual to see decorated houses throughout November Our family open our presents after dinner. Kids had sacks on their beds in the morning with a snack, a drink, a set of new clothes for the day and something to play with. The rest of the presents waited untill after dinner was finished and everything was cleaned up. This meant that the children would eat their dinner because they hadn’t filled up on chocolate all morning, and they also happily helped tidy up to make mums day special too. Then the tuck table is set up. This remains set up for days. When everybody and guests are invited to help themselves as and when. Happy Christmas to you guys xxxxxxx

[@evilweeja]

1. Xmas cards is a must do ! ( MONEY inside as a child I was leaping for joy when a £5 note fell out !!! Could buy more commodore 64 games ! ) .. 2. Mulled wine yum so warming ( LMAO @ Stick that's a cinnamon stick JT ! ) .. 3. Mistletoe my first kiss was in my school with a girl I later married and are still with today. 4. Mince pies .. should be 365 days of the year but a must buy for xmas omg yummy ! 5. Crackers .. Loved them with a passion still do .. just for the CHEESY joke hahaha always a crease up every time ! .. 6. Lizzie's speech .. OMG room would grind to a halt as we listened to our favourite lady ! R.I.P. Queenie !! 7. XMAS LUNCH !!! HELL YESSSSS .. Mmmm Pigs in Blankets ( Sausages wrapped in bacon a must MUST have !! ) best meal of the year without a doubt for sure !! 8. Biggest argument at the table as to who was gonna light up the brandy on the pudding always used to be mum or dad sulks ! 9. Boxing day was jus chilling with the xmas prezzies and finding out what your childhood mates got for theirs where I could either brag I got better or really REALLY sulk lol !! Mmmmmm leftovers .. always tasted better ! 10. As for xmas decs I still have friends who leave their xmas decorations up ALL year .. when I asked em why they still up their reply " Saves putting up them up again .. " fair do's lol !

[@CHEEKYMONKEY2647]

if you consume too much caffeine you will end up with insomnia in later life, i know because i have it now lol quit coffee... drink tea now... as it has less caffeine...

[@DaveBartlett]

Tea is also high in caffeine. It's just that you're not aware of it, because it's also high in tannin, which fools you into thinking the caffeine isn't affecting you, (until you wake up for a pee four times during the night, that is!) I follow a strict regime of not taking anything with caffeine or tannin in it, after 8pm at night, and so far, that's given me uninteriupted nights of sleep, (though admittedly, that might have something to do with the copious amounts of alcohol I often consume in the evenings! 😉)

[@CHEEKYMONKEY2647]

@@DaveBartlett not as much as coffee

[@JohnHMarsden]

Great video. My family loves Christmas celebrations, especially with everything you showed in your video. We love Brandy Butter on our Christmas pudding, followed for me by a single malt.

[@DaveBartlett]

Similar to your Chilli tradition, my wife and I have an annual curry tradition, (though not on Christmas Day!) For years now we've been into Indian & other South Asian cooking, to the point where we now have an entire cupboard in our kitchen that's filled with Indian herbs and spices. Every Friday, without fail, we cook a curry from scratch, but it's become a tradition with us, that on either the last Friday in the year, or the first Friday in the following year, (depending on when Christmas falls,) we cook one specific curry menu: It's a very rich one, with some expensive ingredients so we restrict it to once per year. It's "Royal Chicken Pasanda" with "Khumb Paneer" - The Royal Chicken Pasanda is a particularly rich chicken dish containing lots of cream, ground almonds & ground cashew nuts among its ingredients; Khumb Paneer is mushrooms cooked with 'paneer', an Indian cheese that doesn't melt when cooked - it's just absorbs flavours and gets brown on the outside and gets kind of squeaky when you eat it, (similar to Halloumi) It's a nice break from the repetitive menu of roast turkey, pork etc. which usually dominates the last week of December.

[@rickygrimshaw1255]

Boxing Day football is a tradition here in the UK ⚽️

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Yes, though as I attended a choir school, and didn't break for holidays until after a late lunch on Boxing Day, we played rugby between waking up late (after a very late night because of Midnight Eucharist) and being given our Christmas boxes by the Dean.

[@karlinsomers5360]

I'm a New Zealander, my ancestors were Irish and German. My husbands family are of English descent. Our traditions are pretty similar to the video. Husbands family have home-made pork pie for breakfast (ew) on Xmas day and they serve minted peas in aspic with lunch. Being summer most families have BBQ or cold cooked ham, chicken or Turkey served with salads for late lunch. Desserts are fruit mince tarts, they are smaller than the English one and served cold not warm, pavlova which is like a big fluffy meringue served with cream and strawberries, and last but not least, trifle. Trifle is a layered Dessert made with sponge cake, cream, fruit, custard and jelly. My Nana used to forget she had already put a shot of sherry in it so by the time it was served it was so alcoholic I couldn't stand it. Christmas day is usually really hot here so a lot of families will head to the beach in the afternoon. Boxing day has become a day of sales and travel. You can always get good bargains on anything related to Xmas or summer. A great day to buy for next Christmas or any birthday coming up. Anyway, loving your videos this month and had a laugh with you at the boomerang joke. Happy holidays everyone.

[@DaveBartlett]

All that old dross like "I know of families that don't open their Christmas presents until after the Queen's speech" - Well, anyone could say that, couldn't they?. I've never heard of anyone in the UK who follows that tradition. Also, I'm in my mid 60s now, so I've experienced quite a few 'older people' in my time, and I've never met anyone who insisted on standing bolt upright during the Queen's/King's speech.

[@lindadutch-k2s]

I’m nearly 70 and my dad made us do this, and if the old aunts and uncles were still asleep after dinner we had to wait longer, The men went to the pub in the morning, we would wake up to open our stockings which were cheap plastic toys! Agony waiting till late afternoon!

[@petersp63]

Christmas Cake and Christmas Pudding are my Favourites!

[@cgraham2134]

Loved your Reactmas to our traditions in the UK. Making new ones is a lovely idea. I like the Chili. One that wasn't on the list that we always do is Sunday Advent Tea. We do it on the last 4 Sundays leading up to Christmas Day. At 4pm-ish we gather the family, dim the lights, light the candles, put on some festive music & have afternoon tea with Christmas Crockery near the tree, often followed by a Christmas movie all snuggled up on the sofa. The Advent Tea is hot buttered toasted crumpets & some form of seasonal cake or biscuits like frosted cupcakes, or shaped cookies etc (this part of the menu is heavily debated leading up to Christmas & cooks assigned, like the kids). We have hot tea from the Christmas teapot (not forgetting the Christmas tea cozy) & the little ones have a hot choc with whipped cream or warmed apple juice. Yes it is very rich - we never need dinner! On the last Advent Sunday Tea we also exchanged our family Christmas Cards. It's cosy, warm & a lovely gentle wind down family time. ❤ I recommend it to everyone. Happy Christmas JT & Anna x

[@Michelle-bo4hj]

JT Christmas pudding is just a very moist hot fruit cake , It is made a bit different with suet = fat thats what makes it moist ,No one likes a dry pudding . I love it you can have it with cream or hot custard . My family can't stand it so they have a chocolate pudding . Mince pies again they come in variaties pie pastry = short crust pastry or with icing on top the best are puff pastry . The video was correct that is what happens every year , we tend to do a lot of different veg and a beef as well as turkey . they missed things like bread sauce . The evening is when every thing gets put out again , but with things like salad , pork pies , sausage rolls beetroot ,potato salad , just think cold buffet table .

[@DaveBartlett]

We're the same - give me a Sticky Toffee Pudding over a Christmas Plum Duff, any day. By the way: it isn't a 'very moist fruit cake' - by definition it's a pudding because it's boiled/steamed NOT baked. Cakes are ALWAYS baked.

[@djs98blue]

A house near us in Loughborough leaves there Xmas light decorations up all year although they are not turned on. It’s called the Xmas house by locals.

[@Flutterbi]

I am not a big wine lover but a glass of warm mulled wine at xmas is really nice. I also love xmas cake (fruit cake with icing and marzipan) sprouts and xmas pudding (a thick fruit pudding served with cream or white custard).

[@dianeknight4839]

Christmas Pudding is a steamed pudding made with lots of fruit and booze. In my family Dad would douse the pudding with Brandy and set it alight. It was then carried into the room while we all sang the carol 'God rest you merry gentlemen'. Christmas pudding is so rich you only need a small portion, we serve it with a white brandy sauce. Other people use brandy butter or cream. Our family play games in the evening like Bingo, board games,charades. We also have an evening buffet with cold cuts, pork pie, prawn cocktail, sausage rolls, quiche, cheeses and pickles. The food is there to pick at all evening.

[@DaveBartlett]

"It was then carried into the room while we all sang the carol 'God rest you merry gentlemen'" - would your maiden name be Cratchitt by any chance, or are you just living in a Victorian fantasy?

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

You think sausages wrapped in bacon sounds nice? Try glace cherries wrapped in bacon. But use grease paper on your baking tray or things get sticky!

[@sharonknifton5476]

Try cutting into the sausage, stuff it with Brie and cranberry sauce and then wrap in bacon and bake

[@emmahowells8334]

Christmas pudding is a mixture of fruit and spices and alcohol mixed together, usually made a month in advance and then as you saw set alight. The sixpence or piece of silver inside is said that who ever finds it in their portion or the pudding gets good luck for the year ahead. In my house it's tradition to play old style board games, every year and usually I would win lol.

[@angelawalker8615]

Mulled wine is mostly at Christmas ,the jokes have to really cheesy in the crackers. Christmas cake is so tasty in the UK, I make mine in july and lace it with brandy, by Christmas its marzipan and icing ,yummy Sausage wrapped in bacon is called Pigs in Blankets. On the 12th night we do a buffy meal and take all the decorations down. Lots of food and drinks.

[@SteveODonnell]

The little sausages in bacon are commonly called pigs in blankets. Always so good. My dad used to love Christmas pudding with cream or custard. I know have it each year in his memory.

[@royhardy407]

Boxing Day is a day for football games to be played. For mates to meet in the pub before the game, and then the match begins. 6th of January when we lived in Spain was great, but the night before "noche de Los Tres Reyes" 3 Kings night was incredible. I prefer the days after the 25th to be honest. Happy Christmas everyone. Be safe, be happy and be kind to each other - life is too short !

[@pjgtech]

Christmas puddings are soaked in Brandy, when you put a match to it, the alcohol burns off. My mum always put a sixpence in the pudding when she made it, it was considered good luck if you found the coin.....

[@planekrazy1795]

Christmas Cake is a Fruit Cake made a few weeks before Christmas and fed Brandy and or Cherry Brandy or other sweet Liqueurs. A couple of days before Christmas its covered in Marzipan, Iced with Royal Icing and a few Christmas Cake decorations added. Christmas Pudding is made at least a month before Christmas and fed with Brandy every few days and served as shown in the video. Most people will go to where they are spending Christmas on Christmas Eve late Afternoon or early evening some will go to church for midnight mass or to church Christmas morning, but most these days don't. Christmas Day is usually spent with family or just immediate family at home. Boxing Day is much the same but dome go to the the Boxing Day sales but no me I prefer to stay at home eating and drinking until I can't move. My work closes at midday on Christmas Eve and we don't go back until the first working day in January. Christmas day, Boxing day and New year's day are Bank Holidays if Christmas day and Boxing day fall at the weekend then the following Monday and Tuesday are the bank holidays same goes for New year's day and will be the following Monday. Officially there are always 3 working days between Christmas and New year but some companies (like mine) give those as extra Holiday with pay as with the bank holidays.

[@BenBallard13]

Hey JT..! What's the difference between a snowman and a snowoman? Snowballs. We've started our own Christmas traditions for our family. On Christmas Eve we head down to the local Christmas shop, it's open all year round (yeah that's right, you read it correctly) and the kids get to pick their Santa signal decoration. We write the initials of who chose it and the year on it. That then gets put on the tree by the kids before they go to bed. This is the signal for Santa that they're in bed and he can put the presents under the tree. If it doesn't go on the tree, Santa doesn't know if they're in bed or not and they might not get any gifts. (it's a great strategy for getting them to bed early on Christmas eve... 😉) Last year I wrapped the doorway to the living room with Christmas wrapping paper. Well, covered and taped it over the open door. I then taped a Santa Hat above it as a sign that Santa had been. Our eldest (then 4 yrs old) had to punch his way in like smashing open a pinãta. He loved it! I did wrap it a little tight though and had to help him punch his way in! 😂 Sausages wrapped in bacon are called "Pigs in blankets", or as a lot of ppl also know them at Christmas, "relatives sleeping in the spare room". 😂 🤣😂🤣

[@milanondrak5564]

On the boat we have a proper Christmas dinner but we don't put decorations up inside the cabin because of space. We have Christmas lights outside the cabin though, they go all around the gunwales and roof and up the corners of the cabin. We have a party with any other boaters nearby whether we know them or not.

[@nancyrafnson4780]

While I kind of agree with you, I don’t think you need to insult his country - especially at this time of year. Merry Christmas to all from 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦.

[@milanondrak5564]

@@nancyrafnson4780 I'm not insulting his country. I live on a boat here in Britain. I live on the canals and move about the country based on where the work is.

[@lorrainedurkin7695]

Thank you from the fur babies.

[@jacksonmacmanus1001]

9:58 yes JT it is the King's Speech now and it will be the King's Speech until we either stop having a monarchy or get a Queen as our monarch again, whichever comes sooner

[@Arctic-void-z7f]

Great video king bean

[@henriettafinch6057]

We always had a stocking filled with little things left on our beds that we could open in the morning and then the whole family would gather round the tree for the queen’s speech and then to open the main presents.

[@himarkburdett9378]

Christmas pudding it's 🔥

[@fleshen]

I'm not sure any of the younger generation listen to the Queens/Kings speech anymore, I haven't in years especially since my Mum passed away! Also as well as a day for resting Boxing day is a day for watching sport mainly football and horse racing either live or in the pub with friends and family!

[@dannysmith8035]

and they say that we cant use spices😊

[@lorrainedurkin7695]

6:58 Mistletoe

[@DavidMantle139]

Ditch the red bull have a nice cup of tea!

[@henriettafinch6057]

Christmas puddings can last for years and I mean YEARS! If they came out with one from the 1600s I would eat it without batting an eye. You soak the fruit in booze usually rum or brandy or rum and brandy then you steam it and keep ‘feeding’ it with booze which basically means pouring a little bit over regularly and then when it’s cooked a second time for the meal you put over a good spoonful of more booze and set it on fire. It’s delicious and ensures everyone is asleep by 5pm. Including the children.

[@rayleendavidson3289]

Christmas pudding is basically like eating alcohol 😂😂😂 they pour some extra booze on top just before serving and set it on fire, usually brandy or something, I remember thinking it was disgusting as a child 😂😂😂 we definitely didn't have to wait till after the queen's speech to open our presents but we did have to wait for the grown ups to have a cup of coffee and a cigarette (80's baby) 😂

[@janettesmith7913]

After making the Christmas pudding you ‘feed’ it for a month with alcohol (typically brandy), spoon alcohol weekly over it and re wrap in the cupboard to soak up. To serve you would add more alcohol and light. You’d serve with brandy sauce or brandy butter. Very boozy pudding 😋

[@nettygallagher2724]

It's my birthday on 1st of January I leave my Xmas tree up till after 6th January. Love your vidio . Love from ukxx

[@IDyce88]

the tradition of christmas is usually just the time of year when (aside from family, presents and fun) people tend to just pig out a bit and actually eat things they usually wouldn't...like in the old days a huge big bird wouldn't be on the menu...but at christmas that is not only ok but expected...because it's christmas. christmas cards is true...my mum still does them. my parents drink mold wine now and then...they used to do it more.

[@iancomputerscomputerrepair8944]

I cannot wait to have a portion of Christmas pud with plenty of custard!!!

[@michaelcole-hamer607]

Sausages wrapped in Bacon a.k..a pigs in blankets are one of my favourite things about Christmas dinner ❤

[@teresadixon3342]

My husband doesn't open his Christmas presents until 5pm , haa humbug 😂😂😂

[@Jackofallflavours]

Boxing Day is just the day the parents relax and get drunk 😂

[@TheBlackcredo]

This seems like a rather posh family. For example, most people call it christmas dinner, not christmas lunch. My family always had a very informal attitude to christmas. We always avoided the queens/kings speech as we're rather patriotic Welsh people. Also, my parents divorced when I was very little, so me and my sister would spend christmas day with my mother, step father and half brothers. Then boxing day we'd have christmas two with my dad, and funnily enough we'd usually have chili or curry. As for 12'th night, my mother used to say that if you don't take your christmas decorations down before then your house would be invaded by hobgoblins. And just so we had something else to look forward to, we wouldn't eat the chocolate decorations off the tree until we took it down. Most of this we still do to this day.

[@williamevans9426]

I a proud Welshman too, yet we'd always watch 'The Queen's Speech' (now, of course, The King's Speech) on BBC1 at 3pm, after timing our Christmas Dinner (you're right there) to finish just in time. On Boxing Day, as we loved poultry we'd usually have either another (smaller) turkey dinner or turkey casserole. Like your mum, my mother would always be sure to take down the decorations beore Twelfth Night - usually on 2 or 3 of January.