British Couple Reacts to Christmas In America And In United Kingdom Is Very Different

[@jeffmalone5557]

I worked at NORAD for eight years, and every Christmas we tracked Santa's progress on Christmas Eve, and kids could call and get info on Santa. Those of us who worked on Christmas Eve were given a script to read from based on time, so we matched what was being reported on tv. The switchboard would route the calls to the different work centers and we would talk to the kids. It was one of my favorite things to do.

[@ros9162]

We always did this for my nieces and nephews every year. Thank you. ❤️

[@xo2quilt]

My kids did that every year - it was so cool!!! Thank you for giving up your Christmas Eve to share that magic with the kids!

[@SovereignFighter1]

Thank you for this service. I got to follow Santa when I was a child via telephone. I passed this down to my daughter via the internet.

[@lizetteolsen3218]

THAT is fabulous!

[@tlandry9689]

You wouldn’t believe the excitement that gave my children! We would track Santa on the computer! What a magical memory! Thank you!

[@TomGorham]

I was a letter carrier in America. We answered every letter to Santa. It was our duty.

[@terrymcfarland298]

Thank you! We are grateful to people like you keeping joy alive in an often difficult world.

[@taustin6524]

When our kids were just beginning to write on their own, they went through a time of not wanting us to see their letters to Santa😘 Thankfully, we had the best mail carrier! She made sure that she secretly got the letters back to us so we’d know for sure what they asked for!!😂

[@SuperMcstorm]

I enjoy watching the both of you. My Christmas story goes back to 1988. I was in the U.S. Navy on the USS Constellation. We spent Christmas 1988 at full alert, chasing Russian Bears. I worked the flight deck. Remember, at Christmas, there are millions of troops and sailors around the the world keeping us all safe.

[@xo2quilt]

Thank you for your service!! I know I miss my girls when they are deployed or stationed too far away to share Christmas with family. We depend on you all to keep us safe!

[@kennabruno7465]

Thank you!

[@lorireed8046]

From the docks to the Philippines and onto Hawaii. Guess you forgot about the accidental issue on that little trip? What Russians were you chasing in 1988?

[@nicopico5537]

I was born that year in December

[@sopdox]

My mother in law was of Scottish and Irish heritage. She would put a Christmas cracker on each plate. Up until then I had no idea what a Christmas cracker was. I started buying them when my kids were little but saved them for New Year’s Eve. We let them stay up late and they had something to pop while the adults popped the champagne. At some point in my youth I remember being told that Boxing Day came about because household staff were expected to work on Christmas tending to their employers feasts. They were given the following day off to have Christmas with their families and also given a Christmas box with a gift or bonus.

[@MelissaThompson432]

This is what I understood Boxing Day to be; back when household servants (and estate employees) were a thing.

[@jenniferlovell8474]

I live in Northeast Tennessee (Southeastern USA) and I don't know anyone who eats goose anytime of the year. We usually have turkey and/or ham for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I've never had mince pie although I have heard of it. Cookies of different varieties and fudge are the main desserts at Christmas time. Peppermint candies, candy canes, pies and hot chocolate are also seen a lot. We've always had a lighted Christmas tree, sometimes real, sometimes artificial, and always lots of presents under the tree. And we still hang Christmas stocking. Some people still decorate outside their house with lights, although not as many as when I was growing up. Some people would start getting their lights and displays ready in October because it would take them two months to get everything ready. Now most of the lights are seen at our local race track or other places where you pay to drive through thousands of lights synchronized to music. Our chance of getting snow the week of Christmas is about 50/50. Also, I live in an area called the "Bible belt" so we have several churches in the area and most of them have a candlelight service on Christmas eve to remember the real meaning of Christmas "Christ."

[@jasonmistretta4295]

8:00. I think "pigs in blankets" is different in America from the UK. Americans have 2 different versions of "pigs in blankets." There is a breakfast version in which pancakes are rolled around link sausages. Then there is the dinner version in which hot dogs are wrapped in a puff pastry.

[@kewlwife]

My version is a little smoky wrapped in a canned biscuit….🤷🏼‍♀️ just me

[@kyleereed5730]

@@kewlwife that’s the dinner version 😂 it’s a hot dog and a puff pastry

[@valkyriesardo278]

My mom's version was bacon rolled up with a marinated lean meat served in a rich mushroom gravy.

[@kyleereed5730]

@@valkyriesardo278 yeah, that’s not pigs in a blanket at all. They’re “in a blanket” because they’re wrapped in some form of a pastry or biscuit

[@garygramling5618]

My family is from Western PA and I'm first generation Californian. My dad's mom came from Amish. What we call "Pigs in a Blanket" is ground beef wrapped in lettuce and baked in a tomato based sauce. I had a Filipino neighbor downstairs about a year ago ask if I wanted some of her pigs in a blanket leftovers. Imagine my surprise when she brought little smokies (sausages) wrapped in pastry! lol

[@straycat1403]

I never heard of paper hats or crackers for Christmas in the US. We always left cookies and milk for Santa Claus.

[@lookoutforchris]

The more English you are the more likely you were to have Christmas Crackers. We had them in NY.

[@iatemyphonegaming]

On the East Coast we have swinging weather patterns. I've experienced Christmas snowed in during blizzards and only a few years back we had a 100°F (38°C) Christmas Day.

[@strngenchantedgirl]

Where I live it’s become quite a thing for many many places in town to go crazy with Christmas lights. So our zoo, the parks, the botanical gardens etc etc etc put up millions of lights and you can pay to walk or drive through and see the lights. These places just realized they could make a lot of money in a typically slow time by doing this. But it’s beautiful and I love it.

[@kimberlygabaldon3260]

It sounds like there isn't too much difference between Christmas in the US and in England. Have a Merry Christmas, you two! 🎄🎅🎄

[@oougahersharr]

In my household (my Mom's, really) we have a big spaghetti dinner on Christmas Eve and leftovers and Christmas Day. My family are mainly of English, Irish, Scottish, and German decent, so it's not cultural. We just all liked Spaghetti and it was easy to feed a large family with it (two parents, four children, and various guests). Another tradition unique to our house, I believe, was that we would turn on the television but turn off the sound (Robin Hood or Star Trek worked best). Then we would put on Christmas music and watch the "characters sing carols". It was a riot. We'd even sing along sometimes, but it was amusing to see the Sheriff of Nottingham sing about Santa on a rooftop, or to see Data and Picard singing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". That is a tradition we still continue. We would open the gifts in the Stocking on Christmas Eve and the presents under the tree on Christmas morning. However, my Roommate's family would open the presents on Christmas Eve at a major family get together where all of the grown siblings bring their children and spouses, and guests were welcome, then on Christmas morning they'd have private small family present openings (no guests allowed). Once ear we did a Pinata and hid clues in the Pinata. once the Pinata was cracked open and the candy and clues fell out, each person had to grab the clue with their name on it and follow the clue to find their present. There were other presents as well under the tree, but this was a special present for each person. A different family member would write each clue (i.e. Mom got my name so hid a present for me and wrote my clue. Brother-in-Law got his son's name, so hid his present and wrote his clue. Etc.) The presents were hidden the night before (Christmas Eve) at various times when each person was alone in the main room. If the person stumbled upon a gift while trying to hide one, they ignored the gift completely and went to another location to hide things. All gifts were hidden in the main room. We had a blast but never repeated the fun as my Dad (and the family patriarch) died that January and we just never felt like repeating the game. But it was very fun. (That was the same year we had the dog sing Happy Birthday as brother-in-law's birthday was so close to Christmas.) We did Christmas Crackers one year which my Mom had picked up in Canada (we live six miles from the border), and we pulled crackers that year on Christmas Eve. It was fun, but never really had a repeat as it was so different. We actually would try different traditions each year to find ones we really liked to continue. One year we dressed warm and all went Christmas Caroling around the neighborhood. It was fun, but very cold since I live in Vermont. I think that year it was below zero Fahrenheit. When we came home, we had hot chocolate and cookies and watched Christmas Movies together.

[@risa74]

Many in America consider pigs in a blanket to be a cooked sausage wrapped in croissant dough or other similar dough and cooked

[@lorimcgowen9905]

I used to work for a post office in New Hampshire... I was the one who wrote those letters to the children... it was always my favorite time at work.

[@Wiley_Coyote]

Pigs in a Blanket is something different in the US. It's mini hot dogs in puff pastry. Bacon wrapped hot dogs/sausages also exist in the US, just not with the Pigs in a Blanket name.

[@kajiracross5937]

Wrong. Pigs in a blanket in America are sausage links wrapped in a pancake.

[@Wiley_Coyote]

@@kajiracross5937 You can literally do a Google search to back up my version. Your version might be regional.

[@RavenSoulcatcher]

Never had goose for Christmas dinner, but turkey or ham (sometimes both) were the usual choices. Desserts abound at our table. Several choices each of cakes, pies, cookies, and fudges. No Christmas crackers. Christmas decorations...most cities and towns decorate for the holidays. And it just depends on the family or individuals if they want to go big on their homes. There are some that decorate big time every year...always adding a little more. Cookies and milk were left out for Santa and yes, carrots for the deer. Small gifts, fruit, candy...etc. are usually placed in the stockings...usually hung on the mantle or shelf or just laid down near the presents.

[@ArthurPekarsky]

"Happy" Christmas I've only heard from people in the UK. In the States it's always been "Merry" Christmas,.. I've never heard an American use "Happy" rather than "Merry" (Save for the song verse, "Have a "Holly Jolly" Christmas, it's the best time of the year...") Tho he did close the video out by wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas" Fun fact: My family referred to Saint Nick as "Grandpa Frost" and he wore a light blue and white suit (Picture a mix of Santa and Elsa from Disney's "Frozen")

[@patriciarodden-kesner6219]

In America Christmas dinner can depend on your culture. I know plenty of people who eat traditional foods from their own cultures. Mexicans usually make homemade tamales. Italians make homemade ravioli, and so on.

[@denanebergall5514]

I've always heard that Boxing Day is a holdover from the days when everyone had servants. Since the servants were working on Christmas Day, Boxing Day was the day the servants had off, and the family would fend for themselves. It was the day the servants got to open their "boxes"/presents so it became known as Boxing Day. Pigs in a Blanket have a completely different meaning in America. They are small sausages or cut-up hotdogs that are wrapped in biscuit or croissant dough, not bacon. I know what a Christmas Cracker is from watching British TV/Movies, but to most Americans, a cracker is a type of flatbread that you can put toppings on like Ritz or Cheez-Its, or Soda crackers.

[@colleenburns9185]

Living in the Southern US (South Carolina) we often wear short sleeves on Christmas. You could easily spend several hours riding around looking at lights and not because of driving to different places but because whole neighborhoods will be full of lights and some are set to music with dancing lights.

[@mostlyharmless1]

The red Santa suit is the product of a Coca Cola add around a hundred years ago. It's why you see Santa on Coke cans around Christmas now.

[@annbsirius1703]

Coca Cola may have popularized it, but it was the description in 'twas the night before Christmas that it was based on, which was based on St. Nicholas who wore red robes.

[@Flastew]

Millie seemed to be on her game this video and they both seem to celebrate very close to the way Americans do. Very cool.

[@brendaolds4407]

When my children were young we always would drive around town looking at all the Christmas lights and there is one house that everyone in town goes by. At this house they ALWAYS had the house & every inch of the yard was decorated! I live in Minnesota which is in the northern part of the country & I always want snow for Christmas it's just not Christmas without it to me .

[@clinthowe7629]

we love pig in a blanket but we don’t usually eat them on Christmas.

[@katannep7798]

I would say with American Christmas desserts, it’s less about the pie (that’s more for Thanksgiving), and more about cookies, fudge, homemade candies, and cheesecake. We still might have pie or cake too, but I feel like it’s not as traditional. Maybe that’s just my experience though!

[@gigimead7898]

Same here. There would be pie but no one would eat it because of the cookies and candy. 🎄

[@faithhowe6170]

When I was a kid, we always woke up Christmas morning to find a stocking at the foot of our beds, filled with candy and small gifts, in addition to a pile of gifts under the tree. I did the same with my kids. My mom's father immigrated from England, so I guess that's where she got that from. Several years ago I started doing the pickle ornament for my grandkids, whomever finds the ornament gets the "pickle prize", usually a wee box with $5 and some candy. We didn't do that as kids, but when I found out my great-grandmother was German, I incorporated that into our family tradition as a nod to my ancestors. Merry Christmas to you!

[@jikook7457]

It's interesting, to me, learning about different traditions. I'm unfamiliar with Christmas crackers. We call them party poppers in the U.S., but we use them on New Year's Eve at midnight to celebrate the coming year, not at Christmas time. Fireworks and sparklers we use on and around the 4th of July to celebrate our independence. Only Santa hats, not paper hats here either. The concept of putting coins in food frightens me. It screams choking hazard! Lol

[@elciniak2225]

Party poppers (if you mean the plastic kind with the streamers) are totally different than Christmas crackers.

[@Camie.in.Philly]

@@elciniak2225 please tell us the difference

[@byersburrow]

Party poppers are the plastic bottles full of paper streamers. A Christmas cracker is a tube wrapped in paper, imagine trying to wrap a toilet paper roll, but instead of folding the ends and taping them, you just tie thread around the ends to keep them closed. You pull the ends of the cracker, it breaks in the middle, and out comes a small prize, usually a hat, maybe a piece of candy.

[@ssjwes]

@@byersburrow cool thanks for the information

[@jikook7457]

@Elcinia K I was trying to equate them saying "pull a string and a toy comes out" with anything we have here. Poppers were closest I could think of. 🙂 calling them crackers made me think fire Crackers.

[@manxkin]

American here. I’ve never heard of Crimbo! Cringe-O! Nope, we don’t have Boxing Day in the U. S. My pigs in a blanket were always breakfast sausages wrapped in pancakes. White Christmas is iffy here. Sometimes it’s freezing, like below zero freezing, sometimes it’s well above freezing. No Christmas crackers. Lots of lights. I personally don’t have any. Just call me Scrooge. It’s easier to gaze at everyone else’s hard work! Christmas presents definitely go under the tree. I always put a pickle ornament on my tree. Shout out to my German ancestors. I have a lot of British ancestors too.

[@annabogart6689]

my friend from work lived and grew up in england until she was abpout 25. she explained boxing day this way. since all the servants in england have to work christmas day, erving and cooking for their rich posh employers, they regiven the day after christmas off. also their posh employers would allow them to take the left over foods ; in boxes; home with them on for their own dinners and celebrations. hence, boxing day

[@jestercat7723]

Bowing Day is the Day cats celebrate Christmas. They play in all the boxes everyone's presents came in. Actually, most British cats start celebrating Boxing Day on Christmas day as soon as the presents are opened. Boxing Day is just the official day for it. Other misinformed people think it was a day for giving gifts to people like the mailman, grocer, barber, hairdresser, etc. Hailing from the days when the gentry gave gifts to their estates.

[@crs7937]

my cats have boxes every day! They HATE me when I break them down and do not meow at me for DAYS...Vindictive they are!

[@claregale9011]

😆

[@sheilafelix113]

Yes, I thought it came about when servants, gardners, farmers etc. received a box of food and or fabric from the estate owner.

[@garygramling5618]

Huge one he didn't mention: Brits say "Happy Christmas" but you don't ever hear that here in the States. Also, the pickle ornament in Germany is interesting. I have German ancestry and had never heard about that until I went to EPCOT in the German section. I bought pickle ornaments for both of my sisters because they love pickles and it was a neat story to relate to them. However, I just recently watched another youtuber who lives in the US as a recent transplant from Germany. She mentioned this pickle ornament and said she had never heard of such a thing lol

[@ros9162]

My family did the pickle ornament. I was always the fastest to find it. I would hang back and let everyone else try first, then when no one could see it, they would let me find it. It would usually only take me less than 2 minutes. Find the pickle, get an extra present.

[@lindaeasley5606]

Growing evidence points to the Christmas pickle ' origins beginning with a late 1800s American salesman fabricating it in order to sell German glass ornaments 😂

[@emmasmith1564]

I do believe this tradition is really of American/German decent. Germans living in Germany have never heard of it but Americans of German decent all know of it. I think it started after the Civil War and grew in American communities with German decendants. The area I live in was founded by Germans and it's very common to have a Christmas pickle and eat sauerkraut on Thanksgiving.

[@erictaylor5112]

We don’t have kids, but I play hide the pickle with my wife every Christmas. I hide it, then she finds it and hides it somewhere else. I think she cheated this year becau se I haven’t been able to find it yet.

[@emmasmith1564]

@@erictaylor5112 Be careful when you talk about playing "hide the pickle" with your wife. That game has more than meanining.😂

[@kristindunstan172]

Our city in the US has a "Tacky Lights Tour" every year where people drive around town to see the most extreme light decorations often timed to a song that plays on a loop.

[@kellysong2256]

I live in America (in Utah), where we always had tons of snow, our presents were piled under the tree, and we opened gifts on Christmas morning (usually at 5 or 6 am at my house because we kids couldn't sleep for the excitement!!) There were no Christmas crackers or crowns. On Christmas Eve, we had a special dinner with ham or turkey (it was very similar to Thanksgiving dinner), and we put out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer 🦌. Our house was decorated lavishly, both inside and outside and the neighbors did the same. Most houses in the city were done up with lights, but I've noticed that when utility/energy prices go up, the light displays reduce dramatically. The day after Christmas is just another day, but in my neighborhood on New Year's Eve lots of people went outside at midnight, banging loudly on pots and pans and shouting, "Happy new year"

[@lcg5790]

The streets of downtown London are so beautifully decorated at Christmas! Once they even had flying fake snow- awesome!!

[@LoloD1833]

In the Philippines the Christmas Season starts in September 1st and goes till January 6th.

[@iatemyphonegaming]

There are some Christmas crackers in stores but I've only seen them in the last 5 years here. They aren't synonymous with Christmas for us. It's always fun when someone experiences them for the first time.

[@LordGertz]

Having sold them for ten years in the US, I can say they are slowly gaining a following but more for New Years. Also the Pickle ornament sells out every year, but having gone to immigrant German houses in the US I never saw this, then after 2000 it steadily became a thing.

[@theh.p.lovecraftlunaticasy5186]

My brother and sister-in-law did the pickle thing with their kids. Krampus is becoming bigger every year here in America, we even have a Krampus festival on Dec. 5 in Pittsburgh. We don't have crackers (unless it's with cheese). I think most Americans are sick of turkey by Christmas because we have it for Thanksgiving. I've never heard of people having goose, but maybe they do. We used to have Cornish hens with bread stuffing or ham, but I know some people have prime rib for Christmas. As far as decorations, it's a big thing with towns and home owners generally lighting up the buildings inside and out. I love the idea of writing letters to Santa and throwing them in the fireplace. When I was little, we used to make several kinds of cookies (especially iced sugar cookies) which I think a lot of Americans do in addition to the cakes and pies (depending on how many people you're having over).

[@justpinkcandy]

in the US, pigs in blankets are hot dogs with a slit filled with cheese, wrapped in dough and baked

[@yourenotthere]

Because I have a friend in Hull, who told me about Christmas Crackers, I bought a set of 6 at Hobby Lobby yesterday when I saw them. They also had New Year's themed crackers as well.

[@auntieyollie4808]

Putting alcoholic beverages out for Santa explains how parents put 🎁 in their kids rooms lol. You guys get Boxing Day and american get take your gift return back! Did anyone mention St. Nick? Love him too! 🎄

[@kjw1886]

I live in the Texas Panhandle. About 17 years ago, we got 20 inches of snow on Christmas day.

[@billbrosey5909]

Peace and love from America! Merry Christmas!

[@johnf-americanreacts1287]

Santa must get wasted drunk from all the whisky in Britain by the time he gets across the pond here in the US. I’m going to leave out some aspirin and water for him this year.

[@lindadeters8685]

Crackers are now available in certain stores. Some families have incorporated them in their tradition. This year on Thanksgiving, my friend had crackers for us, since we all won’t be together for Christmas. She has lived in both Canada and England, so that’s why she started this tradition with her friends.

[@dillodefense]

Are crackers the same thing as cookies?

[@marialanchester8180]

@@dillodefense Hi Marcie from England, crackers are a bit of fun on Christmas Day and Boxing Day they are crackers that pop hence the crack sound with a paper crown inside to wear at the dinner table and a little surprise with a joke inside as well. Hope this helps regards Maria

[@dillodefense]

@maria lanchester Cool! I had completely forgotten about those things.

[@larrym.johnson9219]

Blessings of abundance of peace and kindness be with you both this Christmas and through out the coming year.

[@mermaidmersea7113]

You guys need to do a reaction video of the actual lights in the US! We have a show on TV every year dedicated to it called," The Great Christmas Light Fight!" It's a completion show and I love it!

[@wendymattingly9344]

It is a fun watch for sure, but a gross overstatement in what is normal in America.

[@deafion1]

Every christmas eve we play variety of games such as Life, Monopoly, mini hockey whatever we have in the hall closet. We also have champagne or non alcoholic sparkling grape juice for the children along with pop cracker with paper hats and party horn. we have small snacks such as coctail weiners, cheeseball with veggie crackers. We stay up watching NORAD for Santa clause trips around the world. So pretty much what we do here for Christmas is similiar to what you do in England. We aren't that much of a differences when it comes to Christmas.

[@garylorentzen228]

In our family, we put up the tree on 6 Dec and take it down on 6 Jan. We just decorated the tree today! Merry Christmas.

[@gottabeemee]

Became familiar with the term Boxing Day while vacationing in Australia.. they have Santa in a sleigh but instead of reindeer he has kangaroos!! Pretty cool!

[@tomgardner2638]

Growing up, we had different piles or stacks around the room of presents. Each kid, there were 8 of us, had their own pile. Under the tree was the Christmas village with my Dad's Lionel train! No crackers to be seen...

[@Bramble.cottage.witchery]

We do Christmas crackers every year since I was a little girl. They sound the same only in my family we call them poppers! The paper crowns for dinner are a must! Merry Christmas :)

[@ginny5764]

I have never heard of Christmas crackers! You learn something new every day🎄 Our family is never ready for another turkey so close to Thanksgiving, so we always have lasagna on Christmas Eve and bacon wrapped filets on Christmas Day.

[@christopherjon1245]

Be careful that could be racially insensitive lol jk

[@ginny5764]

@@christopherjon1245 only to snowflakes haha

[@passingthroughtime3033]

DUH! Type Christmas crackers on ebay there are millions.

[@ginny5764]

@@passingthroughtime3033 never on EBay; I’m in the purging stage of life

[@barbaraschroeder3057]

In England, do you pull down Christmas decor and the tree earlier than they used to. Like when you were kids? I still celebrate the 12 days of Christmas. So my tree and decor comes down after Jan 6th. But a lot of people start taking the tree down either the day after Dec 25th or New Year’s Day. Also many more people put Christmas lights up before thanksgiving. So that’s the last week of November for those in England. Anyways, I’m 49 and Christmas starts and ends earlier than I remember when I was a kid.

[@valkyriesardo278]

My American family did the big turkey dinner for Thanksgiving. As years went on my mother started making her special homemade lasagna for Christmas dinner. The family loved it just as much. Since Mom could do most of the work in advance, lasagna gave her more time and energy to enjoy the family gathering. Dessert would feature fruitcake and Christmas cookies and sometimes pie. We did our gifts Christmas Eve followed by a midnight Christmas Mass. The church would be dimly lit and aglow with candle light reflecting off red poinsettia and gleaming gold. Throughout most of the service, the congregation would all join in on Christmas carols. And then home again into a starlit night and the hush of freshly fallen snow.

[@anitaburgess6821]

Merry Christmas.

[@LilyWhisperwind]

I have never heard of the crackers thing. We always just hung stockings. The kids would get gifts and candy in them. Then set out milk and cookies for Santa. We always have a cold Christmas here in the state of Nebraska. It would be nice to have one warm Christmas. :)

[@cynthiahaun9269]

In our family you get not only turkey but also ham both for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner

[@joshjones6072]

My family found out about Christmas crackers a few years ago, now we always have them. We decorate the branches with them. Crackers are often in stores around the holidays in California now, so maybe it's getting more popular here? The pop, crown, and little presents are funny.

[@Badllamah]

They missed my favorite dinner for Christmas... Prime Rib Roast LOL. We rotate Ham, Turkey and Prime Rib each year on Thanksgiving and Christmas so 1 is out each year. This is Prime Rib Christmas year! 🍠🐹🦃

[@passingthroughtime3033]

We also do lobster stuffed with crab and stuffed shrimp.

[@Badllamah]

@@passingthroughtime3033 Yummy! Seafood version of TurDucken LOL

[@straycat1403]

We always do prime rib for Christmas dinner too. Turkey for Thanksgiving.

[@passingthroughtime3033]

@@straycat1403 Sounds wonderful

[@nineboneable]

'Chimbo' - I immediately thought of the mash up of "Christmas" and "Boxing" Day into one greeting rather than saying 'Happy Christmas' and 'Happy Boxing Day'. 🙃 'Pigs in a Blanket' are small cocktail sausages or hot dogs (whole or cut up) wrapped in biscuit or bread dough and then baked.

[@susanbasl4033]

I'm from Oregon (USA) & our family has always had the crackers as we start our holiday meal. We all don our paper crowns & eat! Most people that see us think we are crazy! I love it.

[@mplwy]

My Nan taught me to make sugar balls for the reindeer. Combine kero (corn) syrup and granulated sugar. Roll into small balls and color each one a different color with food coloring. 😊❤️🎄🦌

[@TheAlfland]

I was born and raised here in America, and am of German decent, we always hid a pickle ornament on the tree, then I did it for my kids, and I'm still doing it to this day! I put 2 trees up in my house, both trees has 1 pickle ornament on it each. 🥒🎄

[@lorib7545]

Thank you! Merry Christmas ! 🎄🎁

[@Mansonschick]

I’ve only recently started seeing Christmas crackers here in the US but it was in a specialty store (Hallmark for those interested) and ridiculously expensive for what you get.

[@guavaB52]

I'm an American expat in England. It's only a bit different here. Americans say Merry Christmas and the Brits say Happy Christmas. Growing up in the US, we never had "crackers" or hats, etc. The Christmas dinner is a bit different, and I definitely miss pumpkin pie here and yams with marshmallows and greenbean casserole.

[@MarkTitus420]

Pigs in a blanket here is a sausage link wrapped inside a pancake with butter and syrup on top - so good.

[@billbrosey5909]

Love your comparison reactions of England and United States. For dessert, my family in America did have mince pie and we did write letters to Santa. I never heard of Crimbo. Lol, and my one neighbor has thousands of lights on his house and his lawn and trees and has robotic elves and reindeer also on his lawn.

[@cja2192]

Pigs in a blanket in America is a small sausage wrapped in a pastry like a crescent roll dough then baked

[@terrycarter1137]

we usually have a Smithfield spiral cut ham for Christmas. sorry no poppers(crackers) or paper hats, but chocolate covered peanutbutter balls, and fudge.

[@chloesophia9445]

We do Christmas Crackers and minced pies, but our pies are full sized. Depends on what part of the states you live in. Different parts of the country people celebrate different countries traditions. We are a mixing pot

[@denisemiles1787]

Merry Christmas. Here in Minneapolis Minnesota we do the Christmas Pickle and Krumpas. It’s so fun.

[@jamesl6639]

One of my families Christmas traditions , was to go to the nursing home, to bring decorated Santa cookies, and a small gift for all the residents. Peace!

[@davidheiser2225]

We always had turkey at Christmas. But with the Thanksgiving holiday and its traditional turkey dinner being in late November, I can understand why many people opt for something different for Christmas dinner. To me, pigs in a blanket are little pastry-wrapped hot dogs. Here in the northeast we have increasingly seen warmer winter weather in recent years and as a result we often don't have snow at Christmas.

[@candlerc]

Be thankful about the snow. Within the last 2 month up north we had more than 4ft. of snow in just a few hours drop. More important is that you almost always get your socks wet. Snow is beautiful but deadly here in the U.S.

[@corawheeler9355]

My mother was from Jersey and she made small mince pies for Christmas, using a glass to cut the dough, then putting a teaspoon of mince meat between two circles of dough. She made dozens of them and they never lasted long.

[@krystalcook1317]

My husband and I dated 5 months when we got married. So getting married in a year is not abnormal. We’ve been married almost 32 years now. My parents meet in September and married 5 months later…married almost 49 years when my dad died

[@jLutraveling]

Christmas is bigger than thanksgiving in the US.

[@tammyduckworth8199]

I'm older now so it's to much to do it all anymore. Two years ago I did 7 trees inside my home and every room was decorated and outside was decorated on all 4 side of the house. I use to love making everything colorful and beautiful.

[@trevor3013]

Crimbo is literally the same amount of syllables as Christmas XD

[@montananana2869]

The desserts and foods!!! My mom was from Bedford and we lived there a few times when I was kid. I truly miss mince pies, pigs in a blanket and pork pies but there is nothing to compare here. We often will do trifle for dessert and do make jam tarts. And the crackers! they cost us a fortune, but we have them every time we can find them. It's fun when we have new people, and they have to wear their hat to eat.

[@GinaMarieCheeseman]

Americans don't eat goose for Christmas. I've never heard of that one. As far as desserts go, in addition to pies, Christmas cookies are common. In my family, we have it all: cookies, pies, and cakes.

[@brunomclovin8413]

Boxing Day in America is when Lululemon has their half off sale 😂

[@judyhorstmann6332]

We definitely have crackers in the US. For many years I bought them for our family and friends and we popped them on New Year's Eve.

[@jujutrini8412]

When I started going to USA in the nineties no one knew anything about Christmas Crackers so we used to send them over, with some Ferrero Rochers! Our American family loved the parcels because they had never heard or seen them before.

[@cherylflam3250]

Thanksgiving bigger than Christmas…is that what you said ?? Hardly !

[@TheBeesleys99]

Just from some comments we have previously seen :D

[@stephenulmer3781]

Christmas is the main event here in the US. Thanksgiving is 2nd ☺ Halloween and The 4th of July are somewhere in the top 5 also. Easter, Mothers day, Valentines day and New Years are in there somewhere too

[@jariemonah]

@@TheBeesleys99 It's misleading because more people travel to their families during Thanksgiving since all activities are condensed into that one Thursday and weekend. Christmas is celebrated more extensively throughout the month and you'll see less people travel to their families. But billions more dollars will be spent on Christmas. Presents, decorations, holiday events, etc.

[@passingthroughtime3033]

@@TheBeesleys99 Christmas is far more popular and celebrated in the United states than Thanksgiving. We also have Christmas crackers. They just aren't popular..

[@boondoggled1]

Thanksgiving IS bigger in the sense that it’s a big holiday that has nothing to do with religion therefore waaay more of Americans celebrate Thanksgiving.

[@wendymattingly9344]

We do have crackers: (usually bought at English goods stores) 1) the paper crown, trivia, jokes or .riddles, and charades, plus a toy. 2) the paper crown and a small plastic horn. the box of crackers comes with a music book and a conductos wand. Each cracker has a different number horn. Each horn is directed to sound off according to music sheet, directed by the conductor. Pigs in a blanket are different in America, they are pastry wrapped tiny sausages. In our family Santa is actually St. Nicholas. We are so far south that we may have to wear shorts and t-shirts during the holiday season. It is heartbreaking!!! Came from a state that had snow every year, trust me, Christmas is never right without cold weather. Haha! We usually do Christmas after midnight mass Christmas Eve. However, we are all grown. If there are children in the family gifts would be one Christmas morning. Much love and celebration to you both! Merry Christmas!

[@marynewman9902]

My mother is 96 and when she was writing her letters to Santa here in the US, they use to put them in the wood stove and burn them up.

[@bgsu5052]

Where I grew up, we have heard of boxing day. I am from Toledo, Ohio, and we would get tv from Windsor Ont. with commercials about boxing day, etc. Also watching Christmas special which showed Christmas crackers. We just developed a slightly double-sided view of Christmas from being just on southwest of Lake Erie. Mostly, people in the States aren't close enough to at least Canada to get a glimpse of England through CBC Canadian tv.

[@Allsizes]

A big hockey tournament starts on boxing day. The World Junior Championships. The juniors are basically a level below the NHL. But i think 17 year olds are allowed to play as well

[@adriannecote5319]

I love mince pie! We get stockings with fruit, nuts and small gifts. Merry Christmas to all the Beesleys!

[@srkh8966]

Beef tenderloin at Christmas for my family, trifle for dessert-and we always have Christmas Crackers. I live in Kentucky, lol

[@jaynemeyer8277]

This was crazy.. we eat boiled Cod and potatoes for Christmas Eve and Ham on Christmas Day. Christmas Eve is the biggest event and presents are opened then and only Santa’s stocking and maybe one Santa gift on Christmas morn. In the US most Christmas celebrations are connected to ethnic traditions. In Minnesota we are very Scandinavian

[@mikepaulus4766]

I did the letter burning thing as a kid in the US. It was at school. I went to a private school and we had golden paper. We burned it, then went outside to see each letter of each word form the smoke coming out of the chimney.

[@krystalcook1317]

I live in South Carolina USA and we have had to turn on the AC on Christmas. We always had ‘Boxing day’ not that kind of boxing but parents would get into a fight

[@wowmomwow08]

Yes us American do go over board with lights. For the first time my neighbor to the right across the street doesn't have his grand musical light display going every night to the same 3 songs on loop for 30 days. But my mew neighbor to the left has seizure inducing strobe lighting going on all night LOL.

[@Catherine.Dorian.]

I’ve nearly never had a Christmas without snow. Even if we didn’t have a blanket of snow we would have a flurry on Christmas Day. But the past few years it’s become so warm I only wear a hoodie in the winter

[@LarryHatch]

I had a relative who told us your "Boxing Day" was when you put you presents into boxes, a sort of wrapping day to get ready! Wrong.

[@TeacherTonya74]

If you like Crampus, watch the movie 'Rare Exports'. It is about training mean Santa's into nice ones. America definitely goes overboard with decorating, especially in areas with warmer temperatures.

[@Alan-lv9rw]

I grew up in Connecticut. We probably had about 5 or 6 white Christmases (sp?) before I moved to Texas when I was 22.

[@annabogart6689]

we had christmas crackers when i was a child and i was always to believe that we did because we moved to america from europe (germany) when i was a toddler. you can find christmas crackers in stores now a days but they are considered as 'old fashioned'.. mince pies are also considered old fashioned

[@jamesblanton3744]

In north Florida today the high temperature was about 81 f or around 27 c

[@passingthroughtime3033]

Nice

[@lilyz2156]

@@passingthroughtime3033 Way down south its 79 right now.

[@andrewsims4123]

congratulations james , well done mate 😀

[@passingthroughtime3033]

@@lilyz2156 Nice. It's in the 30s here.

[@lilyz2156]

@@passingthroughtime3033 Miss the cold temps I had in college.