Christmas Day

day opening their presents which are often piled around the Christmas tree decorated with tinsel, baubles, fairy lights, etc. they eat drink together. The most important meal is Christmas dinner.

pull a cracker, which contains a small toy, a paper bat, and a joke. The typical meal nowadays consists of turkey with potatoes and other vegetables such as carrots and sprouts. In Britain this is followed by Christmas pudding-a sweet pudding containing a lot of dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy. Other traditional foods in Britain include Christmas cake-a cake containing a lot of dried fruit and usually having a covering of icing (hard sugar) made to be eaten at Christmas, and mince pies.

is also a public holiday. A lot of sports take place on Boxing Day and many people now spend time watching sport on television.

they eat over the Christmas season (the time when people prepare for and celebrate Christmas, from mid December to the end of the year).

be bought cheaply, on the day after Christmas. twelve days after Christmas is the time when people are supposed to take down their decorations and remove their Christmas trees.