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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 293218" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Stang, you'll have to head down under some time for Christmas. It's very different, if you're used to heavy stodgy food (winter comfort food) and snow. Here, we often have cold seafood buffet. When I was a kid we had a few years where we packed up the whole Christmas dinner (cold roast chicken and salad included) and headed for the beach. We sat around in swimsuits at one of those wodden bench picnic tables, overlooking the sea - and ate our Christmas lunch. I remember whining because I had finished eating and wanted to go swim, but not unsupervised... and everyone else was still eating.</p><p>No sunscreen in those days, I remember we'd come home peeling and burnt, then go back next day all over again. Crazy...</p><p></p><p>We have Boxing Day the next day - more relaxed. People pack up their Christmas leftovers and go visiting. You drop in on people and swap leftovers, so you get a different grade of leftovers. Iin oter words, if you're sick of ham and chicken, you can snack on the neighbour's prawns & lobster, while they tuck into your ham and chicken. Compare mince pies and then tuck into some cassata Christmas pudding ice cream (where you put all the brandied fruit etc into softened vanilla ice cream and re-freeze). Then we walk to the clifftop and watch the Sydney to Hobart boats set off. Very civilised.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 293218, member: 1991"] Stang, you'll have to head down under some time for Christmas. It's very different, if you're used to heavy stodgy food (winter comfort food) and snow. Here, we often have cold seafood buffet. When I was a kid we had a few years where we packed up the whole Christmas dinner (cold roast chicken and salad included) and headed for the beach. We sat around in swimsuits at one of those wodden bench picnic tables, overlooking the sea - and ate our Christmas lunch. I remember whining because I had finished eating and wanted to go swim, but not unsupervised... and everyone else was still eating. No sunscreen in those days, I remember we'd come home peeling and burnt, then go back next day all over again. Crazy... We have Boxing Day the next day - more relaxed. People pack up their Christmas leftovers and go visiting. You drop in on people and swap leftovers, so you get a different grade of leftovers. Iin oter words, if you're sick of ham and chicken, you can snack on the neighbour's prawns & lobster, while they tuck into your ham and chicken. Compare mince pies and then tuck into some cassata Christmas pudding ice cream (where you put all the brandied fruit etc into softened vanilla ice cream and re-freeze). Then we walk to the clifftop and watch the Sydney to Hobart boats set off. Very civilised. Marg [/QUOTE]
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