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Dec 2024
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323. What Do You Eat for Christmas Dinne...

Thomas Wilkinson
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What do you eat during the holidays?

Around the world, we associate different and diverse dishes with special occasions and celebrations like Christmas. Today, I want to explore some of these dishes!

I’ll talk about Christmas food in the UK (where I’m from) and Japan (where I live). I also asked the wonderful Thinking in English Patreon community to tell me the Christmas and holiday foods most popular where they are from.


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Vocabulary

  • Celebration (Noun): A special event or activity to mark an important occasion or achievement.
  • Secular (Adjective): Not connected to religious or spiritual matters.
  • Stereotypical (Adjective): Representing an oversimplified and widely held image or idea about a particular person, thing, or event.
  • Centrepiece (Noun): The most important or central part of something.
  • Commercialisation (Noun): The process of managing or exploiting something in a way designed to make a profit.
  • Tradition (Noun): A long-established custom or belief passed down from generation to generation.


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