Re: Festive cuisine

On Dec 25, 11:05 pm, Ben Bullock <benkasminbull...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I didn't ask anybody not to eat pizza. In fact I tried two samples of
it myself. It's an interesting addition to the Japanese christmas
"tradition", like the Japanese Valentine's day where some ladies dish
out chocolates, and the White day.

But, if the Japanese followed Western tradition exactly, it would be
truly kimigawarui. How can the Japanese act like the American,
English, or so on? If they do, they will lose the Japanese culture
and tradition and you would lose the meaning of studying of Japanese.
However, if American automobile manufactures follow Toyota's standard
(or tradition), they can make better cars for sure. But, if they do,
Toyota can not stay No.1 in the US car industry, so they should not
follow Toyota's and stay suck every year. I have no problem with
that.

As far as ridicule is concerned, what would you think if you saw
people outside Japan eating marshmallows, and calling them "mochi", or
eating doughnuts and hot dogs on New Year's day, and calling it
"osechi ryori"?

I would have nothing to think.


In England, they eat so-called "Christmas Pudding".  They eat pudding
for Christmas.

Shock! Horror!

Oh, *** you.


That's pretty gruesome already,

What is even worse is that we eat it with something called "brandy
butter", which is brandy, butter, and sugar mixed together.

I had some when I was in England. It was a kind of fruitcake. It was
rather mushi-pan than pudding to me. I like the fruitcake that my
husband's grandmother makes every year better.


but I guess it has
been a tradition for thousands of years.

Since Christmas itself only dates back about two thousand years, I'd
be extremely surprised if Christmas Pudding dated back further than
that.

Whatever.

My grandmother used to wrap coins in tinfoil and stick them into the
Christmas pudding

That's a tradition, isn't it? We have a similar -- otoshidama.
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