Talk:List of Christmas dishes

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Regarding kylmäsavulohi. Added the missing letter and changed the translation as well. What in the world is this "Raw-pickled slightly salted salmon" it used to be? Graniitti 01:49, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

U.S. Christmas foods list needs subcategories
The list of U.S. Christmas foods as it currently exists is impossible to make sense of unless you're already familiar with the subject, which is not the point of an encyclopedia entry. Older countries and/or more ethnically unified countries have traditional Christmas foods. What the United States has is bits of everyone's Christmas traditions, plus indigenous traditions, all mixed up with the somewhat artificial ideas of American Christmas traditions adopted by immigrants trying to assimilate. Taking representative items from all those traditions and dumping them into a single alphabetical list yields chaos. No one in the United States sits down to a nice Christmas dinner of lefse, tamales, and boiled custard with cranberry sauce.

You could probably get a doctoral dissertation studying which populations traditionally eat oyster stew or seafood chowder on Christmas Eve, and why. Tamales are Christmas fare for Spanish-speaking populations from the American Southwest all the way down to Venezuela. Scandinavian-Americans eat lutefisk and lefsa any time they want to get down with their ethnicity, but at Christmas they eat rice pudding with almond. And so forth.

As for older American Christmas food traditions, at minimum Southern cooking ought to be broken out as a subcategory. Maybe just divide it into north and south. The ethnic specialties that haven't come into general use should be identified by the ethnic group in question.

Additional quibbles: Russian Tea Cakes and Smithfield Ham

1. I've never seen Russian Tea Cakes/Mexican Wedding Cookies identified as a Christmas specialty. Intensely rich and troublesome cookies tend to get baked more often by home bakers during the holiday season than at any other time of year, but that doesn't make that particular recipe more of a Christmas tradition than any of twenty other cookie varieties, if you get the distinction.

2. Ham is listed twice, and in my opinion one of those instances should be removed. "Smithfield Ham" did at one time signify a prized regional specialty item, suitable for holiday feasts; but today it's just the trade name for a considerably less select and reliable product. There's really no reason to give it a separate place on the list. 67.244.76.130 (talk) 02:29, 2 April 2012 (UTC)TNH

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can I get some help polishing the language at List of Christmas dishes? Grammar and capitalization seems to need it, thanks. WeWorkGuest (talk) 05:43, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Have done some copyediting in the section, mainly tightening language. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:16, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

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what were the dishes that have been prepared and served during christmas and new ye ar? 103.62.153.179 (talk) 06:08, 7 January 2023 (UTC)