SC - OT - Antopodean Holidays

[Sharon R. Saroff]

Huette,

Well personally, as I grew up in the NSW outback where for 3 months every
temp is over 100oF (40oC) including nights - we had a cold buffet for
Christmas.  Mum would bake a ham and one or two poultry (usually duck and
goose or turkey) and a leg or shoulder of lamb a day or two before Xmas.
And we would make salads Xmas eve (pasta, rice, potato, greens etc.) as well
as canned asparagus, beetroot and fresh boiled eggs and cucumbers etc.

So on Xmas day all we did was bring everything out of the fridge, sit down
and eat.  It also meant that mum has two days off a year from cooking
(mother's day being the other one).   

Actually I think we usually ate leftovers (with fresh salads) for a few days
afterwards.

My husband's father is English so we usually now spend Xmas in a sinking hot
house (with air-conditioning) eating stinking hot English stodge.

Mel - who wonders if her favorite restaurant might be open this Xmas day?

> Well, 25 years ago, I spent 6 weeks in Melbourne with
> a penpal.  I was there from mid-December to the end of
> January, so I spent Christmas with them.  Coming from
> a German/Dutch family, it was quite a treat for me to
> experience an English/Scottish type Christmas.  We had
> roast goose, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding,
> haggis,
> baked turnips, and other stuff I can't remember
> anymore.  For dessert, we had plum pudding (with
> little trinkets baked in it, I found an old English
> thruppense in my piece), mincemeat pies, an English
> Christmas Cake, and Pavlova.
> 
> That Christmas was about 95 deg. F, which for me,
> being
> a California Girl, was not unusual for me.  My friends
> explained to me that the Ozzie Santa wore a red velvet
> and white fur trimmed bathing suit, and spent
> Christmas Day sunning himself on the beach, before
> going back to the North Pole.
> 
> So, yes, this Yank does know that Ozzies eat for
> Christmas.
> 
> Huette
> 
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