• We wake up and eat "rysgrinsgröt" which is a certain kind of porridge, but it's mainly made of rice so it has a quite unique taste. (The cookinh takes over 3 hours so it's a pretty long process..) When it's ready to be served you but one nut in the big bowl and mix it in there, and the one that gets it (on the plate mixed in the porridge) has to sing or preform something for the rest of the people. You don't know who get the nut until you bite it or can see it on the spoon ^^,
• We drink "Glögg". It's a red colored sweet tasting drink that's served hot with nuts and raisins in it. You can have with alcohol or whitout, however you prefer.
• We visit the cemetery to put candles on our loved ones graves.
• We have a big Christmas dinner with all our relatives (or just the family and closest people to us) where we serve different kinds o fish, meat, potatoes and other vegetables. After that we usually have some kind if dessert, it depends a lot from family to family.
• SANTA COMES FOR A VISIT AND BRINGS PRESENTS! Yeas you heard me! We get to have our presents delivered by Santa Claus. There's a couple of other countries too that have Santa delivering the presents, but of course it's different from culture to culture - coutry to country. Usually he stays for a while and he gets "Glögg" (the drink that I mentioned earlier) and sometimes we sing old Christmas songs to entertain him.
That's pretty all, though there's soooo many other traditions. These are the ones my family follows, so I wanted to share. Merry Christmas to you all!
Over and out.
-F
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