We usually eat ham on Christmas and Easter.

For Christmas we just eat whatever tickles our fancy - my family isn't that religious tho

For our family, Thanksgiving means turkey and Christmas means ham!

sometimes you have a seven fish dinner [any seafood not just fish]

We usually have turkey at Thanksgiving and ham at Christmas. We're in the southern U.S.

It depends. Last year I had ham for Christmas and for Thanksgiving I had roast beef. If I'm not having Thanksgiving with my family I usually cook pork ribs or steak.

My "family" is currently my two roommates and the pets. Their favorite "traditional" gathering foods are thanksgiving foods...so once and a while we'll have a thanksgiving dinner just because we can.

I've often wondered the same thing Foxxy so good question. I love turkey at Christmas but don't think I'd mind having it a month earlier as well.

Uh, turkey both depending on who it is. Personally, I prefer ham or chicken

My family eats traditional turkey with my dad's family on Thanksgiving, and on Christmas Day we have ham with them. My mom's side of the family celebrates with us on Christmas Eve and we usually have tacos or nachos (nowhere near a traditional thing, but we don't care). Hope this helped! Have a good day :)

We have beef roast for Christmas, though some families do have a full turkey dinner again, others do a traditional seven fish. There isn't a standard "this is what you have for Christmas" meal here. Now dessert/sweets for Christmas, you'll see a lot of similarities no matter where you are in the country.

It really depends on what you want to eat for dinner n christmas

We eat turkey on christmas and thanksgiving.

We usually have turkey for both holidays, and often a ham as well.

It just depends on family tradition and whatever that particular family, couple, or person wants or feels like making for that particular day. For us, when I still had a family (alone now), we would always have a "traditional" Thanksgiving Day meal (roasted turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, rolls, and a couple of desserts). For Christmas Eve, nothing especially special, just a nice meal because Christmas Day would have a Big Deal Meal, lol, with a ham (which is weird because ham is also traditional for the New Years Day dinner for good luck, so go figure) or turkey (which makes better sense) along with whatever other Big Deal Meal sides would go well with the meat. For Christmas Day dinner, the desserts were usually the "centerpiece" (where more effort was spent). New Years Day dinner would be the ham, potato salad, greens (cooked leafy greens like collards, mustard, etc), cabbage, black eye peas, cornbread, maybe whatever other veggies people wanted to have..

We usually have lasagna for Christmas.

In my family we did. Pretty much the same meal for both holidays. But other families have variations. I don't know if it's regional or what. I grew up in Texas. My friend who moved there from Minnesota said her family had turtle soup for Christmas (no thank you). For a few years we had a big family reunion at Thanksgiving and then it was usually turkey and ham. Lots and LOTS of turkey and ham. (But there were all kinds of different side dishes and desserts, so that made it okay.)

Depends. For my family it's usually vice versa, but we often just eat whatever we feel like on both days as well.

It changes by family. Turkey for TG for my fam, but Christmas Eve depends on who is hosting, and Christmas might be ham or something. My fam gets together on Christmas Eve and leaves Christmas for the individual households so it’s not norm to have some big meal that day. If my hubs and I host CE, we generally change the menu every year and try to make foods from other cultures (some American-ized a bit based on ingredient availability and reduction of guest whining).

A lot of people do turkey again, but it varies. We usually do beef roast for Christmas Day. A lot of families (mine included) traditionally do seafood for Christmas Eve. Apparently there are folks here where it's tradition for Christmas Day, but I've never encountered that among the families I know.

I'm not sure about others, I think it's a personal preference thing, but my family eats the turkey on Thanksgiving and then on Christmas if we have turkey still we'll eat that. Otherwise, we just make something else.

We usually make a nice meal, but turkey isn't the only option. Some people like prime rib, ham or other family favorites.

Turkey is very common on Christmas. So is ham. My family usually has oysters for breakfast. I know families that have all sorts of things as their traditional Christmas meals.

I love turkey with all the trimmings and we don't eat red meat so for us it's turkey again on christmas day. What's weird is we don't eat it at any other time. It helps that the whole thing really makes the kitchen hot so I would never make it during the summer but it has been a 'special occasion meal' for so long what would we make instead?

Sometimes. I get tired of turkey, so I switch to ham or goose or something for Christmas.

Eat what you like...

For my family, we eat turkey on thanksgiving, but we eat traditional Indian food on Christmas

For my family we have both ham and turkey for Thanksgiving because not everyone likes turkey or ham so we have both, and then for Christmas we tend to have ham because it's more Christmas-y to us

In my American family there was a pork roast and turkey at Thanksgiving,, baked ham or a rib roast and a turkey or goose at Christmas, and roast lamb and ham at Easter. Every family's tradition is different.

Turkey is traditional for Thanksgiving but Christmas depends on different families and different regions. My family has been known to have turkey, ham, or prime rib depending on who is preparing Christmas dinner.

When I was young, it was turkey both days. Later, in my own house, it could be turkey for Thanksgiving and something different for Christmas. Now, it is whatever we have the energy to cook. We're old.

when we still bothered celebrating either one it was ham for both, no one in my family is big on turkey.

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Our menus are dictated by our individual family traditions. My neighbors are Chinese and on the other side of me they are Mexican. We live in FL near the coast so our dishes often enough will have seafood in them but will have individual cooking styles. There is no set way to celebrate Thanksgiving. For Christmas I have made turkey, ham, a crown roast, we had pizza once because the oven decided not to work that day. There are no rules.

We do both turkey and ham for Thanksgiving and Christmas. There is very little difference in what we serve at both meals. We make all of our favorite family recipes and end up with five or six side dishes and three or four salads in addition to the meats. And then there are desserts too. Our family really overdoes it regarding food at the holidays, but we like for everyone to have leftovers to take home with them.

Most people do Christmas dinner different from the next person, depending on your background and city. Turkey (or in my case Tofurkey) for thanksgiving and Chinese food for Christmas is a classic. I think some families eat ham on Christmas dinner too.

I love turkey and so I make it for Thanksgiving and Christmas. But also a ham for Christmas for everyone else because I dont like ham

WE do Turkey for Turkey Day, snack foods for Christmas Eve, and ham on Christmas.

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It varies to be honest ham and turkey are popular for sure but Ive had christmas lasagna or bbq beef more than once . theres no wrong way to do it but traditional would be turkey and or ham,

Some people do. You just eat whatever you want lol, there isn't really a tradition for christmas food

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I'm going to guess you don't travel much and most likely live in the U.S.

True. My dad invited a Chinese colleague over for Thanksgiving one year, since there's nothing else to do and his family was a plane ride away.

Weird doesn't necessarily mean bad. It just means different. Clearly this one is weird but good. There was zero negativity in the post. They say it is wonderful and that they are thankful.

Wow you're an asshole!