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I have the flu leave me alone The link to all that are down in the description man 15 Christmas traditions British people love Tis the season I'm feeling real Holiday spirit II Let's get into it The festive season is upon us easy dreamers and Christmas is a very important time here in the UK So today I'm going to share with you 15 Christmas traditions that British people love In the month of December it becomes acceptable to wear terrible jumpers and we bring Christmas jumpers are bright colorful and very Faster we are the better. They have rain deer snowman. Hi. It's love a terrible Christmas jumper They're bright colorful sweater right wonderful all at the same time and There are a lot of fun to wear now. This is my new Christmas jumper. I had a Christmas jumper that I used to always wear when I was in Chicago it was a snowman He was doing Boogersugar, let me show you my old Christmas jumper three two one And if you're in the UK in December go out buy yourself a Christmas jumper and join the fun number two Panta mimes or pantoses. They're also known now. Let's be honest These are a little bit mad if anyone not from the UK So what they are our musical comedy theater and they're based around traditional Children's stories like Snow White or Jack and the Beanstalk and they're performed in theaters around the UK during Christmas time now they usually start famous TV actors or singers and They are mad frankly. They're completely mad. So sounds boring Not even gonna lie to you This is too Christmassy Y'all wild and out there often have pop culture references and there's a lot of interaction between the audience and the performance So there's maybe good for kids though a lot of call-and-response the audience will shout out things It's it's very fun. I've got to say last year like are you talking about for adults or for kids? I went to Aladdin at the Hattney Empire and yeah, it's a really good time It's fun for all the family and it definitely gets you in the Christmas spirit And if you're in the UK during Christmas, why not go to a pantomime number three getting drunk at the office Christmas party? Christmas is a great time to let your hair down and Brits love a Christmas party But sometimes they take it too far. This one is solutable salute. I got high blood pressure So I don't drink that much no more, but Now there are five clear stages to making the idiot yourself at the Christmas party First of all, you drink too much. Secondly, you make an idiot yourself on the dance floor number three You insult your boss number four You try and kiss the social media manager and number five you photocopy a part of your anatomy Then you wake up the next day Wondering if you still have a job. It's a tradition that we do every year. Unfortunately. It eats the dream English It's just me. So there is no Christmas party. Oh Number four advent calendars for the month advent calendar. What is that? December all children and Some adults have an advent calendar. There are 25 doors and on each day like number one on the first of December You open up the door and there's a picture or if you're lucky some chocolate behind that door now when I was a kid We just had pictures but these days. It's all about the chocolate advent calendars No, I wish I would have known that I would have got one for my daughter's Like most countries our big day is Christmas Day the 25th of December But on Christmas Eve, which is the 24th of December. We do have a couple of traditions personally I'd like to do all my Christmas shopping on the 24th of December, but then nobody gets a good for you Nobody gets a good gift from him the day before what you mean Is empty I don't think that's a British tradition. So yeah, I think I'm the only one one thing That is a tradition is that all children will write a letter to Father Christmas with a list of all the presents that they want to receive Then they will give it to their parents who might go and post that letter or if there was a chimney in the house They send the letter up the chimney and that's how Father Christmas knows what you want, of course then Every child hangs up there stocking. This is not gonna lie. This year was the first time I didn't get one But my daughter got a stocking Like I've never got a stocking for Christmas ever in my life. I Called it a sock in one of my vlogs But the Father Christmas knows where to put the present I remember when I was a kid my mom would put this on my legs as I went to sleep And so when I woke up I could feel the weight of the presence on my legs And I knew that Father Christmas had been that was the most exciting feeling in the what she gets you World we also like to put out a glass of brandy and some carrots by the fireplace or by the Christmas tree This is for Father Christmas and his reindeer's this gives so in the UK They think is acceptable for a father Christmas to be out there Sliding that sled off the brandy Some energy so they can go around the world giving all the children their presents They're not energy most homes will have a Christmas tree This is a Norwegian spruce that you put up in your house and you decorate it with baubles tinsel Angels whatever you have and lights of course as well and underneath the tree That's where you put all your presents now on Christmas Day the 25th of December Every family has their own traditions their own things that they love to do But one thing that everyone does is have a big Dinner this usually involves turkey although of course other birds are eaten and vegetarian Also y'all eat turkey out there on Christmas see we so we have it on Thanksgiving And some people double up like I wouldn't mind having it for that Christmas again But you know we do ham as well different other cuts of meat tamales for the Mexicans And You know it'd be good Friends are of course popular as well. Then you have roast potatoes and you have vegetables depending on what you want Do you want Brussels sprouts carrots peas broccoli? I don't know then we have gravy to sort of give it some moisture I personally like to have a Yorkshire pudding, but I know that's controversial. We also have something called bread sauce, which is a sauce Made of bread. It's really quite delicious. What a guy bread sauce I Feel like they got some bread sauce at a British no down the street for me I'm gonna go get some and try it you might have cranberry sauce as well on the side of it of fruitiness and flavor My personal favorite is a pig in blanket. What is a pig in blanket? It's a sausage wrapped in bacon It sounds cute, but it's a pig wrapped in another pig So that's evil and for pudding. It's traditional to have a Christmas pudding It's kind of like a mincemeat cake with brandy sauce personally. I'm not that fussed about it I'd rather have chocolate less mincemeat tradition One thing you must do is overeat so that you're really uncomfortable And you go and spend the rest of the afternoon on the sofa kind of regretting your life choices And that leads me into Christmas tradition number nine, which is a Christmas TV special all the popular TV shows make special Extended versions of their show for Christmas. So one fantastic example was only false and false I did a heroes and villains Christmas special. I remember mr. Bean did a Christmas special and yeah, yeah I remember that one for only four of the horses. We watched that on patreon. Yeah, I think it's Gavin and Stacy now at three o'clock The Queen gives her Christmas message the king's another tradition some families sit down and watch this We used to watch it before opening our presents It's a 10 to 15 minute speech and this is where she addresses the main issues of the year And it's almost like an end-of-year review for her. She also links it to the Christmas story now in the 1992 speech She used the infamous phrase anus horribles This is Latin for And it's now become a part of spoken English because it was so iconic now on channel 4 There was an alternative for Christmas message given by someone else. So last year it was Danny Dyer this year I'm not sure as I say not yeah, I put Danny Dyer on the TV to make a Oh Real hard man up there. That's tough every family follows the same traditions some families might watch the Queen's Beach Some families might not it depends number 11 crackers Now a cracker is a kind of paper cylinder that we pull apart and there was a bang and inside You've got a little hat and a joke and maybe a toy as well Now the key tradition here is that when you open them together as a group Is that you cross your arms? Okay, so you're holding one cracker here and one cracker here and you pull and Then then they bang the toys fall out the jokes go everywhere It's a mess. It's usually done at the beginning of the meal there for the rest of the Christmas meal You sit there with your paper hat you read your terrible joke. Why do we do it? I don't know it's tradition number 12 Mints pies. Oh, yes. Okay. Here we go. Mints pies a mince pie So this is a little pie as you can see and inside you have mince meat. Okay, so it's dried fruit And why do you call it mince? Why do you call it meat? Mince pie is made of what am I hearing meat? Wait, did he even say meat? Pie as you can see and inside you have mince meat. Okay, so it's dried fruit And they have minced meat. He said meat, but it's dried fruit. Okay, dusting of sugar on as well They're quite delicious, you know Bon Appetit So what's the cross section? They look dry Do you got milk? Somebody go ahead and give you CPR during it is Another tradition is having Father Christmas shake chocolate just like this the day after Christmas Day the 26th of December It's known as Boxing Day. Now it's believed that the name comes from when workers would receive Christmas boxes from their bosses Now these days it's a day of shopping So a little bit like Black Friday or Cyber Monday People get up super early in the morning and go and queue outside their favorite store so they can get in So on the 26th of December y'all still not done buying stuff in the UK Y'all are really marketable out there. It's tough early and find the best bargains It's also a big sporting day with the Premier League taking center stage now in my family We usually eat the leftovers from Christmas Day on Boxing Day Which is really awesome because you're just having Christmas dinner again for a second time at number 15 You must take down your Christmas tree within 12 days of Christmas I like you to tell some Americans that come February Christmas trees still be up in America That's laziness at the end of the day. Otherwise You will have bad luck for the rest of the year and that's not a great way to start the year So please take down your Christmas trees. So those are the 15 Christmas traditions that bridge. That's pretty cool though I'm not gonna lie. That's pretty cool that y'all got traditions and things of that nature I want to you know for my daughter. I want to start some type of traditions and things of that nature You know, I want to be cool and do that stuff But I did find out I'm gonna go buy minced meat pie. I'm gonna go buy bread sauce And that's it. Tell her leave a like comment subscribe turning your post. I'm gone