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Christmas Tamales are the traditional Christmas breakfast in this neck of the woods. Hot coffee and bunuelos make the meal complete.
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 | | Belgium
Christmas breakfast in these parts is a sweet bread called Cougnou. The bread is shaped into the form of Baby Jesus with currants for eyes. |
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 | | Appalachian Mountains, USA
Many residents here are ancestors of old seafarers. Their dying custom is eating oysters - either fried or in stew - for Christmas morning breakfast. |
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 | | Sweden
The Christmas season here begins on St. Lucia Day, December 13. That morning, the oldest daughter of the house dresses in white and wears a wreath with seven lit candles on her head. She serves the other members of the family breakfast in bed. |
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 | | Finland
At breakfast, on the Christmas Eve morning, natives here have rice porridge, cinnamon and sugar and milk. An almond is hidden in the porridge and whoever finds it first is believed to have great luck all through the following year. They might even get married! |
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