Until I was 15 my family did all the same things most other American families did when holidays occurred – Easter eggs at Easter, BBQs on the 4th of July and big family meals of turkey, stuffing, and sweet potatoes with marshmallows melted on top at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

In the autumn after my 15th birthday, we moved from Ohio to the UK and carried on celebrating Easter and Christmas but the others, we forgot. Holidays like the 4th of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving were American and we lived among the British. Relatively recently, Halloween celebrations and decorations have made their way across the Atlantic but the other two are not likely to be taken up by those in Britain; the 4th of July, after all, is a celebration of the USA separating itself from the rule of the British! Sadly, we didn’t have sweet potatoes and marshmallows any more because you couldn’t find sweet potatoes in England in the 1950s or 60s and marshmallows were always white and pink together – pink marshmallows on sweet potatoes? No way!

I can’t say I miss celebrating those holidays much but I do miss the sweet potatoes and marshmallows! I’m afraid I have a sweet tooth, though it has changed with the passing of years. I don’t tend to eat many sweet items beyond fruit, nowadays although I am very fond of a certain brand of dark chocolate bittermints. While I am dieting I try to save enough points to have a bittermint most days.

So, dear reader, the answer to the question posed in the prompt is not really. I try to have a turkey for Christmas dinner though turkeys aren’t all that special nowadays, and also my son-in-law has gout and can’t eat turkey as it is high in purines which are bad for gout sufferers. He can, though, eat chicken and will be cooking our Christmas meal this year! (Hooray! I won’t have to!)

Happy hols wherever you are and whatever you eat! Enjoy!