Christmas Eve the Italian way means fish, fish and more fish

Crux ^ | November 11, 2017 | The Associated Press

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!

[heylady]

We still celebrate the feast of the seven fishes on Christmas Eve. We usually have muscles, calamari, shrimp, crab cakes, clam chowder, and shrimp scampi with linguini. It isn’t a sit down dinner but more of a bunch of appetizers. We are from Rhode Island so we all grew up loving seafood. My children have carried on the tradition and the grandchildren look forward to it ever year.

[ealgeone]

You can’t beat fresh crab cakes.

[Clutch Martin]

“Pilgrims? Christmas?”
Yes & yes.

I’m fairly certain they ate most of the year and despite rumors to the contrary they ate more cod, more often than any other protein.

[The Great RJ]

My grandmother used to make homemade head cheese from a pigs head every Christmas eve. I am glad my family has lost this tradition.

[Clutch Martin]

For Christmas day we hike around the local area and then...

Chinese buffet. No fuss. Lots of food.

We’ve been doing that for decades. Up until a few years ago I had never seen the “movie”... and the Peking duck scene.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The Pilgrims were Separatists not Puritans.

They celebrated Christmas.

The Captain of the Mayflower broke out a barrel of beer in honor of the day.