- Thanks to an advertising campaign in 1974, many Japanese families eat KFC on Christmas Eve
- South African natives enjoy the deep-fried caterpillar of the Emperor Moth as a Christmas treat
- Find the hidden almond in the Swedish Christmas rice pudding and legend says you’ll be married within the year
- On Christmas in Slovakia the most senior man in the house takes a spoon of loksa pudding and flings it at the ceiling; the more that sticks the better the luck
- People in Greenland enjoy raw whale skin with blubber at Christmas
- In Britain, each member of the family must stir the Christmas pudding mix in a clockwise direction while making a wish
