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Re:Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christma... by Avshalom on Friday December 25, 2015 @05:57AM (#10790933)
We do not have Christmas Cake in the US as far as I've ever seen. Even 'fruit cake' which exists solely around Christmas has been the butt of jokes for at least 30 years so very few people actually buy/eat them and they don't usually have anything (booze, frosting) going on with them.
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Re:Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christma... by baby on Friday December 25, 2015 @06:05AM (#10790946)
Wow, always figured it was the same everywhere. Here in France we have "buche de noel" which means "log of Christmas" because it's a cake shaped like a log.
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Re:Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christma... by Avshalom on Friday December 25, 2015 @06:24AM (#10790974)
We do have 'yule logs' which wikipedia tells me are broadly the same cake (chocolate sponge cake rolled up around frosting) but I don't know that it's really all that common.

US Christmas is stereotypically endless cookies, with gingerbread and cinnamon rolls coming in strong. In general though I think the culinary traditions aren't really unified enough to be worth talking about.

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Re:Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christma... by dorfsmay on Friday December 25, 2015 @09:55AM (#10791353)
Except for eggnog!
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Re:Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christma... by dplgk on Friday December 25, 2015 @08:19AM (#10791148)
I totally forgot I learned about buche de noel in French class about 20 years ago. Thanks for the flashback.
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Re:Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christma... by baby on Friday December 25, 2015 @05:18PM (#10792528)
I find the thought that we have a lot of seasonal cakes amusing. You can find "Galette des rois" around january only, "bugnes" around march I think, "papillotes" and "buches" for Christmas...
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