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I’ll be in Australia next month and would like to know what traditions they have there on Christmas day and Boxing Day, i e, do they have Christmas pudding after dinner and cold meat, pickles, mash on Boxing Day followed by trifle?

Some still stick to the traditional meals, but barbeques, cold meats and salads are more usual, as is plenty of seafood.

In most areas it's too hot to cook especially indoors, even with air-conditioning

Thank you Allan, I should have realised that, I think I will make a big trifle as my contribution.

Trifles always go down well, ZZzzz, and of course you will be down under.

Whatever the food, enjoy your Aussie Christmas :-D

I certainly will thank you , it’s not the first time I’ve been there but it will be the first Christmas and there is always more family to meet when I go.

We spent a Christmas down under in the mid-70s with my relations, 5 sisters and their families, who had all emigrated from the UK between the late 1950s and mid-60s.

We were in Melbourne, with a heat wave beginning, and they made and served a typical English Christmas dinner, with about 20 of us packed around several tables in the living/dining area of a non-airconditioned house.

I can tell you it was not very pleasant!!

They had a large marquee/tent erected in the back garden, and we all spent the time before and after the meal sitting out there in a little more comfort ............ except the sisters who had to spend time in the tiny kitchen.

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