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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Christmas should be celebrated in June or July if it really is a true religious holiday.
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There has been a growing trend here in Oz over the last few years for places (mainly establishments specializing in fine food and drinks [and sometimes not-so-fine] ) to have promotions entitled "Christmas in July".
The rationale behind this (apart from getting derrieres on seats) is that for generations we have been subjected to Christmas images from the northern hemisphere featuring snow, sleighs, cold weather and hot food, when the reality is that we usually swelter at that time of year. My first Christmas Day as a resident of Sydney (I was born and raised in Adelaide) was one of 40-degree Celsius temperatures (that's about 104 degrees F). The following year was cooler... maybe 38-39 degrees C.
So, the idea of cooking the "traditional" Christmas turkey, ham, plum pudding and so on would seem a little out of place in such weather (of course, that didn't stop generations of families having such fare for Christmas lunch, out of some kind of loyalty to the "Mother Country"... if they did it in England, we should do it here
). Therefore, the theory goes, lets have Christmas in July, the middle of winter, when it is cold enough (though all the marketing schemes in the world will not make it a white Christmas [in July] outside the New South Wales and Victorian snowfields) to make such images and food relevant. No one gives presents or anything, there is not even a uniform date to celebrate this "event".
Just another attempt by the marketing and sales departments to change the culture.
Paul
Canberra, Australia.