important meal is Christmas dinner. At the start of
the meal, British people often pull a cracker. The typical meal consists of turkey with potatoes and other vegetables such as carrots and sprouts. In Britain this is followed by Christmas pudding - a sweet pudding containing a lot of dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy. Other traditional foods in Britain include Christmas cake.
holiday. A lot of sports take place on Boxing Day and many people now spend time watching sport on television. Twelve days after Christmas is the time when people are supposed to take down their decorations and remove their Christmas trees.