Hey guys. Whats your favourite part of a Jamaican Christmas?
chrisja
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I love the food...lol...cant help saying that. I love pot roast beef and hard dough bread and duck bread. I love sorrel with ginger and rum. Gungo peas and rice. Used to really love the fruit cake when I was much younger but not as much now. Love family getting together and just love the whole nice laid back airy feel of a Jamaican Christmas. Love the carols on the radio, love that people just seem so much more loving and caring then. Love the Christmas breeze. Don't need the snow because nothing beat a nice Jamaican Christmas breeze........and the list goes on and on. Guess you can all see that I LOVE Christmas.
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My last Christmas in Jamaica was 11 years ago and if I am honest, being in the UK has made me dislike this time of year as it is just not the same. I have also spent Christmas in Canada and Barbados in recent years and neither can compare to a good ole Jamaican Christmas. For a Caribbean island, Christmas in Barbados was really disappointing. We ended up spending Christmas Day on the beach eating lobster lol. It was still good fun but didn't feel like Christmas at all.
The things I loved about a Jamaican Christmas are:
- the food and drinks: like chrisja mentioned, the roast beef, christmas cake, christmas bread lol, roast pork, sorrel, red label wine. i remember christmas and sometimes easter were the only times my parents would buy a crate of D&G softdrink, red stripe beer and ice cream.
- grandmarket: everyone looked forward to christmas eve night.
- church/the true meaning of christmas: here it is just too commercialised and people have lost the true meaning.
- christmas decoration/pepperlights lol: it use to be so nice to see everyone in the neighbourhood decorating their houses, flowers and trees. it sometime seem like they were all trying to outdo each other but it was something we looked forward to every year.0 -
ladies I totally agree with you guys, i could not afford as much as now but the feeling of togetherness was better. I still try to maintain that feeling in my household & have a gr8 time with my fam & friends. Oh I love the rum cake, sorrel & the christmas market when i was a kid. My sister & I used to get dressed up & go downtown to the old park where we use to pay to take pics..... the good old black & white days. I remember my daughter first pic was taken there...... I look back on that pick with me in my bell foot pants & afro OMG. GR8 MEMORIES:blushing:0
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Jamaican Christmas is the best man, from the food to the music, (esp Santa Inna Mango Tree) to the people. Its funny growing up I dont remember people going out of their ways to buy expensive gift at all. Neighbours share ground provisions and laugh and talk till **** a crow with each other. And then the Christmas morning service..........wow all who have not gone to church all year are going in the Sunday best. .................... ah GOOD TIMES0
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The Christmas breeze has been coming in... very cool here in the nights. i LOVE it.
Obviously the food... i dunno how i'm gonna manage eating and staying under cals. Gonna have to do a LOT of exercise or something.
My fam and i usually cook for about 20 people... so i'm NOT looking forward to all that running up and down and cooking. But somehow if i dont cook and go through it all... it doesnt feel like christmas. (i'm a mess)
Christmas carols on the radio... and ppl are generally in a better mood.
Christmas is the best.0 -
Rum cake... love it love it!0
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I am so looking forward to spending this Christmas in JA! It's been 2 long.......2000 was my last Christmas there0
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