Every single Christmas since forever Polsat airs Home Alone around 8pm. Same will be today.
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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We have two Christmas Days, on December 25 and 26. For people in relationships that usually means one day celebrating with your parents, and the other with your inlaws. Lately a lot of people have started observing an unofficial third Christmas Day on the 27th to celebrate with friends.
We all go to the local Drive-In movie theater and watch a Gruesome Twosome Christmas double feature: Passion of the Christ followed by Life of Brian. The irony being that these are Easter movies.
Just kidding.
CommieJones pretty much nailed what 
"culture" does on Christmas (even if they are not American) so I refer you to their post.
Half of the country eats Bratwurst (or some other kind of wurst) with Sourkraut and potato salad for dinner on the 24th.
This is a fact and entirely not made up.
Dancing around a tree we've decorated while singing songs about how we're going to eat it (okay just one song, other songd are about other stuff).
Competitively eating a form of rice porridge mixed with whipped cream and almonds, until one of us gets a whole almond and they get a present.
One of the elders of the family will abandon us in the night, only to don a garment of mixed red-and-white fabrics, stuff their pants and belly with hay or cloth so as to simulate obesity, wear a fake beard and then return claiming to be a man called "Santa Claus". They will then go to each child in the den and interrogate them on their behaviour for the year. If the child is deemed worthy then it is handed a preset. If not it will be handed coal and scolded for all to see.
And then there's the Thor-feud ofc
Omg, I have a Danish relative who does the almond in the ris a la malta thing, but I thought that was something her family made up.
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Only tangentially related to being a Christmas tradition, but the weirdest thing I grew up with was Knut. 20 days after Christmas you’re supposed to take down all Christmas decorations, and this coincides with children dressing up as old men to beg for treats.
There were other regional variants of this as well. But it was very much a hyperlocal event that is as close to doxing myself as I’m going to get here.
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