# What do you think of as traditional for Christmas dinner?

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> [@The Absolute Worst Christmas Song, Bar None](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-worst-christmas-song-bar-none/928972/64):
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> I mostly base this on reading Dickens, but I thought the traditional Christmas dinner was goose in England, or the UK as a whole, and that in the US, it morphed to turkey.

I recall reading somewhere that Dickens is credited as single-handedly changing the traditional dinner from goose to turkey, although it took about a decade for turkeys to have the majority.

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