# Whatcha cookin'? Christmas 2020 version **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 24, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-cookin-christmas-2020-version/928830 "2020-12-24T17:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-cookin-christmas-2020-version/928830/39 "2020-12-25T21:51:50Z")
Thank you both. Talked w wife & extended family. That feast went well, net of the vagaries of cooking it at one house and driving it across town to serve at another. But that would’ve been the same issue if I was home. Leaving in a few minutes for our Diner Extravaganza; I’ll report back in a couple hours. So far, so Christmas-y. Here’s another story of Christmas airline-style: > [@In the dustbin of our cultural history](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/278): > > There’s a bit of a tradition forming in the USA to go out for Chinese food on Christmas (or Eve). Because from roughly the '70s to 2000s those were about the only places open that day. AIUI the practice started among Jewish folks and later spread to the Gentiles. Back about 1991 I was working a trip and we arrived in NYC at about 7pm Christmas eve. The hotel was in one of the predominantly Jewish areas in Brooklyn. The hotel restaurant was closed for the holiday and we were famished. Out i… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-cookin-christmas-2020-version/928830)._