Back in the day, use to always eat Xmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

[multigraincracker]

In the 60s they were the only ones open

Come to think of it I might do that today. Wife has gone to relatives for the week and I’m staying home watching the dog and cat.

[True Dough]

1. I was just listening to a podcast

and the host is Jewish. He said he and his family had a tradition of eating at Chinese restaurants on Christmas eve. There's no wrong time to enjoy Chinese food!

[unweird]

2. Our plan too but...

Steelers play at one so it looks like a Grubhub holiday dinner. Gimme back my spring roll!

[debm55]

3. Go Steelers . SW PA here.

[displacedvermoter]

4. When living in the NYC suburbs in the 90s

all my Jewish friends and coworkers would go to a movie and then out for Chinese on Christmas. I joined in a few times and think it is a great tradition.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. I heard a more upbeat performance of this by Lieberman, Fogel, and Bey on PHC years ago ...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. 😨

[MiHale]

6. Hey, MGC!...Merry Christmas!...

We used to do that too, Christmas Story tradition. Then the kids got older..different plans. Family holiday joke is that our traditions change all the time.
Hope you get to enjoy a peaceful and serene day. Pass on Holiday Cheer to everyone.

[MiHale]

8. Duplicate deleted

[multigraincracker]

11. I forgot the other open place back then. Bowling allies.

I don't bowl, but love the atmosphere, Plus open on the holiday.

Hope you and wife are having a Wonderfull day. I know you are looking forward to the growing season.

[DURHAM D]

9. Remember this from Kagan's confirmation hearing -

During those proceedings, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina asked Kagan, who is Jewish, how she spent the last Christmas holiday.

“Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant,” Kagan quipped, prompting hearty laughter and applause in the hearing room.

[multigraincracker]

13. One time I stopped at a party store and bought a few items.

The young clerk counted the money and I was a couple of cents short and he asked if I was trying to Jew him.
I gave him a stern look and said "you aren't funny, I'm Jewish". The look on his face told me he'd never use that line again..

[Brainstormy]

12. the tradition of eating Chinese food, particularly

at Christmas, and particularly among Jewish people, originated in occupied Shanghai during WWII. The Jews had been ghettoized, rather than being exterminated which was the suggestion from above, and while they suffered many hardships they were obviously glad, on learning after the war what had happened to so many others, to have spent their days together, at least, and to have survived. A penchant for Chinese food, and for the game of Man Jong, both originated there and have long continued.

[Lulu KC]

14. I had not heard that before!

Fascinating! Thanks!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Nope. Jews in NYC started doing Christmas in Chinese restaurants

decades before, because they lived near the Chinese.

[Brainstormy]

19. Nope?

Consider researching this.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. I did. That's how I learned that Jews in NYC were doing

Chinese foods in the late 19th and early 20th century, decades before the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.

[SheltieLover]

16. I'm at an Asisn buffet right now

[multigraincracker]

17. Sitting at Hunan Garden Restaurant myself.

Great minds think alike.

[SheltieLover]

18. Lol

[ProfessorGAC]

20. We Got Take-Out

The Chinese restaurant a couple towns over is much better than the one in our town. So, that's where I went!

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Back then were Chinese Restaurants the only ones open on Christmas Day? nt