What part of your Holiday meat incorporates some of your cultural backgound? Mine is stuffed cabbage

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13. not so much now but my family had several

I grew up in the rural South so some were farm related and some are just Southern

one of my uncles cured hams so we always had one of his hams
radishes from the plant bed which was also used to steam the tobacco seeds
Boiled custard (alternative to egg nog) delicious especially with coconut cake and ambrosia.
(my mom made ambrosia with tangerines, oranges, bananas, red grapefruit, coconut . No fruit cocktail. Back then winter was when we could get the most citrus.)
Oyster casserole. I don't know how this started but my mom made it every Christmas . I loved the taste but hated actually eating the oysters (a texture thing) My sister ate the oysters from my serving.
Cornbread dressing, not stuffing. Very southern
Giblet gravy with hard boiled eggs in the gravy.