Yum. . . please pass the hamborgarhryggur. It goes so well with pineapple and fermented shark meat.

Did you find this difficult? Do you wish you had a culinary guidebook not written by Monty Python? We hear you. Here are the answers.

1. Feliz Navidad: Tamales. Eaten with gusto in Guatemala.
2. Boldog Karácsonyt: Töltött káposzta, delicious Hungarian stuffed cabbage.
3. Gleðileg Jól: Hamborgarhryggur is the perfect dish in Iceland.
4. Nollaig Shona Dhuit: We're told they like Tunis cake in Ireland. Irish h2g2ers will let us know.
5. Hristos Razdajetsja: Beshbarmak is a traditional dish in Kazakhstan.
6. Frohe Weihnachten: How can anybody not like German/Austrian Lebkuchen?
7. Kala Christougenna: Greeks with a sweet tooth (aka, all Greeks) love baklava.
8. Hauskaa Joulua: Finns eat Lutefisk with Béchamel sauce. That's the story, and hard as it is to believe, we're sticking to it.
9. Il-Milied it-Tajjeb: The Maltese enjoy Panettone, an Italian dish.
10. Shubh Christmas: What else would you eat in India at Christmas but Allahabadi cake?

This makes us want to travel, at least as far as an international deli. Whatever you eat at holiday time, save some for us!

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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