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I'm from Michigan - not sure if that makes me a midwesterner or a Yankee. My family is pretty much city/suburban for the last 4 generations. We eat holiday meals at night. When I was a kid, we did Christmas eve dinner with the family (~15 people). Cocktails at 6, horsdevours at 8, presents at 9, dinner at 1030, after dinner drinks at 1200, home by 230am. This was as a 6 yo.
My wife's family is suburban Colorado but her grandparent's generation were/are farmers. Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas et al are capitol D Dinner. 2-3 pm. Pie served and dishes done by 6 pm. The first few years freaked me out! What do you do at night? There we were done with everything before my old family figured out the night's menu?
It turns out that I like their way better. They talk and play games into the night. My family just used their alcohol-fuled simmering repressed hatred for entertainment.
I think it is a city - rural thing rather than a Yankee - Southern thing.
mike
'78SC
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