The Christmas festival holds all sorts of mysteries, including a story about angelic apparitions, a virgin birth and three kings with precious spices in their luggage, who are traveling after a celestial apparition. Some details have been handed down from that night, for example that an ox and a donkey are said to have attended the birth, and that the shepherds in the field were initially a little frightened by the angel, but then followed his recommendation to go to the little child in the stable pay homage
Nowhere, however, is it written that St. Joseph made his Maria hot for a pair of wieners after all the hardships.
Nevertheless, the food has long been an important or even the most important part of the Christmas festival, and the original mystery is guaranteed to be given fewer considerations than the order of the dishes.
Like in that family where there has always been a goose for Christmas dinner. With the drawback, however, that nobody really likes the animal. The teenage girls don’t eat meat any more anyway, the mother thinks it’s too fat and the father would prefer roast pork. But grandpa wants a goose for Christmas, like always. Now grandpa passed away this year and Christmas could be a vegan green spelled risotto or something light with chicken or just a roast pork. The family quickly agreed: There is a goose for Christmas, as always.
Elsewhere the children are now cooking. They have traveled widely and have culinary experience and want to bring this closer to parents and grandparents. Sushi or Korean bulgogi, Creole jambalaya or Portuguese-style dried cod. That is appreciated, of course, it can also be something special. But later, after Christmas mass, the father gets a Mettenwurst from the closet. He would have preferred that for dinner, because it doesn’t really have to be anything special.
So Wienerle with potato salad or in Franconia maybe blue corners. There is nothing in the Bible about sausages, but with a little imagination you can find a reason why they are said to be made for Christmas Eve. On the one hand there is their simplicity, which is supposed to match the poverty of the holy family. On the other hand, the potato salad is easy to prepare and should thus minimize the unavoidable Christmas stress. And then, according to church tradition, Advent is a period of Lent, so you can only feast on the first holiday.
However, this must be considered in good time. A goose, for example, is not suitable for spontaneously establishing a tradition. A man in a butcher’s shop had to find out that these days: Now there are no more geese, two weeks ago was the last chance to pre-order. After all, he pointed out that it is already clear when next Christmas will be. A little hint. And why it then degenerates into stress again is probably part of the mystery.