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 HOLIDAY CELEBRATE question!

What is your favorite holiday and why?

Don't come to tell us you ha... 
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Swedish style Christmas.

It was the food.

Meatballs, sausages, kroppkakor* (pork stuffed potato dumplings), ham, worted bread, cheeses, Janson (potato and anchovies gratin), pickled herring in five differently flavorings, ginger snaps, saffron buns, dark sweet lagers, ... 
And the grandparents.

(Not as impressed by US edition standard-issue Christmas turkey)

*yes, I'm from that corner of the country