The Ghost of Christmas repast
The Ghost of Christmas repast
December 23, 2020 8.00pm
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Ralph Davis of Wahroonga thinks: The Christmas turkey tradition (C8) is like the Australia Day lamb tradition – both dreamt up by hungry Aussie advertising executives, and Paul Keys of Cloud Creek says: There were no turkeys for Christmas in the 1950s in my surrounds. Chicken if you had money and a slice of K.R. Darling Downs tinned ham for us. But others beg to differ. Alison Gyger of Sydney is 87 and definitely has memories of turkey as part of Christmas. We picked them up at Newcastle station, as they were sent by rail (two trains) by my grandparents in Forbes. In her 70s, Anne Cook of Ermington is a spring chicken comparatively and remembers roast turkey on Christmas Day. For many years, we had a hot Christmas lunch until someone had a lightbulb moment and it became a cold banquet.