With my work-vs-family situation, I'm sufficiently out of loop with our Christmas traditions that, when I came back from the work week yesterday evening, I entered my home town at the remote end - to do a drive-by and see whether I could find a place to grab something to eat. (Of course everyone was closed ... lucky buggers. :3 ) The (comparatively recent) tradition of a Christmas Eve meal in Germany is potato salad and boiled sausages, so I grabbed a glass of wieners and a can of Gratin Dauphinois I still had from a trip to France and fired up the stove. (I did check beforehand that I can go buy fresh stuff in some larger supermarkets today, though.)