It has been
confirmed. The guest list for Christmas includes four vegetarians and a Muslim.
The family is growing. The young ones have chosen their own ways of life, and
some have found their partners for life outside the social circles of their
parents.
We have all
been together before. And we have had a fine time together. Our own diet has
already changed over the years. Cutting back on meat - even a couple of days every week
with vegetarian meals. No problem – well, no BIG problem.
But
Christmas Dinner! Traditions rule when it comes to celebrating Christmas.
Roast duck or roast pork is tradition. Quorn and tofu is found nowhere in the Holiday recipes passed on
by the Grannies. Pork was a predominant nutritional element in my own family’s
many days of Christmas feasting. Alcoholic brewerages were by no way banned.
Well,
anyway. Christmas should maybe not only be about eating and drinking. The table is as much the people around it as the food upon it. So let’s
celebrate family and friendship. Old traditions die, new traditions are born.
The other night, In an absurd dream, I
saw myself outside the church, waiting for people to come out after the mass.
Finally my wife is there. What’s the news? I ask. “It's a boy, and his is a
vegetarian”, she said.
So,
COEXIST AND EAT WHAT'S ON YOUR PLATE.
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