Christmas has a long tradition that can also be felt at the table – at least for two fifths of Austrians who, according to an Iglo survey with 1,000 participants, serve the same dish every year. In the Austrian average, there is raclette in local households on December 24th – almost a fifth of those who eat a traditional dish rely on it.
15 percent of them serve a cold platter, 13 percent sausages, and twelve percent fondue and soup each. Carp and salmon each eat seven percent, six percent prefer the goose. The palate seems to differ depending on the federal state: In Salzburg, for example, soup is the traditional Christmas dish for two thirds, in Upper Austria it is the sausage for almost 60 percent.
Upper Austrians like it traditional
43 percent of those surveyed said they eat the same traditional Christmas dish every year. Almost a third thought that they had a traditional dish, but decided from year to year whether it would also be on the table. For a quarter, the Christmas dinner has no tradition.
However, the tradition of eating is of above-average importance among under-30s and people in a household with children – for every second of them, the food follows an established tradition. When comparing federal states, it is above all the Upper Austrians, Burgenlanders, Carinthians and Tyroleans who stick to the traditional Christmas dish.
Source: Nachrichten
