The A to Z English Podcast | What's your favorite Christmas tradition?

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss their favorite Christmas traditions. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack You're listening to the A-Z English podcast. 00:00:14 Jack Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I am here with my co-host social. And today we are going to do a quick talk episode where we just discuss a topic. And today's question is what's your favorite family Christmas tradition? 00:00:33 Jack And so, so I'll let I'll start with you first. What's your your favorite family Christmas tradition? 00:00:40 Xochitl Well, Jack, I would say my favorite family Christmas. 00:00:43 Xochitl Well, I have two, so I'll go over both briefly. I think for my American side, my favorite is probably making sugar cookies with my grandma in the US, we have that idea or the myth. 00:00:59 Xochitl Myth that Santa comes to house and leaves presents and the children are supposed to leave milk and cookies out for Santa as a snack when he stops by your house. So. 00:01:08 Jack Right. 00:01:13 Xochitl We would always. 00:01:13 Xochitl Make cookies from scratch with my grandma and we would decorate them and I still really enjoy making cookies and decorating them. And last. 00:01:24 Xochitl Year or two years. 00:01:25 Xochitl Ago for Christmas, my grandma, maybe three years ago now, my grandma gifted me some old. 00:01:33 Xochitl Cookie cutters like some family cookie cutters. 00:01:36 Jack Like from the 60s, you know those like metal ones? Yes, they're the. 00:01:38 Xochitl Yeah, like the vintage one. Yes. And I was really happy and excited about that. And that's definitely my favorite tradition. 00:01:41 Jack Best, right? Yeah. 00:01:49 Xochitl For US style Christmas. 00:01:52 Jack And do you? 00:01:53 Jack Do you put a layer of like like like colored sugar coating? So like you'd make like a Santa with like a white belt and you make a like a tree which with green you put like green dye in it and stuff. 00:01:54 발표자 OK. 00:02:08 Xochitl Yeah, you put like you make powdered sugar with like milk or water and you add the dye in and then you just, like, slather it with a knife or whatever onto the cookie. 00:02:18 발표자 But we. 00:02:19 Xochitl Used to do that a lot with my grandma, but now that I make them. 00:02:21 Xochitl Kind of on my own, I still make. 00:02:23 Xochitl The icing but. 00:02:24 Xochitl I just do like a little outline on the cookies because they're way too sweet for me otherwise. 00:02:29 Jack Yeah, I mean. 00:02:30 Jack It's just it's like sugar on sugar, right? Yeah. 00:02:32 Xochitl Yeah, it's really it's pretty much unpalatable. I mean, it was for me always my, I mean, not saying my grandma's recipes unpalatable just to sugar is like too much. I'm not a huge sweets person. 00:02:46 Xochitl So the sugar on the sugar is like tooth, achingly sweet. And I think in the US we have like, a a really sweet palette in general, because desserts are not that sweet. Other places in the world. 00:02:58 Jack No, you're right. That's that's a good point. I find that there there's more buttery kind of a flavor to like cake and things like that that they don't put so much sugar. It's almost sickly sweet in the US. 00:03:12 Xochitl Yeah, for sure. 00:03:13 Jack Sometimes, yeah. 00:03:15 Xochitl And there's not that much. 00:03:16 Xochitl Of a flavor profile because like, there's not that much depth of flavor, it's. 00:03:20 Xochitl Just like sugar. 00:03:20 Xochitl And more sugar. 00:03:21 Xochitl There's not like much more. Yeah, but for my Mexican tradition, I would say in Mexico, the presence actually come on three Kings Day and a lot of the Christmassy type. 00:03:22 Jack Sugar and sugar. 00:03:35 Xochitl Traditions happen. 00:03:36 Xochitl And then, but we do celebrate Christmas as well, but I would say it's more oriented around like a meal together. So I liked doing things like making tamales with my mom and my favorite absolute favorite thing is punchy, which is like fruit punch.