Sangria, a modern Aussie Christmas drink It's chilled, can be made in a big batch, and can be customised to suit almost anyone's tastes. You can make sangria from red, white, and rose wine. Make it sparkly or flat, citrusy or fruity, who cares? There are few rules to Sangria, and those are meant to be broken.
By far, eggnog is the most popular drink at Christmas. Other than that, hot buttered rum and anything with peppermint is also super popular this time of year.
Australia: An ABC News article published in 2018 described lemon, lime, and bitters (LLB) as "Australia's national drink". Lemon, lime, and bitters is a mixed drink made with (clear) lemonade, lime cordial, and Angostura bitters. The lemonade is sometimes substituted with soda water or lemon squash.
The alcohol beverages most commonly consumed by Australians are bottled wine (34%), regular strength beer (19%), and bottled spirits/liqueur (15%).
Wine is the most popular choice of alcoholic beverage, with 43.0% of adult Australians drinking wine in an average four weeks, followed by beer at 35.2% and spirits at 30.8%. There is a distinct split between the sexes with women preferring wine, men preferring beer.
Everyone knows that Santa's favorite way to wash down his plate of cookies is with a big glass of eggnog.
Santa drinks milk on Christmas Eve. After all he does have a lot of driving to do and alcohol would not help. Once home and relaxing at the North Pole, he does have a traditional drink awaiting him in the form of Glogg, a heavily spiced hot drink common in Nordic countries.
Mulled wine, also known as spiced wine, is an alcoholic drink usually made with red wine, along with various mulling spices and sometimes raisins, served hot or warm. It is a traditional drink during winter, especially around Christmas.
Thanksgiving Eve is the biggest drinking day of the year typically because most people do not have to go to work the next day and people are getting together for drinks at the local bar with family and old friends who are in town for a short time to celebrate the holiday.
Eating prawns
Most families in Australia will send someone to do a 'prawn run' in the morning. This is where you get up super early and get to the local markets to buy the freshest and biggest prawns for Christmas day.
Australia: Cold Beer
In the summer heat, it's tough to think of something less appetizing than a cup of milk. That's why down in the Southern Hemisphere, Aussies leave an ice-cold, refreshing beer for Santa to enjoy after his descent down the chimney.
The most common choices were either a glass of brandy, whisky, sherry, or milk for Santa. Along with a mince pie, gingerbread, candy canes, or cookies. Most kids leave a carrot for the reindeer.
Warm Spiced Sangria is the Spanish version of a mulled wine, and is popularly found on Spanish Christmas markets across the country. It is often saved as a celebration drink in Spain, which explains why it is so popular during Christmas.
Chanmery is another popular Japanese tradition for children. While the wine, also known as a sparkling sake or champagne, comes with the KFC meal, Chanmery is a children's party drink. The name Chanmery is a combination of champagne and merry Christmas, and it tastes like carbonated grape juice.
Other traditional dishes include pies meat, mushroom, fish, or vegetable fillings. A drink called сбитень (ZBEEtyn'), made with spices and honey, is also served. (сбитень was once the most popular drink in Russia, before tea took over.)
Before Coca‑Cola was invented, Santa Claus (St Nick) had appeared in numerous illustrations and books wearing a scarlet coat.
People from Australia are getting wasted at a much higher frequency than the rest of the world, according to a global drug survey. The world's largest annual drug survey has ranked Australia as the drunkest country on the planet, with Australians getting shitfaced almost twice as frequently as the global average.
Belarus, a country that drinks the most liters of pure alcohol than any other country in the world, was also classified as having one the riskiest pattern of drinking.
Looking at the amount of alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older, the Seychelles is in first place with around 20.5 litres of alcohol drunk per person per year, according to Our World in Data; studies show that young male peer groups primarily drink high amounts of alcohol in the Seychelles.