Some I knew, some I did not.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BzcbCGOQ4Mo
Heating up Dr. Pepper was a funny tradition that I tried out for a few years.
Everyone preferred it cold - oh well, I tried.
I've heard of some really weird ones over the years, particularly in Europe and Asia.
Like in Japan, it's apparently tradition to eat KFC for Christmas dinner. It was the result of a successful marketing campaign KFC did in the 1970s. The bucket of chicken is so popular at that time of year, that many families have to order it days in advance because the local KFC's get overwhelmed at Christmas time.
In Austria and Germany, they have a day when people dress up as Krampus and playfully go about whipping at people with switches.
In one part of Spain, they stuff wooden reindeer with candy and on Christmas day, they open up the wooden reindeer and whack them to make them "poop out" candy.
Several weird characters have also shown up in parts of European folklore, many of them friends of St. Nick. One character you will never see in America (and he's something of a controversial figure in Denmark and the Netherlands where he is celebrated) is Black Pete, and he's always played by a white person in blackface when people celebrate him.
I never heard of the Spanish reindeer tradition, similar to a pinata. I am familiar with the others. I want to see the "Krampus" movie.
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