Seven Is The Magic Number

Apparently, seven presents are the ideal number to receive on Christmas Day.

Miracle on 34th Street -
The Two Most Popular Versions

Whilst cash is apparently the best present of all (really ... are we that mercenary??), fragrances, books and alcohol are also well received.

Christmas Repasts

We Brits have our turkey Christmas dinners, and you would think that this is an ages old tradition, but of course we didn't have Turkeys until we started colonising the North American continent in the 16th and 17th centuries.

British Traditional Christmas Fare

So in medieval England, if you were wealthy enough to afford a special Christmas meal, it would likely to have been with wild boar (pig) as the meat centre piece. Later, in the 15th and 16th centuries this became goose or capon, and these were only slowly replaced as the most common meat by turkey.