- (gasps) It looks so pretty. - It does look good,
and I'm not afraid to eat this one! Yippee!
♪ (upbeat theme music) ♪ ♪ (bells tinkling) ♪
♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) In honor of the holidays, today you will be trying
Christmas food from around the world.
- Oh! Cool.
I did a video before trying other Christmas foods.
I think most of them were good. Some were pretty bad.
- I wanna try Christmas food. I'm really excited.
- I love food. I probably like any food given to me.
- I am not sure about Christmas food.
All I know is that it'll be different.
- I love Christmas! i like actually setting up cookies
for Santa Claus. I'm excited!
- It's probably gonna be sweet, 'cause it's Christmas.
You know, it's a holiday season.
I'm ready to get on the sugar rush from eating a bunch
of holiday sweets.
- (FBE) Here is your first one. - What in the world is this?
Ew. It's wet and soggy.
- It looks like just a big mash of food together.
- It looks kind of like meatloaf with, you know,
a little plant on it.
- Oh. It's meatloaf.
- It's good, yeah. I actually like this.
It tastes like eggs and sausage.
- I kind of feel like it was a mix of that eggplant or something
and a grape leaf.
- (FBE) This is called embutido. It is a meatloaf-like dish
made with ground pork. While it can be served year-round,
it is often served on Christmas Eve in the Philippines.
- Oh! I think my mama, she is part Filipino.
I've been wondering what they eat on Christmas Eve.
- (FBE) All right, here's the next one.
- Oh, no. Not fish.
- It has the shape of fish. It has the texture of fish.
- It looks like it has frosting or sour cream on it.
- Mm, it kind of tastes like fish and chips.
I would never eat this on Christmas,
because then the next day, I'm probably gonna throw up,
'cause the taste is still gonna be in your mouth.
- Mm-mm. I'm getting a flavor of frosting in this.
I do not like it. It's disgusting.
- I'll do it!
Eh! It was really salty for some reason.
Salty and slimy. And then there was sour cream,
I think, on top of it.
- It has a really weird texture when you put it in your mouth
and is really chewy. It's like a new taste
I've never tasted before.
- (FBE) This is Swedish pickled herring,
which is a type of fish. - That's why I don't like it.
I don't like fish.
- (FBE) It is often served for Christmas as well as Easter
and midsummer. It can usually be found as part of a smorgasbord
that includes cold fish, breads,
cheese, and sometimes even dessert.
- Yeah, I wouldn't eat this for Christmas
or any time of the year, because I just didn't like it.
- (FBE) Here is the next one.
- Oh, so it's bread. - It does look good,
and I'm not afraid to eat this one! Yippee!
- Mm! It tastes good. It's some sort of raisin cake.
- Mm.
Yup, that's raisin.
I do not like raisins, but I do like this.
- Mm. Mm. It tastes like a lemon cake.
A lemon cake plus bread or something.
And I see there's little raisins or little other fruits in there.
It's pretty good. - (FBE) This is panettone,
also called Italian Christmas bread. While its origins are unknown,
legend has it that in the late 1400s,
a young nobleman fell in love with the daughter
of a baker named Toni, and created "Pan del Toni"
to impress his love's father. - (chuckles) That's cute.
It's an amazing story to start off a 600-year tradition.
- Legend has it that in 2017,
a boy named Tyler fell in love with this dish
and wants to eat it all.
- (FBE) All right, here's the next one.
- Wow.
(gasps) It looks so pretty!
- I knew there was gonna be some kind of chocolate in this.
- It smells good. It smells chocolatey.
- Mm. It tastes like chocolate cake!
I'm not sure why, but it's pretty much
like chocolate cake, except for that it looks
like part of a log.
- Oh my gosh. It is so good.
It's basically like chocolate cake,
and then there's chocolate frosting inside.
I mean, if you don't like chocolate,
then you're not gonna like this, but almost everyone
in the entire world loves chocolate,
so this is delicious. I love it.
- The outer layer is definitely chocolate
and tastes like chocolate, but once you hit the light brown,
it's coffee.
- Sadly, I have no guesses of where it's from.
- (FBE) So this one is called bûche de Noël,
also called a Yule Log. It is a traditional French dessert
served around Christmas, and it's made with sponge cake
that is shaped to look like an actual log.
- Oh! I see the log now. And it has a flower on it.
- If you look at my plate, you can kind of see
how I feel about it. It's delicious.
And I wouldn't mind if I had this for Christmas this year.
I'm looking at you, Mom and Grandma.
- (FBE) All right, here's your last dish.
- What is that stuff?
It looks kind of like a doughnut,
and it feels kind of like a doughnut.
- Is this pan dulce?
- If you turn it like this, it looks like a seashell.
- It looks kind of like pudding, pudding and milk combined.
- The stuff on top just adds flavor to the whole thing,
because the bread underneath it tastes like nothing.
- That is good. Kind of tastes like cake batter.
- I don't know if I like it or not.
It kind of tastes like warm, melted frosting.
- This is really dry, but really sweet,
and this is really moist and really sweet.
Put it together, extremely sweet and amazing.
- (FBE) These are treats found in Mexico.
The bread is called concha, and while it can
be eaten year-round, it usually makes a presence for Christmas.
And the drink is vanilla atole, and is made with corn.
It is extra popular during Christmas.
- Oh. That's what this stuff is.
I think that's weird, because corn is for eating
not drinking! (laughs)
- It is so good. I love it!
- (FBE) What did you think of these Christmas foods
from other countries today?
- I think that they were really good.
Most of them just seemed like
a year-round food kind of, but they were still really yummy.
And I actually really like them.
- Some were pretty similar to American traditions,
but some were also a little different,
which is good. I like variety.
- They were just delicious!
And I'd love to have 'em during Christmas time.
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- What are some of your favorite Christmas foods?
Let us know in the comments. - Happy holidays!
- Hey, guys! I'm Katie, a React Channel producer.
Let me know down in the comment
what foods the kids should try next.
Thank you guys so much for watching! Happy holidays!