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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
In the traditional Russian Christmas, special prayers are said and people fast, sometimes for 39 days, until January 6th Christmas Eve, when the first evening star in appears in the sky. Then begins a twelve course supper in honor of each of the twelve apostles - fish, beet soup or Borsch, cabbage stuffed with millet, cooked dried fruit and much more.
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Ah borsch...I love that stuff. Scary the next day though when you pee red and forget you ate it.
We don't go hard like that but we do a couple of those things on the sixth...like putting straw under the tablecloth and setting an extra seat for our deceased ancestors.