{"id":9105,"date":"2016-11-24T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2017-01-03T21:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T02:57:53","slug":"fun-facts-about-british-christmas-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/fun-facts-about-british-christmas-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Facts About British Christmas Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The closer it gets to Christmas, the more I think about all the yummy foods I?ll be eating this holiday season. Surely I?m not the only one who is salivating over such thoughts, right? \ud83d\ude09 I?m particularly excited to try out a few new recipes, such as the yule log. Depending on how it turns out (and how my family responds to it), it might become a ?must-have? Christmas dessert!<\/p>\n<p>I also like to keep things lively at family gatherings, so I?m going to tuck away some facts from this infographic so I can pop a few trivia questions at Christmas dinner. Speaking of Christmas dinner, did you know that 50% of people have a gene that makes Brussels sprouts taste bitter? So, if half your family hates sprouts, now you know why!<\/p>\n<p>To learn more fun facts and stats about some British Christmas foods, click on the infographic below.<a class=\"nounderline\" href=\"http:\/\/lph5i1b6c053kq7us26bdk75.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-food-infographic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"12 Foods of Christmas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/christmas-food-infographic-450x536.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"536\" style=\"width:450px;margin: 15px 0px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Click on the image for a closer look! Infographic via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefactsite.com\/2014\/12\/christmas-food-facts-infographic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">The Fact Site<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closer it gets to Christmas, the more I think about all the yummy foods I?ll be eating this holiday season. Surely I?m not the only one who is salivating over such thoughts, right? \ud83d\ude09 I?m particularly excited to try out a few new recipes, such as the yule log. Depending on how it turns&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/fun-facts-about-british-christmas-foods\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festive-food","category-infographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9133,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions\/9133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}