Food & Christmas in Barbados

In addition to the religious significance of Christmas, Barbados celebrates with food. Traditional Christmas meals include ham, leg pork, turkey and stuffing, jug-jug, pigeon peas and rice, macaroni pie and coleslaw. Each household or establishment claims to have the best of one of these dishes and Bajans and you can enjoy driving from place to place to sample this fare. You hired car can be your passport to culinary delight, as you wind your way around the countryside.

As a multi-cultural society there is also a plethora of adopted delicacies from around the Caribbean. A short trip in your rental car can take you to a Trini restaurant for pastelles or a little garlic pork, or a Guyanese spot for a dash of pepperpot and rice. Ham cutters, traditional fresh cooked ham in a Bajan salt bread, available at most rum shops around the island also seem to taste better at Christmas time. Let your travels take you from shop to shop to conduct your own tests!  Wash it all down with a cold glass of sorrel. Just be careful, as some of them can be fermented and driving your rental car may have to be turned over to your designated driver.

However, you celebrate the holidays, we hope you do it in Barbados with a hired car from us. Barbados can always serve up a special experience, but we happen to think it can be more special at Christmas.

Happy Holidays!

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