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Traditional Holiday Dinners

Traditional Holiday Dinners - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 5:30PM EST

Many of you were out shopping for traditional Christmas dinner foods today.

Kielbasa, halushki, fish, perogies will all be on the table tonight in our area.

For Dianna Bastemeyer of Mountain Top, Christmas eve dinner is a tradition set in stone.

Bastemeyer says, "I don't care if it's raining or snowing or sleeting or hailing, it's not Christmas eve unless my family has fish."

We found many shoppers picking up seafood at a stand at Carone's in Mountain Top.

It will be stuffed fish and shrimp at the Bastemeyers, while Ed Sherer is picking up seafood for his family.

"Well it's family, it's get together it's just the way it is and the way we like it," says Sherer.

Inside Carone's, they couldn't keep the kielbasa on the shelf.

The store goes through about 700 pounds of it in December alone.

It's what Loraine Novinger is stocking her cart with.

Novinger says, "My kids will eat that too and i have to make something everybody will eat."

Diane Burick of Mountain Top says everyone at her tables eats plenty, but remembers the reason for the season.

"I think it just puts you in the spirit of the holiday of what the real reason is. It's called the holy supper for that. And we all enjoy it," says Burick.

Back out at the seafood stand it's crabs, clams, and lobster.

Jack Marchese of Mountain Top says traditional dinners are special.

"It's a beautiful thing. I mean it's magical to be able to spend time with your family and be able to have that special moment around the table at the holiday season. It's priceless," says Marchese