Those buns looks pretty tasty. For the drink, I stopped reading at non-alcoholic. No festivity beverage should be allowed to be non-alcoholic. It does looks like what we call malta, no the country, the beverage, wikipedia says it's called malt beer in english. Here the 0% alcoholic version is a pretty popular drink.
Our official December plate is the Hallaca:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallaca
The best version is the andean one (my place of birth) in which the meat is left overnight macerating with wine or beer with all the seasoning, then the stuff is put raw inside the corn dough and plantain leaves, then cooked all together on a wood fire, the elaboration was usually a festivity upon itself, were people in the household would put a part of their christmas bonus or holidays payment to buy the ingredients, come together, listen to the seasonal music and drink beer, rum or whiskey while making them and at the end "taste" them by eating a lot of them.
It was usually made on large batches, sometimes more than once per seaon. I remember my family doing up to 300 or so in a single day on specially plentiful years or when a lot of family was together back when I was a kid.
I would love for all of you to taste them, they are a little bit of heaven indeed. In fact, as now there are many of us spread over the world, find your local Venezuelan and buy an hallaca from (s)he, trust me, if (s)he is not selling, it will know another Venezuelan that will unless there are not any other of us in the whole area/country. Forget good will, family union or even presents and toss them by the window, this dish is like 70% of the meaning of Christmas for us.
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