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Christmas pudding
Christmas pudding, also called plum or figgy pudding, is a British steamed dessert of dried fruit, suet, breadcrumbs, spices and brandy, flambéed at Christmas dinner. It evolved from medieval savory plum pottage, was named by Eliza Acton in 1845, and spread through the British Empire.
Christmas tree
Christmas tree: decorated evergreen central to Christmas, originating in German-speaking Europe (Freiburg 1419, Strasbourg 1605), spread via the 1848 Victoria and Albert engraving, electrified from 1882, with real-versus-artificial and fire-safety considerations.
Christophe Lemaire (fashion designer)
Christophe Lemaire, French fashion designer, founded his label in 1991 and led Lacoste, Hermès womenswear, and Uniqlo U; he now co-leads the independent house LEMAIRE with Sarah-Linh Tran.
Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)
Christopher Bailey, British fashion designer, Burberry creative leader 2001-2018 (Design Director, Chief Creative Officer 2009, CEO 2014-2017); distinct from the brand consultant Chris Bailey and actor Jonathan Bailey; transformed Burberry into a global luxury brand.
Christopher Kimball
Christopher Kimball (born 1951), American food editor and TV host; founded Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, left in 2015, and founded Milk Street in Boston after a settled 2016 lawsuit.
Chrome Hearts
Chrome Hearts: Los Angeles luxury brand founded 1988 by Richard Stark, John Bowman, and Leonard Kamhout, making handmade sterling silver jewelry, leather, eyewear, and gothic-motif apparel in Hollywood.
Chuck E. Cheese
Chuck E. Cheese is an American family entertainment center chain founded May 17, 1977 in San Jose by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell as Pizza Time Theatre; now owned by CEC Entertainment of Irving, Texas, with 500+ locations, arcade games, pizza, and over 500,000 birthday parties a year.
Chuck E. Cheese (character)
Chuck E. Cheese, full name Charles Entertainment Cheese, is the mouse mascot of the Chuck E. Cheese pizza-arcade chain, created by Nolan Bushnell in 1977 after a coyote costume arrived as a rat; originally a cigar-smoking rat, redesigned as a rockstar mouse in 2012.
Chuck steak
Chuck steak: beef steak from the chuck (shoulder/forequarter) primal, ribs 1–5 and scapula, high in collagen and usually braised, with tender exceptions flat iron, chuck eye, and Denver steaks suited to grilling.
Chuck Taylor All-Stars
Chuck Taylor All Stars (Chucks) are Converse canvas basketball sneakers introduced in 1917 as the Non-Skid, renamed All Star in 1919, and named for salesman-player Chuck Taylor by 1932; dominant in basketball until the 1970s, now a casual icon owned by Nike since 2003.
Chuckwagon
Chuckwagon: mobile kitchen invented by Charles Goodnight in 1866 from an Army surplus wagon for cattle drives; also called chuck wagon; official vehicle of Texas since 2005 and ancestor of the food truck.
Chūhai
Chūhai (チューハイ, 酎ハイ), short for shochu highball, is a Japanese mixed drink of neutral spirits such as shochu or vodka with fruit juice and soda; no legal definition exists, and canned versions run about 3–9% ABV.
Chukka boot
Chukka boot: ankle-high lace-up boot with two or three eyelet pairs, often suede, also called desert boot in its crepe-soled Clarks form; named after polo's chukker and popularized by WWII British desert campaigns.
Chupa Chups
Chupa Chups is a Spanish lollipop brand founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, famous for its Salvador Dali daisy logo and 1995 Mir space-station first; owned by Perfetti Van Melle since 2006.
Churrasco
Churrasco, also called churrasco à gaúcha or Brazilian barbecue, is South American meat roasted unseasoned over embers on skewers or grills. It is the emblematic dish of Rio Grande do Sul's gaúcho culture, seasoned only with coarse salt, served in rodízio churrascarias, and distinct from Argentine asado.
Churro
Churro: a deep-fried stick of scalded wheat-flour dough (flour, water, salt) extruded through a star tip, a Spanish and Latin American breakfast pastry; related to porras, distinct from doughnuts, with disputed origins and a growing global market.
Chuseok (추석)
Chuseok (추석, 秋夕), also called Hangawi or Gabae, is Korea's harvest festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, marked by charye ancestral rites, songpyeon rice cakes, grave visits, and folk games like ganggangsullae; a three-day South Korean public holiday.
Chutney
Chutney (Hindi caṭnī, चटनी) is an Indian condiment family: fresh ground herb, fruit, or coconut pastes eaten daily, and the sweet vinegar-preserved British colonial version such as Major Grey's mango chutney.
Ciabatta
Ciabatta, Italian slipper bread invented 21 September 1982 by miller Arnaldo Cavallari in Adria, Veneto, as a sandwich rival to the French baguette; high-hydration (70–85%) lean dough, open irregular crumb, originally Ciabatta Polesana.
Cider
Cider is an alcoholic beverage made from fermenting apple juice, typically reaching 1.2–8.5% ABV. Regional use dictates whether the term refers to the fermented drink or raw juice.
Çiğ köfte
Çiğ köfte (raw meatball) is a southeastern Turkish dish of bulgur, isot pepper, and traditionally raw minced meat, now usually meatless; registered Şanlıurfa (2009) and Adıyaman meatless (2018) geographical indications, spread nationally after 2008 regulation.
Cigar
Cigar: a roll of tobacco wrapped in leaf tobacco (not paper, unlike a cigarette). Types include large cigars, cigarillos, and little cigars; air-cured, fermented tobacco; linked to cancer, COPD, and heart disease.
Cigarette
Cigarette: small paper-wrapped roll of tobacco, usually filtered, burned and inhaled. Smoke has 7,000+ chemicals (70+ carcinogens); 995 million smokers in 2022; kills up to two-thirds of long-term users; nicotine reaches the brain in 10–20 seconds.
Cigarette pack
Cigarette pack (pack of cigarettes): small retail carton, usually 20 cigarettes minimum, with regulated flip-top or slide-and-shell openings, foil lining, health warnings, plain packaging in 16+ countries, and track-and-trace security features.
Cigarillo
Cigarillo (Spanish cigarrillo): a small cigar, about 3 g of tobacco wrapped in tobacco leaf rather than paper, mostly unfiltered. 94.2% of US cigar unit sales; dual use with cigarettes common; similar nicotine but higher CO than cigarettes; often flavored or used as blunts.
Cincinnati chili
Cincinnati chili is a Mediterranean-spiced, finely ground beef sauce served over spaghetti or on coneys, created in 1922 by Macedonian brothers Tom and John Kiradjieff at Empress Chili and ordered by numbered "ways".
Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo (May 5) commemorates Mexico's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla, not Independence Day (September 16). Born in Civil War-era California, now celebrated mainly in the United States.
Cindy Breakspeare
Cindy Breakspeare (Cynthia Jean Cameron Breakspeare), Canadian-Jamaican jazz singer and model, won Miss World 1976 for Jamaica on 18 November 1976 in London; mother of Damian Marley with Bob Marley.
Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford (Cynthia Ann Crawford) is an American supermodel, television personality, and entrepreneur, born in 1966, best known as a defining face of the 1990s supermodel era.
Cindy Margolis
Cindy Margolis (Cynthia Dawn Margolis), American model and TV personality, the Guinness-recognized "most downloaded woman on the Internet" of the late 1990s; greeting-card start, CindyMargolis.com, Austin Powers fembot, Playboy December 2006.