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CHRISTMAS CRACKERS
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CHRISTMAS CRACKERS  Christmas crackers are popular in the UK, as well as Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa. Christmas crackers often adorn a Christmas tree or the Christmas dinner table where the Christmas meal will be eaten. When the cracker is pulled by two people, there is a small bang and one person is left with most of the cracker – inside, there is usually a very tacky gift, a paper hat to wear, and a very corny joke written on a small piece of paper. I never wear the hat; it’s embarrassing enough having to wear the obligatory Christmas jumper; I’ve just bought a new one. In the 1840s, London’s Tom Smith invented Christmas crackers. He sold bonbon sweets in a twist of paper. Because sales of his sweets were falling, Tom Jones inserted love messages into the wrappers of his sweets, then added a crackle into the wrappers, and later replaced the bonbons with junk trinkets – by 1847, the Christmas cracker was born. Christmas crackers are often pulled by a chain of people crossing their hands so that each person is pulling two Christmas cracker, one each with the person s/he is sitting next to. The longest Christmas cracker pulling chain is 603 people at RuneFest 3 in London on 2 November 2013. 603 people in a daisy chain would be more fun; they'd be pulling more than crackers! Will you be pulling Christmas crackers over Xmas? Do you wear the Christmas cracker hat and/or a special Christmas jumper at Xmas? Here’s a sample of terrible Christmas cracker jokes: Q: Who is Santa afraid of? A: The Elf and Safety Officer. Q: Why did the turkey cross the road? A: To prove he wasn't chicken. Q: What paper likes music? A: Wrapping paper. Q: What does Santa do with overweight Elves? A: He sends them to an Elf farm. Q: On 24 December, what did Adam say to Eve? A: “It’s Christmas Eve.” |
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Our family tradition is Chocolate covered Cherries. I don't remember how it started, but was when we were kids. Is just a cheap brand, but sentimental [image]
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Yes I will be pulling crackers....and yes I WILL wear the hat!!!  Merry Christmas....I hope you have a lovely day. ~~Anais Nin~~
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Crackers are put out here as well before Xmas. Pretty cute animals there too.. Merry Xmas to you and I hope you have a good one! Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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Never done the cracker thing....it has never really entered my mind, but now that you mention it, maybe next year!
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Those traditions are not something we do here in the States. Maybe I will try it next year.
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We have Christmas crackers every year - my sister purchases them at one particular store - and they are KNOWN for the good prizes. This year - a sewing kit, a lipstick case, a all-in-one tool set, a working mini-flashlight (with batteries), a silver necklace on a leather cord. And of course, it is obligatory to wear the silly paper hat. Check out my profile or and become a "watcher" of my blog FMAOPLS,to learn more about me, and for intelligent, lively, smartassy and fun discussion, with a little irreverence thrown in. "Like" or comment on my photos, and I promise I'll add more. Thanks.
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Our family tradition is Chocolate covered Cherries. I don't remember how it started, but was when we were kids. Is just a cheap brand, but sentimental [image] 
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Yes I will be pulling crackers....and yes I WILL wear the hat!!! Merry Christmas....I hope you have a lovely day.
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I won't be doing either... There's already enough suffering in the world, why add to it by looking like a twit? Lol 
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Crackers are put out here as well before Xmas. Pretty cute animals there too.. Merry Xmas to you and I hope you have a good one!
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Merry Christmas!!!!
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Never done the cracker thing....it has never really entered my mind, but now that you mention it, maybe next year!
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I didn't wear my cracker hat this Xmas and no one noticed!
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Those traditions are not something we do here in the States. Maybe I will try it next year.
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Here are three people - they're actually waxwork dummies - wearing Christmas jumpers. [image]
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We have Christmas crackers every year - my sister purchases them at one particular store - and they are KNOWN for the good prizes. This year - a sewing kit, a lipstick case, a all-in-one tool set, a working mini-flashlight (with batteries), a silver necklace on a leather cord. And of course, it is obligatory to wear the silly paper hat.
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Sometimes in the UK, we often don't say sweaters; sometimes we say pullovers to mean jumpers. Another difference between UK-English and American-English!
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