I'm sure many of you have heard about Christmas crackers. Everyone does crackers here. We had them at our Christmas lunch. We (The LMC staff) walked to Muswell Hill which is a 20 min walk through the woods to a Turkish restaurant. Before the meal, we had our crackers. Here's a bit of history about crackers:
Crackers are very popular and accompany many meals over the Christmas period, especially on Christmas day. A Christmas cracker is a brightly coloured paper tube, twisted at both ends. There is a banger inside the cracker and when it is pulled by two people, the cracker snaps in half making a loud bang. Inside the cracker there is a paper crown made from tissue paper, a joke on a slip of paper and a little gift.
How to pull a cracker: The traditional way to pull a cracker is crossing your arms and pulling a whole circle of crackers all around the table. Everyone holds their crack in their right hand and pulls their neighbours cracker with the free left hand.
Why do we wear king's paper crowns?
We wear paper hats on special occasions like Christmas Day and birthday parties. The traditions of wearing hats at parties goes back to the Roman Saturnalia celebrations (celebrated around 25 December) when the participants also wore hats. The idea of wearing a paper crown may have originated from the Twelfth night celebrations, where a King or Queen was appointed to look over the proceedings.
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Phyllis I'm a little concerned about everyone holding their crack in their right hand. I'm wondering what kind of outfit you're running over there!
Tonya
Will you be wearing your crowns on your upcoming wedding anniversary?
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