Christmas 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. A person pulls on each end of the cracker and when the cracker breaks, a small chemical strip goes “Pop” and the contents fall out.
A Christmas cracker traditionally contains a paper crown, a small gift and a joke written on a slip of paper.The gift in a cracker depends on how much you have paid for the cracker.The more you pay the better the quality of the gift.
The traditional way to pull a cracker is crossing your arms and ..
... pulling a whole circle of crackers around the table. Everyone holds their cracker in their right hand and pulls their neighbours cracker with the free left hand.
Christmas crackers were invented by Thomas Smith in 1846.
During a visit to Paris he came across the bon-bon, a sugar almond wrapped in tissue paper (with a twist either side of the centrally placed sweet). Thomas decided to try selling similarly wrapped sweets in the lead up to Christmas in England. His bon-bons sold well at Christmas but not at other times of the year.
In the early 1850s Thomas came up with the idea of including a motto with the sweet. As many of his bon-bons were bought by men to give to women, many of the mottos were simple love poems.
In about 1860, Thomas added the banger, two strips of chemically impregnated paper that made a loud noise on being pulled apart. At first these novelties were called 'cosaques', but they soon became known as 'crackers'.
Unfortunately for Thomas, his 'cracker' idea was copied by other manufactures and so he decided to replace the sweet with a surprise gift.
When Thomas died his two sons took over the business. By the end of the 1930s the love poems had been replaced by jokes or limericks.
During a visit to Paris he came across the bon-bon, a sugar almond wrapped in tissue paper (with a twist either side of the centrally placed sweet). Thomas decided to try selling similarly wrapped sweets in the lead up to Christmas in England. His bon-bons sold well at Christmas but not at other times of the year.
In the early 1850s Thomas came up with the idea of including a motto with the sweet. As many of his bon-bons were bought by men to give to women, many of the mottos were simple love poems.
In about 1860, Thomas added the banger, two strips of chemically impregnated paper that made a loud noise on being pulled apart. At first these novelties were called 'cosaques', but they soon became known as 'crackers'.
Unfortunately for Thomas, his 'cracker' idea was copied by other manufactures and so he decided to replace the sweet with a surprise gift.
When Thomas died his two sons took over the business. By the end of the 1930s the love poems had been replaced by jokes or limericks.
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