Saturday 31 December 2011
Christmas Crackers are an important part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa, but they are also used in non Christmas celebrations.
A cracker is a cardboard tube wrapped in paper, it seems like an oversized sweet-wrapper. Inside of the cracker are a coloured paper hat or crown, a small toy and a joke or piece of trivia.
The cracker is pulled by two people in a dinner table or party and it splits unequally. The person with the larger portion of the cracker gets its inner content.
Nowadays, the price of a cracker can be up to 200£, more a less 240€, because some of them may contain jewellery on the inside, but there are also available 2£, more a less 2,40€, typical crackers.
Diana Barros