[Brian D.]

I just heard about a British custom related to Christmas crackers. Can anyone offer some more information on this tradition?

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[Simon]

Nothing comes to mind other than pulling them with friends/family at the dinner table on Christmas Day. Reading the bad jokes and donning the paper hats contained therein. Were you thinking of anything more involved?

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[Jessica30648]

The Christmas cracker is a cardboard cylinder (like a paper-towel tube but shorter) filled with confetti, a toy of some sort (or candy, and depending on the price/quality it is usually cheap and plastic), and a paper hat. It is wrapped in bright wrapping paper and pulled open (making a popping sound similiar to a New Year’s plastic confetti-filled champagne bottle). These are often found on one’s plate at Christmas dinner, and you are to wear the hat during the meal.

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[G. Byrne]

Christmas Crackers are cardboard tubes wrapped in paper (about the size of a toilet paper roll). It is a tradition at Christmas dinner for two people to each pull on one end of the roll. When the cracker separates, it makes a popping sound similar to a firecracker. Inside there is a prize (similar to crackerjack prizes). Whoever gets the tube end of the cracker gets the prize. I was born in England and still do this with my family every Christmas.

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