Talk:Christmas cracker

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[edit] Translations?

I am consiering translating this page, firstly into French and possibly into Spanish, I believe the term for Christmas Cracker in French is "diablotin" (though they are a British tradition and I have never seen them in France) and the Spanish possibly "sorpresa navideña", or transliterated "buscapiés navideño"

Angryafghan 21:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alternate Versions

I made two edits regarding slight diffrences in the tradition. Firstly to explain that its not just the extremely wealthy who will have personalised crackers. Make Your Own Cracker kits are actually pretty common and many people will buy them and put cheap but personalised gifts like nail varnish or keyrings into them. Secondly some people (esspecially those who do make their own crackers) will often pre-assign each person their own and they keep the gift, no matter which end its in. I've actually only met one person who did it the other way - where it goes to the person who gets that end. (Unfortunately it was in primary school and caused a lot of fights when she deliberately held crackers in the middle and then explained the tradition afterwards.) Danikat 19:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

"Crackers are often pulled after Christmas dinner or at parties." Surely crackers are usually pulled at the beginning of Christmas dinner so you can wear the silly hats during the meal?135.245.72.35 15:51, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dead Mouse Incident

I believe the dead mouse incident is an important piece of trivia for this article. However, I am not sure that it is included in a good spot. It is in the 2nd paragraph and seems to be just stuck in there. Maybe a section could be added about crackers in the news, but just one incident probably wouldn't justify that.--75.191.135.245 (talk) 09:05, 28 December 2007 (UTC)