All over Britain on Christmas Day, families can be found sitting around their dining tables enjoying a traditional lunch of roast turkey, and from old to young, wearing colored paper hats. It is said that even the Queen wears her paper hat over lunch!
So why this strange tradition? Where do these paper hats come from? The answer is the Christmas Cracker.
A Christmas Cracker is a cardboard paper tube, when the cracker is pulled apart by two people, the cracker makes a bang. Inside the cracker there is a paper crown made from tissue paper, a motto or joke on a piece of paper and a little gift.
Christmas crackers are a British tradition dating back to Victorian times when in the early 1850s.A man named Tom Smith sold sugars in London, he covered the sugars with paper package and added a motto to his sugars.
The paper hat was added to the cracker in the early 1900s. The cracker was soon taken as a traditional festive custom and today every family has at least one box of crackers to pullover Christmas.
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