No, we don't have crackers here! If you say "cracker" most people will think you mean a snack food best eaten with cheese, an exploding thing that you set off on the 4th of July, or an old-fashioned derogatory term for a white person from the South. :-p
Anglophile that been I've been since childhood, I had a vague idea of what they were, but was still confused when we were reading that Christmas scene in "Harry Potter" where they pull the crackers and get hats out them. Hats?!? I just couldn't get my brain around that! So we ordered some, ostensibly for my partner's daughter who was around six, but really for us, of course. :-p
That's when I learned the hats were made of tissue paper, and things started making a lot more sense. LOL.
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Date: 2012-12-28 05:49 pm (UTC)Anglophile that been I've been since childhood, I had a vague idea of what they were, but was still confused when we were reading that Christmas scene in "Harry Potter" where they pull the crackers and get hats out them. Hats?!? I just couldn't get my brain around that! So we ordered some, ostensibly for my partner's daughter who was around six, but really for us, of course. :-p
That's when I learned the hats were made of tissue paper, and things started making a lot more sense. LOL.
And yes, they were lots of fun! :)