The Christmas Cracker is a popular accompaniment to the Traditional Christmas meal across the world.

The story has it that the Christmas Cracker was invented in 1847 by the Englishman Thomas Smith. When visiting Paris in 1840 Tom saw a sweet wrapped up in some twisted colorful tissue paper. He loved the idea of this so much that he returned to his London based sweet factory and made a similar design wrapping up Sugared Almonds.

These little parcels proved exceptionally popular however Tom wanted to stay ahead of his competitors so he was constantly involved in developing his product. He felt a crackle or pop would greatly add to the excitement of his cracker so in 1847 after many different Chemical experiments Thomas Smith had perfected the small pop needed for each parcel, so the Christmas Cracker was born!

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