Christmas traditions elsewhere (OT)

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 7093

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, wren lanier <wren at t...> wrote:

> not to continue the american-bashing here (since i am one, after
> all), but can any of you other Americans imagine having party-
> favors with GUNPOWDER in them?!?!?

Aren't there still cap-pistols, with a long strip of green paper with 
dots that go bang? In my childhood, the dots that go bang were made 
of gunpowder.

And I have seen Christmas crackers on offer in American mail order 
catalogs, I think including WIRELESS and SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM. A quick 
search found no Web sites trying to sell me Xmas crackers, but did 
found the following source of information: 
http://www.absolutelycrackers.com/