[Sca-cooks] So, here's an odd question...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 23, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Louise Smithson wrote:

>> For those who do this -- parents of children small and not so small,
>> maybe... what do people leave out for St. Nick?
> Well in the UK Santa gets a glass of sherry or scotch and some  
> mince meat pies.  And the animals get carrots.
> In some areas he gets a pork pie instead.
> Helewyse

I was a little concerned/distressed at some of the UK Father  
Christmas concept as represented in a UK-made animated short they  
showed on PBS some years ago... Santa lived alone in a sort of  
suburban council house, came home from work on Christmas morning, put  
a turkey in the oven and a pudding in a pot, left them to cook while  
he went to bed, awakened to enjoy a solitary Christmas dinner, went  
off to the French Riviera on holiday, sunbathed with bikini-ed young  
ladies, then came home to start getting ready for another bloomin'  
Christmas...

I have no idea whether this is a standard view there.

I just wonder what it is about which the old gent comes home saying,  
if he never sees another X it will be too soon, and what it is about  
which he says, I could really go for a nice Y right about now...

Do most kids leave him cookies? How many bologna sandwiches does he  
get? Corned beef or pastrami on a nice pumpernickel? Probably not  
much of the latter. Sushi? Ditto.

But it's interesting to speculate. I believe that the IPA and spring  
rolls may have evolved from somebody's warped, juvenile idea that  
Santa wasn't real, and that it was someone else that was actually  
consuming the stuff. I can't imagine who, though. Kids come up with  
the strangest ideas.

Adamantius




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04