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Originally Posted by DanaC
We used to leave a glass of sherry and a mince pie for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer.
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Originally Posted by monster
it was a glass of sherry and mince pie when I was a kid too ...and a carrot for rudolph.
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Ditto. Well, after all, Mum & Dad would get it (shhhhhh!) so it might as well be something interesting! In fact in later years it was whisky, but sherry was cheaper, so it was the staple in the '70s.
In fact there are general comments made in stand up or You've Been Framed about Santa being drunk - it really is the norm for alcohol to be left.
Do any parents still bite the carrot and show it to their children as proof of reindeer? Mine did. I mourned the loss of the belief in reindeer far more than I did Father Christmas. I was promised I could go and feed them the next year. They knew they were going to tell me you see. I cried. I think that's why they bought me a rabbit
