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Crackers?

posted 11 years ago by theoctobercountry
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For the first time (and I've watched this show so many times over the years) I noticed something...

In the scene where the girls are choosing a present for their teacher in the general store, aren't there several boxes of Christmas crackers on the counter? And I'm curious---would Christmas crackers even be known in Nebraska in the 1940s? Or is this something that is more typical of Canada, where the show was shot in the early 1970s?

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[–] LindaY 10 years ago

I always thought they were there because the show was filmed in Canada and the Canadian crew didn't realize Christmas crackers weren't common in the US.

Although I have a friend who has lived in the US for all his life, and so has his wife, and they always have crackers at Christmastime.

[–] greenbudgie (2355) 2 years ago

Christmas crackers were first manufactured in 1846. That was in England I know but I think that most of the US population would have had crackers by 1946.