{"product_id":"robin-reed-english-holiday-christmas-crackers-pack-of-6-x-12-silver-nutcracker","title":"Robin Reed English Holiday Christmas Crackers, Pack of 6 x 12\" - Silver Nutcracker","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThese Robin Reed Traditional Nutcracker 12\" Christmas Crackers are a great finishing (or starting) flourish to your Christmas table settings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAs well as the classic snap, hat, and joke, each cracker contains a collectable hand painted wooden nutcracker ornament\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThere are a total of 6 large crackers featuring gold embossed foils with contemporary nutcracker images and tied with green and red grosgrain ribbons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eRobin Reed crackers are still handmade in the traditional way using the finest materials\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTHE TRADITION OF ENGLISH FESTIVE AND PARTY CRACKERS\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nParty crackers are a British tradition dating back to Victorian times when a confectioner started selling sugared almonds, each with a motto and wrapped in a twisted paper package, as love tokens.\u003cbr\u003e\nOne day a jet of resin from the confectioners log fire burst into flame with a loud ‘crack’. Using this idea he decided to make a log shaped package that would produce a surprise bang and inside would be an almond and a motto.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt soon became a firm favourite at parties with toys, hats and jokes added to each ‘cracker’.\u003cbr\u003e\nBy the end of the century it was well established as a traditional holiday custom and now each year virtually every household in the UK\u003cbr\u003e\nhas crackers.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn recent years crackers have become essential ice breakers at all types of parties, dinner parties, weddings and celebrations. Place one at each place setting for decoration and then pull it open with a friend and share the fun !\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout Robin Reed:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRobin Reed has been manufacturing quality Christmas and party crackers since 1975 – making it the oldest established Christmas cracker company in the UK. All of our crackers are carefully made by hand using traditional methods and materials to give a quality finish – fabrics, ribbons, embellishments, glitter and lush bows are all part of what makes Robin Reed crackers special.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSILVER NUTCRACKER 61845\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Robin Reed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29585916067955,"sku":"0053_61845-MF","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0048\/6925\/9379\/products\/87087edd-19e2-583c-8094-90d1f98655a1.jpg?v=1568414356","url":"https:\/\/www.myriadsgifts.com\/products\/robin-reed-english-holiday-christmas-crackers-pack-of-6-x-12-silver-nutcracker","provider":"Myriads Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}