Iconic Products: Christmas cracker

Christmas Crackers every year. Just before people around Britain begin eating Christmas dinner. They pull these big colorful sweets open with a bang inside are gifts, paper hats and jokes in the 18 forties. Tom Smith, a London confectioner adapted French boons, sugared almonds inside a twist of tissue paper. He created a cardboard tube wrapped in colorful paper and added a love motto. The magic was the loud crack heard when two strips of paper coated in silver, full minute were pulled apart, he patented his creation. And in 18 61 bangs of expectation soon known as Crackers went on sale. Smith's son Walter put paper hats and small gifts into the crackers. By the 18 nineties, crackers were being made in a London factory employing 2000 workers. Crackers are a festive tradition in households across Britain. They have hardly changed in the past 100 years except that the mottos were replaced by jokes in the 19 thirties. The royal family is known to have used the luxury Tom Smith brand since 19 06