This is one of those episodes I’ll keep coming back to to watch again and again to learn every bit of information that is in the video. Very informative, interesting and fun, like all of your theories Mat! I can’t count all the times I’ve been able to comment in a conversation with facts I learn from your videos. Tangential learning at it’s finest! Merry Christmas everyone! Stay safe and have a happy new year!
I have just because my grandma had heard of it (I believe while she was in Germany during my grandpa’s time serving in the US Army) and so she always did it as a fun thing for my siblings, cousins, and I whenever we came over on Christmas Eve. Then she found out that it wasn’t German but kept doing it cause it’s fun
Yeah it’s interesting Coke made Fanta because the German Coke Company couldn’t get syrup from America to make Coke, you know, because of the nazis. So they made Fanta instead and it caught on enough in Germany that after the war it was distributed internationally.
By lemon flavored, they just mean it's carbonated sugar water. There's absolutely no taste of lemon or lime. Not that Sprite doesn't taste really good, just that the lemon flavor that they advertise isn't there.
As a European, I can say that with us (Belgium and I believe the Netherlands too), Saint Nicholas is a holy man that, just as you said, visits december 6th to leave presents. The days leading up, children can put their shoe next to the fireplace with a present either for him, his assistant or his horse for a little gift of chocolate, spiced biscuits or tangerines. In Dutch, his name is 'Sinterklaas'.
Christmas in Russia is completely different from that in the United States and Europe. For New Years is the mega holiday in Russia. This time of year the trees are put up and decorated and presents are given under the tree by Ded Moroz or Father Winter. The Slavic equivalent of Santa Claus. He is the symbol of the Russian winter and he is often accompanied by a young woman which is his granddaughter named Snegurochka.
Snegurochka, that name sounds familliar. I once heard a fairy tale about a couple who made a girl out of snow, and she came to life, and her name was Snegurochka. Is it the same character?
@@lunabeekhuizen8858 Yes, you are correct. In the story of Snegurochka, she was made from snow and is forever young and beautiful. A old man and woman made her from the snow and added two blue beads for her eyes, made two dimples in her cheeks and used a piece of red ribbon for her mouth. But when she came to life she was amazing to look at.
It's unfortunate that you missed out the connection with "Father Christmas", a jolly character who represented the spirit of christmas, and eventually got merged with St Nicholas at some point a few hundred years ago. A lot of Santa's traits come from Father Christmas. Santa is still often called "Father Christmas" in the UK.
not to mention that father christmas might be based on the older pre-christian god of wodin who was depicted almost identically looking and celebrated at the same time
@@alertsydcat6884 If I'm not mistaken is it not the same thing? Yule is just a common word from all the old germanic peoples who celebrated a christmas type thing some time around december? I know the old anglo-saxon god of wodin is basically the same as the nordic god odin who they all celebrated in december
I feel like if mat started a History theory channel it would be pretty interesting making theories about unsolved mysteries or things that has happened in general, Its probably too different than the kind of theories we are used to but it could be cool
I'm still waiting for a story I knew, about an European country that bought a whole region of Asia (I think an island) just for a spice, and bought it at a price of less than 100 dollars, I'm not sure, I saw it in a food documentary, but wow, it was amazing.
Fun fact. Coca Cola's sales crash every year around christmas in Sweden. Since we have a local thing called "Must" that we just consume milions of liters of during christmas and easter. So coca cola just gave up and made their own brand of must for the Swedish market. The coke sales just go down by 50% for like 2-3 months a year.
Funny you should mention Haddon Sundblom, because he was the son of a Finnish immigrant and his image of Santa Claus would be shaped by the Nordic version of him and not the Southern European version of St. Nicholas. The Finnish version of Santa Claus is based on Joulupukki. The literal translation means "Yule goat", but is most often depicted as man in on a broad red coat that travels from farm to farm in a small sleigh pulled by a reindeer. He is believed to have a pagan origin and might predate St.Nicholas. Given that Sundblom grew up with this image of Santa Claus, it is more likely that he based his illustrations the redcoat man pulled by reindeer then a Turkish catholic saint. Edit: Thought reading about Joulupukki, he wasn't generally considered a nice guy. He usually entered a house asking "Is there any nice children here?" and if it wasn't...well, those kids were in mortal danger. He also demanded appeasements. Not milk and cookies, but more in line of real food and beer. So I guess He and St. Nicholas at some point did a Goku/Vegeta Fusion and became the Santa we know today.
As fas as I know the whole "he comes by and leaves gifts if you leave out food" has origins in norse mythology. Odin rode Sleipner around the world and to help Sleipner to recover children put out hay in a boot for Sleipner to eat. And as a thanks Odin would leave gifts for the children.
It is common for Santa (or people dressed as him) to ask "Are there any nice children here?" when he enters a home here in Sweden, which borders Finland and has a long history with it, so I assume those traditions are related. We also have the yule goat but it's not as popular anymore. Very interesting!
MatPat I actually had no idea that other people did the whole "hide a pickle ornament on a tree" because ever since I was little my mom always put a pickle on the tree and whoever found it, got to open gifts first.
The "Saint nick left money in women's shoes" thing has kinda remained. In some european countries children leave out their shoes and get chocolate coins, presents and other treats in them.
Idk why, but Santa to me is a very jolly character, despite the whole "he stalks you" and "he breaks into your literal house". I guess its because my christmas tree was placed outside and not inside of my house and the whole "he delivers presents!" thing covered up like 90% of the stuff. Also my parents never told me that he lived in the north pole, his elves make toys for him without paying them and the infamous "Naughty List" (they did tell me that you have to be nice but never told me that there was a entire list dedicated to it :/).
I don't imagine the elves have an economy anyways, if they can make all those toys themselves. They probably just get room and board and spend their days working on crafts for fun.
I very faintly remember my brother and I watching TV with our parents and Santa walking through the front door wearing our stockings on his feet. That was awesome.
Story time related to Santa : When i was in kindergarten on Christmas day, the teachers always invited Santa. They used the loudest sound effects that shows Santa's sleigh has landed in front of our school. Younger me only knew Santa, but they introduced zwater piets as well and i was confused. Turns out they're job was to stuffed bad children inside a giant bag that is similar to Santa's. Younger me was extremely terrified of Santa and zwater piets. I remember i actually saw one of the students held hostage and of course being stuffed into the bag in the process, idk what they did but that actually scared me.
So, there's lots of games of "hide the pickle", among your family members, is there? When I was a kid, I had a freind who's uncle always wanted to play "hide the pickle" with the kiddies. But I'm pretty sure that uncle is in prison, now...
I’m so glad that someone else has the Christmas pickle tradition, I started it two years ago when I found a Christmas pickle in a dollar store with the story attached , now I just hide multiple ones through the house for fun
Hey MatPat! I was watching the old Kindergarten 2 live streams and y'all about the food fight that happens in the game and the aerodynamics of different common lunch foods. I'd love to see a theory about: 1) what's the best food to grab in a food fight, and 2) how hard would you have to throw the item for it to be deadly?
I feel as though you are attempting to enact a food based assassination, also my guess as for most aerodynamic, something semisolid like mashed potatoes or jello, solid enough to grab and throw but liquid enough to change shape to improve aerodynamics. Or possibly grapes or other sphere shaped fruits.
Also German and I agree never, ever, heared of that one. Maybe something out of the east with Spreewälder Gurken? But still, no idea how that could be something German ...
I love how there might be kids who still believe in santa and MatPat just says: - "SANTA HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 1800 YEARS AND HE WAS INVENTED BY SOME GUY WHO CRITICISED THE GOVERNMENT" Pardon my bad orthography
Hey MatPat! So I just wanted to thank you for making me smile, laugh, and unbored myself with your content. Ever since I showed my dad the "The dark secret of Oreos" video, he hasn't stopped watching this channel. As I'm writing this he's watching the Doritos video! And I've NEVER seen him this interested in something I watch. So I think for fathers day I'm going to get him merch because he also loves the merch. So I wish you a Happy New Years and Merry Late Christmas! Love and Health for this new year! From the Perez Family.
Saint Nicholas was a Greek living in Anatolia in his time still part of the roman empire his parents were Greek and in the western parts of Anatolia lived primarily Greeks in those times so I would guess his skin tone would be Mediterranean perplection just like current day greeks and he didn’t save the girls from slavery but from prostitution although you could say it somewhat resembles it
The hidden gem in this video from Food Theory's animators: the rotating 2d image of sprite boy is actually also a sprite (an animation technique popular in early video games).
Food theory suggestion: What are the most optimized toppings and flavors for froyo. Froyo is priced by weight so you could figure out what toppings and flavors can get to 500 calories with the least weight
@@nathanielburbery4890 I never knew that nuts were so energy dense, thats pretty cool, well i think flavors might matter because i think different flavors have different calories.
Another St. Nick legend (my personal favorite) goes that at the Council of Nicaea (a big church event that discussed the teachings of the church), St. Nick got so upset at the false teachings of a teacher named Arius (who was teaching that Jesus was a creation of God, rather than God Himself as the church taught at the time) that he got up, walked over to Arius and straight up punched the dude. Gives a brand new meaning to "deck the halls." 🤣
Wow, wish I had seen this video when I was doing a speech on Coca-Cola advertising and marketing. I knew some of the details already, but I never new Santa’s design was from a political drawing. The amount of research you put towards this video is admirable. Thanks for another great video.
but it isn't, a lot of his facts are completely wrong like the fact the saint Nick was turkish,Infact that area was occupied by the romans,greeks and armenians at the time,turkey wouldn't occupy those lands for atleast another 500 years. This was clearly a rushed mess of a video with minimal research or just a way to push misinformation on the origins of santa which is very unlikely.
@@jimlord Ok, I was more talking about the marketing and advertising part of the video. Coca-Cola is famous because of how they marketed it. I could talk for hours about it but I won’t. Honestly it’s an easy mistake to make considering it’s already a pretty highly known idea about Saint Nicholas. Plus, let’s be honest he’s running how many channels. 4 I think? Give the guy a break. He’s doing great, I’d like you to make a better video with the time and schedule he has.
You know MatPat, you go on about being addicted to Diet Coke, but, since before my memories formed and I came into consciousness, I have *loved* Sprite. I’ve since moved to Sprite Zero, but it tastes the exact same to me. So to find out where the name comes from is truly a gift I needed.
"What is the relationship between Santa and coke?" How else did you think he could stay up long enough to deliver all those presents? And don't get me started on how much the elves go through in a year.
Honestly I was expecting the Food theory episode on Santa to be on whether Santa could survive on eating all those milk and cookies. If you see this MatPat then do a video on this please!
Folks should be leaving him some cash to cover his medical expenses from all the goodies/treats left for him. (Chortle) Also Gute Idea for a future theory 🥛🍪
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5:50 actually, "Russian Santa" is a completely different folklore character, with no connection to St. Nicholas. His name is "Ded Moroz" (translates Grandpa Freezing) and he just represents winter or cold. No saints here)
I used to do the pickle thing at school, the librarian would hide it incredible well. We also celebrate St. Nicolas day on December 6. We get chocolate, a Christmas tree ornament, sometimes some assorted nuts, and a random other thing.
Back when I was little and believed in Santa, other children often told me Coca Cola invented Santa Claus. And even when I did not believe in him anymore, I heard that many many times throughout my life. But since being little I knew it wasn't true. I knew that St. Nicolaus was a very old myth and I thought people knew Santa even before Coca Cola made him a mascot. And now I know there were Santa ads way before Coca Cola did it. Thanks for proving me right, Mat. But I could never thought what you show the origin was. xD
Just throwing this out there, I personally would totally buy a multi-theory phone case, poster, pjs, travel mug, and pen set. Y’know, just in case anyone was looking for merch or design ideas 😉
"more of a skin tone to Osama Bin Laden than Coca Cola's Santa Claus" Well that's a sentence I wasn't expecting to hear this Christmas! FA LA LA LA LA! LA LA LA LA!
2:24 ... did they genetically test Santa to verify he had skin color genes associated with tan/"brown"/darker complexions? Because while it's probably fair to say that Santa was no blue eyed prettyboy (and I only say "probably" because we have no definitive idea about how traits eye color was distributed back then), extremely pale skin is definitely a trait that pops up in Anatolia...
@@tristanheaton2127 No, it was also fairly common in the Cacus mountain ranges, which, coincidently are quite close by, being on the north east end of the anatolian peninsula.
@@ProgramViBee The area in that time was quite heavily Greek, being part of the Eastern Roman empire and such and in the influence zone of The old Greek states.
@@ProgramViBee Honestly, I think they were assuming based on current stereotypes more than anything... in 300AD this land was part of the Roman Empire so even with the incorrect assumption that the traits aren't "indigenous" the possibility of gene flow is entirely there as well. Again, I'm not saying anything definitive one way or the other, just that speaking so assertively with an absolute is misguided on MP's part.
I'm from Turkey and I actually gotta correct you on this We were back in Central Asia when Jesus or St. Nicholas visited modern day Turkey. So, in retrospect to our history, we weren't thisich diverse and we were Asians back then. We conquered to Anatolia in 1071 making St. Nicholas older than the Turkish annexion of Anatolia... Also a side note, most of us have blonde hair and blue/green eyes. At least my whole extended family do.
Wait what? I'm for Greece and I know that some pale skin, blond hair, blue eye Turkish exist, like you and your family. But I think in the last 3 times that I visited (mostly Istanbul) the majority of the population have not had pale skin, they have dark brown hair and brown eyes. You know similar to Greece, Bulgaria and other near buy countries. Sory if I'm wrong. I'm not trying to be rude or disrespectful.
@@dorav.l.3739 Oh hey neighbour! Yeah they are Kurdish people mostly. Kurdish and Turkish people belong to two different ethnical families but we all live together harmony most of the time. Also modern day Turkish people are most likely already infused and assimilated by the other nations on Anatolia, including Byzantine people
In the netherland we celebrate sinterklaas ( sint nicolaas ) and one of the traditions we have is putting our shoes near a chimney and wait overnight, the next morning there would be a small gift in the shoe, but i never knew it came from a old legend where nicolaas would put money in the shoes of lady's.
Its not just in the Netherlands either. Its in Belgium (where i live) and maybe other country's too, though im not actually sure if its celebrated anywhere else.
Pretty sure it's just Netherlands and Belgium. The tradition is very old at this point so maybe Belgium just continued doing it after they became independent from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
@ME Dude, I believe in God. I'm simply pointing out that Krampus, in the stories, is canonically a demon that is kept in chains by Saint Nicholas and used to punish wicked children. Feel free to look it up if you don't believe me.
Honestly, I was thinking of Coke Cola this Christmas but not because of Santa. I kept on thinking about polar bears and their relationship with coke cola ads
MatPat, the Turks didn’t enter that part of the world until the 11th century. The Eastern Roman Empire ruled over modern day Turkey. Nicholas could be a mix of Greek, Syrian, Armenian, or something else. But not Turkish.
exactly this! it is surprising how someone that has suposidly done so much research can make such an easily avoidable mistake.It's almost like he has an agenda...
That comment about santa's cookie consumption makes me wanna see a video about how unhealthy (as in even beyond death by diabetes and such) it would be to eat cookies from each house, the only problem arising is that cookie types vary and cookie amounts also do.
The "Christmas Pickle" was a tradition where someone would hide a pickle(ornament) in the tree and whoever finds it will get a gift. It began when an American Civil Warfighter John C. Lower was captured in Germany and was starving on Christmas eve and he begged a guard for some food. The Guard was pitiful and gave him a pickle and he survived to tell the tale. Please correct me if I am incorrect this is only my personal knowledge.
In my family the grandkids look for the pickle at my grandparents house, and the first to find it gets a $20, making it not an extreme amount of money, but enough to justify minor violence. I imagine it's entertaining to watch.
As a German, I can tell you, that we took a lot of the classic traditions from St Nicolaus. First, the Nikolaus/Weihnachtsmann (Christmas-Man), our "Santa", visits children at Dec. 6th. Then we have the shoe-thing, as we put out a shoe/boot in front of the door and he fills it over night with sweets and treats. But you know what we NEVER had in Germany? THAT CHRISTMAS PICKLE! I don't know WHY people think it's a German tradition, but it's not. And if you ask a German if they hide a pickle in their tree, unless they know about the US trend, they will be utterly confused, horrified or disgusted by the very idea XD
2:29 about St. Nicholas Day, in Poland, we usually celebrate this on 6th December on the name day of "Mikołaj" (Polish name for Santa and a pretty common boys name) it isn't really a national holiday like Christmas Eve (where people get the day of sometimes depending on the job) on Mikołajki school is still open and people still go to work, in schools kids usually exchange presents (like secret santa), usually kids also get presents on this day, usually one, and then on Christmas Eve (Wigilia) they get the rest
To add to the aspect of Santa's origins, yes, Saint Nicholas was 1 of the aspects when Santa truly came to be a symbol for Christmas, but as for Santa flying around on a sleigh and raindeer, that can be attributed to Odin where the Norse has been passing around a story about how, during the winter seasons, Odin would fly around on his 8 legged Horse Slipknir to deliver gifts to the norse people as a way to ward off winter depression. This is most likely how Santa obtained the look that we're known for today minus the missing eye.
As well as the Dutch holiday: “Sinterklaas”. Considering that the Dutch had a presence in America as well at some point and that Santa looks a lot like Sinterklaas (not identical) can’t mean nothing, especially considering that Sinterklaas is based off of Saint Nicholas even more than Santa with some of Wodan and his two ravens mixed in
As someone whom I've called myself 'Santa' in media and games, who enjoys Christmas, born in December, and most importantly really love Coca Cola. So after watching this video and just realizing why coke is so inline with Christmas every year, this is really surprising to me.
I really enjoyed this Christmas special and all the other ones on your other channels! I'd also like to propose a new Mini Theory - what is the right way to eat spaghetti? (is there a even a right way?)
Kinda makes more sense why santa has different colours in older ornaments. I like the cute blue coated one we have on the tree, dunno why the ornament blue when we're British but I prefer blue. Although the pickle thing I'm more confused about rn how is that a thing.
this topic is so funny given my mother(my entire family is catholic) recently had her Bible group talk about saint Nicholas. who's feast day is still practiced.
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Maybe this is a bit late, but I should point out that although he originated in the area where Turkey is now present, Saint Nicholas wasn't Turkish. The Turks didn't enter that area, sometimes referred to as Asia Minor, until about a thousand years ago. Saint Nicholas was born in the Roman Empire. I'm not saying he was of lighter skin; he was probably Middle Eastern or Greek, neither of whom are particularly light compared to, say, Swedes; but he was not Turkish. That said, it was an interesting video.
As a German I do the cucumber thing but we only stared it a few years ago and I don't know anyone else who did it. We got it from some other country, it's nothing most people in southern Germany know to my knowledge
As a German, the "Glass Pickle" thing is NOT from Gremany. It was a german person came to america and fought in the civil war. Since he got sevirly injured, as a final meal he wanted to eat a sour pickle. Surprisingly he survived and he thought it was because of the pickle, he hung a glass pickle on his tree every year. (All of this was in America, and not Germany)
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In the netherlands we have a nather holiday selebrating saint nick (sinterklaas) where he leaves pressents in the shoes of children so i guess holyday came from 2:47
Coke has for years tried to break in to the swedish market with the santa thing for xmas but year after year fail because of a trdaitional soda made here and im somewhat proud of it for some reason
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In Belgium and the Netherlands we have Sinterklaas, who's also based on Sint Nicolas. He is so called from Spain, has helpers, and gives presents, chocolate and mandarins. You can say he's the Dutch version of Santa.
The area that St Nick lived was heavily Greek during that time peroid, considering it was in the Eastern part of theRoman empire, that was very much greek. So in all likelyhood, he was Greek. The Washington post is not a reputable source.
We do the pickle thing to. I was always told it xame from the German side of the family. We also celebrate St. Nicholas Day on December 6, leaving out shoes outside our bedroom door for small gifts, chocolate and oranges. I knew that the dowry thing was the reason for the shoes; I like your explanation of the pickles
This is one of those episodes I’ll keep coming back to to watch again and again to learn every bit of information that is in the video. Very informative, interesting and fun, like all of your theories Mat! I can’t count all the times I’ve been able to comment in a conversation with facts I learn from your videos. Tangential learning at it’s finest!
Merry Christmas everyone! Stay safe and have a happy new year!
Thank you, and same! Have a great holiday season and happy new year!
Idk, it’s too factual and teachy than theoretical to me. The whole video felt off, like someone new wrote the script.
Merry Christmas :)
@@boom34z55 to me its like basically solving myths or mysteries from games that havent been solved.
happy holidays
You know Coca Cola is persistent when they still advertise tf out of their products during The Great Depression
Yep
Wow a just some guy without a mustache comment without 100 likes
You're more susceptible to manipulation by marketing, or anything for that matter, when you're poor.
@Betty 💞 hi Betty
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As a German, I have never, EVER, heared of anybody hiding a pickle in the christmas tree XD
Me neither, but my Irish-American family does it every year.
I have just because my grandma had heard of it (I believe while she was in Germany during my grandpa’s time serving in the US Army) and so she always did it as a fun thing for my siblings, cousins, and I whenever we came over on Christmas Eve. Then she found out that it wasn’t German but kept doing it cause it’s fun
Same here lol
Echt nicht? Machen wir jedes Jahr.
My family hid it in the tree
All of the detailed Santa lore is really neat, but I'm also blown away by the fact that Sprite is actually lemon Fanta.
Yeah it’s interesting Coke made Fanta because the German Coke Company couldn’t get syrup from America to make Coke, you know, because of the nazis. So they made Fanta instead and it caught on enough in Germany that after the war it was distributed internationally.
sprite is goooood
By lemon flavored, they just mean it's carbonated sugar water. There's absolutely no taste of lemon or lime. Not that Sprite doesn't taste really good, just that the lemon flavor that they advertise isn't there.
@@toade1583 yes it very much is lol?
@@toade1583 It absolutely tastes lemon. As someone who personally enjoys something a bit more tart I still have to admit that fact.
As a European, I can say that with us (Belgium and I believe the Netherlands too), Saint Nicholas is a holy man that, just as you said, visits december 6th to leave presents. The days leading up, children can put their shoe next to the fireplace with a present either for him, his assistant or his horse for a little gift of chocolate, spiced biscuits or tangerines. In Dutch, his name is 'Sinterklaas'.
Same over here in Germany
Food Theory educating me on, not only the theories that I never knew existed, but also its answers. Thank you.
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Same here
Cola Santa Claus is capitalism . .
Tim Allen forced to work is Comunism
Isnt a theory a answer based off guesses that try to be as accurate as possible tho??????
Christmas in Russia is completely different from that in the United States and Europe. For New Years is the mega holiday in Russia. This time of year the trees are put up and decorated and presents are given under the tree by Ded Moroz or Father Winter. The Slavic equivalent of Santa Claus. He is the symbol of the Russian winter and he is often accompanied by a young woman which is his granddaughter named Snegurochka.
Snegurochka, that name sounds familliar. I once heard a fairy tale about a couple who made a girl out of snow, and she came to life, and her name was Snegurochka. Is it the same character?
@@lunabeekhuizen8858 Yes, you are correct. In the story of Snegurochka, she was made from snow and is forever young and beautiful. A old man and woman made her from the snow and added two blue beads for her eyes, made two dimples in her cheeks and used a piece of red ribbon for her mouth. But when she came to life she was amazing to look at.
@@iridiumscribe4915 It's a beautiful tale, one of my favorites. Pretty cool that it's actually a part of Christmas there in Russia.
@@iridiumscribe4915 And, according to some versions, she fell in love and melted.
I love the line Mega Holiday lol So Euro/Russian
MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄!!
It's unfortunate that you missed out the connection with "Father Christmas", a jolly character who represented the spirit of christmas, and eventually got merged with St Nicholas at some point a few hundred years ago. A lot of Santa's traits come from Father Christmas.
Santa is still often called "Father Christmas" in the UK.
wait, it's all different?
yeah. Santa is neither nick nor father christmas. He's the fusion of both. Kinda like josuke from part 8.
not to mention that father christmas might be based on the older pre-christian god of wodin who was depicted almost identically looking and celebrated at the same time
@@leeanderson8773 Santa is actually based off of yule, in yule he looks the same just with a blue suit
@@alertsydcat6884 If I'm not mistaken is it not the same thing? Yule is just a common word from all the old germanic peoples who celebrated a christmas type thing some time around december? I know the old anglo-saxon god of wodin is basically the same as the nordic god odin who they all celebrated in december
I feel like if mat started a History theory channel it would be pretty interesting making theories about unsolved mysteries or things that has happened in general, Its probably too different than the kind of theories we are used to but it could be cool
I agree it would be cool.
I'm still waiting for a story I knew, about an European country that bought a whole region of Asia (I think an island) just for a spice, and bought it at a price of less than 100 dollars, I'm not sure, I saw it in a food documentary, but wow, it was amazing.
P o
The fourth section of the wheel!! :)
or theorys like flat earth
Fun fact. Coca Cola's sales crash every year around christmas in Sweden. Since we have a local thing called "Must" that we just consume milions of liters of during christmas and easter. So coca cola just gave up and made their own brand of must for the Swedish market. The coke sales just go down by 50% for like 2-3 months a year.
Funny you should mention Haddon Sundblom, because he was the son of a Finnish immigrant and his image of Santa Claus would be shaped by the Nordic version of him and not the Southern European version of St. Nicholas.
The Finnish version of Santa Claus is based on Joulupukki. The literal translation means "Yule goat", but is most often depicted as man in on a broad red coat that travels from farm to farm in a small sleigh pulled by a reindeer. He is believed to have a pagan origin and might predate St.Nicholas.
Given that Sundblom grew up with this image of Santa Claus, it is more likely that he based his illustrations the redcoat man pulled by reindeer then a Turkish catholic saint.
Edit: Thought reading about Joulupukki, he wasn't generally considered a nice guy. He usually entered a house asking "Is there any nice children here?" and if it wasn't...well, those kids were in mortal danger. He also demanded appeasements. Not milk and cookies, but more in line of real food and beer. So I guess He and St. Nicholas at some point did a Goku/Vegeta Fusion and became the Santa we know today.
The real St. Nicholas could hold his own. During the Council of Nicea, he punched the heretic Arius for claiming that Jesus wasn't God.
As fas as I know the whole "he comes by and leaves gifts if you leave out food" has origins in norse mythology. Odin rode Sleipner around the world and to help Sleipner to recover children put out hay in a boot for Sleipner to eat.
And as a thanks Odin would leave gifts for the children.
It is common for Santa (or people dressed as him) to ask "Are there any nice children here?" when he enters a home here in Sweden, which borders Finland and has a long history with it, so I assume those traditions are related. We also have the yule goat but it's not as popular anymore. Very interesting!
Sound like krampus
You should do a video to see if Santa can survive all the cookies he would consume.
I think he did that last year?
I believe the general explanation for how Santa can deliver presents around the world in such a short timeframe and eat all those snacks is: magic.
Yep
@@randomstuff-qu7sh honestly, I don’t think that would make a difference to MatPat
He already answered that on Food Theory. Short answer: No
MatPat I actually had no idea that other people did the whole "hide a pickle ornament on a tree" because ever since I was little my mom always put a pickle on the tree and whoever found it, got to open gifts first.
Hamilton fan?
@CashCrash-x3m Yeah I guess it was kind of obvious
The "Saint nick left money in women's shoes" thing has kinda remained. In some european countries children leave out their shoes and get chocolate coins, presents and other treats in them.
im one of that kids
And I mean, stockings are just big socks, and socks are pretty darn close too shoes
@@billnye8760 And normally you fill them with small things and mostly chocolate sooo-
Sinterklaas guyz
Yup, loved me some chocolate guilders as a little kid
Idk why, but Santa to me is a very jolly character, despite the whole "he stalks you" and "he breaks into your literal house". I guess its because my christmas tree was placed outside and not inside of my house and the whole "he delivers presents!" thing covered up like 90% of the stuff. Also my parents never told me that he lived in the north pole, his elves make toys for him without paying them and the infamous "Naughty List" (they did tell me that you have to be nice but never told me that there was a entire list dedicated to it :/).
I don't imagine the elves have an economy anyways, if they can make all those toys themselves. They probably just get room and board and spend their days working on crafts for fun.
Most people see Santa as a jolly, likeable character. Why else would coca cola use his image to advertise?
Average zoomer
I very faintly remember my brother and I watching TV with our parents and Santa walking through the front door wearing our stockings on his feet. That was awesome.
Imagine being sheltered from Santa Claus
Story time related to Santa :
When i was in kindergarten on Christmas day, the teachers always invited Santa. They used the loudest sound effects that shows Santa's sleigh has landed in front of our school. Younger me only knew Santa, but they introduced zwater piets as well and i was confused. Turns out they're job was to stuffed bad children inside a giant bag that is similar to Santa's. Younger me was extremely terrified of Santa and zwater piets. I remember i actually saw one of the students held hostage and of course being stuffed into the bag in the process, idk what they did but that actually scared me.
That’s messed up
As a fan of Puppet History, I’m glad Matpat brought up the pickle bois
YESSSS.
ALSO PROFESSOR MCNASTY'S FUNERAL EPISODE BROUGHT ME TO TEARS. RIP FOREVER AND EVER YOU FURRY BLUE ANGEL
Wait, when does he reference Puppet History? I was only listening so I didn't see.
So, there's lots of games of "hide the pickle", among your family members, is there?
When I was a kid, I had a freind who's uncle always wanted to play "hide the pickle" with the kiddies. But I'm pretty sure that uncle is in prison, now...
@@baconsarny-geddon8298 Ayo 🤨
Me: **reads the title that Santa made sprite**
Oh, okay, this seems interesting
The video: **starts talking about coke**
Me: wait what
cause Coca Cola makes Sprite, so needs that background info
And Santa Sherlock, lmao
This title is misleading
Why Must Matpat clickbait me
He didn’t bring up sprite until the last 2 minutes of the video
@@ultra64dx77 He still talk about it so it's not clickbait. Plus coca cola make sprite so you need background information for why all this happened
@@dieptrieu6564 I made the comment before watching the whole video
I might need to edit it
I’m so glad that someone else has the Christmas pickle tradition, I started it two years ago when I found a Christmas pickle in a dollar store with the story attached , now I just hide multiple ones through the house for fun
My family also does it! It’s cool to see others who do it.
What happens if someone misses one? Do you find it 6 months later? 😄
How is it a tradition when you just picked it up😂?
@@begreater226 I guess it’ll become a tradition, I’m gonna do this for years
Mrs. Claus got WAPua-cam.com/video/4JHrzVWfNkk/v-deo.html
Perfect thing to watch on Christmas Eve... Thanks Matpat! My dream is out the window!
It's only December 9th though.
isnt december christmas??
@lilaroblox7306 *22nd*
Hey MatPat! I was watching the old Kindergarten 2 live streams and y'all about the food fight that happens in the game and the aerodynamics of different common lunch foods. I'd love to see a theory about:
1) what's the best food to grab in a food fight, and
2) how hard would you have to throw the item for it to be deadly?
I feel as though you are attempting to enact a food based assassination, also my guess as for most aerodynamic, something semisolid like mashed potatoes or jello, solid enough to grab and throw but liquid enough to change shape to improve aerodynamics. Or possibly grapes or other sphere shaped fruits.
As a german I can say for sure: The christmas pickle is absolutely unknown in germany :)
Fellow German here, i support this comment. It's only a thing in the US.
@@PhlegmaticAbsentee that's weird
Also German and I agree never, ever, heared of that one.
Maybe something out of the east with Spreewälder Gurken?
But still, no idea how that could be something German ...
I agree. Never heard of that.
@@mrcookie5233 German with East Germans on the mother's side. No Christmas pickles here either.
I love how there might be kids who still believe in santa and MatPat just says:
- "SANTA HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 1800 YEARS AND HE WAS INVENTED BY SOME GUY WHO CRITICISED THE GOVERNMENT"
Pardon my bad orthography
Actually he criticized the government, not the military
Low military spending, rather. Practically the opposite.
That's what I tell every child I know Santa used to be real but he's not what you thought
Most of his fanbase is kids.
@@KittyKatty999 not kids that still believe in Santa.
Hey MatPat! So I just wanted to thank you for making me smile, laugh, and unbored myself with your content. Ever since I showed my dad the "The dark secret of Oreos" video, he hasn't stopped watching this channel. As I'm writing this he's watching the Doritos video! And I've NEVER seen him this interested in something I watch. So I think for fathers day I'm going to get him merch because he also loves the merch. So I wish you a Happy New Years and Merry Late Christmas! Love and Health for this new year! From the Perez Family.
Matt makes such quality videos, it’s actually crazy how well edited each video is
@@objectionman4133 I know lol
Because he has multiple editors and they're all good at editing
Bought account
there are so many bots omg
If you’re gonna praise Game Theory for something there’s no way it’s gonna be editing.
My family always hides a pickle in our tree. I love that tradition!
I hate bots
I hear it's common for German families
STONE my family has that tradition too also what is with these people with the links?
@@PokeGreninja39 the people with links are bots
What country are you from?
Saint Nicholas was a Greek living in Anatolia in his time still part of the roman empire his parents were Greek and in the western parts of Anatolia lived primarily Greeks in those times so I would guess his skin tone would be Mediterranean perplection just like current day greeks and he didn’t save the girls from slavery but from prostitution although you could say it somewhat resembles it
@@jedanMALIkinez and in the catholic church too we celebrate it on 6 December
@@jedanMALIkinez your right he is greek and Orthodox.
in 300 ad the area was still under the roman empire
@@imperialdragoon9715 you are right I wil fix it now
@@imperialdragoon9715 still greek
The hidden gem in this video from Food Theory's animators: the rotating 2d image of sprite boy is actually also a sprite (an animation technique popular in early video games).
Food theory suggestion: What are the most optimized toppings and flavors for froyo. Froyo is priced by weight so you could figure out what toppings and flavors can get to 500 calories with the least weight
Easy. Nuts. Highest energy density food. The froyo flavour doesn't really matter
@@nathanielburbery4890 I never knew that nuts were so energy dense, thats pretty cool, well i think flavors might matter because i think different flavors have different calories.
I would love to see a video calculating the caloric content of Lembas bread (from Lord of the Rings) and comparing it to real food options
I know nothing about LOTR, but that's the one that can fill up an entire hobbit with one bite, right?
@@blokvader8283 No, it can fill up a non-hobbit with one bite. A hobbit can eat 3 in a sitting and still be up for elevensies
@@lordsergal8783 xD gottem
Another St. Nick legend (my personal favorite) goes that at the Council of Nicaea (a big church event that discussed the teachings of the church), St. Nick got so upset at the false teachings of a teacher named Arius (who was teaching that Jesus was a creation of God, rather than God Himself as the church taught at the time) that he got up, walked over to Arius and straight up punched the dude. Gives a brand new meaning to "deck the halls." 🤣
@Darkquill Maroon allegedly yes!
Giving ‘em the best gift of all, a good holiday BASH
Aye, St. Nicholas Is truly an amazing man
"The Church" didn't teach that, because there was no one church. But most churches did believe in that idea. Some didn't, like that of Arius.
@@speedwagon1824 "The church" here just colloquially means orthodox teaching at that time.
3:28 St Nicholas saved the pickle boys! 💃
As a Sprite fan, this brings a smile to my face.
Ah, I see. So you're A man of culture as well.
@@thatonerosebud2530 7-up
Fight me then
I thought my grandma made up that pickle in the tree thing. I approve of this, and the theory.
Wow, wish I had seen this video when I was doing a speech on Coca-Cola advertising and marketing. I knew some of the details already, but I never new Santa’s design was from a political drawing. The amount of research you put towards this video is admirable. Thanks for another great video.
but it isn't, a lot of his facts are completely wrong like the fact the saint Nick was turkish,Infact that area was occupied by the romans,greeks and armenians at the time,turkey wouldn't occupy those lands for atleast another 500 years. This was clearly a rushed mess of a video with minimal research or just a way to push misinformation on the origins of santa which is very unlikely.
@@jimlord Yep. In that area would be what Is now known as The Byzantine empire or as they called it back then, east Rome.
@@jimlord Ok, I was more talking about the marketing and advertising part of the video. Coca-Cola is famous because of how they marketed it. I could talk for hours about it but I won’t. Honestly it’s an easy mistake to make considering it’s already a pretty highly known idea about Saint Nicholas. Plus, let’s be honest he’s running how many channels. 4 I think? Give the guy a break. He’s doing great, I’d like you to make a better video with the time and schedule he has.
You know MatPat, you go on about being addicted to Diet Coke, but, since before my memories formed and I came into consciousness, I have *loved* Sprite. I’ve since moved to Sprite Zero, but it tastes the exact same to me. So to find out where the name comes from is truly a gift I needed.
"What is the relationship between Santa and coke?"
How else did you think he could stay up long enough to deliver all those presents? And don't get me started on how much the elves go through in a year.
coke does contain caffeine
Also explains his obsession with cookies
@@godnoobbrawlstars6409 wrong coke
I have never in my life heard of the "hide a pickle in a tree" tradition but it actually sounds hilarious
Honestly I was expecting the Food theory episode on Santa to be on whether Santa could survive on eating all those milk and cookies. If you see this MatPat then do a video on this please!
He’s not only having milk, he’s got other drinks people put out
That would be fun to watch
Folks should be leaving him some cash to cover his medical expenses from all the goodies/treats left for him. (Chortle) Also Gute Idea for a future theory 🥛🍪
That would be awesome
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5:15 “a regular nice dude”??? He was literally Batman and he claimed to bring 2 people back from the dead! Yup! Just you’re average nice guy.
Not even 10 seconds in I'm convinced that it's just Mat just wanting another reason to drink more pop.
5:50 actually, "Russian Santa" is a completely different folklore character, with no connection to St. Nicholas. His name is "Ded Moroz" (translates Grandpa Freezing) and he just represents winter or cold. No saints here)
I used to do the pickle thing at school, the librarian would hide it incredible well.
We also celebrate St. Nicolas day on December 6. We get chocolate, a Christmas tree ornament, sometimes some assorted nuts, and a random other thing.
Back when I was little and believed in Santa, other children often told me Coca Cola invented Santa Claus. And even when I did not believe in him anymore, I heard that many many times throughout my life. But since being little I knew it wasn't true. I knew that St. Nicolaus was a very old myth and I thought people knew Santa even before Coca Cola made him a mascot.
And now I know there were Santa ads way before Coca Cola did it. Thanks for proving me right, Mat. But I could never thought what you show the origin was. xD
I love how matpat gets to the topic from title at 10:37
Just throwing this out there, I personally would totally buy a multi-theory phone case, poster, pjs, travel mug, and pen set. Y’know, just in case anyone was looking for merch or design ideas 😉
I have never once in my entire life until this video heard of hiding a pickle in an Xmas tree.
The fact Coca-Cola advertised during The Great Depression shows how determined they were
This video is probably one of the best matpat vids ive seen in a while, probably because i love useless trivia lmao, what a banger
I want on April Fools day for Mat to say "Bone Apple Tea" and see if anyone realizes it
that is the most soylent thing ive ever heard
“What’s the relationship between Santa and coke?”
You’ll learn when you’re older Matt.
@Elise Luis💫 bot
@Elise Luis💫 bot
Every body always ask: Did Santa made Sprite?
But nobody ask: How did Santa made Sprite.
"more of a skin tone to Osama Bin Laden than Coca Cola's Santa Claus"
Well that's a sentence I wasn't expecting to hear this Christmas! FA LA LA LA LA! LA LA LA LA!
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I’m surprise you didn’t talk about Saint Nicholas punching a heretic in the face. It’s my favorite Christmas story.
2:24
... did they genetically test Santa to verify he had skin color genes associated with tan/"brown"/darker complexions? Because while it's probably fair to say that Santa was no blue eyed prettyboy (and I only say "probably" because we have no definitive idea about how traits eye color was distributed back then), extremely pale skin is definitely a trait that pops up in Anatolia...
They were probably making connections based on historical accounts and ethnicities in the area at the time.
Back then blue eyes were only nordic until the vikings
@@tristanheaton2127 No, it was also fairly common in the Cacus mountain ranges, which, coincidently are quite close by, being on the north east end of the anatolian peninsula.
@@ProgramViBee The area in that time was quite heavily Greek, being part of the Eastern Roman empire and such and in the influence zone of The old Greek states.
@@ProgramViBee Honestly, I think they were assuming based on current stereotypes more than anything... in 300AD this land was part of the Roman Empire so even with the incorrect assumption that the traits aren't "indigenous" the possibility of gene flow is entirely there as well. Again, I'm not saying anything definitive one way or the other, just that speaking so assertively with an absolute is misguided on MP's part.
I have a pickle in my Christmas tree. You ain’t alone, MatPat
me too
In Russia hes Blue because hes "Father Frost" and comes from Slavic Mythology.
Later ofc he was kinda mixed with Santa i believe.
You hide pickles too?! I thought that was just my family, that’s awesome!
We just hide the salami.
3:18
Hey im from germany and i cant remember anyone having this Tradition
“For Christmas I want a new bike!”
“For Christmas want a video game”
“For Christmas give me some sprite”
Food theory idea: Least healthy Holliday out of these three, Christmas, Halloween, or Thanksgiving?
I'm from Turkey and I actually gotta correct you on this
We were back in Central Asia when Jesus or St. Nicholas visited modern day Turkey. So, in retrospect to our history, we weren't thisich diverse and we were Asians back then. We conquered to Anatolia in 1071 making St. Nicholas older than the Turkish annexion of Anatolia...
Also a side note, most of us have blonde hair and blue/green eyes. At least my whole extended family do.
Wait what? I'm for Greece and I know that some pale skin, blond hair, blue eye Turkish exist, like you and your family. But I think in the last 3 times that I visited (mostly Istanbul) the majority of the population have not had pale skin, they have dark brown hair and brown eyes. You know similar to Greece, Bulgaria and other near buy countries.
Sory if I'm wrong. I'm not trying to be rude or disrespectful.
@@dorav.l.3739 Oh hey neighbour! Yeah they are Kurdish people mostly. Kurdish and Turkish people belong to two different ethnical families but we all live together harmony most of the time. Also modern day Turkish people are most likely already infused and assimilated by the other nations on Anatolia, including Byzantine people
In the netherland we celebrate sinterklaas ( sint nicolaas ) and one of the traditions we have is putting our shoes near a chimney and wait overnight, the next morning there would be a small gift in the shoe, but i never knew it came from a old legend where nicolaas would put money in the shoes of lady's.
I was just about to say that! Really expected it to be in the video. Also fellow Dutch guy over here🇳🇱
Its not just in the Netherlands either. Its in Belgium (where i live) and maybe other country's too, though im not actually sure if its celebrated anywhere else.
Pretty sure it's just Netherlands and Belgium. The tradition is very old at this point so maybe Belgium just continued doing it after they became independent from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
I as a Dutch guy was so confused that he didn’t mention Sinterklaas
5:41 Third pic along - That's not Santa, that's the Ghost of Christmas Present! You're cheating! :D
1:30
Oh, Mat you got it all wrong. Krampus isn't an evil elf at all.
... he's a literal demon.
@ME Dude, I believe in God. I'm simply pointing out that Krampus, in the stories, is canonically a demon that is kept in chains by Saint Nicholas and used to punish wicked children.
Feel free to look it up if you don't believe me.
Honestly, I was thinking of Coke Cola this Christmas but not because of Santa. I kept on thinking about polar bears and their relationship with coke cola ads
MatPat, the Turks didn’t enter that part of the world until the 11th century. The Eastern Roman Empire ruled over modern day Turkey. Nicholas could be a mix of Greek, Syrian, Armenian, or something else. But not Turkish.
exactly this! it is surprising how someone that has suposidly done so much research can make such an easily avoidable mistake.It's almost like he has an agenda...
4:06 liking kids isn't recognised as solely a nice thing matpat...
Guess we gotta leave him a cupcake this year instead of cookies
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That comment about santa's cookie consumption makes me wanna see a video about how unhealthy (as in even beyond death by diabetes and such) it would be to eat cookies from each house, the only problem arising is that cookie types vary and cookie amounts also do.
All these theory channels have taught me a lot, thank you Matpat for all these years of edutainment
How do coca cola is from Santa, madpad?
Mg
The "Christmas Pickle" was a tradition where someone would hide a pickle(ornament) in the tree and whoever finds it will get a gift. It began when an American Civil Warfighter John C. Lower was captured in Germany and was starving on Christmas eve and he begged a guard for some food. The Guard was pitiful and gave him a pickle and he survived to tell the tale. Please correct me if I am incorrect this is only my personal knowledge.
Mattpad always tell the best thoeries, it always makes my day when there's a new theory with ANY theorists explaining.
In my family the grandkids look for the pickle at my grandparents house, and the first to find it gets a $20, making it not an extreme amount of money, but enough to justify minor violence. I imagine it's entertaining to watch.
As a German, I can tell you, that we took a lot of the classic traditions from St Nicolaus.
First, the Nikolaus/Weihnachtsmann (Christmas-Man), our "Santa", visits children at Dec. 6th. Then we have the shoe-thing, as we put out a shoe/boot in front of the door and he fills it over night with sweets and treats.
But you know what we NEVER had in Germany? THAT CHRISTMAS PICKLE! I don't know WHY people think it's a German tradition, but it's not. And if you ask a German if they hide a pickle in their tree, unless they know about the US trend, they will be utterly confused, horrified or disgusted by the very idea XD
3:00
Awww
Saint Nicholas found the pickle boys
Saint Nicholas saved the pickel boys -Puppet History 2020
2:29 about St. Nicholas Day, in Poland, we usually celebrate this on 6th December on the name day of "Mikołaj" (Polish name for Santa and a pretty common boys name) it isn't really a national holiday like Christmas Eve (where people get the day of sometimes depending on the job) on Mikołajki school is still open and people still go to work, in schools kids usually exchange presents (like secret santa), usually kids also get presents on this day, usually one, and then on Christmas Eve (Wigilia) they get the rest
4:50
he looks more like the janitor from kindergarten
also am i the only one that's never heard of coke in relation to christmas
To add to the aspect of Santa's origins, yes, Saint Nicholas was 1 of the aspects when Santa truly came to be a symbol for Christmas, but as for Santa flying around on a sleigh and raindeer, that can be attributed to Odin where the Norse has been passing around a story about how, during the winter seasons, Odin would fly around on his 8 legged Horse Slipknir to deliver gifts to the norse people as a way to ward off winter depression. This is most likely how Santa obtained the look that we're known for today minus the missing eye.
As well as the Dutch holiday: “Sinterklaas”. Considering that the Dutch had a presence in America as well at some point and that Santa looks a lot like Sinterklaas (not identical) can’t mean nothing, especially considering that Sinterklaas is based off of Saint Nicholas even more than Santa with some of Wodan and his two ravens mixed in
matPat is de best ever he makes the most well edited vids and his teams really just put thier souls into everywhere
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As someone whom I've called myself 'Santa' in media and games, who enjoys Christmas, born in December, and most importantly really love Coca Cola. So after watching this video and just realizing why coke is so inline with Christmas every year, this is really surprising to me.
I really enjoyed this Christmas special and all the other ones on your other channels! I'd also like to propose a new Mini Theory - what is the right way to eat spaghetti? (is there a even a right way?)
Wow,Matpat can make a theory about two absolutely separate things.
I have got to respect this man
Shut up bots
Kinda makes more sense why santa has different colours in older ornaments. I like the cute blue coated one we have on the tree, dunno why the ornament blue when we're British but I prefer blue.
Although the pickle thing I'm more confused about rn how is that a thing.
this topic is so funny given my mother(my entire family is catholic) recently had her Bible group talk about saint Nicholas. who's feast day is still practiced.
Who else had never heard of this “hide a pickle in a tree” shtick that MatPat does?
Me
but it is Christmas tradition
Yeah definitely never heard of the tradition.
I'm pretty sure it's a German-American thing
@@ardnaif552 Not German at all. Maybe American, but not German.
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Maybe this is a bit late, but I should point out that although he originated in the area where Turkey is now present, Saint Nicholas wasn't Turkish. The Turks didn't enter that area, sometimes referred to as Asia Minor, until about a thousand years ago. Saint Nicholas was born in the Roman Empire. I'm not saying he was of lighter skin; he was probably Middle Eastern or Greek, neither of whom are particularly light compared to, say, Swedes; but he was not Turkish. That said, it was an interesting video.
As a German I do the cucumber thing but we only stared it a few years ago and I don't know anyone else who did it. We got it from some other country, it's nothing most people in southern Germany know to my knowledge
As a German, the "Glass Pickle" thing is NOT from Gremany. It was a german person came to america and fought in the civil war. Since he got sevirly injured, as a final meal he wanted to eat a sour pickle. Surprisingly he survived and he thought it was because of the pickle, he hung a glass pickle on his tree every year. (All of this was in America, and not Germany)
God bless the man who made the first glass pickle.
@@deviantartguy0 lol
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lol 4 replies that are completely unrelated
In the netherlands we have a nather holiday selebrating saint nick (sinterklaas) where he leaves pressents in the shoes of children so i guess holyday came from 2:47
I thought it was just me and my family. Nice to know i'm not alone in this tradition. 3:05
Don’t mind me, just getting into the Christmas sprite
No
hi
Coke has for years tried to break in to the swedish market with the santa thing for xmas but year after year fail because of a trdaitional soda made here and im somewhat proud of it for some reason
How is that soda called?
Also ignore the one above me, probably a bot.
Swedish soda pop? is it called Julmust?
@@rsj2877 I dunno. Your doppelganger has the same number of subscribers AND posts on the channel , as well as ALSO being 4 years old. 🤔 What if you have a split personality? 🪓
@@Sorrowdusk spot on thats the one
In Belgium and the Netherlands we have Sinterklaas, who's also based on Sint Nicolas. He is so called from Spain, has helpers, and gives presents, chocolate and mandarins. You can say he's the Dutch version of Santa.
Well he’s not really the dutch version of Santa because we already have Santa
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COKE MEANS COCA-COLA also buy war bonds 🤣🤣
The area that St Nick lived was heavily Greek during that time peroid, considering it was in the Eastern part of theRoman empire, that was very much greek. So in all likelyhood, he was Greek. The Washington post is not a reputable source.
11:36 What is that map? What did they do to Lake Michigan?
…Is it Sprite now?
We do the pickle thing to. I was always told it xame from the German side of the family. We also celebrate St. Nicholas Day on December 6, leaving out shoes outside our bedroom door for small gifts, chocolate and oranges. I knew that the dowry thing was the reason for the shoes; I like your explanation of the pickles