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Who buys posh crackers?

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evilharpy · 14/10/2025 15:25

This is not intended to be goady - you'll never find me on Style & Beauty being arsey about people spending £2k+ on a handbag, and I have boxes full of overpriced Christmas decorations that come out year after year. I'm just genuinely confused on who buys posh Christmas crackers with slightly less crappy but still crappy prizes.

Examples here and here. Now obviously they are a bit nicer than the usual plastic tat you get in a box of crackers from Tesco, but apart from possibly the mini jar of jam, which will last till breakfast the next day, I can't imagine any of these prizes will be kept and treasured beyond the end of Christmas dinner. I could sort of understand it if it was something edible like fancy truffles, or something consumable like make up, or even a set of wind up racing Santas which we had one year (they were shit, they either went in circles or threw themselves off the edge of the table). And far less entertaining than a plastic fortune telling fish.

Does anyone here actually buy these?

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JG24 · 16/11/2025 21:53

Any recommendations for reuseables ones with a bang? (Obviously replacing the bang each year)

RowOfRunners · 16/11/2025 21:55

Not me. I buy cheap crackers.

As long as everyone’s got something to pull, a hat and a daft joke, the ‘presents’ all just go into the bin, don’t they.

GarlicPound · 16/11/2025 22:06

JG24 · 16/11/2025 21:53

Any recommendations for reuseables ones with a bang? (Obviously replacing the bang each year)

... Pulling the cracker to pop the bang tears the cracker.
So, no!

IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour · 16/11/2025 22:08

I thought you meant cheese and crackers, which I absolutely do, posher the better. We don’t bother with the plastic Christmas crackers in this house

JG24 · 16/11/2025 22:11

GarlicPound · 16/11/2025 22:06

... Pulling the cracker to pop the bang tears the cracker.
So, no!

I've seen a few online where the cracker is in 2 pieces so those pieces pull apart and the strip inside pulls apart with it and bangs. It looks like they can be cardboard or fabric

JG24 · 16/11/2025 22:12

And you have to buy new strips to make it bang each time. Still a lot less waste than normal ones

GarlicPound · 16/11/2025 22:24

JG24 · 16/11/2025 22:11

I've seen a few online where the cracker is in 2 pieces so those pieces pull apart and the strip inside pulls apart with it and bangs. It looks like they can be cardboard or fabric

Hmm! Reading that, I've just designed one (in my head) that's joined with weak magnetic tape. You'd need a cardboard tube in two sections and a snug paper covering that overlaps, with the mag tape on the overlapping paper edges.

No, I'm not gonna make 'em!

pinkpony88 · 16/11/2025 22:47

So disappointed this thread isn’t about posh biscuits for cheese 😂

tipisrevenge · 17/11/2025 09:07

Always get mine from M&S @pinkpony88 😆

CurlewKate · 18/11/2025 05:38

Forum and Mason have some insanely posh crackers. Can’t link for some reason-but do go and look. £1000 a box!🤣

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