Christina Fritz - photo by Nigel A. JAMES Not Completely Crackers!
It takes an extra brave person to give up a very good job; and tremendous courage is needed to leap into the darkness and the depths of the uncharted and the unknown. But this is what Christina Fritz did.
A few years ago, she turned her back on a steady job and security and started her own little business. Everyone thought she was crackers at the time, but she knew what she was doing; and now, thanks to her efforts, very many families in Austria and central Europe are enjoying a very British angle to their extra-fine Christmas lunches, for Christina Fritz has become a seller of crackers!
Christmas crackers, one of the greatest British institutions of all, are rolled up crêpe paper fun! They are pulled at the beginning of every Christmas lunch, providing not only a bang, but lots of little surprises as well. There are jokes to make you cringe (and even sometimes laugh!!), small gifts that tumble onto the table, and, of course, the now famous British crêpe paper multi-coloured hat to be worn whilst eating, what is probably, the finest and the biggest and the most filling lunch of the year!
Christmas crackers are as important to the British as are cups of tea, plum pudding, turkey for Christmas and toast and butter for afternoon tea.
And the good news is - that you, too can go crackers and start your Christmas lunch with a bang as well! Christine has a stand at the Spittelberg Weihnachtsmarkt in Vienna. She will be there until the 23rd of December, and, not only that, she will also be having a stall at the Palais Kaiserhaus Christmas sale, Wallnerstrasse 3, 1010 Vienna, from the 26th -28th of November.
But, crackers aren’t only for Christmas, a quick trip to Christina’s website will provide you with all the info that you could possibly need in order to make many other occasions cracker happenings as well! Click on and enjoy it!
www.partycracker.at
My email address is, njmailboy@gmail.com
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