Dickens said A Christmas Carol was “raising the Ghost of an Idea” about social reform.
Scorecards keep track of cliché moments to down a drink: when two love interests kiss, when it begins to snow and, notably, when some Scrooge has their “Christmas conversion.” All Scrooge-typesĭespite the commercialization of Christmas, the focus on inverting rich and poor hasn’t disappeared.
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In 2016, a social media post went viral with a Hallmark Christmas movie drinking game. Thanks to pop culture, the festival remains linked with liquor. Nissenbaum maintains that adult merrymaking, over-drinking and the whiffs of scandal at Christmas parties and New Year’s celebrations echo Christmas’s bacchanalian past. In The Battle for Christmas, author Stephen Nissenbaum describes how Victorian entrepreneurs like Dickens and his 20th-century successors domesticated the season, building today’s emphases on children - and mass consumption. In his 1843 A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens and his famous character Scrooge were part of another re-invention of the holiday. Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past soar over the town. Seneca the Younger (died 65 CE) wrote: “It is now the month of December, when the greatest part of the city is in a bustle.” The festival also emphasized social reversals, for instance when the enslaved were served a meal as if they were temporarily the masters. Ancient descriptions of Saturnalia - a Roman holiday in honour of the god Saturn - sound surprisingly familiar: gift-giving, social gatherings and excessive drinking. 25.Īs it happened, a tipsy, somewhat scandalous celebration already ran from Dec. Assuming a nine-month pregnancy, Christians began to mark the birth on Dec. Although early Christian writings don’t indicate when Jesus was born, his conception became associated with the spring equinox.
It’s a link that goes back to the beginnings of the holiday. Facing shortages of everything from turkeys to toys, prioritizing beer and bubbly shows the strong link between Christmas and alcohol.
In the United Kingdom, seasonal “booze trains” are being pressed into service to prevent empty shelves. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already troubled supply chains. For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce.
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