British vs American Christmas: The Showdown

David Altaner
5 min readDec 4, 2022

Are there other places where every Christmas, the entire country obsesses over three boring brands of chocolate? Besides Britain, I mean.

At Christmas, British people dream of chocolate: Quality Street, Celebrations, and Heroes, all in giant plastic containers with dubious claims of recyclability.

That’s it, that’s the menu of choices.

They’re made by three different companies, Nestle, Mars and Cadbury, but all are pretty mundane.

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David Altaner

Two passports: I thought I was covered for life, then we get Trump and Brexit. A business writer who covers everything from bitcoin, Simpsons, dating to royalty