Christmas trees, pickles, Boxing Day and Cola: watch next week’s Seed Speaks and bust some Christmas myths!
On Dec. 21, the Seed Speaks crew will gather for a special holiday episode where they’ll bust some big myths about the holidays, namely:
- You should get a fake Christmas tree because cutting down real trees is bad for the environment. The Nature Conservancy notes that real trees don’t require the intensive carbon emissions that it takes to produce and ship artificial trees. Also, buying real trees will help keep tree farms in business, and in turn keep their lands covered in the healthy forest habitat that wildlife depends on to survive.
- The modern legend of Santa was created by Coca-Cola. According to the soda pop company itself, Coca-Cola didn’t create the legend of Santa Claus, but Coca-Cola advertising did play a big role in shaping the jolly character we know today.
- Germans hang pickle ornaments on their Christmas trees, a trend that is spreading around the world. Legend has it that during the holidays in German households, the last ornament to decorate the family’s tree is a pickle. There is no evidence to confirm this, but it mysteriously seems to have become a trend nonetheless.
- We call it Boxing Day because that’s when you box up all the wrapping paper and packaging from the day before and take it to the recycling bin. Actually, the Boxing Day is named after a tradition started by Queen Victoria back in the 1800s!
Join Ally Roden, Ashley Robinson, Alex Martin and Marc Zienkiewicz for some hot chocolate and a fun fireside chat! Join us on Dec. 21 at 12 p.m. CST on Seed World’s Facebook,YouTube and LinkedIn pages to watch the chat.
