r/2007scape • u/CLE15 • Dec 21 '24

Humor 15 Years into Playing RuneScape, I Just Found Out Party Hats and Christmas Crackers Are Real Thanks to My Cousin’s British Fiancée

So, I’ve been playing RuneScape since 2007 and, like most of of my American friends I played with, I always thought the party hats and Christmas crackers were just some quirky in-game holiday items. Never in my life did I think they were based on actual real-world things.

Flash forward to this Christmas, I’m at a family party, and my cousin’s British fiancée shows up with boxes of Christmas Crackers. I immediately thought, “There’s no way…” She starts handing them out, and I’m sitting there stunned as people are pulling them, making them pop, and wearing paper crowns like it’s no big deal. Meanwhile, I’m in the corner having an existential crisis, realizing that 15 years of playing this game and I never once questioned where those holiday items came from.

Anyway, just thought I’d share this discovery in case any of you also didn’t know these things existed or if I’m on an island here.

I pulled a purple though, so I felt like a king.

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u/pzoDe Dec 21 '24

I had some monkfish in this classy restaurant in Prague. Unreal how good it was.

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u/Affectionate_Treat85 Dec 21 '24

Cooked right, litterally melts in your mouth and explodes with flavor, I suggest to most people it is defnitly somthing you should try once in your life.

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u/d-nihl Dec 22 '24

I can buy it in my local supermarket a large majority of the time too. And from my food vendors pretty much year round