Yep.Leslie said:In Merrie Olde England, it was the day that the lords and ladies deigned to give a Christmas Box to their servants (slaves). Consisted of mittens or a new uniform or somesuch. And sometimes they got a dinner and/or an extra tea serving or beer serving.
That was the basis of the holiday. Workers all got it off. Nowadays, here in Ontario anyway, it's our equivalent of your Thanksgiving Monday sales bonanza day.
Wow, Canada actually got mentioned in something!BeardofPants said:
Leslie said:Is that cause it's easier? or because the real ones cost 90 bajillion dollars there?
Where are you? Toronto or Ajax? I lived in Ajax in some older wartime era houses area when I was 2-4. I still remember some of it.