After work today I'm off to the supermarket to stock up on a few more essentials. We are pretty well fully stocked now, but you can never have too much. And it's been like that for over 200 years. This is an extract from The Daily Universal Register's Christmas Day Editorial of 1787 -
"Let the larder be well stuffed with provisions. Let the cellar be well stored with liquors, and let there be plenty of fuel to make roaring fires - for Christmas is come... there should not only be enough to eat, and enough to drink, but also enough to give away. When the heart rejoices in the hour of conviviality, it should be remembered, that thousands are oppressed with grief."
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