Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
And then there's the diet. Santa - as I understand it - has milk and cookies left out for him, which is what a child would want. In our house at least, Father Christmas got a mince pie and a glass of sherry: what an adult would want. Part of that was probably for the benefit of my dad, but it also helped contribute to the image of an actual person with a mindset different to that of a child.
Funny. When I was a kid, it was understood that Santa got a pot pie and a cold beer. I don't think I thought about how he got a hot meal and a cold beer until I was about six or seven.