Finished christmas markets dp assignment
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It takes a lot to prepare for the fes.ve season, and on average, a cake stall like this takes up to 4 months to prepare for the coming December. Maggie Talbot, the stall owner, said “a team of 8 of us work 5 days a week for 4 months prior to Christmas.”
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The tradi.onal ornament stalls, which was originally what the Christmas markets were about, now a days do not sell as much compared with the food and drink stalls. This Crystal stall only got 2 sales within an hour, whereas the donut stall sold to a countless number of customers.
When the Christmas markets first started, they put fruit on skewers and covered them in chocolate as they did not have many ‘sweet treat’ stalls so this was sort of a last resort.
So much so that the idea of ‘chocolate fondue’ as we know it today, originated from this stall.
The most popular stall throughout most Christmas markets tends to be the Bratwurst stalls. They are a bit like a hotdog but they use German pork sausage instead. Stall worker Sabrina Lowe said: “The Bratwurst stall is defiantly the most popular, each year it has the most queues and intake!”
The Christmas markets have always been known as the ‘German Christmas Markets,’ as demonstrated in the picture below, however this is not technically true. The Christmas markets actually originated from Austria in 1294. Austrian people took to the markets to sell their goods for money to buy loved ones Christmas presents with.
There are the more general stal ls that appear at al l Christmas markets but every town that hosts the markets will have a local varia.on of stalls, for example the Leeds Christmas markets have a garlic bread stall, and a stall that sells snow globes with ‘Leeds’ wriUen in them.
Every single Christmas market has the head of a moose somewhere in it, this is tradi.onally put up as a central point of the markets. The people gather round the moose’s head to sing carols. However stall owner, Nastassia Wortle, said: “It’s not as much a tradi.on now as it was 15 years ago.”
Most towns in the UK now welcome the fes.ve markets, but the first ever Christmas markets was in Lincoln. This was because of its close friendship with a small German town that used to send hats and warm clothing goods over to Lincoln, un.l it became a tradi.on every year.
Every Chr istmas market tradi.onally has a carousel, this was because the parents used to leave the children on t h e c a r ou s e l w i t h t h e aUendant and the adults would go off and browse the stalls. The children never really experienced any other aspect of the markets but this tradi.on has preUy much died out now.
There are thousands of people that go to the Christmas markets more than once every year. This year, around 720,000 people are expected to aUend the Christmas markets in Leeds. Maria Anastaiadi said “I have travelled from Greece to the Leeds Christmas markets, I didn’t expect them to be this busy!”