Food Theory: Your Christmas Cookies Are KILLING Santa!

I like the thought that Santa may snack here and there, but instead uses some sort of Christmas magic to send all that food and drink to the north pole to reward the elves for a job well done.

I’m surprised MatPat missed the joke of listing off all of Santa’s deadly symptoms and then ending it with “and a partridge in a pear tree”

As a kid I always left out carrots and water alongside cookies and milk, so the reindeer would have a snack too! My parents thought it was adorable and would put leaves and small twigs in the water bowl to show that the reindeer drank it ❤️💚❤️💚

I just find it incredibly amusing that NORAD is so dedicated to the tracking Santa thing. That site is so detailed. One part I find even more hilarious: "How does Santa travel the world within 24 hours?" NORAD's answer in a nutshell: Santa experiences time differently to us. A night of Christmas Eve to us could be months for him, which gives him time to deliver all the presents, so the only logical conclusion is that Santa somehow functions within his own time-space continuum. Essentially, NORAD claims that Santa has the ability to manipulate time itself, and to us, he moves at speeds up to light speed. 😂😂😂 I absolutely love this.

Can we just talk about how one guy probably got hundreds of calls over the course of weeks because someone messed up the number on a flyer, and despite that he chose to do the best thing and play along with it instead of being salty or a jerk. What an absolute legend of a man right there.

When are we gonna watch matpat try eating a Christmas tree again like it's literally the highlight of my Christmas

When I was younger I had the exact same question, how did Santa eat all those cookies without basically dying? So my parents said “Well, since Santa only comes out of the North Pole to eat ONCE a year, he eats what is worth of a year of food in ONE day” and that really left me without a doubt, Santa has a huge stomach.

Imagine if Santa at first only intends to do New Zealand but gets so drunk he does the entire world

As a kid, I had assumed that Santa actually just took the milk and cookies home to eat later and feed his elves and his wife.

Imagine if Santa doesn't actually eat any of the milk and cookies, but instead saves them for the elves as a reward for their hard work and dedication.

Santa just has to celebrate Christmas and hit the gym the rest of the year the cut is always insane

that ending where he listed the different ways he'd be dead made me laugh so hard

A tradition I heard of that some used in Appalachia : Santa didn't eat the food left out. He took it to give to hungry children he visited along his journey. You didn't leave cookies unless that's all you could afford. Usually you left fruits or vegetables or things that traveled well.

Oliver: Hey dad, are we gonna give Santa cookies? My friends do, is that the normal thing? Mat: explains for 15 minutes straight

From the Netherlands here. Even though Santa has been getting more popular, it is not what we normally celebrate. We often celebrate Christmas when the kids are a bit older and give presents to eachother, because for the little kids we have a celebration called Sinterklaas. Which is celebrated on the 5th of december. Kids would however leave something on the night before, but for me it was always a glass of water and a carrot or sometimes even sugar cubes for the horse, not even the man himself.

Whoever voiced Santa in that opening segment did a real good job of doing it

interestingly, once my parents tried to convince me to leave out a glass of Bailey's (an alcoholic irish cream drink, in case its not a worldwide thing) and I was absolutely HORRIFIED. I apparently spent a good while explaining to my parents that you absolutely cannot drink and drive, and that DEFINITELY counts for sleighs too!

Now we need to combine this with the grocery store episode and ask the question, Could Santa survive on snacks left out on Christmas day alone?

I'd like to imagine Santa just has a sack to hold all of his food so he could survive in the North for 11 months

In Sweden we don’t actually give Santa coffee ☕️ we actually give him a glass of milk and gingerbread cookies