Well, I just wanted to know if you made sure to give gifts to the ENTIRE staff, including the scullery maids. I know you all have them. My grandmother was Canadian and she started out as a scullery maid. True dat.
Really you don’t have milk in bags?
And no day off on the 26th?
I think my head just fell off.
Tom Kippur?
Josh Hashana?
Purem?
Pruim?
Puram?
Kipper?
Skipur?
can’t think of any more Jewish holidays!
Tisha B’Av
Sukkot
Simchas Torah
there is a Rosh Chodash every month
Shmini Atzerat
the list goes on
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milk in bags is a bizarre concept to us 'Merikens but a lot of us had 12/26 off this year because 12/25 was a Sunday and our bosses are nice(-ish)
Right, but I had 12/26 off for Christmas, and 12/27 for Boxing Day…
We only get one day for Thanksgiving, though, so I guess it all evens out.
I just honestly had no idea!
We do have a “Boxing Day” in the States (at least observed Canadian Style). It’s the day after Thanksgiving.
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Please somebody answer my question!
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Learn patience. Obviously no one currently on line in this thread knows.
I’d ask Grandma, but since 1997 I’d have to hold a seance. 
I can just imagine all those millions of Canadian and Antipodean and UK servants, rosy cheeked and tugging at their forelocks as their magnificently dressed masters and mistresses grandly distribute a little present to each and every one. “Bless you, squire!” they cry. Awwwww.
You think Boxing Day is rough; my hometown has a Wrestling Day as well. January 2 is Wrestling Day. It was first celebrated when all of the business owners noticed that on the day after New Years nobody was buying anything, so they figured they should have another day to nurse an obviously HUGE hangover they got together with the town council and created Wrestling Day.
No joke it is still celebrated. 
If I can say one good thing about where I grew up, it is that people sure know how to drink.
Here is the origin of Boxing Day from Snopes. Nothing that I can see about masters and servants switching places. I think the writers of MAS*H may have been thinking of Saturnalia, which was an old Roman holiday in the middle of December.
I’ve only ever had milk in bags in India. It was good milk, though, if that’s anything.
Crazy, isn’t it.
They don’t have Coffee Crisp, either. And think of all the "u"s that are missing from their colours and honours. It’s sad, really.
Perhaps we should start a Boxing Day tradition of a moment of silence for our friends down south who are deprived of all these blessings.
The only time I ever hear of/about “Boxing Day” is when I listen to the Elvis Costello song. Which Siege apparently wouldn’t like.
Maybe instead of referring to it as Boxing Day, use “St. Stephan’s Day.” Let’s see them make a joke out of that!
Harumph! You lot have cheered me up tremendously.
I’m on a brief break, but I did want to pass this on to NoClueBoy. You see, I told the gentleman about your reply, and, knowing our history, he claims you just want to get me in a clench! He’s also disappointed he didn’t think of those lines first.
By the way, I’m afraid I don’t know anything about masters and servants switching places, although I do remember the episode of MASH. I’m afraid my ancestors were the servants and that’s if they had good jobs!
CJ
Isn’t it weird? When I moved here to Seattle and asked where in the world they kept their proper bagged milk at the grocery store, my husband burst into laughter. He thought I was joking.
My milk pitcher is almost useless.
And my husband went to work on the 26th. Cripes!
Meh, it sounds more like a groaner, like the same people who would always chortle, “It must be free!” when at the checkout and something wouldn’t scan.
Personally, I prefer “Nap Day”. That’s my day a few days after Christmas when all the hustle and bustle of parties, rich food, shopping and general chaos catch up with me.