This is the world's most expensive cracker

This is the world’s most expensive cracker

Can you guess what's inside?

Fortnum & Mason

Most Australians start their Christmas dinner with the time-honoured tradition of pulling crackers.

We wear flimsy paper hats, read dodgy Dad jokes, and get excited about the plastic whistle we find inside the cardboard tube.

But can you imagine discovering a gold fabric crown inside your cracker? Or a luxury designer gift?

Spend £1,000 (AUD$1,757) at London’s Fortnum & Mason and you’ll get exactly that.

The Mayfair department store is renowned for its luxury Christmas crackers, and this year is no exception with the appropriately titled ‘Imperial cracker’.

Presented in Fortnum’s signature wicker basket, the set of six handmade crackers are filled with ‘entertaining scrolls’ along with luxury gifts such as Halcyon Days bangles, Ettinger leather wallets, Drakes silk ties and Lanvin cufflinks.

You would certainly expect to get a (big) bang for your buck on Christmas day.

This article originally appeared on Better Homes and Gardens.

Rebecca Lowrey Boyd

Rebecca Lowrey Boyd is a former magazine editor and the founder of Wee Birdy, one of The Sunday Times’ Top 50 Blogs in the World. A design nerd and bird enthusiast, she can usually be found poring over Pinterest, knee-deep in Bunnings or sticky-beaking at modernist homes in Sydney’s bushburbia.

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