Food Theory: Your Christmas Cookies Are KILLING Santa!

Santa may not eat his Christmas tree like I do, but every Christmas Eve St. Nick does DEVOUR millions of cookies. And that’s just in the United States! Kids around the world leave out ALL SORTS of food for Kris Kringle. But can the jolly man in red handle ALL OF THAT food? Or would he explode?! Let’s find out, Loyal Theorists!


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Writers: Matthew Patrick and Mike Keenan (The Pokémon Biologist)
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[ArchonKain]

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.

[Shala_Boi]

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.

[everest]

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 ❤️💚❤️💚

[GipsyD]

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.

[luna_rose]

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”

[TableTurnip]

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

[ChristianYuyi]

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.

[Battleshipguy]

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

[charlesbennett]

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.

[VapingNurse]

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.

[chasemarrison]

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

[dilarascediting]

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

[cristinagomez]

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.

[bautispidey]

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

[marvinterrado]

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

[christiantwist]

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

[yesno]

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?

[rosealicia]

Can we talk about how a wrong number from a Sears campaign to a US Air Force Colonel, led to the most wholesome tradition of tracking Santa's whereabouts every Christmas Eve. This dude was awesome for playing along and making so many kids happy. :3

[cardboardtoaster]

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

[Blixthand]

I live in Sweden and I have never heard of leaving out anything for Santa over here. Most people I know that has kids and want to stick with a Santa tradition will have a family member, relative, friend or even pay a professional to dress up as Santa and come knocking on the door sometime after Christmas dinner, which in Sweden would be on the 24th since we celebrate on the Eve and not so much on Christmas Day, and have "Santa" hand deliver a few presents and then pretend to move on to the next house. There is the for Sweden stereotypical event where the dad or the grandpa will suddenly remember he haven't bought todays newspaper and must rush off to the store, and always manage to miss Santa by mere minutes, though I don't know how well that holds up today when hardly anyone gets physical newspapers anymore.