Christmas tree and chocolate...?

[Winner]

Hello everybody

There is a Christmas tradition in Czech Rep., we use chocolate as a Christmas decoration. Usually figures (of snowmen, some animals or persons related to Christmas) made of chocolate, wrapped in decorative tinfoil. Children like it, because they are then interested also in what is on the tree, not just under it. They like to search the tree for hidden figures.

Yesterday or so, I heard in the news that this tradition exists just here, in CZ, and no other (even European) country has a similar custom. I wonder if it is true, so please clarify that for me

Thanks

 

[SeleucusNicator]

I can confirm that this does not occur in Poland, at least not in the areas that my parents are from or have heard of, and certainly not in the United States.

 

[Che Guava]

I've never heard of that anywhere else!

I do have a Czech friend who bakes edible cookie ornaments each year for the tree. Does the smell of an evergreen make Czechs hungry?

 

[bhsup]

Candy canes, sure, but we don't put chocolates on the tree. For one thing, the abundance of lights might well melt them.

Plenty of chocolate treats laying about the house, though.

 

[scarl]

Right here we have this Chocolate hanging on the tree tradition!

(Actually we have chocolate a bit everywhere in Switzerland)

 

[azzaman333]

mmm... chocolate. I wish that there was chocolate on the tree as well as in the presents in my family...

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

Hmm... that's a good idea, except its too hot down here to successfully do that.

 

[Kal'thzar]

we sometimes had chocolate hanging from the tree, but then my mums swiss.

 

[Richard Cribb]

Actually it is also used in Poland. My parents-in-law lives in Szczecin, and they do the same thing. As far as I understand it is pretty common in that region (Pomerania).

 

[EdwardTking]

Many of our parents hung chocolate on the
tree in England, but it was not usually hidden.