Here in Austria they have been getting ready for Christmas for the past 3 or 4 weeks (or so). Every store that you go into has all their chocolates out and all of their advent calendars on sale. Here Advent calendars are really popular and you'd be hard pressed to find a store that didn't have any, let alone a good variety of the chocolate calendars. (Just to clarify - an advent calendar is a calendar that has 24/25 little chocolates hidden behind little doors. You get to open one door a day, one for each day of the month, until you get the big chocolate on Christmas Eve/Christmas). Over here they even have advent calendars where the door you open doesn't give you a chocolate, but rather a beer. You can get the calendar for one type of beer - Stiegl (Austria's big beer) or a variety of beers.
I don't know, but I would guess that a majority of people have an advent calendar at their place to feast on during the month of December.
Here in Austria though they are not just biased to humans, they take it one step further and make sure pets are taken care of too. The other day when we were in the store I saw these two advent calendars and couldn't help but chuckle. One especially for cats and one especially for dogs. Hey, dogs and cats should enjoy Christmas and the days leading up to it too, right?
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