Food Theory: Your Christmas Cookies Are KILLING Santa! 

Aw you're right lol Maybe next year

yeah he should have turned it into a twelve days of christmans

i don't get it

@@coolsonicsoul7356 12 days of christmas song joke

lol yeah

Oh no, he was grumpy at first, but he quickly got some soldiers to take over the calls.

Then I guess the soldiers were legends xD either way power to the people who made those kids smile 🥲

People were just built different back then.

I agree, Haven Kain. That was the part that touched my heart the most because, as nice as I try to be, I would NOT handle that many wrong phone calls with grace and kindness like the General did. 🥰

And that NORAD just went with it despite the initial flyer not having anything really to do with NORAD (From what I understand), and just built all of the NORAD Santa tracker thing around that mistake because why not? And that it is still a MILITARY organization, that spreads Christmas joy

Dude that's actually gonna make me cry 😅

My family left snacks out for the reindeer too! We left out apples

We always had ‘reindeer food’ which was basically glitter we’d sprinkle on the snow in the front yard. Then we also set out carrots for the reindeer.

I always thought that too. Letting the elves get boozed up and eat all the treats they want as thanks for such a job well done

Oh, that is so sweet! I know what I'm telling my kids if they ask about it

Exactly what I was thinking!

Wait, that’s actually so sweet! I love that.

Either that or he's like Kirby and has a bottomless stomach haha

I've been saying this all month!!

Aw fu--

Fr we need more of that

I was literally just about to talk about how if MatPat didn’t bring up eating a Christmas Tree this episode I’m going to be disappointed, lmao.

Yes

That's adorable and I love that. If children ever ask me I'm stealing that idea

I honestly bet that's what he does. He probably tests that they are safe to eat first of all. Then he and the rest of his workers and his wife eat the cookies and drink the milk

For the record, I myself VERY strongly believe in Santa's existence

Aww... how sweet lol

He would probably have about more than millions of plastic containers so that reindeer hairs don’t get into them

If we want him still alive then yea

That does make sense

That makes sense...I mean what is their reward after all?😅

@@Marshmellow_Cat the coal mines

I won't like being paid in coal @@chasethemaster3440

why do you think we give him beer?

@@ZizzleTheKakapo ok, im from nz, since when did we leave out beer???!!! (we did sprite or l&p

@@friendlyneighbourhoodash Always was beer in my household

Always feed your hus tomte, gotta be nice to him.

Also a Swede here. I found it weird about that since I always thought that porridge was what we gave Santa, even if it's more traditionally for the house tomte to receive it. But as you said, he visits people personally here, and it makes me wonder if most households would have prepared porridge for hum in modern times.

Latvian here and, same. while Piparkukas is a traditional holiday treat here, no one actually leaves it out for Santa

Hello, other swede here. When i was a kid santa didn't visit us directly but we did put out rice porridge and glögg. But that isnt for santa but it is for the house gnome. And I have never heard of anyone putting out coffee in Sweden for santa...

Also a Swede here! And yeah I gott so confused by this I even called my grandma to ask her and she have never heard of it before. She only knows about the rise porridge for the house gnome.

Bet 😂

@uncut vid come on man that's not mat pat that's nature pat

Literally asked this exact question to my own dad. His answer was simpler. “Santa will have plenty tonight. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.”

@@catherinebaldwin6580 lol

And MatPat's mom too

That's a wonderful tradition

What do you mean used in Appalachia? You mean the Appalachian mountains? That’s a weird range to hear the tradition from seeing how it stretches from NY to Georgia? I’m from NC and have never heard that Santa gives his food to the needy?

@@saraacarolina I'm from Tennessee. Maybe it was just in a small area. I was just told it was Appalachian.

@@VapingNurse Interesting, never heard of it

That's such a sweet idea and a good way to remind children the importance of sharing... And lets parents choose their evening snack!

This happened with my mum and I too.

If you were a kid, good on you for understanding that basic driving rule, and bad on your parents for letting you learn about what that kind of drinking is.

We used to put out a couple of mince pies (homemade) and a glass of sherry

Santa need that drink to get through the night

Smart child

ahh germany has the Nicolas day which is straight up the same but we leave a stock outside for Saint. Nick to put in candys

I was intrigued by that part too. Very kind. ❤

Don’t forget about some of the soldiers helping as well.

exactly, give him some tacos

i see

3:48 google Santa tracker

Garfield is Ron Swanson confirmed

I will gladly set out some tuna casserole and a beer

So divide it by ten. Not that big of a change

In my house, the cookies and milk definitely get eaten

I was thinking the same thing😂

Considering he portioned it (you absolutely cannot have that much on only one night of the year. I forgot the name of the issue but he mentions it on that specific Mr Beast challenge Theory, if that helps.) It has too much sugar for him to be healthy, let alone fuel him to drive so far, if even once annually. Cookies, pineapple candy, beer, and #/theotherone is not a sustainable diet for his health and I reckon he'd lack many *many* vitamins. The ones prominent enough in the mandarins would have to do too much heavy lifting for their size and average quantity for it to work out for say, this long.

While not bad in moderation, the sugar, alone, outweighs the nutrition in most of these. It's like how if you have something with a little bit of alcohol in it, 1% maybe? If you have enough, sure it could take effect but that would be way too much of that product for your body to handle. The 1 gram of protein in cookie dough isn't **technically** nothing, but that doesn't mean it's a good source of [protein].

With the shear amount on things left for him, I think so

@@girlsarepoggers You're making a good point, but that just turns into a different question. How long could santa survive based on these foods?

I like this

😂😂

how do you know he doesn't actually die and gets replaced every year or even multiple times throughout his journey?

@@s.sgaming4219 when I was a kid I was always told mall santas were Santa helpers. Looking back I realize they are part of a cult or something

@@swampdonkey1567 The dark secret must not get out!

That's so wholesome 😭

That's amazing!

Awh :)

Emma, that warmed my Grinch heart. Thank you!!!!! 🤗🥰🤗

Lmao that's awesome

odd, that's always what My fam did,

I was so confused when MatPat mentioned Pineapple and beer too! My family's never done that and I've never heard of anyone else doing that; so where they got the idea from, your guess is as good as mine. But I do like the fact that NZ is the first country on Santa's visit list. ☺

I'm from England and we leave out milk and carrots not what ever alcohol he said

We’d leave beer and I think a fruit mince pie, plus carrots for the reindeer. No idea where the pineapple idea came from, I’m also guessing it’s to do with pineapple lumps (the lolly). Also way more then 500,000 households.

@@joelpedder6677 I'm from England, we leave out sherry and Mince pies for santa and a carrot for rudolph

I'm an Australian and I've never heard of beer being left out for Santa either

Oh goodness, that's a very important factor.

Oh! That makes way more sense, lol! I'm from NZ too, and when he said that I was like, "Um.... What now?!" I have never heard of leaving pineapple lumps and beer out for Santa, but it does sound like a Kiwi thing to do, lol.

I'm from NZ and was so confused when Matpat said pineapple lumps and beer. The pineapple lumps part makes sense (the candy like you said), but beer???? My family usually didn't leave anything out for santa, so I'm surprised to hear about this tradition some whanau do.

Seconded, note that the video says "Pineapple chunks" and there are off-brand versions of Pineapple Lumps called "Pineapple Chunks". Pineapples aren't so big in NZ that we'd be leaving them for Santa, but the sweets are pretty popular.

Yeah, I’m from NZ and my family left out beer and biscuits, no pineapple lumps at all 😭

I laughed out loud at the "pineapple chunks" 😂

I don't think I've heard of anyone leaving out pineapple lumps. Always been beer and biscuits. Or milk and biscuits. It's surprising to see someone agreeing this is a thing.

@@AholeAtheist yeah we leave out milk and cookies or beer and cookies but I have heard some of my friends doing that

Yep, we’ve left out pineapple lumps, milk and cookies (but not beer - he has to drive!) ... and also carrots/food for the reindeer too!

As a New Zealander myself, I can confirm that we do either leave pineapple lumps, cookies, milk or beer. Though personally for my family we leave milk, cookies and a carrot (for some reason?)

That hurt me so much when he kept talking about pineapple.

ah yes we leave santa a "pint" of beer and a full pineapple

@@Jakzbabble I felt so much physical pain as a Kiwi watching this episode. Also some Kiwis leave out cookies and milk as well. All the families I knew growing up would put out cookies and milk

Why would someone eat pineapple candy with BEER. Taste confusion over 9000

That sounds like something I want to try.

i love how the comment right under yours is “let’s just tally up all the ways santa is dead”

saint Nicholas was a real person he became the catholic patron saint of charity and children, specifically, those who are improvished

@@sunny-sq6ci yes but the red suited santa claus is 100% fiction

​@@deemcgann1695nonono Santa is a warrior giving out good presents to all the little kids who fight battles.

Whaddya mean misinformation? He IS real. Dingus

Matt Patt also majorly underestimated the number of houses that expect things for Santa, and what's left out. He only counted Christian homes, when he stated that 94% or something like that celebrates Christmas. So you could almost double the number of food left out. Matt went for a gross underestimation, and even so that's godly too much

@@conradchester1246 or he just used the best information he could find, as not every country has the same rate. Still, more or less, Santa is dead.

Just split the final number in half and there's your answer

@@Cesp43 the Saint Nick in irl is dead and not the 🎅

@@xixi319 probs from eating all them pints of alcohol

Huh A majority of the replies currently is bots

Bro what'd you do to get this many bots?

God look at all those bots..

Tell me what they say!

Jesus christ the bots are plentiful

How old is your sister? I’m his height too.(not asking for a friend btw)

same

@@ultrajam6332 around 5ft7..? The answer is right there

@@Akmarizam he was asking for the age, not the height

@@ultrajam6332 she’s around 13

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Little Timmy isn't gonna have a good time after hearing that sentence.

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the context: nah im done, this is too much to validate

That could be a Film Theory crossover episode.

Yeah matpat he’s fine because he eats nothing

Arthur Christmas is a very detailed movie and how the elves deliver presents is also very interesting, creative and is my favorite Christmas movie.

maybe he's also feeding it to his elfs powering sleigh is a good idea

That could be an interesting theory, maybe he should save that one for another Christmas. It would be great to have some attention brought to a lesser known Aardman film like that.

Oh, Finland does that too? I'm from Germany and it's normal here to exchange gifts on the evening of 24th after Christmas dinner lol

@@BlueSodaPop_ So does Poland.

@@BlueSodaPop_ Apparently so. I also didn't know Germany did the very same as Finland. Where it's normal to exchange gifts happens after Christmas dinner. I thought Finland was a rare country that does this, and almost every other country opens on the morning of 25th. 🇫🇮❤🇩🇪

@@HenshinFanatic I'm starting to assume a lot of European countries open gifts after Christmas dinner on 24th. EDIT: After looking at Wikipedia, I was right. Pretty much almost every country in Europe open their gifts on the evening of December 24th. As well as some Latin American countries.

@@Mickelraven I can certainly tell you that they do this in Norway and Iceland

That makes more sense I think.

Yeap. That actually makes more sense. Hey MatPat, you should try some! They're pretty good. Either way, that's not going to make much of a difference. Santa is pretty much drunk and dead thanks to us Aussies and Kiwis.

Really? I think I might try some of those if I ever find myself in New Zealand. They sound delicious to me.

Yeah, he probably did not misread it though since pineapple lumps were originally called pineapple chunks when Charles Diver was first making them.

This made me laugh harder than it needed to

I mean, he already has magic bag of holding for all of the gifts, so that makes sense.

It's all portals man.

​@@animegx45 Exactly. Also, he is clearly a level 20 cleric, as he can entreat his deity to change the way time works, so he can easily cast "Purify Food and Drink".

He and his elves consume that and only that throughout the whole year Christmas eve comes back and he's already drunk do the elves work through their Hangovers?

Same, us Aussies aren't going to just give away good beer, even if it's Santa. We also left carrots out for the reindeer instead of oats

Same we only give milk as Aussies😂😂

i agree i never done that before

Me in New Zealand give out a beer and cookies for him, plus some carrots for the reindeer

@@CluckinghamPalace. I just commented the same for UK (Well Scotland at least) we leave milk not sherry, were do these 'facts' about other countries come from

We in ireland leave him whiskey instead. Dunno if thats worse or not

I'm one of the milk people

my family used beer instead of sherry

I’m Australian and I leave out carrots and milk and though some people use cookies I’ve never seen someone use anything but milk

My mum didnt like sherry so she put out milk because she liked it. But then when she met my step dad he likes sherry so when my brother and sister were little they put out sherry. But those were always in the living room out of reach and be drunk before going to bed.

Nikocado Avocado- /j

Lol

How long would eating all of Santa's food take all of the mukbangers on youtube?

@@Ensensu2 Like a day probably if it’s every mukbanger on youtube

@@CreamieBunniesevery mukbanger in total and it’s 2 hours

I tell kids that Santa doesn't deliver presents...at least on his own. Because of modern day he has the help of all the mall santas and other volunteers and thats how he does it in one night. All the milk and cookies are eaten by the volunteers or brought to the north pole for the elves since everyone knows elves love cookies, look at the Keebler Elves LOL

follow-up question from that, what nutrients would he be missing from this christmas tradition, and maybe, what health problems might arise... SOMEBODY PLEASE DO THIS

I was thinking the same thing lol

I think it's obvious he doesn't eat from every house. Probably just snacks along the way.

I always thought that as well lol. But to me, he keeps the food in his pocket dimension to then give to all the elves. So they can have a big feast to celebrate the success of that years Christmas

And Santa isn't real.

Unless the man has a metabolism comparable to a chimeran hybrid from the resistance series(a hybrid has a metabolism that generates so much internal heat that without a cooling unit embedded in their back they literally cook from the inside out)

Why is 90% of these replies bots?

@@AnnabethsEdits don't worry fine citizen I have reported (destroyed) them all. You may go on with your day in peace.

from personal experience it does not, i have only suffered severe type 2 diabetes but nothing adverse as you say

Yea who could have thought that

It was the same in our house! The reindeers are truly burning through those calories after all!

Same same!!!

I leave this reply as an honorary like as to not disturb the nice

As another Irishman,I was thinking the exact same thing.

as an irishman i am wondering why ireland got highlighted as the UK

As an brazilian,never did this or seen somebody make this

Same here man

@@ThatInfernosGuy Op- 😳😬

Wow. Nice. And I thought my family was the only one who did that, since I have literally never heard of anyone else's family in my 14 years of existence who did the same thing. Although, when I say my family also stays up until midnight on Christmas, I mean we've only done it like twice, since it's slowly starting to become a thing where we along with the families of my mom's friends would go to my uncle's house for any special occasion and stay until the night, sometimes leaving at 11. This year, we got home at like 1 A.M. on Christmas, opened our presents, went to sleep, and the next morning actually used them (My family's Hispanic btw). If my wording was confusing, sorry. Not the best at explaining.

​@@PsychoticWonders0725 It's fine, I can understand your explination.

same except I'm vietnamese! I think a lot of asian and Hispanic households have a huge party with extended family on Christmas Eve and you all open presents at midnight and Christmas is just a quiet day where you enjoy your gifts lol

facts

Noche Buena

well considering that ol' saint nick is probably gonna be drunk flying, i dont think we can rule out the murders yet

lol@@tiahere8499

Drunk Santa may be a bit more murdery than expected. After all Krampus is a tradition too... It had to start from somewhere - and I just bet that hangover is killer.

My family has always left out whisky. And everyone around me has done some kind of alcohol. So I think it's just your friends.

Same I would leave a mince pie and milk for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph when I was a kid

@@DogsandPennies that, or just the Finchley areas of London I grew up in.

@@jynxcloudy6969 yeah lol

We always left out a few mince pies and a couple of cans of beer, as well as carrots.

im like a child and I will also confirm this and as a younger child I was skeptical with imagimary stuff like tooth fairy santa claus etc.

I came here to say this

Give the cookies to the elves, maybe?

As a finn i know a few swedish people and they have never heard of anyone doing this either, i wonder where that originated. We have a pretty similar christmas here but usually santa comes between 5-8pm here

I think we need to make a new theory, a Swedish theory! Why are sources saying they leave coffee when the people themselves don't. I smell a mystery!

As someone living in Gothenburg I’ve never heard anyone say they leave out coffee. Some people say that they leave out pepparkaka but seems to inspired by the American tradition.

Not sure where it came from, but I've seen the "tradition" mentioned in several places (Trip Advisor, Better Homes, and a few newspapers). Possible that this is just some confusion from people in other regions (such as myself). The simplest explanation is probably that they just took what was known about the region and put it together to create this "tradition" when compiling a list of traditions from around the world, as that is where I found it mentioned most frequently. As I understand it, coffee is very popular in Sweden. Coffee is especially popular when it is cold outside, as it often is around Christmas. Traditionally, Santa comes to the front door and delivers presents in Sweden. Santa is often invited inside and stays for a time as he gives out presents. Given the popularity of coffee in the country and the fact that it is usually cold when Santa arrives, it is very likely that many homes would have a pot of coffee prepared and some households might offer coffee to Santa during his stay. When people in Sweden were surveyed about their Christmas traditions, many respondents likely mentioned Santa coming in and having some coffee while they hand out presents. Considering the tradition for most other countries is for Santa to come down the chimney and leave gifts while everyone is sleeping, the offer of coffee to Santa is mistakenly being described as "leaving coffee out". That's my theory.

its the same for Australia i have never nor do i know anyone who has left out a beer

Undercounting the people who celebrate Christmas at all might account for that?

@@bluesonicstreak7317 maybe, but everyone I know celebrates christmas and the ones I've talked about it with also never left out cookies. Maybe in certain countries it's a more important tradition, but I would say that in certain places, like Canada (where I'm from) it might be like 1/2 or 1/3 that put milk and cookies out

@@Kelarys I'm actually Canadian, and my family left out milk and cookies religiously. Who knows though, it's not something I compared notes on with other kids growing up lol.

Weird, my family barely celebrated Christmas (no presents over 5 bucks, most years no decorations or tree), but the milk and cookies was a big deal! Probably helped that my dad is a real life cookie monster 😀

Same here !!

free food (And labor)!

I was going to comment something like Secret Plot Twist: he doesn't eat any of them because he packs his own lunch, but he stores them on the sleigh and him and the elves have a feast when he gets back. Or maybe it's what they live off of throughout the year? Then again, if Santa is an elf, maybe his diet would have totally different requirements. Maybe elves are like hummingbirds... that would also explain him going insanely fast maybe lmao

I bet he brings tons of containers and some kegs. They deserve it for all they go through

Or, y'know, the obvious conclusion that there is more than one Santa, like a whole lot more than one, like billions probably. And they probably live near the houses where they drop off the presents.

@@VenomSharkNathan Sounds like somebody's cranky they're on the naughty list lmao

Or perhaps, Santa could just be a magical creature that rapidly converts calories into spell points

@@bowmanc.7439 I like your style.

@@brettbeyer73 and with those skill points santa can invest into pretty niche stuff in the skill tree

@@brettbeyer73 and can become top #1 in all cookies and milk speedrun categories and get inf gems FROM RAID SHADOW LEGE- :troll:

Divide total by like 20?

@@FlameOnTheBeat yes, then his magic rubs off on you lol.

@@AverageRU-vidr76 neither is your dad.

@Interstate 60 2002 😲😲😲😲 don't believe this person's lies children!

@Interstate 60 2002 I think he was real but he was a normal human no powers or anything

It’s my headcannon that he takes most of the food and through some Christmas magic BS he portalizes them to a giant blender and they become treats for the reindeers throughout the year.

Well he does have a magic bag of presents why not one with the food he couldn't eat

I'd say he gives them to the elves

The leftover food is the elves' rations for the year

@@Redacted304 we must not let the elves unionize, it’ll be the end.

I am from sweden aswell and I have never heard of anyone leaving anything out for him, I guess it depends from region to region maybe

Svensker☕️

As yet another Swede never heard of the coffee thing either

Her i norge hører jeg ikke om så mye om det, kan wære at det er bare område der jeg bor.

I am swedish and can also confirm this

Same here with Christmas Eve (I'm Danish) :-) I never understood why the Americans hold the party on the evening of the 24th, but then leave the presents for morning on the 25th? How do you have the restraint to wait one whole extra night?? xD

I myself am an American. My family has always celebrated Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Opened gifts from family on Christmas Eve, and gifts from Santa Christmas day morning.

As a swede i can to say that i have never heard of giving santa some coffee. Just some rice porridge

Same I am also a Swede

In South Africa too, or at least in my family, we open gifts on the eve and then go to church and the rest on the 25th