Christmas, Sheep, and Pie

I love Christmas time, there are just some things that get me into the Christmas mood. Like hearing the Christmas music throughout the house, the smell of the tree, the festive lights and decorations. But what really lets me know its Christmas is the food. The Christmas cookies, the fruit cake, the egg nog, the lots of hot chocolate, the chocolate covered pretzels, and such. Then I got to thinking, almost all our holidays have specific foods that we associate with that Holiday. Sure there are some cultural and locational differences in foods, but some foods are almost universal. Such as the turkey at Thanksgiving and egg nog at Christmas. The cake at Birthdays the greens on New Years. But WHO decided what foods go with what event? Who made the decision that we should eat cake at birthdays and not pie? I want to know! I want to know who made the decision for the rest of us to be trapped in meaningless tradition for the rest of our lives! The audacity of it all! To think that they had the gall to determine what everybody else should eat on certain special days. Who do they think they are? OK I am going a bit overboard on purpose, but I am just saying. Where the crap did all the tradition come from and why are people STILL doing the exact same thing? Its like an endless cycle of sheep falling off of a cliff, I think we need to veer away from the cliff and have all the other sheep follow behind us! We will jump off a bridge instead and have everybody eating pie at birthdays and low-fat yogurts at Thanksgiving. That should keep them going for another few hundred years. Until some rebel sheep decides that the fire looks better than the bridge.