Christmas cracker as rival varieties came on the market. The other elements of the modern cracker—the gifts, paper hats and varied designs—were all introduced by Tom Smith's son, Walter Smith, to differentiate his product from the rival cracker manufacturers which had suddenly sprung up. Tom Smith merged with Caley Crackers in 1953. A memorial water fountain to Tom Smith and his family stands in Finsbury Square, London. The longest Christmas cracker pulling chain consisted of 1081 people and was achieved by The Harrodian School in Barnes, London, UK, on 10 December 2015. Passengers on commercial flights in the United States are explicitly
Battenberg cake Hauke (no "von", as it had been a Russian title) in 1852, on behalf of her marriage to Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine; then first Countess, afterwards Princess of Battenberg, known in Britain since 1917 as Mountbatten. According to "The Oxford Companion to Food", the name "Battenberg cake" first appeared in print in 1903. However, a "Battenburg cake" appeared in: Frederick Vine, "Saleable Shop Goods for Counter-Tray and Window …" (London, England: Office of the Baker and Confectioner, 1898). In the United States, there is a related confection called a checkerboard cake, named because as with a Battenberg