El Caga Tío de Barcelona

One of the strangest Christmas traditions, I would think, ever: according to our friends Angel and Alia, kids in Catalunya believe that if they feed El Tio de Nadal ("The Christmas Uncle"), this happy faced wood log wearing a red cap, over the period leading up to Xmas, it will grow (which it does via parental ingenuity and deception). Then come Xmas, they can beat it with a stick, singing a song ("Caga, Tio, caga turró..."), until it will (we kid you not) "shit" Xmas presents. Naturally we couldn't resist having Joaquin participate in this:

Out the rear end of the Tío came a present ideal for Joaquin: a paper truck! (with the sponsoring Ham company's logo, of course).