In Sweden, santa use to be a goat. And he wasn't famous for being nice either, even though I think he brought presents. The goat's till there though, and I think Sweden is pretty alone on that point...
And for santa, here we usually put out some rice porridge (porrinde made from rice and milk... It's acually kind of good, eat it with sugar, cinnamon or sirap. And if you change the milk for cream, and add mandarin oranges you'll have another (nicer <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />) X-mass dish, called rice-alla-malta, or something like that...)
Übereil
