Re: "Cold beer and pickled eggs"?
Nah.
Everybody knows you leave ring baloney and beer for the elves. And you put colored sugar in the oatmeal for the reindeer.
Santa still gets cookies, but no milk. Eggnog. 50% rum. 151 rum. That's why "his cheeks are like roses, his nose like a cherry."
Also, I wonder what he likes to put in that pipe he holds tight in his teeth...
Ho, ho, ho!
Mary Anne