Zwarte Pete

If you get your Christmas gifts wrapped in paper with pictures of little black men on it, it's because Erin has yet to find any wrapping paper not featuring the head of Sinter Klaus' little black elf-like helper with a fro. Zwarte Pete is black, we think, because according to the story he was the elf that delivered gifts from Sinter Klaus and got all black from going down chimneys and landing in soot. We realize this would never meet U.S. standards for civil rights and equality so we wish to apologize in advance if we indeed fail to find any other wrapping paper before gifts have to be shipped over for Christmas.