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from The Telegraph
"Britain’s relations with Germany can sometimes be as frosty as the field outside Good King Wenceslas’s window, but once the first candle on the Advent wreath is lit we embrace our Teutonic cousins for one simple reason: they do Christmas rather well. Waitrose this week said that sales of its stollen were up by fifty percent."  

from the Daily Mail back in 2013

"Mince pies are facing some stiff competition this year from their stodgy European rival - the stollen. Pronounced 'shtollen', it is a rich and sticky fruit bread, usually anointed with rum or brandy, laced with marzipan and doused in icing sugar. Waitrose and Sainsbury's have both reported booming sales."