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'The 12 Days of Christmas' Is a Sickening Chronicle of Consumerist Excess

Judging by its seasonal omnipresence even 240 years after it was written, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is undoubtedly one of the most enduring of all holiday tunes, perhaps because it is both catchy, slightly annoying, and fun to sing (a ranking by the New York Public Library likened it to the yuletide equivalent of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”). Yet though it was most likely penned centu