Is it really Christmas?

There's a Christmas market in the town where I work. I went through it the other day to see what was there but saw nothing overtly Christmas-y - certainly nothing 'religious'. There was a hut with a sign claiming that it was 'Santa's Grotto' but this looked most unconvincing. Then I saw another hut selling burgers. There I think I saw the most Christmas-y thing of all: venison burgers. Santa's reindeer have been slaughtered and turned into burgers already.