How many calories must Santa's Reindeer consume?
Santa's reindeer are pretty awesome. They can stand on arbitrary planes (giving the illusion of flight, the reindeer are actually running on n-dimensional hills) and can dilate time in a bubble around Santa without tidal effects tearing holes in the universe. This lets Santa and the sleigh make as many trips to and from the North Pole as needed in order to deliver all the gifts (uncompressed) moving as the crow flies.
But for all their skills the reindeer still have to eat, and for them time passes as normal (though they're immortal, naturally).
The question then is how many calories must 9 reindeer consume in order to deliver presents worldwide, assuming the presents are located at the North Pole and the reindeer are otherwise normal reindeer.
For bonus Christmas sparkles: what is this in oats (dry weight)
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