Friday OT # 1 - Stuffing Your Stockings
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We had a running joke for a few years in my family, with chocolate-covered cherries. When I got to the age of being able to choose/buy gifts for family members, one of my sisters had liked choc-covered cherries in the past, so I got a box for her as one of the presents.
When I did it again the next year ... she informed me she didn't like them that much. So of course, the following year I gave her - chocolate-covered cherries! She returned the favor the next year and wrapped the SAME box as one of my gifts (I also didn't like 'em) ... This game went back & forth for several years (always rewrapping the same box, we never bothered to open & eat them).
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Chocolate orange, gum, scratch offs, gift cards, and other miscellaneous candy.
Similar to several here, when I was young we got a candy cane, nuts (I preferred peanuts only at the time, so that's what I got) plus orange and sometimes an apple. We didn't get much chocolate stuff in our stockings. (Dad always made fudge at Christmas, so "that's plenty of chocolate")
Also often got LifeSavers (also mentioned) and DynaMints (the poor boy's Tic Tac) (showing my age):
Also often got LifeSavers (also mentioned) and DynaMints (the poor boy's Tic Tac) (showing my age):
Are oranges a Christmas tradition? I've never seen this before
Was talking to a customer and she asked if we do Elf on the Shelf and Santa this or that.... We don't do any of that. She sounded disappointed
Straight liquor, threats of a stocking full of coal, and finally presents on Xmas day.
Rivertown style.
It is mostly British in origin! I think I have heard some Dutch origins, too.
The biggest thing is just that it has been so expensive for most of history to have oranges, they were considered a huge treat.
Smoky, mostly, but also like Grandma and Grandpa, so… that’s good?
I was wrong, they were Salems. Step-grandpa grew up in West Virginia and was an agronomy prof at ISU for decades. He got Grandma started (in her mid-40’s!) when they started dating. How he landed on Salems, I’ll never know. They’ve both been gone for a long time, but I can still pick out that smell from a mile away, and am pretty sure whoever lives in their old house on Arkansas Ave still hasn’t been able to get rid of it completely.
Never had much candy or sodas as a kid, but at Christmas chocolate covered cherries showed up and I'd get one or two/day, eaten very slowly to savor every bit. Have continued to eat them, quantity is only limited to not wanting anymore.
In fact, one year Walmart had cases of them on post-holiday clearance, so I loaded up, and ate them until I got fed up. Struggled through the last boxes in late spring.
I have wondered if they would freeze well! I generally get a butt ton of Cadbury eggs now and freeze them to last through the year, I wonder if the cordial in the cherries would similarly freeze well!?
i seem to remember oranges and walnuts, but man, that was a looooong time ago.
An orange, always.
Swedish fish, always.
Often a couple pencils, small handheld game of some sort (get the metal ball through the maze, not Gameboy or Switch type), sometimes a pack or two of baseball cards, some other candy, small stuffed animal.
Swedish fish, always.
Often a couple pencils, small handheld game of some sort (get the metal ball through the maze, not Gameboy or Switch type), sometimes a pack or two of baseball cards, some other candy, small stuffed animal.
Always had a nice big fat orange at the top of my stocking. Man those were good.
My grandpa would buy each grandchild the biggest bag of gummy bears he could find. Didn't realize how much I would actually miss that tradition after he passed.
We got Oranges, candy canes...don't recall what else but one year Rudolph's "bells" were in my stocking and that made my Christmas!
1st yr doing stockings....errr reused Easter baskets...for boys and have wool socks, toothbrushes, fave candy/snacks, Xmas jammies and probably put an orange or pomegranate in cause they are obsessed.
1st yr doing stockings....errr reused Easter baskets...for boys and have wool socks, toothbrushes, fave candy/snacks, Xmas jammies and probably put an orange or pomegranate in cause they are obsessed.
