Is there a candy you associate with Christmas experiences/memories?

Postby **llipgh2** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:11 pm

When we were growing up, my mother always bought boxes of pecan turtles for Christmas. Never bought them any other time of the year. It was a Christmas treat.

I remember, sitting in the living room after dinner, having dessert and turtles and talking with the family.

To this day, I buy turtles only around Christmas. Brings back a lot of good memories

Postby **columbia** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:13 pm

Walking into the basement when I was about 6 and seeing my oldest brother put together a bike....Boom, Santa was dead to me.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:14 pm

Candy Cane on the tree. Chocolate covered cherries in the box.

Oh, and that Wegmans(?) sampler I got every year for being an alter boy.

lol, columbia. No candy?

Postby **llipgh2** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:15 pm

Walking into the basement when I was about 6 and seeing my oldest brother put together a bike....Boom, Santa was dead to me.

Where you eating candy at the time?

Postby **columbia** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:16 pm

Candy? My mom always (and still does) make a great chocolate walnut fudge. Looking forward to it again this year.

Postby **columbia** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:16 pm

Walking into the basement when I was about 6 and seeing my oldest brother put together a bike....Boom, Santa was dead to me.
Where you eating candy at the time?

No, it's just my strongest Christmas memory.

Postby **llipgh2** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:17 pm

Candy? My mom always (and still does) make a great chocolate walnut fudge. Looking forward to it again this year.

I will allow it.

Postby **Silentom** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:17 pm

Candy canes. Only time of year I eat them, but I love me some peppermint canes.

Postby **BigMck** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:18 pm

Hard candy ribbons. We always had a candy dish filled with these things. They would remain in that dish until my mom would toss them.

Postby **Pavement** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:19 pm

After Eight Mints. Dunno if you guys get them, but they are thin dark chocolate with a mint fondant centre.

I still get a box each year.

Postby **llipgh2** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:20 pm

Hard candy ribbons. We always had a candy dish filled with these things. They would remain in that dish until my mom would toss them.

Has anyone actually eaten this candy?

Postby **BigMck** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:25 pm

Hard candy ribbons. We always had a candy dish filled with these things. They would remain in that dish until my mom would toss them.
Has anyone actually eaten this candy?

I think they put it out to punish us. Those candies and a wooden bowl of hard nuts still in the shell were tradition. My parents really must have hated us.

Postby **Silentom** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:25 pm

Ah yes. The candy corn of Christmas.

Postby **Silentom** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:26 pm

Hard candy ribbons. We always had a candy dish filled with these things. They would remain in that dish until my mom would toss them.
Has anyone actually eaten this candy?
I think they put it out to punish us. Those candies and a wooden bowl of hard nuts still in the shell were tradition. My parents really must have hated us.

Oh I disagree on the nuts. I have a bowl out on my coffee table all season long.

Postby **llipgh2** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:27 pm

Hard candy ribbons. We always had a candy dish filled with these things. They would remain in that dish until my mom would toss them.
Has anyone actually eaten this candy?
I think they put it out to punish us. Those candies and a wooden bowl of hard nuts still in the shell were tradition. My parents really must have hated us.

Yes! My sisters and I would eat all the walnuts and almonds. My dad would eat the brazil nuts. The rest were thrown away.

Postby **BigMck** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:33 pm

We had a metal pick to try and crack the shells. That was often times used as a weapon by my older brother. The adults had the actual nut cracker pliers. God knows how those would have been improperly used in the hands of kids.

Postby **Willie Kool** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:43 pm

Oh, and that Wegmans(?) sampler I got every year for being an alter boy.

Whitman's

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:53 pm

Hard candy ribbons. We always had a candy dish filled with these things. They would remain in that dish until my mom would toss them.
Has anyone actually eaten this candy?
and a wooden bowl of hard nuts still in the shell were tradition. My parents really must have hated us.

I think you may have been eating the potpourri

Postby **dodint** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:54 pm

Yup, @Willie Kool, those are the ones!

Postby **Viva la Ben** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:15 pm

My grandma made great buckeyes

Postby **Blue Canary** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:21 pm

Hard tack candy.

Postby **blackjack68** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:23 pm

Hard candy ribbons. We always had a candy dish filled with these things. They would remain in that dish until my mom would toss them.

aka Old Lady Candy that sat on the table until it got dusty.

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:30 pm

My mom makes ricotta cookies every year. That's the closest I have to a favorite holiday candy.

Postby **Morkle** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:40 pm

My parents once gave us a candy cane M&M thing, I'll never forget it because the Monday after Christmas, my parents went back to work and I ate the whole thing in like an hour.

The real terrible part, is that I spent the day playing Madden with my brother in our downstairs room with the fireplace on. That much insane heat just basically made me throw all the M&M's up in horrific fashion.

So I guess that's a pretty solid Christmas Experience.

Postby **PFiDC** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:41 pm

Not candy, but cookies. I'm not a cookie guy but Christmas cookies are delicious.