What kind of candy / fruit / treats did your parents give you for Christmas? My mom and stepfather always put oranges, candy canes, and Christmas themed chocolates in our stockings. They also always gave us a new pair of socks. My mom would always put out a dish of mixed nuts still in the shell on the coffee table. They would order one or two boxes or Rotary Club navel oranges, which were giant Florida navel oranges that come into season around December. They remain the best oranges I have ever had. For Christmas dinner my mom would roast a turkey. She always rubbed butter and herbs under the skin of the turkeys, so they came out tasting very flavorful. She would make mashed potatoes with Milnot evaporated milk, and red eye gravy. She would serve roasted brussel sprouts and bake home made bread too. Sometimes if she had time should also make a meatloaf along with the turkey. For dessert she would make pistachio pudding pie. For new years she would make a cheese / nut ball dip, sweet chili meatballs, and put out cured meat and cheeses with water crackers and hot mustard to snack on. My mom has been dead 15 years. I don't have children and nor am I married, so for Christmas now I just go out to get Chinese with friends.
Stockings for us were always useful items and gag gifts along with the persons favorite candies. You must be up there in age to get fruit.
>>21773122I'm early 40s and my mother would always put fruit in there and some nuts that you had to crack. Along with chocolate. The best things were small lego sets, I fucking loved it. She always made it magic, even when I was a youngish cynical adult. After she died, Christmas day was pretty bleak. I'd cook the dinner for my father and brother, but it was going through the motions really. I'd usually drink whisky, sniff coke in the bathroom and put something like The Clash on instead of Christmas songs. I've got a daughter now so I try to make it as magical for her as my mother made it for me, which in turn makes it magical for me. Stockings are a great part of it, especially with treats in there. But I always put fruit and nuts in there for the sake of tradition.
>>21773122>You must be up there in age to get fruit.Yeah I'm in my forties. I also forgot they would get each of us kids a chocolate orange.
>>21773135That's awesome you do that for your daughter anon.
>>21773143I spent last Christmas eve night time building a 'kitchen' for her, from santa obviously, I had to cover it in a sheet as I didn't have enough wrapping paper. As I say, she finds it so magic that suddenly I find it magic again. Mid November to mid December is peak period in my line of work which means working a lot of extra hours, which obviously means more pay, which goes towards making it as special as possible for her. We also do things like make peppermint creams, tree cookies, peppermint fudge which are easy to make with her at her young age. I know I'm lucky. I had years of it meaning nothing, I don't think there's much that rekindle that feeling you got when you were a kid (if you were fortune enough to feel it in the first place), although the magic never leaves some people who were fortunate enough to have it.
>>21773155Sorry for the blog, all. I'm drunk for the first time in a while. My life is pretty miserable for most of the year, so I suddenly got all excited and candid when I read this thread. I'm going back in my box now.
>>21773155>>21773159It's all good anon. Your daughter is lucky she has you for a father.
>>21773115I would always get a baggie of an assortment of my favorite regular candies in their yearly christmas packaging (like reese's, M&M's ect), but also candy canes, and then a couple of years either nuts or the 3 assortment popcorn tin. Danish Butter Cookies were also yearly
I turned 40 this year.My parents were boomers and would always put oranges in the bottom of our stockings.Besides that, the stocking was usually filled with whatever corny gimmick candies were popular that year, such as "reindeer poop" or toxic sour waste, or harry potter jelly beans, etc. On top of it all was a new toothbrush for some reason.
>>21773138terry's is peak stocking stuffer
Orange in the toe old person reporting in.Remember when fruit was seasonal?
>>21773115It's always been yelling and a sad meal with everyone wishing they could leave
>>21773115Thanks for unlocking that core memory
>>21773235>Thanks for unlocking that core memory
>>21773115my parents would always put oranges in mine and some andes mints (my favorite candy). on christmas eve the family (my parents, me, and my sister) would all go to FredMeyers or Target and find one small gift as a stocking stuffer that we'd add in addition (separate from the usually larger gifts we'd get each other). definitely oranges/tangerines are the food i associate most with christmas along with peking duck which we'd get with my grandparents for dinner after we moved closer to them
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I remember always having a dish of these on the coffee table around Christmas time
>>21773135Carry on the tradition anon. My mother does the same thing. She's always insisted the stockings are childish and we should do away with them, but I told her I rather only do stockings then other gifts. She's ill and this might be my last Christmas with her. I hope one day I can pass on the stocking tradition.
Only time we were allowed slop cereal.
>>21773115I’d split my Christmas stocking orange with you OP
>>21773235>>21773237>>21773262>>21773275>>21773279samefag
>>21773115Walnuts in the shell in a dish with the cracker next to it. Good memories.
>>21773285I've seen thanksgiving themed flavors of these types of hard candy before. Always wondered how good they were. Hard candy is highly underrated, but gummy is best
>>21773115This brand I believed is defunct, but as a child in the 80s my folks always put a pack of Toms peanuts in the stocking. I'm 43 and I still get mailed Christmas stocking stuff from my folks, they're not Tom's, but they're some other sort of single serve peanuts. Usually "munchies" brand.
>>21773115Every year we used to get a Life Savers “sweet book” or whatever it was called from Santa. And a huge peppermint stick. We usually had roast beef for Christmas dinner.
>>21773115pic related>cheese nut ballI should make a cheese ball, it's been years and they were always good
>>21774644>pic related
>>21773115That was pretty typical stocking fare for us. One year my mother was going through a hippy phase and got us salted acorns, which was weird. I don't remember what they tasted like so I guess they weren't really good or bad. What I did find annoying were the brazil nuts still in their shells.
>>21773155>>21773159>>21773135Good on you anon, your daughter has it better than she knows. You remind me of my mom, although she never snorted coke
>>21774700Here in Italy we had these nuts every Christmas, grocery stores would have plenty to sell but now they don't carry them anymore. I suspect nut-allergic faggots are to blame.
>>21773468It's called bantz you retard. Suck my phonepsting hemorrhoid covered ass
>>21773237lol got his ass
Remember this shit?
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Do yns still do these motha fuckas?
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>>21774648I used to get those for my mother at Christmas. Walgreens used to carry them, but now you cant even find them.
>>21773138Chocolate and orange don't mix. Those have always been nasty.
>>21773115My family's tradition was a big family dinner on Xmas eve. It wasn't a sit down dinner though, more of a massive finger food buffet. I even remember as a kid asking the adults why we did this instead of a normal Christmas dinner and never got an answer. " that's just how we do it" Turns out its something called "Julbord" my rural ass snowmonkey decended family was still having the traditional Swedish Xmas dinner without having any idea.
>>21775493ur dumb
What do /ck/ers think about getting pic related?
>>21773555It's still around as a niche brand of Lance. When I was growing up, the local Tom's distributor lived across the street from us. When he'd go around to stores and vending machines to remove expiring products, instead of trashing them, he'd box them up and hand them out to those of us who live nearby. It was nice at first but eventually I got tired of nearly stale snacks. Still ate them because we were on the edge of poverty so food never could be wasted.
>>21773613Got one of those for Christmas one year. I had a great time trying out a few candies from each roll. Next day when I popped one into my mouth, it was foul. One of my siblings, never found out which one, had put ramen seasoning in each roll.
>>21774825I just assumed people had a knee jerk reaction over the other name for them so now we can't have nice things readily available.>>21775998Don't know about the rest of that mess, but they make a decent summer sausage.
>>21776035What's wrong with the name Brazil nuts?
Pie of the month club is the gift for the type 2 diabetic in your family!
>>21773310who the fuck eats cereal as a christmas treat
>>21776550People with responsible parents
>>21776056its like saying "swiss cheese" "french fries" or "italian meat".retarded. >>21776558more like people with mentally retarded parents hehe
Lol at the Americans bewildered by OP pic
My parents have been getting me the Lifesavers book for Christmas for years. I have the boxes saved up. It's all the same shit. They barely change the story.
>>21776203I couldnt handle only getting one pie a month. I need a new pie every couple days.
>>21776016>cola>clove>butter rumI'm so fucking jealous. Life used to be good
>>21773138saltine Christmas toffee has become a new tradition since my mom decided to make it a few years back.
>>21777139My brother married into a nice family, and they kind of adopted me too. When they still lived in town they would invite me over every Christmas and give me a big box full of homemade Christmas treats like that. I miss that. Now they have all moved away.
Man this thread reminds me that there are real people with real feelings out there. Christmas is really a special time of year.
I'm 40 and got Christmas oranges. Pretty sure it was a hangover since the grocery stores had oranges year round my whole life
>>21773115Granny's strawberry hard candies, the kind in the strawberry graphic wrapping, those take me back. >>21773138First taste of/for dark chocolate.
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>>21773138https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNT7enlfSo
>>21773135This is such bullshit, lmao.Lego never tasted good.
>>21773115>What kind of candy / fruit / treats did your parents give you for Christmas?First thing that comes to mind is the iconic cola+mandarins (tangerines/clementines). Combination that defined a whole generation.But a more personal thing is a bag of milkyway chocolate stars - it only happened a couple of times, but left such an impression on me.
>>21776056I grew up knowing them as nigger toes. Didn't even learn the 'proper' name until I was in high school.
>here's some boring shit about my life just talk about the food you insufferable navelgazers
