Rightly so, this season is one of cookies --- exchanges, trays, bake togethers, certain to put out when folks come to visit. Trust me, I am a fan of cookies in any season, anywhere, anytime.
Yet, let us also celebrate candy!
Kudos to whomever realized the idea of the small candy cane --- perfect to hang over a mug of hot cocoa and melt into the chocolate.
Every year in my stocking was the “Book of Lifesavers,” an ingenious idea of a cardboard book-shaped container that held fiver rolls of Lifesavers.
Let every kid who ever wondered if getting coal instead of candy was a real thing for bad behaviors rejoice over the wonderful invention of coal candy, a lovely licorice-flavored treat complete with bucket and hammer!
I am one who always carries in my pocket individually wrapped wintergreen lifesavers or other hard candies, most likely cinnamons or peppermints. I trace the beginning of this behavior back to the Christmas of my 10thyear when my brother gifted me a two-pound bag of candy! It was glorious! All that hard candy --- the colors! The flavors! Wonka himself never knew such bliss!
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