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[Queen of shop]

@Kachina624  omg! I forgot all about those. They are available on Amazon. WOW what a flashback. I have family in Pa.. Some of my cousins have them all year round in a bowl on the coffee table.

Oh dear, I feel an order from Amazon is in my near future.

[on the bay]

@LdyBugz,

I enjoyed reading your post!

I was always fascinated with ribbon candybut the really thin kind. 

And a lady we knew had a candy jar of those red hearts with sprinkled sugar. I forget what they were called.

I thought that was the greatest thing!

My mother always had the chocolate coins at Christmas and also the square box of Russell Stover too!

I was the one who would take a bite of probably yes that icky maple and put it back lol! My sister of course complained. I guess I thought well, someone else might like the rest of it.😄

[Mary Bailey]

My Grandma W passed when I was 9.  Before that her Chicago apartment is where everyone went on Christmas Eve.

I remember food & cookies, especially the homemade cookies  Kolaches!

It's still very vivid in my mind's eye

[Gorgf]

For me popcorn balls comes to mind. My Mother made them every year and colored the syrup different colors. We had a  white  enamel pan saved just for that. One has to work quickly and butter up the hands. She would wait until  I got home from college to make them to have help. I think  her growing up in the depression it was an inexpensive treat for six kids.

She also made wonderful divinity or seafoam candy. We also had a bowl of nuts to individually crack open by hand. A jar of assorted hard candy also. I liked the raspberry ones with hard outside and soft center.

I had a Great Aunt who made hand dipped chocolates as a profitable hobby. She was Swiss and they had a silver label in the corner of the box, Swiss Maid Candy.

Fun thread.....

[Meowingkitty]

We would always get a box of See's candy and peanut brittle. My mom would always buy a couple of boxes of Cello chocolate covered cherries. She would also make  Pfeffernüsse cookies as well as iced cookies in various shapes.

[Winkk]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Our family favorite was chocolates filled straws, pastel colored hard candy straws filled with chocolate.  They're hard to find but there's a company in the Philadelphia area that still makes them and will ship cans of them.

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@Kachina624. I loved them too.  There is a store close to me in Conshohocken, PA, a suburb of Philly, called Edward Freeman Candy and Nuts.  It is the coolest place.  It is a small old store with tons of confection and they sell all the old types of candies you can't find anywhere else.  I love going there.

I'm glad you mentioned that because I think I will do that today.  They get really crowded this time of the year.

[CalminHeart]

My Gramma used to make boston cream fudge, a creamy blonde fudge. It was always my favorite holiday treat. 

[PINKdogWOOD]

I assume or hope you're talking about those little Russel Stover sampler boxes of 5or 6 little chocolates  @LdyBugz   Oh yes, I remember those samplers too. It turned into quite a tradition my mother buying me and my two sisters one each and putting them in our stockings. If we didn't get them we thought something bad  happened! Yeah maple, a big yuck to us too! Actually I think my Dad really enjoyed that one times three!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Love ribbon candies to this day too!

Happy Holidays! Thanks so much for the memories!

[ninjawife]

There is a famous candy store in the city that my father would always buy chocolates from around the holidays.  My favorite was the dark chocolate covered brazil nuts- yum!  I plan on baking gingerbread men just after Thanksgiving so we can enjoy them as we decorate for the holdays.  That is if I can find the gingerbread man shaped cookie cutter otherwise they will be snowflake shaped.  I host Christmas dinner every year and I usually make something chocolate for dessert.  This year I am buying a chocolate espresso mousse cake from a fancy bakery.  Maybe I"ll get some of those brazil nuts in honnor of my late father as well. 

[LdyBugz]

@Kachina624  Interesting!  I've never seen those.  I'll have to hunt these things down!