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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

very pretty teeth rotters

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

I guess I was wrong. But I think RS 's is similar. I told you guys my mind's going!

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

Being a child of the 1940s, I remember these candies being called pillows.

 

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

Every year when I was growing up my Aunt put those things out.  We just called them 'hard candy'  (and it was).  I remember that stripped tube kind had some kind of filling in it.  Some was like peppermint.  All was terrible!

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

You beat me to it~ lol

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

We used to have to sell this as a fundraiser at Christmas time when I went to our parish grade school. They called it hard tack. I don’t know where the name came from. The striped ones were peppermint with chocolate filling. As someone else said, very pretty teeth rotters.

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

don't remember the official name, but do remember this candy at my nana's house at Christmas.....along with those sugary fruit slices!

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

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        I also remember this candy at Christmas time!  My mother would strategically place - on the Christmas tree - multi colored cones made of hard tin foil.  And she would fill these cones with this type of candy!  Very pretty, but if you did not eat the candy the first day...it would be hard as a rock later!!!

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

Filled candy.  I have a jar of it in my kitchen.  I see it quite often in stores especially at this time of the year. 

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Re: What is this type of Christmas candy called?

Hard candy?    Someone mentioned hard tack.  I remember that as a large, thick cracker-type item that was hard.  Wasn't candy was like a cracker.  I wish I could find some today.  Great with butter on it and a cup of coffee.