Does anyone recall the inedible Xmas candy

Hardrada

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Mon Dec-12-05 11:22 PM
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Does anyone recall the inedible Xmas candy

they used to hand out to schoolkids years ago especially after holiday movie matinees? There used to be mesh sox full of hard candy and unshelled nuts and other items difficult to eat or requiring hours to suck on and consume. Usually the town drunk dressed up as Santa handed these out. Ah memories.

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GrumpyGreg

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Mon Dec-12-05 11:33 PM
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1. I hate to admit it but I remember them. I had blessedly forgotten

about them but you had to go and remind me.

Yuk!!!!!

(The mesh stockings were as stiff as boards)

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Hardrada

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Mon Dec-12-05 11:51 PM
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2. Sorry about that.

I just had to make sure they were not some hallucinatory flashback! Why were those mesh things as stiff as they were? That's a detail I forgot.

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GrumpyGreg

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Mon Dec-12-05 11:54 PM
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3. God knows what they were made of but we were so poor I

enjoyed them.

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lpbk2713

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Tue Dec-13-05 12:20 AM
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4. The stockings always came with that game

that had the BB's in it that you had to move around just right to get the BB's in the right holes.

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Hardrada

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Tue Dec-13-05 01:33 AM
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5. Wow! That's a good detail to recall.

I would really like to know what group was behind the distribution of these. It seems like a universal thing. Last time I remember getting such candy in the sock was about 1958 or 1959. Anyone recall a date?

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