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Post by daylilydude on Dec 14, 2017 5:38:06 GMT -5
Do you still put them on your tree... what ever happened with just plain peppermint candy canes, now there are lifesaver and just fruity flavors and colors... which do you prefer?? We weren't putting on the tree the last few years as the kids were grown up and moved off and when they came for Christmas they didn't take any with them, so my better half and I would just get the little peppermint soft candies and put them in her candy dish collection she has for Christmas and we snack on them... but as our granddaughter gets older I for-see candy canes going back on the tree.
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Post by brownrexx on Dec 14, 2017 7:55:06 GMT -5
I think that they are pretty but I never liked eating them so I don't.
but if I DID eat them I would probably eat the traditional ones not those weird colored ones!
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Post by bestofour on Dec 14, 2017 10:05:49 GMT -5
We don't hang them on the tree and I can't remember ever eating one - maybe I've taken a bite off the end of one in my life but not often.
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Post by spike on Dec 14, 2017 10:17:32 GMT -5
We do not like the 'flavored' candy canes but we do like the peppermint ones. Years ago I bought some plastic candy canes, same size, shape and color of actual candy canes, and we put those on the tree every year. After Christmas when they are selling millions of boxes of candy canes for 5¢ a box, I buy one or 2 to use in my hot chocolate!
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Post by ladymarmalade on Dec 14, 2017 10:40:34 GMT -5
Usually when we're out shopping the kids will spy the strange flavored ones and ask for them, and then they end up on the tree. They'll eat one. Maybe two, and then when we take the tree down they sit in a jar for months before I finally throw them out.
So this year we all just agreed to say no to candy canes.
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Post by brownrexx on Dec 14, 2017 12:50:08 GMT -5
Strangely I discovered that horses like candy canes! Last year the horses at the stable had to have their temperatures checked every morning because they had been exposed to an illness. After they stood and let us take their temperature (yes, in their behind), they got a broken candy cane. Crunch, crunch. They love peppermint! We didn't have any weird colored ones, just the traditional ones.
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Post by paulf on Dec 14, 2017 13:45:20 GMT -5
Traditionalist here but canes do not go on the tree.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 15, 2017 11:04:04 GMT -5
I get a few of the natural ones (no artificial dyes) and put them on the tree. The kids get to eat them starting Christmas morning. Though I have noticed in some years that some of them seem to disappear early.
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Post by meandtk on Dec 15, 2017 11:17:33 GMT -5
Not on tree. We don't buy either. We do get a few gifted in a basket or box of homemade candies. Those canes go to the children.
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Post by aqua on Dec 15, 2017 13:51:50 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the fat stick candy canes? maybe it was not a true candy cane, since it was just a stick. About an inch thick, maybe thicker? maybe eight inches long?
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Post by guruofgardens on Dec 15, 2017 14:46:26 GMT -5
No candy canes on our tree, but we do buy the Hersheys mint chocolate ones for hot coffee.
Hammonds candies make yummy ones for stocking suffers. We're lucky as we can watch them make the candy canes, etc.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 15, 2017 14:58:26 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the fat stick candy canes? maybe it was not a true candy cane, since it was just a stick. About an inch thick, maybe thicker? maybe eight inches long? I saw those in Walmart yesterday, actually. And my Publix has them this year as well.
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Post by daylilydude on Dec 15, 2017 18:43:37 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the fat stick candy canes? maybe it was not a true candy cane, since it was just a stick. About an inch thick, maybe thicker? maybe eight inches long? As a matter of fact I do, that is what I give the children on my bus for Christmas. The Dollar General Dollar store has them for .50 cents a piece, so The wife and I buy 46 of them every year to give out on my bus. But now this afternoon on my bus seat there was a lil stocking with candy canes for me... they call me (Mr. Dude) and you will never guess the flavor or can you???
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Post by meandtk on Dec 15, 2017 19:31:22 GMT -5
daylilydude, I didn't know they make collard flavored candy canes.
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Post by Gianna on Dec 15, 2017 19:43:12 GMT -5
How candy canes are made:
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Post by aqua on Dec 15, 2017 20:35:36 GMT -5
Now I want to ride a schoolbus!!
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Post by daylilydude on Dec 16, 2017 16:22:19 GMT -5
Hung on the tree with care...
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Post by ladymarmalade on Dec 16, 2017 17:50:35 GMT -5
Ha-ha! Bacon flavored! That's awesome.
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