What Are Sugar Plums? How to make real Victorian sugar plums. (And how they killed intestinal worms back in the day.)
9 Comments on What Are Sugar Plums?
Nope! you get sugar plums, you end up with sugar plum fairies.
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Donning their gay apparel.
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Back then Men were Men, the sheep weren’t nervous and the fairys weren’t freaks from the Island of Misfit Toys.
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sugar plums?
Don’t you mean prunes?
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Prunes are just wrinkled plums like raisins are wrinkled grapes. I’ll eat raisins but I’m not a prune or a plum fan. I don’t need prunes or prune juice (yuck) to make me regular.
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The hazelnut ones look like the candy we called mothballs when we were kids.
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That is a word we used for a cute or pretty women when I was a young man…
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@Beachmom
Like these?: https://www.shelburnecountrystore.com/products/moth-balls-candy-1-pound
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My Mom would buy them for us while shopping at Woodward and Lothrop department store to keep us in line while she shopped.
Ah, the good old days, when a candy could be named after a poison…
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Jethro, YES!!
We loved those things!
Mothballs, candy cigarettes, candy cigars, the days before snowflake people
Nope! you get sugar plums, you end up with sugar plum fairies.
Donning their gay apparel.
Back then Men were Men, the sheep weren’t nervous and the fairys weren’t freaks from the Island of Misfit Toys.
sugar plums?
Don’t you mean prunes?
Prunes are just wrinkled plums like raisins are wrinkled grapes. I’ll eat raisins but I’m not a prune or a plum fan. I don’t need prunes or prune juice (yuck) to make me regular.
The hazelnut ones look like the candy we called mothballs when we were kids.
That is a word we used for a cute or pretty women when I was a young man…
@Beachmom
Like these?:
https://www.shelburnecountrystore.com/products/moth-balls-candy-1-pound
.
My Mom would buy them for us while shopping at Woodward and Lothrop department store to keep us in line while she shopped.
Ah, the good old days, when a candy could be named after a poison…
Jethro, YES!!
We loved those things!
Mothballs, candy cigarettes, candy cigars, the days before snowflake people