Did your grandma always have candy sitting in a bowl at her house? What kind?
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Yes, she still does.. a lot of times its just a bowl of mixed hard candies... she keeps it right beside the cookie jar.
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Yup. Usually either jolly ranchers or mints
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My grandma always had sugar cookies, but my aunt always had those white or pink round candies in a dish. I forget the name of them. Now thats driving me crazy. What are those???
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No. My maternal grandmother was not kid friendly. The sweetest thing she had around the house was jam or bread&butter pickles. She threw a fit because my aunt allowed me to have a Coke with my dinner. I don't remember my paternal grandmother having candy but that's probably because she was diabetic. She gave us money for candy though :-)
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some sort of hard candy alllwayyyss and still does
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Yes, my great grandmother used to have Circus Peanuts in a bowl on her end table. She used to live in a trailer out back, and we'd try to sneak in, get the candy and sneak out before she knew we were there so we wouldn't have to hug and kiss her. I now have more memories of her candy than I do of her and I regret not spending more time with her.
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Yes on the table in front of the tv, next to her quilting needles and stuff. moslty they were fruit mentos, but she changed it regularly. now she is diabetic, so she has adapted candy, without sugar. its still in the same jar though.
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My grandmother didn't have candy, but she always had red jello in these martini glass-esq cups that were tupperwear and had sealed lids... and she also had Sara Lee chocolate cake in her freezer, and Heavenly Hash ice cream. The only times in my life I've ever eaten these things was at her house, and that probably will stay true.
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She still does. It's not so much a bowl as it is a clay jar with a lid... but it's there - and it's been in the same place for as long as I can remember. These days it has Reisen, Hershey's Kisses, and Mini Twix bars, but it used to have little Strawberry hard candies (the ones in the wrapper that looks like a strawberry).
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no but my grandfather did - they were fruit bon bons (hard sweets with a gooey bit in the middle)
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One grandma had only tums to offer, the other grandma had those multi-colored pastel snow caps. They both made up for that with delicious cookies. The tums grandma made the best molasses cookies with crunchy icing on top. MMM those were good.
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butter mints or mint leaf gumdrops
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Yes she always had some tootsie rolls.
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Yes..boring hard candies in cellophane
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Yes. Most often it was some sort of fruity candy - hard or jelly - but sometimes it was chocolate, which she wasn't allowed to eat, so we could go nuts. Most often the source of the candy was someone giving it to her as a thank you for something kind she did for them, so it was really catch as catch can for what kind of candy it was.
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Yep. Buttermints or orange slices baby!
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No. She wasn't the friendly sort to anybody. But she DID make the best homemade pasta. Crabby ol' woman.. :)
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My grandma always gave us gum - Wrigleys, the kind in the green wrapper. It was always there in her house, she never ran out. She'd always give me a half a stick though, hardly ever a whole stick of gum. Its funny to me that I used to always expect that as a child going to her house. And now that I have kids, they expect the same from her when they go over there! It's really cute :)
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No. She did very little for her grandchildren when it came to food. My mother always had to help her out.
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Only during Christmas. She would buy those mint nougat candies with the Christmas tree on it. I loved those! And then she would make her own hard candies, they were so good! I wish she was still around to make those!
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Yeah she did. She kept in in a small crystal bowl in the living room. But it's candy she bought in 1954 and it's been sitting in the same bowl ever since. "No thanks, Grandma." She passed away last year at 103, and she left me the candy.
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Yep. Blackcurrant liquorice or those black and white humbug things. I prefered the blackcurrant ones.
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Yes she did. Sometimes there would be chocolate kisses or caramels. But the majority of the time there were red and white peppermints. She felt that peppermints were actually better for us.
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Yes, she did. The were hard candies shaped like peanuts with a soft center. I loved those things. She would change the candies at holiday time.
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Yes, usually some type of mints, and so did my great-grandmother.
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