How many remember what "a hard candy christmas" really is?

Question

Please tell me your stories,

Answer 1

i can remember back in 1947 the city put on a free show and they passed out one orange one apple and a small amount of the hard candy -- yes we might have had some home made cookies and a little bit of fudge for xmass but this was a real treat!!! since i was the youngest of the boys most of my gifts was hand down patch clothes!!! but i did not think i was poor because every one was getting the same thing!!!

Answer 2

I have never heard of that other than the song that Dolly Parton sings. If you mean, when times were hard, and kids
were lucky to recieve an orange, or other fruit, and some
nuts to crack,and some old fashioned hard candy and not
much else. Then no, I never experienced one like that. I
never had a stocking to put anything into, in fact. We never
hung stockings when I was growing up. After I left home, and
our family had moved to a bigger, newer home, then my
mother hung up stockings for my sisters and the animals too.
Funny we never had them.when I still lived at home. And we'd had a fireplace with a mantle back then, too. I guess I was left out (sniff).
My mother told me tho, her best Christmas growing up was
the year she and her sisters got a stocking with an orange
and an apple and some walnuts and some hard candy. And
they didn't have any other gifts. So they savored everything
in their stockings, and saved the candy til last. The way she
described finally getting to suck on that candy made my
mouth even water. For that was a luxury that was never on
hand for a treat during their depression years. In fact, when they were really small, they all lived in a sod house, on the prairie. And times were very hard. The land was dry and it was hard to grow anything. Many of the farmers tried their hand at making hard liquor, and I heard later in life, that my grandpa was one as well. I don't know if he made it to sell. But I have read that many farmers did back then, for those in the cities. People scratched by any way they could. Especially when there were several mouths to feed.

Answer 3

When I was growing up in the 60s, the church I attended gave a Christmas party and each child received a paper lunch bag that contained an apple, orange, some loose nuts and some loose pieces of hard candy. I also remember when I was growing up part of our Christmas decorations included a candy dish of hard candy and this was the only time of year you could eat as many pieces as you wanted. (This was the only time of year the candy dish was set out)

Answer 4

I don't know what a Hard Candy Christmas is. This is all I found.

"Hard Candy Christmas" is a song written by composer/lyricist Carol Hall for the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Near the end of the original play, individual girls of the brothel sing lines of the verses as they are preparing to leave; they join together on the refrains. This pattern was adopted for the film version of the musical, except for the fact that Dolly Parton (who played Miss Mona) is featured as soloist on the refrains, with the girls accompanying her. A further alteration can be found on the soundtrack album for the film, in which Parton alone sings the verses.

Parton's version of the song was released as a single and reached the top ten on the U.S. country singles chart in November 1982.

In 1997, the song was covered by Rupaul on the album "Ho Ho Ho" featuring Michelle Visage and Barbara Mitchell, and new version of the song was recorded by Texan singer Pauline Reese in 2005 on the various artists album A Texas Country Christmas and Leigh Nash on her Christmas EP Wishing for This in 2006

As an extra special Christmas gift to fans of The Venture Bros., a version of the song was released in 2005 as performed by Henchmen nos. 21 and 24 and The Mighty Monarch.

Wikipedia >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Candy_Christmas