Cecilie1200
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Pimento stuffed green olives. The cheap ones in the jar. Mom always put them in my Christmas stocking because I love them, and because if she didn't, I'd end up emptying the dish on the table at Christmas dinner.
My stocking was always my favorite part of Christmas. One year when I was in my early twenties, mom decided I was too old for a stocking and announced it a day or so before Christmas. I didn't say anything to her, but I told a cousin how disappointed I was, and she told mom on Christmas Eve, when it was too late for her to do anything about it.
So I got up on Christmas morning to find one of those crocheted mini stocking ornaments tacked to the kitchen wall, with a rolled up $50 bill and, on a toothpick, one green olive attached to the top.
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It's a tradition in our house for my oldest son to get a gift box of gourmet hot sauces, the weirdest and spiciest ones I can find. He puts hot sauce in everything except ice cream (and I won't swear he hasn't tried that), and goes through the entire box by February.
My mom has a tradition of giving my brother a summer sausage gift box from Hickory Farms. He loves those things, and hides the box in his room so no one else will eat it.