An orange in your stocking!!

[Miljea]

Will this soon be as exciting for our children as it was for our grandparents in 1945?

My mum was 12, and recalls the re-arrival of citrus fruit to the post-war UK!

Like a bit of nostalgia at Christmas.... 😂

My children 4 and 8 have always got an orange in their stocking (when they were old enough) and they love it every year!

We always have satsuma and little box of raisins in our stockings, usually get eaten whilst opening the rest of the stocking presents.

We still have a satsuma, a nut and a bag of chocolate coins at the bottom of pur stockings.
We then come downstairs and put the satsumas back in the fruit bowl and the nuts back in the nut bowl!

@captainprincess

I think the OP may be referring to brexit, re will this soon be as exciting as it was for our parents/grandparents

Yup.

@AuntieStella what a terrible thing to wish on a stranger! I hope ALL your gifts this year are oranges. Every single one. Maybe a lemon too

But how do you get this past them when - in my house at least - we have a bowl full of clementines and a glass jar full of cashews and pecans plus another one filled with dried fruit?

There must be a satsuma in the toe, that's how you know it's the end of the presents!
Never really thought about it before but yes it must be a hangover from the war.

I got coal once as a teenager!

My ds wrote in his Santa letter this year ‘please may I not have a satsuma in my stocking this year?’

Dd loves them. I’m going to give ds an apple instead.

Always

Always a satsuma, a coin and a bag of chocolate coins in the toe!

Quote: "Oh it just would not be Christmas without a 10p in the to and then a satsuma, a tube of smarties, a bag of chocolate coins and then maybe 4 or 5 actual gifts. I always had that as a child."
EXACTLY THIS! Always, always a 10p, a satsuma, a tube of smarties, a nail file, a pencil and note pad, and a bag of chocolate coins. ALWAYS. Each and every year as far back as I remember. Big presents (board games etc) were separate.

We always put an orange in our children’s stockings, they were 2 last Christmas and bloody loved it
This year, we are putting mangoes in. My daughter asked the other day if we could buy a mango... oh to be a 3 year old.

@WorraLiberty 🤣🤣🤣

Not from UK and we do a Santa sack and then presents under the tree from parents so a bit different I guess, but I would have thought I was on the naughty list if I found an orange or mandarin (or toothbrush as I read on another post) in my stocking.

I always got one and put them in my dcs stockings too. Once dd thought she’d been naughty and that the orange was the equivalent of a lump of coal 😄
Having seen them so excited when we got eggs and bananas after they’d been hard to find at the start of the first lockdown I’m now wondering if by next year an orange will indeed be a rare treat again 😢

Um... the point of my OP is that one of the products that will disappear certainly in the short term, maybe longer term, from our supermarkets - is oranges....as in 'citrus'.

Hence they may become as precious, or at least, rare - to our DC as they were to our elderly parents, or grandparents in 1945.

Or are we really so much 'not on the same page' that this hadn't occurred to 'some'?

DC will definitely be getting oranges in their stockings, they are the baby's favourite food - he bangs the highchair angrily the whole time it take me to peel one for him!

I also put gingerbread men in, I think they feel festive.

Mine get a chocolate orange, and this year they might not even get that because I ate them

An actual piece of fruit would not be a happy gift for either of them.

I didn't do it one year and had an outcry from the children.
I was reminded this year by my 19yo asking if I'd got them or should she buy some from the shop when she was going.

A tangerine and nuts were in my stocking every year. They were always far more special than the others in the fruit bowl. A good memory.

I always put an orange in the kids stockings..........I mean I usually find it under the bed half way through the summer but they still get one !!

In fact I'm only 39 and as a child we used to go to my uncles works, Christmas party which was a cinema trip. At the end we'd be given £3 each in a brown envelope (( which I'd cross the road to spend it in the co op on a Santa visit )) a selection box and a brown paper bag with a huge apple and orange in.

Oh yes, sorry! I did get that from your OP but then I got distracted by the other posts discussing whether it was exciting or not now

I don't think it's that likely, really. If there are supply issues it is likely to be a temporary blip.

@BertieBotts

Oh yes, sorry! I did get that from your OP but then I got distracted by the other posts discussing whether it was exciting or not now

I don't think it's that likely, really. If there are supply issues it is likely to be a temporary blip.

Same here my children already treat it as exciting without shortages so yes, if they can’t have them for a while then yes, they will be even more exciting

It’s a little bit of tradition here. A quirk. Family think I’m hatstand anyway.

Due to this wretched virus, I’ve sent my adult kids & their partners their stockings this year, complete with clementine, tube of Jelly Tots, coal shaped bath bombs & a selection of chewy sweets. They’re partners think I’m loopy anyway, but my daughter in law did call me earlier this year to make sure I’d remember the Jelly tots as it’s now not Christmas without them!

(I also hand make each new partner a stocking - and each doggo too - which usually nestles on our fireplace for our big family Christmas. Oddly, everyone has a stocking except me, because that would be weird lol).

*Their, not they’re, obviously. D’oh.