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 DS told me that he marked all the satsumas in the house when he was 9 years old. Then when he saw one in his stocking marked up he knew Father Christmas wasn’t real. I just looked at him and said - well yes of course - that’s because Father Christmas gets the oranges from the house he visits. He looked at me incredulous as if for a second he believed again!

We now have chocolate orange instead of an actual orange. 😂

And an apple, but a different type to the ones we had in the fruit bowl!

@Nc135

My DS told me that he marked all the satsumas in the house when he was 9 years old. Then when he saw one in his stocking marked up he knew Father Christmas wasn’t real. I just looked at him and said - well yes of course - that’s because Father Christmas gets the oranges from the house he visits. He looked at me incredulous as if for a second he believed again!

I remember doing the exact same thing at about that age! DM convinced me for another year with her quick response. The year after, I saw her stuffing all the gifts in her wardrobe and finally gave up the belief.

I forgot one year and they both noticed as like it! It's tradition!

Hilarious some people saying it is a bit mean- it's an extra thing, not in place of anything and it's grabbed from the fruit bowl 😂.

How is it mean? There are other things in there, I always put one in! Mine don't like them and just leave them (I eat them).

@Miljea why do you think oranges are going to disappear and then suddenly become a rare treat going forward?

And yes, it appears every single poster kinda missed that from your op

@LuciaLemon I did get that but got sidetracked by the thought of upset children due to being given a satsuma 🤣🤣

When DD was just-about-old-enough , she got v upset at prospect of a satsuma in stocking as she hates them (“but why, Mummy, why??? Why would Santa doooooo that?”). She settled down with the idea that she’d like a pineapple instead, cue frantic dash to supermarket (20 miles away!!!!) to get one. It was Christmas Eve.

Ours as kids were nuts in the toe, an apple an orange a sugar mouse a bundle of small presents a bag of coins and one present would be a lump of coal or a potato forthe times we had been naughty 😁 we always tried to be sure it wasn't the last one to be opened.

We always had an orange in our pillowcase in the 1970's.

My children get a chocolate orange with a festive knitted cover. This year it's a robin.