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Detail from a 1958 Vernell’s Butter Mints ad by totallymystified
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Detail from a 1958 Vernell’s Butter Mints ad by totallymystified
December 14, 1972
(includes some great vintage ads)
Homemade Butter Mints
#DYK: November 4th is National Candy Day?
From the JMM collections: Hutzler’s handmade butter mints tin. JMM 1993.42.4.
What’s your favorite “old-timey” candy?
Candy Taster’s Time...
Kraft Candies, 1969
1/24/23
Butter mints? Yes or no?
The hardest of yeses!!
When I was a small child, my family used to visit this one really swanky restaurant for special occasions. Because my family is extra, my parents were always coming up with special occasions - and I got to wear fun dresses, so it was always FUN. They had opera singers in the multi floor restaurant, which was itself in an old mansion in a very chichi part of Vancouver. The history! The huge fireplace! The paintings!
My favourite part was by the exit, a cute, stooped, older Italian man stood by a little cart and you got to select a butter mint or date. I always picked a butter mint. To childhood me it was fucking decadence.
Thank you, @crose84 for this lovely walk down memory lane!!!
The Third Day of Christmas
The Third Day of Christmas
On the third day of Christmas, some candy I did make
And from cooking & cleaning got a break!
The third day of Christmas was spent helping Hubby out at the motel. With how many hours he is away from home, it was nice to spend an entire day with him, even if it had to spent at work. At the end of the day though, Hubby surprised me and took us out to dinner. We don’t go out to dinner very often,…
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