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Dear Reader,
I'm on holiday, so today I'm running one of my favorite holiday columns.
I cleaned out my refrigerator yesterday. It was still filled with "holiday" leftover items. Some of them I shouldn't have bought because we didn't even eat them, and we never do, but I keep buying them every Christmas season anyway.
I guess it's just hard to break old habits. I have this picture of Christmas in my mind and it includes certain foods from my childhood. French Onion dip, vegetable dip, cheese, salami and crackers, all displayed on a Lazy Susan accompanied by an assortment of vegetables for dipping into those dips, and pecan pie. Those were the foods that were always in our house at Christmastime.
But now there aren't enough of us in my family to eat all the "holiday" foods I buy, and no one eats dip except me, and absolutely no one in our family eats pecan pie.
So why do I buy these things?
I don't understand it. I could buy these things any time of the year, if I wanted to, but I don't--until they start piping Christmas music into the supermarket, and then I head straight to the chip and dip aisle.
The pecan pie?
My Grandpa Hale loved pecan pie. His birthday was the day before Christmas, and he'd start eating his favorite pie on the 24th and he was still eating it until New Years Day. It was a once a year treat, because nobody else in our family liked pecan pie. But even long after Grandpa passed away, my mother kept making his pie, and I've kept up the tradition.
But I did make a little bit of progress this year, because Grandpa Hale also loved chocolate covered cherries--last year I bought three boxes--this year I walked right by.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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