There's a local cupcake/bakery shop that has alllll kinds of sweets! They carry ribbon candy.

Every year at Christmas when we went to my grandparent's home, they gave the hoards of g'kids a bag of some kind. It it was an orange, an apple, a smattering of some kind of nuts and a little package of ribbon candy. It wasn't "Christmas" until we got our little bag!!!

I see it at Bulk Barn around Christmas time. I don’t care for hard candy. Remember the bags of hard Christmas candy?

We used to get it in our stockings as kids, and I liked most of the flavors. But then I liked anything sweet. I found it at Vermont Country store years ago and tried it with my kids, but they didn’t like it.

I love ribbon candy and can't find it anymore. My daughter made some beautiful fake ribbon candy decorations for the tree and gave me some which look so good and realistic I want to eat them.

Remember well. Our church gave us brown bags full of fruit, nuts and ribbon candy after the Christmas play. It was normally the Sunday night before Christmas. Every member of your family would get a bag. Young and old.

I remember it.

I think they still sell it but its been a while since I bought any

Ribbon candy has always been my mother's favorite, so I search around until I find it somewhere so I can add it to her stocking. I didn't do that this year, but she's getting to the point where she won't remember anyway.

I remember it. I haven't seen any in awhile. There was also those little hard candies shaped like fruits with a fruit filling that came in tins. Haven't seen that either.

You can find it at Big Lots at Christmas. It comes in a gift box and in packages with the other hard colorful candy. I got a big glass decorative jar a few years ago filled with all kinds of that hard candy as a gift. It was very pretty.

Yes, Big Lots. Except for this year, we've bought it there every year. It is really satiny and delicate. The flavors are recognizable (my favorite is tangerine), and it is packaged to protect it from jostles and humidity so that you can put it away for awhile if you like.

Yes. It's a memory of Christmas past!

Doug loves it! I found some on Amazon.

I can get it, but the only flavor I've found is Clove... yuk! I too remember the fruit flavors and they were my favorite.

Merilyn, I remember the fruit-shaped candies with the filling. I LOVED those.

Vermont Country Store carries it and most any other nostalgic cookie/candy you can think of.

Oh, the bags of stuff at church! I remember hard candy and an orange. The candy had always stuck to the orange! And it was always given out after the children's pageant.

Yes, I remember it, along with all the other Christmas candy, both solid hard and filled hard. I liked best the ones that were fruit flavored and filled with some sort of fruit filling. The ribbon candy was too hard to eat. But it was part of Christmas when I was a kid. It's not one of the traditions I have continued, though, and I'm not sure why. It's probably been 20 or so years since I've bought any, I have no idea if it's still available or not. I don't remember noticing any when I was shopping.

Rusty

We were talking about that on Christmas Eve. We had it every year growing up. It was something we ate after New Year's when all the fudge and cookies were long gone--that and fruitcake, when we were desperate for something sweet.

The fruit flavors were my favorite too. I liked the lemon. There was also peppermint, wintergreen, and cinnamon. I agree that clove was yuk and the only one I wouldn't eat.

I liked the clove flavor. I remember the church bags with an orange and dark chocolate candy which my mother threw out saying we don't eat that kind of cheap candy.

I remember it but none of us were ever fans. I suppose someone gave it to us at various times as we received gifts of various fruits and such from people my Dad was associated with in business or his civic club. I was never a big hard candy fan nor were my brothers.

I remember ribbon candy but I don't remember liking it. It was definitely not the "thin and delicate" type, though. I also liked looking at those round candies that had designs in them, but again didn't care for eating them. Did love those red raspberries with the hard shell and the thick pasty raspberry center. Or peppermint sticks with chocolate filling.

Oh yes! It was a Christmas tradition. Thanks for the memory.

Sure do! Grandma always had it along with the soft centered candies. We have a local candy store here in town. They carry LOTS of "old time" candies. Fun to look at what they carry. One of my favorite was the red licorice ribbon, it was made in Europe (not sure which country) Dutch maybe? I love that stuff. They still sell it but pretty pricey.

I did not see the hard and filled candies at Dollar General this year. They usually came in a cylinder container with a plastic lid and were cheap. The candy was fresh and tasted very good tho. That's also where I saw the boxes of ribbon candy, but not this year.

Remember it, never ate it but must have tasted it because I know that I didn't like it. Also those gummy orange slices. Mom loved those but I the gummy texture was just too weird so I never ate one beyond a little nip to re-test my dislike. Always, "Yup, these things are awful." Candy canes are OK but could live w/o those, too.

Never had it. But speaking of gross candy, remember those orange Circus Peanuts?

I loved the look of the ribbon candy but not the taste. Disappointing.

DH and I love circus peanuts, but only if they're stale -- then they have some 'chew' to them, lol.

Apparently, it's in the Top 10 worst candies!

The Definitive Ranking of Worst Christmas Holiday Candies

I just remember it as being a mess.

Nickel, I, too, love the circus peanuts. I will eat a few when I first get a bag of them, and then leave the bag open so the rest can 'dry out' a bit.

There was nothing 'thin and delicate' about the ribbon candy we had when i was growing up. It was thick and hard, and hard to eat because of the shape, impossible to bite into. I don't remember what it tasted like.

Rusty

I always liked the ribon candy and the fruit shaped hard candies with the filling but my favorites were those pink wintergreen patties that tasted like Pepto Bismol, LOL. Dad liked the circus peanuts, though.

We always got a small bag of mixed hard candy with a few of those chocolate drops with the white creamy filling, handed out by Santa after the school Christmas program. I remember being in about 6th grade when suddenly I realized that Santa looked familiar. It was my Dad, who was also President of the School Board in the little 3 room country school I attended. I was disappointed at first but after that I got to help fill the bags with candy, and eat as much as I could while I was "working". Elf privilege, you know. We bought the candy in big 25 pound boxes and used a soup ladle to portion out the candy. A ladle of this, one of that, add 4 chocolate drops and some gumdrops. Staple the top. Yeah, it was great, LOL.

We also did peanuts in the shell in separate bags, so everyone got a bag of each.

Annie

Ew I had forgotten the peppermint candies with the chocolate center. Not a favorite of mine. For some reason I just don't like mint. I want to like it because I like the smell, but I can just tolerate it, not enjoy it. I also remember the fruit shaped ones with the weird jelly-ish centers, and the ribbons but not particularly thin. And for some reason also butterscotch wrapped candies. For whatever reason, my mother participated in the tradition of putting out a bowl of hard candies at Christmas. I also remember finding the old stuff in the pantry after it had absorbed a little humidity . . . ick. I even remember getting candy dishes for both my grandmothers as Christmas gifts. I have them all now. I can't imagine doing that now, putting out a dish of hard candy. My teeth and figure would suffer too much. Not worth the calories. But still the adventure of all the shapes and flavors . . . speaking of hard candy, something I DID love receiving was Lifesaver "books." They looked like books, but when you opened them, there was a panel with assorted Lifesaver flavor rolls. One of my favorite Christmas gifts, from back in the day when you did a Christmas gift exchange at elementary school. Lucky was the kid who got one of those . . . such extravagance, except for the butter rum flavored ones . . .

In the 60's my father would order ribbon candy and a fruitcake from the Sears Christmas catalog. The candy was pretty but I didn't care much for it. The fruitcake was actually good..lots of candied fruit and not much cake, their best. He had a hard childhood and those things made him happy.

We saw and bought some a few years ago because of the nostalgia factor. The reality is that it did not get eaten because all it really is is a lump of sugar and not really that appealing. Yes I remember it.

I have never cared for hard sugar candy. It just feels as if it is sitting in your mouth rotting your teeth!

I remember the ribbon candy, but don't remember ever eating any. I saw some recently somewhere this year and had a moment of nostalgia. Even though we never ate it LOL. I do remember the hard covered fruit flavored candies, have not seen them for years. My mom always bought a huge candy log, in my child's mind it was about a foot long and 3" thick. Must have been super cheap, she would take a hammer and break it into smaller pieces. Mostly she loved the orange slices, caramel coconut drop type candy, various colored coconut drops I think they called bon bons.

Nancy, I remember the coconut "bon bons", my Mother loved the things. All pastel colored like pink and green, and they had some kind of a candy coating. I haven't seen them in years, but I didn't like them much, LOL.

I did like the coconut candies that were pink/white/chocolate layers, a small square of coconut candy, but they were fragile enough that we couldn't add them to Christmas bags, and they were available year round.

Mother also loved the Black Jack taffy, but her teeth are bad enough that she can't eat those any more. We've both always loved black licorice.

Annie