The Advent Calendar of Good, and Bad, Holidaty Eats: Day 4 - Spice Drops

The pre-Christmas Day season of Advent is upon us. Here at SeedSing we love the chocolaty goodness of getting a piece of candy once a day until we get to open our presents. As our gift to you we will present a treat associated with the holiday season. Many will be awesome, some will be terrible. Enjoy.

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Day 4: Spice Drops

The dark side of tradition is that we are forced to endure through some of the terrible things that were a fond part of our ancestors past. The very concept of  tradition is to not allow anything new to replace that of which is old. Some holiday traditions have great merit. Gift giving, throwing parties, be nice to our fellow person, these are good things handed down from the past. Spice drops, that is a holiday tradition that needs to die.

Spice drops are terrible candies that also lie to you. They are red and green gumdrops that do not have the nice sweet fake fruit flavors of gumdrops one gets during the other eleven months of the year. Spice drops replaces the good stuff with things like cloves, allspice, anise, and spearmint. Those are all traditional holiday flavors that work in many things, they do not work in gumdrops. The tradition of eating spice drops is one that disappoints kids and adults alike, and the bags of red and green terribleness will haunt the grocery store clearance aisle well into the new year.

Tradition is a good thing. It is something we should learn from and adapt for each new generation. We should not take a wonderful season like Christmas and hang a dark cloud of red and green terribleness. Keep tradition alive by killing off the spice drops. It will make for many happy holidays in the future.

RD

RD is the Head Editor for SeedSing. Sometimes the best way to wash out the bad taste of spice drops is to have a good cry with a famous holiday television episode. Might we recommend the heartbreaking "MASH" episode "Death Takes a Holiday".

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