# Christmas goodies from your vendors, which ones do you love and which do you hate?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 3, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-goodies-from-your-vendors-which-ones-do-you-love-and-which-do-you-hate/675365 "2013-12-03T13:22:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-goodies-from-your-vendors-which-ones-do-you-love-and-which-do-you-hate/675365/1 "2013-12-03T13:22:33Z")

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So I’ve been tasked with sending out the Xmas goodies to our customers. I always enjoy the chocolate we receive, but not the peanuts and stale popcorn. So I’m looking to please the majority.

How about you guys, what do you enjoy best? I have a $25.00 limit for some and an $85.00 limit for others.

Several of my customers are in Canada, by the way, so if anyone has a suggestion for a Canadian supplier of such goody baskets, that would be helpful. I hear that shipping food from here to there can be a pain.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-goodies-from-your-vendors-which-ones-do-you-love-and-which-do-you-hate/675365/2 "2013-12-03T13:26:28Z")

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Harry & David fruit is fantastic.

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**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-goodies-from-your-vendors-which-ones-do-you-love-and-which-do-you-hate/675365/3 "2013-12-03T15:05:35Z")

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Boxes of mixed citrus fruits were always a hit, as were cheese boxes. The popcorn or cookies were usually less popular.

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**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-goodies-from-your-vendors-which-ones-do-you-love-and-which-do-you-hate/675365/4 "2013-12-03T16:26:23Z")

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I don’t have vendors, but my husband’s boss does. For the last couple of years she has passed on to him a Texas pecan pie that one of her business associates gives out as Christmas gifts. I swear the thing must weight 10 pounds and I’m afraid I eat most of it myself.

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**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-goodies-from-your-vendors-which-ones-do-you-love-and-which-do-you-hate/675365/5 "2013-12-04T11:10:07Z")

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Thanks all of you.