# Unusual gifts that you got at Christmas

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-gifts-that-you-got-at-christmas/679112>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 18, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-gifts-that-you-got-at-christmas/679112 "2014-01-18T00:08:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Inter\_Alia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@Inter\_Alia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inter_Alia)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-gifts-that-you-got-at-christmas/679112/21 "2014-01-20T19:13:12Z")

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> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> So … What IS it telling you?

I haven’t even opened the book. I get grossed out pretty easily. Maybe I’ll take a peek inside the book and see how bad it is.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-gifts-that-you-got-at-christmas/679112/22 "2014-01-20T22:04:43Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> And possibly filled marzipans.

OOO. I find marzipan by itself to be the food of the gods. Please tell me what are your marzipans filled with!?  
Nothing unusual this Christmas. Last year was: [http://www.pacprod.com/cookie/16178.jpg](http://www.pacprod.com/cookie/16178.jpg) :eek:

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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-gifts-that-you-got-at-christmas/679112/23 "2014-01-20T22:18:42Z")

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- clicks **gigi** ’s link \*
- makes puzzled noise \*
- cocks head to one side like a confused dog … one that perhaps is wearing overalls \*

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-gifts-that-you-got-at-christmas/679112/24 "2014-01-20T23:30:02Z")

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Yes, the head comes off and he is a cookie jar!

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-gifts-that-you-got-at-christmas/679112/25 "2014-01-20T23:50:25Z")

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> [@gigi](#):
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> OOO. I find marzipan by itself to be the food of the gods. Please tell me what are your marzipans filled with!?

havent decided yet.

I did think of taking the really [tiny snowflake mold](http://ckimg.net/catalog/images/90/90-4146.jpg) and making tiny royal icing flavored with peppermint snowflakes, and then taking the maple leaf mold and making marzipan maple leaves and airbrushing them in [autumn colors](http://tileswithstyle.com/images/airbrushed%20orange%20and%20green%20ceramic%20leaf%20tiles.jpg) and embedding the snowflake in the top surface for a Bujold list meet up nosh. Or maybe covering the [top](http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2011/11/22/FNM-120111_FC-Opener-001_s3x4_lead.jpg) of the leaf with gold leaf and embedding the snowflake in the top.

I think that umeboshi paste might be nice with marzipan - the salty sour plum would go well with the sweet almond - at least I think it would.

I am going to make ma’moun with red bean paste filling in the lotus molds this coming weekend, I just have to get around to making the red bean paste.

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