Go suck a lemon.
Posted: December 22, 2008 Filed under: Food, Spouse 2.0, the boys 5 Comments »
We were walking through Wal-Mart yesterday. (I know! What a shocker!) Anyway, I saw these peppermint sticks. Not the shiny candy cane kind, but the soft, candy store ones.
The ones you make lemon sticks with!
So I picked them up and told Andrew we had to get some lemons. He had no idea what I was talking about. And no, he had never sucked a lemon through a peppermint stick. Was I feeling alright?
I was stunned.
Stunned, I say.
It wasn’t until we got home that I realized that this is a Baltimore tradition.
And a yummy (albeit sticky) one at that!
We all enjoyed our lemon sticks immensely.
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Oooh I’ve never heard of soft peppermint sticks before but I want some now, right now please!
Wow — I can’t remember the last time I had a peppermint stick w/ lemon. Probably at the last summer fair or carnival I went to as a kid in Baltimore. (Just a few decades ago… or three.) Sweet and sour doesn’t get any better than that!
I don’t really like peppermint, but that actually sounds very yummy! Looks like he enjoyed it!
King Leo makes a great soft peppermint stick in tins and my grandmother always has them in the summer next to the lemons…yummy
I’ve never heard of King Leo. I’ll look! YUM!