The See's Candy thief!

First, I have to start with a background story about See's Candy... Sorry it's a little long but I think worth the read and hopefully a chuckle!

Easter is a big deal to us Greeks and every year my Auntie Anna and Uncle Mike would have a HUGE Easter party at their house. This began for as long as I can remember. My dad would leave the house early to help out with the preparations. Mainly, skewing two lambs on an open pit in their background. (yes, this is why I am a vegetarian!) Later, my brothers would go in my dad's place to help out.

They would host anywhere from 40-75 people over for dinner and Greek dancing. One of my fondest memories as a kid and even into adulthood. Someone would always bring them a big box of See's Candy for hosting the party and the Sarganis Clan, though never my dad and my mom was the instigator, would hunt down this famous box. My mom would carefully unwrap the box and one of us would stand guard. Each one of us would take a piece, rearrange it and remove the empty wrappers. Then my mom would carefully wrap it back up.

We did this for YEARS! We all thought we were so clever and funny. We did this in good spirits. My mom did confess to Auntie Anna years later, I'll have to ask my mom what her response was.

I've have told our kids this story and they think it's funny too. Though, some in our family don't see the humor in it. But that's another story.

Skip to Christmas 2010. My Auntie Cyrse sent us a big box of See's Candy for the holidays. My daughter Cate got the mail and snuck the box up to her room and did exactly what we had done for years to my Auntie Anna. Though, she wasn't as sneaky and stuck in an IOU note in the box and didn't remove the empty wrappers.

I laughed so hard when I opened up the box for Christmas Morning. Mind you, I didn't know that it had ever arrived. I told both my mom and Auntie Cryse what Cate had done and they both laughed as well.

So, if you have a box of Candy around the Sarganis Clan just know that you have been forewarned!

Now we have done this for years too. Take a bite and if we don't like it put the half eaten piece back in box. I mean why throw away a half of a piece if someone else in the family might like it? lol