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Originally Posted by glatt
Do they still have Hickory Farms stores? That's so 1982. I remember those gift boxes with the different flavors of processed "cheese" wedges wrapped in foil.
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No more stores, although there was one in the mall near my house up through the mid-80s. The kiosks appear every November in the middle of the malls, though, with the exact same cheese and beef stick assortments that they've sold forever. I often believe that they were all manufactured at the same time, and stored in a warehouse and released in small batches once a year. The kiosks disappear without a trace over Christmas Day, like the curio shops in short stories which sell monkey's paws and tarnished lamps which beg to be shined and wonders of all kinds all of which come with a price, rather than just for one.