I grew up in California where See’s Candy is made. The box comes wrapped in white paper with a gold sticker on each end to hold down the flaps. At holiday times they wrap in seasonal paper if you want. When I was young it was $1.75 a pound (the 60’s or so.) At Christmas we three kids would scramble to see who could get to See’s first - inexpensive presents, already wrapped! You couldn’t lose.

See’s didn’t ship candy outside the state in those days because it melted too easily (no additives, just butter, sugar, chocolate, nuts, etc.) When we drove to WV for the summer we would always bring several boxes for the relatives, and every time my grandmother flew to WV part of her suitcase was reserved for See’s candy. Several years ago a cousin visited us in Calif and when she was leaving for home I asked if she wanted to get some See’s candy. She didn’t seem interested - they have candy in WV. Until she saw the box, and realized that See’s was the wonderful candy she got as a kid when we came to visit. She bought pounds of it to take home to WV.

http://www.sees.com/

That’s the website for See’s. It’s a little more than $1.75 per pound, but it is SO worth whatever they charge!

I didn't have Sees until I married. I heard my friend talk about it and when I married, my sister in law sent me some from Los Angeles.

I read later, that the late Bing Crosby's wife and daughter would get a pound  box and sit and eat the whole thing, with milk, at Christmas.

When my sister in law sends a box up to NY…we are all eating it. LOL Good stuff! I like the milk chocolate ones, hate marzipan of any type…and I had thier Toffee too - that's good. I need to eat less candy…my dentist told me keeping that candy off my teeth is alot cheaper than dental work. LOL I should know that, being a prior dental assistant..but it's soooo good.

I get the catalog…and drool. LOL