Whitman's Samplers feel more like February candy to me but the box's wrapping paper is festive and the stuff inside is always tasty so I cracked one open a couple months earlier than usual this year.
Chewing on the chocolates gave me time for reflection. I started thinking about how when I was a kid my family made an annual midsummer drive down into the hills of Tennessee to attend our family reunion. My mom grew up with these people but not me. I was raised miles away and only saw them once a year. When you got right down to it, this gathering wasn't much of a reunion for me because I had no real union to re.
"What does this have to do with Whitman's Samplers?" I'm glad I asked. "Sampler" implies that Whitman is giving you this selection to sample so that you can choose which flavor or flavors you'd like a whole box of. But have you ever seen a whole box of, say, Molasses Chew or Pecan & English Walnut Clusters? I haven't. I doubt they exist anymore. I suspect that all Whitman ever puts in stores is the sampler. Given that, is it really a sampler? Was my reunion really a reunion? I don't know. My Christmas Whitman's Sampler only contained four pieces. I finished the candy before I came to any conclusions. I guess I'll have to reconsider the matter come Valentine's Day.
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