Sugar plums came up in a conversation today. They aren’t the sugar plums from Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore where he visually moves us to the children lying in their beds with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. Or are they? What are sugar plums really? When I have called someone a sugar plum it is a term of endearment meaning sweetheart or darling but the real sugar plum is a candy. It is a hard piece of candy made of hardened sugar in a small round or oval shape. They call it a plum not because it is the fruit but because of the shape. So all you sugar plums – whoever and whatever you are. You are sweet, tasty, a sweetheart and very darling.
Tara Truly 