What's so appealing about dates?

What’s so “a-peeling” about dates? Well first you have to know what kind of date I’m talking about. It’s not the “perfect date”... “April 15. It’s not too cold not too hot. All you need is a light jacket!” (Name the movie for a prize) Not that kind, and it’s also not the kind where you are a teenager getting off the phone all twitter-pated having been asked out by (change to higher voice pitch and sing it) “the OMG Cutest guy ever!”. No it’s the kind that grow in huge bunches on trees, tall ones and at about this time every year that they become something of a valuable commodity. You see, dates are one of the main ingredients for a traditional Christmas Time treat known as Date Candy, a caramel roll of goodness literally brimming with pecans. For many this candy is the pinnacle of Christmas Treats. Take a bite of Date Candy and Christmas is on the way, you get the idea. So you are scratching your head and asking in yer best Arkansas accent, “Hey Pa, it’s August idn’t it? Thot so.” But that’s the problem, when you want to make date candy in December, the date season is long since over. So being the forward thinking and planning types you know us to be, we have to gather and glean the dates now, @ or near Mom’s Birthday, for a Merry Christmas later. Kind of Law of the Harvesteque, if you will. Plus, the process of peeling the dates is messy and time consuming, kind of like milking mice to give you mind a visual. Still it gets done, and in December when the candy is ready you might just say that’s appealing to me.