I was in the grocery store on Christmas Eve buying stocking stuffers, and I also bought apples and oranges. The young girl who was the checker asked if I wanted the stocking stuffers in a seperate bag from the fruit, and I explained the fruit was for stockings too. "I wonder why people put fruit in stockings? That's so weird," she said. I had to explain to her that I did it out of tradition, and that at one time, fresh fruit in the dead of winter, at Christmas, was a real treat because it was out of season. She looked at me like I was from Pluto.
LOL. What else do people put in stockings today?
I still put fruit and nuts (in the shell) in stockings.
We always had navel oranges, qumquats and chestnuts at Christmas.