Coconuts

We used to get a fake Christmas tree every year.  Most families would buy a real tree around Christmas, but not us.  We would go down to Kmart or Fred Meyer and buy our fake Christmas tree.  Then sell it at the yard sale in the Summer.  We were the only family I knew that bought a fake Christmas tree every year.  

We siblings in the family loathe Brussels sprouts with a passion unequaled. Every big holiday dinner, and especially at Christmas, a huge bowl of them would arrive on the table. We each had to have two....so the dive into the bowl was on at dinner to get the smallest ones (usually lurking right in the very bottom) . One year, when the entire adult family was at home for Christmas, my sister and I noticed an exceptionally LARGE bag of the offending mini-cabbages in the fridge so while the parents were out, we strung a goodly number of them with thread and hung them on the Christmas tree to avoid having to eat them. My dad was the first to notice them as he sat down in his chair (he loathed them as well) and was laughing so hard he couldn't speak. So every year since then, a number of Brussels sprouts get threaded and hung on the tree in three different households.