confections

The symbol of the day: the ubiquitous p***y hats, cheerful pink knitted confections worn by women reclaiming control over a body part that Trump memorably boasted about grabbing against his victims' wills.

If you’ve been tapped for hosiery-stuffing detail, consider the quintessentially Californian option of a 5.5-ounce, 7-inch-tall, foil-wrapped milk chocolate Santa from the company that’s been making confections in the Golden State since Canadian chocolate salesman Charles A. See moved to Los Angeles and opened his first shop in 1921, using his mother Mary’s recipes.

These sugar-laden confections are mostly made of high fructose corn syrup, saturated fat and additives.

The article is by the Times’ Melissa Clark, and gets off to a great start immediately with her byline, in which she is described as having an “obsession with British cream teas and 19th-century novels” that “inspires many of her baked confections.”

The company initially began as a small family licorice business and has since branched out into several varieties of confections.