My mom, who is only just shy of 70, said that oranges were a Really Big Deal to get at Christmas. And she grew up in Kentucky!

In the Little House on the Prairie books, they talk about how it was remarkably grand to get a tin cup, and orange, AND a penny! I keep threatening one year to give everyone in my family a tin cup, an orange, and a penny. It was a good idea until I saw the price of a really good authentic tin cup! ;-)