'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
A holiday tradition in this upstate New York resort town has a peppermint twist: Pig-shaped hard candies are sold with little metal hammers to smash them at Christmas.
`What's the whole idea of the pig and the hammer? What are you doing? And is someone insulting me by giving me a pig?'" said Mike Fitzgerald, owner of Saratoga Sweets, which makes the pigs that can be the size of a big bar of bath soap.
Fitzgerald said it's possible chefs at the old hotels in Saratoga Springs in the late 19th century couldn't easily make marzipan, so they improvised with peppermint hard candy.
