I also received an orange or tangerines in the toe of my stocking. It's an old tradition based as far as I can tell the the orange was considered a luxury item in the winter. The is even a mentioning of an orange in a stocking of a Laura Ingalls Wilder book. We also got gold wrapped chocolate coins based on the merchant that had three daughters and no dowry. Funny how we keep doing things and we don't even no way