The bourgeoisie originally used the fragile boxes to hold snuff, fake beauty marks and hard candies.

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Of course they are not known by cute marketing terms like they are in the U.S. There, the kids who are selling hard candies at an Avenida Paulista stop light are just plain poor.

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Like so many other spirits, I was first introduced to the cane spirit during college after it had been blended (poorly) into a trash can filled with sparkly carbonated stuff a ton of artificial fruit juices, some citrus that I think was left over from the previous year, bubble gum and some hard candies with ice bought at the gas station up the street.

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