Halloween treats for children

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  1. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    As a kid we always hated the people who gave out healthy food on Halloween, I think kids would rather eat candy on Halloween than carrot sticks or apples (unless their caramel). What's so bad about eating candy?
     
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  3. Rayne_Phoenix Registered Member

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    i don't see anything wrong with candy at halloween, I know every year we give out instant hot chocolate packs because it's normally so cold around here, it's something to warm you up when you get home.
     
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  5. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    It's only one day a year. Just make sure your kids brush their teeth really good before bed.
     
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  7. Rayne_Phoenix Registered Member

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    agree, it also means you have to spend less money on junk food and crap for the next couple months cause they already have a crap load
     
  8. superstring01 Moderator

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    As a kid, if you gave me raisins, they would have ended up on your front lawn or on your roof. I'm a health nut, and I think that parents are idiots for the junk they feed their kids on a day-to-day basis, but Halloween is about candy. That's the point. If people would only take a little more care in the normal meals they feed their kids, they wouldn't have to worry about giving out raisins on Halloween and Easter.

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  9. mrow Unless Registered Senior Member

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    I had an elderly neighbor who always gave me pennies on Halloween.
     
  10. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    There was a beautiful, old, run-down mansion not far from where I lived.
    Its property bordered my grammar school playground.
    There were lots of stories about that place being haunted and inhabited by a crazy old man who would kill children.
    Kids used to peer through the fence between the playground and the woods behind the house and say they saw dead bodies swinging from branches.

    In realitiy, it was owned by a nice, young couple who bought it and were fixing it up.
    If you went to their house on Halloween - which VERY few would do - they gave out silver fifty cent pieces and silver dollars.
     
  11. Mr. Hamtastic whackawhackado! Registered Senior Member

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    Giving out individual marshmallows is not too popular with parents I have noticed. Same goes for those lick and stick tattoos. Rock Candy has definitely waned as a good treat apparently. Chewable Vitamin C and flinstones is this year's experiment for me.
     
  12. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    I really hope you aren't serious.

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  13. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I miss the days where you could get home-made caramel apples and popcorn balls. We still have a lady in our neighborhood that makes handsize cookies. There is always a line. People new to the neighborhood are a little ambivalent, but we all say "What?! Its Grandma Sally! Of course they're good"
    People just aren't used to a small town.
     
  14. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    LOL, they might as well hand out eggs and toilet paper.
     
  15. Steve100 O͓͍̯̬̯̙͈̟̥̳̩͒̆̿ͬ̑̀̓̿͋ͬ ̙̳ͅ ̫̪̳͔O Valued Senior Member

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    Bonfire toffee.

    Nothing beats it.
     
  16. lucifers angel same shit, differant day!! Registered Senior Member

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    yeah but you need to see the dentist after eating it!
     
  17. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    Halloween generates a contradiction when it comes to telling children to collect candy from strangers. In the UK there use to be "public advertisements" telling children not to take sweets from strangers, yet it's still encourage at this time of year.

    It's assumed that there are a number of deviants that would give your child a lot of things that they would see as pranks, Laxatives being one and a number of Hallucinogenic street purchased drugs being another. I would seriously only suggest going to relatives and family friends and giving complete strangers a wide birth, but that's me being cautious.
     
  18. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    When I was kid, if you gave out something other than candy (apples, raisins etc) you WERE going to get egged, no question about it. It's "Trick or Treat" and an apple ain't a treat...candy is a treat. Your ass is getting tricked.

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  19. CutsieMarie89 Zen Registered Senior Member

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    But then you wouldn't get any candy. That's why your parents are supposed to check your candy before you eat it at least that's the message they push in the US. "Remember to let your parents check your candy". Most people people don't do stuff like that and the razorblade in the apple was a hoax, but when I was little we weren't allowed to eat anything people had made or candy that had opened wrappers. After 17 or so years of trick or treating I've never had an incident.
     
  20. Mr. Hamtastic whackawhackado! Registered Senior Member

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    My horde descends upon our neighborhood like beasts, with me and the wife in tow. The people who get egged around here, drive through the damned neighborhood at 7 pm during prime trick or treat time. It's an unwritten rule around here, 5pm-8pm, I don't care if you are pushing a car in our neighborhood, it's getting egged, probably by parents. I almost got arrested last year, egged the shit out of the sheriff's car. I told him he should have had his tilt-a-whirls going, so he let me go.

    Nah, no vitamins. I picked this 20 lb bag of randomly assorted super tooth decay and diabetes promoting poison up at Sam's for 20 bucks. High grade stuff, too. Last year we spent a hundred dollars on the reese's big cups. Found out 3 kids were allergic, had to give the little buzzards a dollar apiece!

    I dunno, I might break out the barbeque and make hot dogs out front. I hate barbequing, but having the neighbors be nice to your kids is worth it. I'm still thinking on it.
     
  21. Lordznebula5 Registered Member

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    How about some eggs and Guinness?

    No but seriously tell the kids to not combine eating Mentos chewy mints with drinking soda; since doing so results with volcanic eruption of foam.
     
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