Entries tagged with 'Halloween'
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Carving ideas from pumpkinway.com As we mentioned last week, we're excited to hold our first Pumpkin Carving Contest. But we're even more excited now that we know specifics on the three top prizes: 1st place: Viking Professional Chef's Cutlery Starter Set (Set includes: Five-inch flexible boning knife, eight-inch chef knife, four-inch paring knife) 2nd place: Eight-inch Viking Professional Chef's Knife 3rd place: Four-inch Viking Professional Paring Knife All Viking knives are stainless steel, have a lifetime warranty, and are handmade in Germany with authentic Old World craftsmanship. (They are not necessarily for pumpkins.)...
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We're back with Vintage Candy Monday, in celebration of Halloween. This week, an oldie-but-goodie from way out west. There are other taffies, and then there are Abba-Zabas. It's weird to grow up eating (and loving) Abba-Zabas and only later realize that every child east of the Rockies didn't. The white outside has the look and chew factor of Airheads, but the inside filling is peanut butter—mildly salty peanut butter, which provides that sweet-to-salty factor we love (kettle corn, salted caramel, trail mix). In 1917, a Russian immigrant named Sam Altshuler arrived in the United States and later founded the Annabelle Candy Company, responsible for the Abba-Zabas (which come in regular or sour green apple taffy flavors). The fact that the...
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Like any good dentist, Linda King of Locust Grove, Georgia, is handing out toothbrushes and pretzels for Halloween. Additionally, as a godsend to parents, she's buying back candy after Halloween is over. For $1 a pound, she'll take kids' extra candy and send it to military members overseas through Operation Gratitude. Last year she bought back about 60 pounds of candy. Imagine yourself as a kid. Would you sell your candy back to Dr. King?...
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Photographs from Halloween Mart and Fire Box I came across this brain Jello-O mold while searching for decorations for my Halloween party. It's pretty creepy looking, and I'm not sure I would eat it, but I bet it make a great centerpiece. If a human brain isn't your thing, consider a zombie brain, an anatomical heart, or a hand. Related Photo of the Day: Rainbow Jell-O This Is What the Internet Was Made For: Jello Time...
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Who knew that Doritos even had an online virtual universe? Well, the nacho-snack-chip folks there have added a virtual haunted hotel to it. Hotel 626 is only open from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., otherwise you have to make a reservation to visit later. It's best to visit with headphones, a webcam, and a microphone—they help you complete challenges once inside. [via AdRants]...
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On Fridays, Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 drops by with Serious Grape. This week, she explores Halloween wines. Two weeks from tonight, all the young ghosties and ghoulies will be out in full force, donning costumes and collecting candy. If you're over the age of twenty—one, you might have a different plan for the evening—one that maybe involves costumes, but certainly involves wine. When it comes to Halloween wine, of course it's as important as ever that the wine is good value and tastes great. That's the treats part of trick-or-treat. But how about the wine's costume? For me, the trick to Halloween wine is to find one that is not only affordable and tasty—it has to have...
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Hel-lo, pumpkin. As Helen of Ready Steady Go points out, this is a good reason to love October and Japan simultaneously. The Japanese stick snacks Pocky have been spotted in such flavors as banana, green tea, and milk, but pumpkin? Even lifetime Pocky eater Robyn was speechless. Good News: The ingredients contain actual pumpkin. Bad News: They may not taste like actual pumpkin....
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Photograph from rochelle, et. al. on Flickr Halloween candy allegiance is so subjective. An Almond Joy can inspire love or nausea in different people. Same with Laffy Taffy, Milk Duds, and Whoppers. Please reveal your favorite candy, and fight for why you think it's so good. Related: Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'...
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Evil Mad Scientist has a detailed guide on making edible googly eyes for cupcakes, cookies, and other baked goods. The trick lies in using edible gelatin capsules cut down into eye domes, with jumbo round sprinkles as pupils. Sprinkles go in the cut-down capsules, and capsules are affixed to an appropriate substrate: It "needs to be sturdy, so that it can support the rest of the eyes, light in color, and completely dry and free of oil. At the same time, it needs to be soft enough that we can press the gelatin capsules into it." Whoppers cut in half seem to make an ideal substrate. For the complete how-to, step into the EMS laboratory....
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"[Steve] Connolly's pumpkin weighed in at 1,568 pounds, just 121 pounds shy of the world record, at the Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Grower's Annual Weigh-Off. But he was disqualified because of the hole, located along a rib of the pumpkin." [Boston Globe via Bostonist]...
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