Treats, what was dropped in your Halloween sack?
Back in your trick or treat days, what did folks hand-out when you rang the doorbell? When you arrived home, did you eat your favorite candy first? Trade with siblings? Find your parents eating some of the treats? What were some of the best & worst Halloween treats? Money? What treats will you hand-out this year?
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11 Comments:
First of all, I used to collect WAY too much candy. I think it lasted me well into the new year. My least favorite "legitimate" treat was bit-o-honey. Eew. The one treat I am still waiting for my kids to bring home (better hurry as they are almost too old to trick or treat) is BUN candy bars. Man, those were good! It was also really fun getting wax lips in the treat bag. No one gives those anymore. Perhaps I will this year...
latteaday at 1:35AM on 09/29/07
Chocolate.
I was never a big sweets eater as a kid, but Halloween was the day I could get and eat as much chocolate as I liked. I tried to trade off all the other candies like Smarties and lollipops and Twizzlers for other peoples' chocolate.
Unfortunately, no one in this household eats that much candy, so after I've had my fill, the rest of the candy bag lingers around like a persistant and slightly annoying house guest..and ultimately the dregs (like peanut butter cups that have been around the jolly ranchers too long and have started to take on weird artificially fruity flavors) get thrown out.
My standards are such that I try to give out desireable chocolate bars every year, but I crave difference and variety...
But I don't know how much the neighborhood kids or their parents would like homemade, unlabeled handouts...
fuuchan at 2:55AM on 09/29/07
Back in the 50's, I use to take a pillow case on my route :) Never ate that much in the end, but felt the need to acquire as as much as possible--ha! Would receive mostly full size candy bars & homemade treats were still given out back then. I did enjoy getting full size pkgs of gum & money, of course!
Nowdays, we can take the kids excess or left-overs to the office or chop up & add approp. candy to cake, cookie & brownie recipes.
I'm one of those who give out those unpopular little boxes of raisins :)
JEP at 4:04AM on 09/29/07
Years ago, my then-10-year-old son was at a neighborhood Halloween party, when a reporter for a major metropolitan daily visited. The fellow quoted him as saying, "Halloween's like New Year's Eve for kids." An apt comparison, I think.
I try very hard NOT to buy candy I like for giving out to kids. But when I was that age in a small Missouri town, the great treat was popcorn balls, seldom found but much coveted. We dreamed of caramel apples, but no one gave them out, not even the town doctor, who must've been the most affluent resident. A full-sized candy bar was good; apples, even then, were deeply boring. Money was rare; only when people ran out of goodies and were loath to turn off all the lights. (And then it usually went to UNICEF.)
lemons at 10:59AM on 09/29/07
I really liked those generic black or orange-wrapped peanut butter chews. For some reason they taste very good to me!
Once I got a Jello pudding snack. That was pretty good.
mlo at 2:47AM on 09/30/07
When I was a kid, my favourite treat was a pint of chocolate milk. I think the giver was the neighbourhood milkman.
earlydrive at 11:25AM on 09/30/07
Definitely chocolate and Bit O' Honey. My favorites were Mr. Goodbars and mini Hershey's with almonds. I also liked to collect those black plastic spider rings and cover my fingers with them, though I guess those aren't edible. :)
Christina at 2:41AM on 10/01/07
All of the comments are bringing back childhood memories :) Popcorn balls & caramel apples were given out back then, collecting for UNICEF, too. Sometimes kids appreciate those non-edible items, like the rings. Pudding & milk hand-outs--creative!
JEP at 6:54AM on 10/01/07
I really can't remember what was in the candy bag, other then I used a pillowcase and it lingered afterwards for a while. But since I have moved to CA I have yet to have one trick or treater on Halloween:( The first couple of years I would buy the little candy bars and have them in my bowl by the front door, waiting for the kids to come around. At the end of the night the same amount would still be there, so eventually I just stopped buying candy. My parents and Grandparents on the other hand get close to 100 kids every year!
Sarahrm at 1:14PM on 10/01/07
At Halloween parties, I can remember how much fun it was to bob for apples!
Ever win a Halloween costume contest?
JEP at 7:02PM on 10/01/07
Chocolate chocolate and more chocolate. I was handed Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Mounds, Almond Joy, Kit Kats...you name it. My favorites were the Twix bars!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 6:40PM on 10/04/07