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@eeels ROFLMAO!

Reminds of of a conversation recounted by a friend this Halloween. Upon meeting a toddler Yoda, she said, “May the force be with you”.
He responded, immediately, “And also with you”.

I loved the clove, licorice the best but actually enjoyed all the flavors. Didn't know about Neccos being the candy for the soliders..interesting. I lived on an army base when I was a teenager, we would go to the show and throw jujubees at each other...was weird going to the show all the soliders that lived on the base would stand up and cheer when my sister and I walked in, not just for us, they cheered for all young girls age 15, 17 years. Was very strange but I never felt scared, they probably knew who my Dad was!

The intersection between Catholicism and Necco Wafers in this threat is fascinating--perhaps receiving communion makes people more apt to like them? ;)

I used to WANT to like them as a little girl, because of Sweet Tarts and the lovely little sayings on them. Cupcakes with Sweet Tarts 'round Valentine's Day were adorable--but as for the taste? BLECH!

I disagree about a lot of the candy items mentioned here.
I, for one, LOVE the fun-sized (or mini, if you prefer) candies. It's a tiny bit of something insanely tasty, enough to give pleasure without causing tummy pains. When I was a young'un and I went trick-or-treating, one house gave out mini Clark bars. Yum-o-delish! I polished those off first.
I think the chewy peanut butter kisses taste absolutely divine.
Candy corn, I think is plenty of tasty, as are the candy pumpkins made of candy-corn base. Think little dollops of hardened cake-frosting.
As for apples and raisins, those I didn't mind in the least.

However, some items, I do agree about.
Toothbrushes -- a boring reminder
Religious pamphlets -- disappointing and WEIRD to boot.
Packages of "normal" food -- oh, for crying in Manhattan, what kid wants to receive a can of baked beans or a box of oat bran in his little plastic jack-o-lantern.
One time I received cough drops -- and not the Ludens or Pine Bros or Smith Bros or F&Fs, which are tasty and could pass as hard candy (as can the Ricolas). These were nasty little green pellets that were -- and tasted like -- MEDICATION. Like I said, for crying in Manhattan! For crying in Manhattan, Chicago, and San Francisco

Oh well. At least I didn't get a ROCK

If I didn't live in an apartment building with no kids in it I'd be giving out and full sized candy bar AND a red bull to every kid. HAHAHA!!! HALLOWEEN IS FOR KIDS! SUCK IT PARENTS!

Nice try. Carving Martha's face would have given you just as much challenge as Che's murderous mug. (Not that she's really one to be idolized either, but at least she wasn't a Communist.)
There are plenty of other people who represent equality - heck, you could've carved Martin Luther King Jr.! Now THAT would've been cool.

Let's get real here, Martha Stewart's Pumpkin Carving Kit is three interns.

what CanadianFoodieGirl said.

Also consider that one of the most well-known adages about writing is "Write what you know," and there are a couple of writers at SE who happen to know cuisines from that region rather well (e.g. Michele Humes, Chichi Wang). There are also writers whose specialties in other regions and cuisines (Kerry Saretsky for French/North African, Gina DePalma with Seriously Italian, etc., etc.), it's just that here in the States, we tend to think of those as "more" different than the "Asian" cuisines are, so we see that and think that having one post about Japanese food and one post about Vietnamese food in the same day is two posts of "Asian food," while one post about French food and one of Italian is just that, posts about foods from different regions.

At the end of the day, it would be nice to have specialists in every single cuisine imaginable at SE, but realistically speaking, that isn't possible. And personally, I would rather see a glut of well-informed articles about a certain set of regional cuisines than one of poorly-researched ones, devoid of meaningful content, included solely for the purpose of some superficial sheen of "diversity."

Never thought there were too many Asian-themed articles. What I do notice is A LOT OF articles about Shake Sham, I mean, Shake Shack.

I dont know about Asian food, but, it seems like SE has a stiffy for lentils. Kind of like Neil(the hippy) from the young ones.

I wrote that "Weber" was a cuisine to differentiate it from barbecue. I meant grilling and outdoor cooking, because barbecue has a specific meaning, depending on where you're from and what you like.

And yes, hillbilly food is a category of its own. It's different from Dixie cooking, except for the fried green tomatoes. My husband is a Hatfield from Mingo County, WV. They sure do eat different from us Yankees. Venison on Thanksgiving, deer sausage (fresh and dried) and venison jerky, squirrel, chicken sometimes, a lot of pork in all its forms, almost no beef, fish or seafood. Biscuits (the dough is made from self-rising flour and milk, gets patted onto a cookie sheet, is scored into squares and then has a stick of melted butter poured on top before baking) and gravy (made from deer sausage). Tomato gravy (roux, evaporated milk and chopped tomatoes) goes on top of whatever isn't covered by sausage gravy. Tomatoes and green beans and pinto beans are the predominant vegetables, all cooked with a pork product.

That's how it used to be when the boys were little and we'd go visit the kinfolk. But a while back, the top of the mountain was removed for a new highway, and a WalMart Supercenter went up. So now they don't need to keep canned milk on hand; they can also have two "aigs" for breakfast and "Co-cola" pretty nearly every day, not just for special occasions. I just hope the deer jerky doesn't get replaced by packages of Oberto jerky.

His sister, BTW, is married to a Mexican. We call their kids "chili-billies."