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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

mini-barf, but what a tasty mini-barf indeed...

I miss the S'mores cookies and Fudgies, the little Kraft chewy candies in a gold wrapper. Does anyone remember the cereal, Double-Dip Crunch? I was like a "frosted" Crispix. Mmmmm!!! Oh, and the Quacker "strawberry" snack/dessert bars that looked like Nutri-Grain but had a little "squiggle" of white "icing" on top. I'm hungry now.

This is hysterical - I have been trying to enlighten my fiance on the yumminess of Magic Middle cookies (apparently he was sheltered and never tried them) and he just doesn't get it. I guess if you never tried one, you wouldn't know what you were missing, but still. Also, LOVED Crystal Pepsi!!! Was it really only out for one year? That's surprising - I thought it was fairly popular in my little neck of the woods.

OMG, I had the Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt for lunch and I'm dying.

Well, not really. But, I do feel funny.

It was delicious nonetheless.

Don't know how soon I would do it again.

Who wants to meet their maker in pristine condition? Bring it on.

This. Is. Genius.

Adam makes a very good point. Who were they? Why did they do it? This brief article touches on the fertile topic of illegal immigrants but fails to delve into the topic at all. I would like to see a longer article, to give this important subject the space it deserves.

I wonder what they did with all the cocoa powder?? Hmmmm

While it is fantastical -- in that it sounds like something out of a dream or zany skit, it is sad. They put themselves in serious danger and must have had no other options if they'd resort to going inside the tanker.

Gives a new meaning to "Death by Chocolate".

I'm waiting for the oompa loompas to sing us a song with the moral to this story....

In all the time I've eaten a Shopsin's--and that's going back to the Bedford days--I've never been insulted.

I've heard him call Eve a c---. He told one lady who ordered a lentil-ish soup to a 9, "you don't get into a pissing contest against me." And one time I ordered a cactus soup off the specials board. He asked how it was. "Good. Real good," I said.

"I know," he was overhanging the deli counter. I didn't understand. "I tasted it before I sent it out."

It was the first time anyone had ordered it. He winged it based on the name he had made up and put on the board. A silly name. Something Cactus. That's how he works. I wish I remembered the name. But it was not "Cactus Bingo", which was an standard in the old place.

It's too easy to mention the insults, to report on brusk treatment, and relay stories about being kicked out. And they may all be true. But that is all to miss the point.