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When I was in the fourth grade, my mother handed out travel-sized tubes of sparkly, bubble gum flavored toothpaste on Halloween instead of candy. That night, several kids turned her down flat and one particularly outspoken ghost picked up a tube, took a look at it and tossed it back in the bowl, shouting, "Hey! That's not candy!" After that, she returned to mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and snack-sized candy bars (in the days before "fun" size). We spent years using up that awful toothpaste.
During my adult years, I've never lived in a place where trick or treaters come to the door, so I've never had the fun of picking out candy and opening the door to decked out princesses and eye-patched pirates (sadly though, I've consumed more than my share of Halloween candy in those same years). This year, I'm hoping to live vicariously through the Halloween experiences of Slashfood readers.
What kind of candy are you handing out this year? Has the tightening economy impacted the contents of your Halloween bowl? Do you typically buy the same candy year after year, or do you like to mix it up?
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10-30-2008 @10:52AM Bear Silber said... Always an assortment of brand name chocolates...Butterfingers, Snickers, Kit-Kats, Baby Ruths, Almond Joys, etc.
Question..is it better to give a large handful of fun-size varieties of the above or one full size? Which would you prefer to receive?
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10-30-2008 @10:56AM Dave said... Despite living three dors down from a grade school, we've been getting less and less trick-or-treates as the years go on. We now hand out full-sized hershey bars, one box (36?) is more than enough for the whole night and the kids no longer just mumble 'thank you' and turn to the next house, they're genuinely excited!
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10-30-2008 @12:18PM texasannie said... We have a ton of "fun-sized" Reese's Cups, Snickers, Butterfinger, Twix, M&Ms, 3 Musketeers, and Starburst and Skittles for kids who don't like chocolate. Rare, but I've known a few.
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10-30-2008 @12:40PM Laura said... Reese's and Junior Mints (hoping for leftovers!), Tootsie Rolls, Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Kit Kats. More than we could ever need, but this is a very busy neighborhood for Halloweeen, and the last 2 years, we've run out of candy and had to turn to light off. How embarrassing!
We're using our mahogany caesar salad bowl as the candy dish. Right size, it's already in the front room, and hey -- it has its own stand!
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10-30-2008 @2:02PM Bernie B said... I like to give out the little boxes of Raisins. Just make sure they're not laced with HFCS like the ones in the Raisin Bran cereal.
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10-30-2008 @8:19PM Marion in Savannah said... Many kids in the neighborhood, so I get BIG bags of assorted snack sized candy. This year the mix includes: 100 Grand, Nestle Crunch, M&M, Butterfinger, Snickers, Milky Way, Twix, 3 Musketeers, Starburst and Skittles. (I confess I've squirreled away some of the Butterfingers and Twix for myself...!)
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11-02-2008 @3:58PM Jesse said... I'm a sucker for halloween, actually have a Halloween Fund that I add to so when the time comes, its not a bite in the wallet. I buy those little treat bags and fill them to the max....good stuff, none of those cheap peanut butter taffy things. Mini candy bars, toys, stickers.....even the little conffeti shaped like spookey spiders and such. I dont get too many kids, so at the end of the night they get two or three of these bags.....I love hearing..."that ladys COOL!"
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11-02-2008 @4:02PM Jesse said... I'm a sucker for halloween, actually have a Halloween Fund that I add to so when the time comes, its not a bite in the wallet. I buy those little treat bags and fill them to the max....good stuff, none of those cheap peanut butter taffy things. Mini candy bars, toys, stickers.....even the little conffeti shaped like spookey spiders and such. I dont get too many kids, so at the end of the night they get two or three of these bags.....I love hearing..."that ladys COOL!"
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