stewed coot wrote:(No worse than the afore-mentioned circus peanuts, which are clearly the phosphorescent turds of Beelzebub.)

Absolutely! Those things are disgusting, as are the nougat-y orange & black wrapper things.

Pie Lady wrote:Very cool adult activity:
Trick-or-treating with a shot glass.

We were at my boyfriend's brother's house in Mt. Prospect on Halloween; they know most of their neighbors pretty well and all the adults were going around with wine glasses, getting re-filled at each other's houses. It was crazy!

One nice warm year my neighbor and I set up a card table where our yards met, and handed out candy to the kids (they knocked off 2 houses with 1 stop!), and warm mulled wine in tiny glasses to the parents.

We were quite popular!

jersette wrote:If you gonna spew, spew into this..

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-Smarties
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Why no love for the Smartie? Call me a deviant, but I love Smarties. In fact I spent Thursday digging through the surplus candy my co-workers brought to the office in search of the sole roll of Smarties which I hustled off to my desk and consumed with great pleasure. I did offer to share, but somehow no one took up the offer... I would gladly trade anything, with the exception of a Heath Bar, for a Smartie. Especially those slimy Swedish Fish.

And do people really hand out condiment packages? That's a new one to me.

On a side note, it seems a shame that anything homemade, aka Popcorn Balls, is seen as an egg-throw-worthy offense, but that's the way it is. Anyone who actually takes the time to make a popcorn ball puts a hundred times more effort into Halloween than your average Joe who picks up a bag of Snickers from Walgreens. I imagine those well meaning souls spending hours making popcorn balls under the impression that they are creating something special that, at best, gets fed to squirrels.

kiplog wrote:My friend just told me he used to drop condiment packets into the kids bags. I might have laughed as a kid if I got a packet of duck sauce, but if I had gotten a ketchup packet, I would have gone back to that house with a pallette of toilet paper.

Reminds me of that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Frank, Peter Boyle's character, runs out of candy at Ray's house and mistakes a certain foil-wrapped, coin-shaped item for chocolate coins and hands them out to kids.

That didn't go over well.

tcdup- that's a great idea! It's fun for the adults and fall-y.