On Oct 31, 7:46 pm, Sheldon <[email hidden]> wrote:
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On Oct 31, 7:53?pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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> "Ms P" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> > "Mark Thorson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > >news:[email hidden]... > >> Quoting from an e-mail received today:
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> >> "Kids are literally shuttled and bussed into my neighborhood, known > >> to have good pickings. Juvenile population temporarily increases > >> twentyfold. (I bet there are maps or Web sites that direct people to > >> such neighborhoods.)"
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> > There's a neighborhood like that here. Last year that neighborhood closed > > their streets to cars. If you wanted to trick or treat there you had to > > walk in. I know a few people that live in that neighborhood and they have > > all told me they buy the cheapest candy you can get and each kid gets 1 > > piece. Yeah, it's worth the drive and the hassle for a bag full of > > Smarties and jawbreakers.
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> Check the parents who do that. For the most part, they're fat pigs who'll be > stealing the candy when their little rats go to sleep.
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Think about what you just said... do you really think the junk-food-a- holics are going to exert themselves humping their excavator butts house to house for tiny packets of candy corn and red hots when they can be lazing at home in front of the tube scoffing down forklift loads of brownies and cookie dough ice cream. The only parents I see hustling around with their kids are built like super fit marathon jocks. This year I'm handing out mini almond joy and reese's cups... I somehow get the feeling they wished I was handing out raw carrots and celery stalks instead.
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Reese's PB Cups are my 5 YO's favorite. I felt that way too when I was a kid, and I also loved Almond Joys.
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The absolute worst was these horrible things called Circus Peanuts.
Where would one even find Circus Peanuts these days, let alone indidually wrapped to give out as Halloween candy... they're peanut shaped marshmallow candy, very similar to Peeps. If soneone doesn't like marshmallow it's understandable that they'd not like Circus Peanuts, but I like marshmallow so I think they are very good when fresh... but then again I'm an olde fashioned penny candy conffectionado.
They are marshmallow, but with a characteristic flavor. Nothing else is like a Circus Peanut. My wife hated them too, but she gave all of hers to her mother, who liked them.
Where would one even find Circus Peanuts these days, let alone indidually wrapped to give out as Halloween candy... they're peanut shaped marshmallow candy, very similar to Peeps.
They don't remind me of peeps at all, but circus peanuts are the most disgusting halloween candy along with those little wax candle corn things. Ack.
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"MareCat" <[email hidden]> dropped this news:[email hidden]: in rec.food.cooking
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I took my almost-5-year-old daughter out, and we walked around the neighborhood. We saw only a few other groups of trick-or-treaters out and about. She had fun, though, and made out like a bandit with the candy.
Mary
I'll bet she looked cute 😉
She did (I'm not biased or anything, though 😉. Cutest ladybug in town (excluding her baby sisters, who were also ladybugs--we dressed them up for the parade at her school).
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Of course she made out like a bandit. I just throw handfuls of candy into the kids bags every year.
She doesn't have much of a sweet tooth, so it will last quite awhile (she never finished the candy she got last Halloween). She might eat 1-2 pieces per day, if that (last year she lost all interest in it after Nov. 2 or so).
"Virginia Tadrzynski" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Youngest is now 12, so when it rained on the appointed night (last Friday) I said no go. What the local townships do around here is assign trick or treat nights and hours so you can shuttle the kids from area to area to make the biggest haul. I have always had a problem with that, as Halloween is the 31st of October, not some convenient night for greedy beggers.
In my hometown (also in PA), trick-or-treat night (as well as the town Halloween parade) is always held the Saturday before Halloween. (Trick-or-treating is supposed to last only until 8:00 p.m. that night.) In all of the surrounding towns (as well as every other place I've ever lived), trick-or-treating is done on Halloween.
I'll bet she looked cute 😉 Of course she made out like a bandit. I just throw handfuls of candy into the kids bags every year.
I used to be prepared to throw handfuls of candy at the kids..... if they came. We haven't had any come around for years, which is strange because there are more kids living nearby than when my son used to go out with his friends. So this year I didn't bother to get anything. The last thing I need to be doing is eating left over candy.
They are marshmallow, but with a characteristic flavor. Nothing else is like a Circus Peanut. My wife hated them too, but she gave all of hers to her mother, who liked them.
They are a slightly different consistency from peeps marshmallows. More dense. And ORANGE. <shudders> You're right, nothing like it. Makes them easier to avoid.
Where would one even find Circus Peanuts these days, let alone indidually wrapped to give out as Halloween candy... they're peanut shaped marshmallow candy, very similar to Peeps.
They don't remind me of peeps at all, but circus peanuts are the most disgusting halloween candy along with those little wax candle corn things. Ack.
nancy
We only got one pack of those thank god. My daughter tried to palm them off on me. No thank you.
holiday. I did have fun going downtown with my husband tonight for a walk and seeing all the odd costumes. My personal favorite: A gal was wearing a prom dress and crown and had "blood" spilled all down her hair and face and dress....any guesses?
Anytime I hear somebody chiding other countries for their "weird" customs, first up on my list is Halloween. Then comes Easter and Christmas. Nothing unusual about dressing up like a rabbit and handing out colored eggs or sticking a pine tree in your living room.
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For a hilarious experience, read David Sedaris's essay about taking a French class in France and the discussion in class about Easter customs. I don't think I have ever read anything so funny.
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For some reason, this made me think of a song from a Cheech & Chong movie, about Mexican-Americans, who "go to night school for Spanish, and get a B".
There's nothing strange about that, a goodly portion of English speaking posters here would fail English.
Loved the almond joy, mounds, and reeses. 3 musketeers go straight to the fridge.
A favorite memory: frozen milky ways at the quarry where we used to go swimming in Maryland. (It was one of those mom and pop summer operations.) Mmm, mmm.
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They are marshmallow, but with a characteristic flavor. Nothing else is like a Circus Peanut. My wife hated them too, but she gave all of hers to her mother, who liked them.
They are a slightly different consistency from peeps marshmallows. More dense. And ORANGE. <shudders> You're right, nothing like it. Makes them easier to avoid.
I hate marshmallows. Maybe that's why I don't like them. And maybe the ones I got were always stale. I've seen them recently at Big Lots. I don't know why, but they are considered a summer candy and perhaps only available in the summer months.
Uh, do you keep track of the count from year to year? If you had 12 this year, you probably shouldn't plan for 50 next year unless, of course, you WANT TO! LOL!
It's highly variable. I had a lot last year, so with nice weather and still DST, I figured on many more. I had three in one group.
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Michael \'Dog3\ said:
I'll bet she looked cute 😉 Of course she made out like a bandit. I just throw handfuls of candy into the kids bags every year.
I used to be prepared to throw handfuls of candy at the kids..... if they came. We haven't had any come around for years, which is strange because there are more kids living nearby than when my son used to go out with his friends. So this year I didn't bother to get anything. The last thing I need to be doing is eating left over candy.
<Groan> and you know you will eat it. I know I will. I think that is why I always buy stuff that I'll like in chase it is left over 😉
Michael
-- Last words spoken before execution . . .
"Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel." Executed in electric chair in New York. ~~ George Appel, d. 1928
They are marshmallow, but with a characteristic flavor. Nothing else is like a Circus Peanut. My wife hated them too, but she gave all of hers to her mother, who liked them.
They are a slightly different consistency from peeps marshmallows. More dense. And ORANGE. <shudders> You're right, nothing like it. Makes them easier to avoid.
But even the "orange" is unique. It is a color all its own. If I saw that color, I'd probably instantly feel revulsion, only a bit later realizing why.
For a hilarious experience, read David Sedaris's essay about taking a French class in France and the discussion in class about Easter customs. I don't think I have ever read anything so funny.
"MareCat" <[email hidden]> dropped this news:[email hidden]: in rec.food.cooking
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I took my almost-5-year-old daughter out, and we walked around the neighborhood. We saw only a few other groups of trick-or-treaters out and about. She had fun, though, and made out like a bandit with the candy.
Mary
I'll bet she looked cute 😉 Of course she made out like a bandit. I just throw handfuls of candy into the kids bags every year.
I've seen them want to see what I was tossing in there. If it's something they don't like they will decline as they don't want to carry around something they won't eat.
I don't plan on handing candy out ever again.
Bad parenting. They should say, "Thank you". That's why they have friends, so they can trade candy the next day.
I've seen them want to see what I was tossing in there. If it's something they don't like they will decline as they don't want to carry around something they won't eat.
I don't plan on handing candy out ever again.
Back when my kids were trick r treating age, we were thankful they went trick r treating because we had hoards of kids. One year I bought 6 bags of candy and my kids (plus assorted cousins) came in as I ran out, so I had them cull their bags of the candy they didn't want to put into my candy dish. The night went on, but I turned out the lights when the trick r treaters turned into mobs of Jr. Hi and High Schoolers who couldn't bother wearing costumes.
Last night was odd. No hoards of teenagers minus costumes as in most years. It was mainly adorable little ones and completely polite older ones in costume. Some of the little ones were with teenaged girls who I'd be willing to bet money were their mothers (no costume on the big ones, adorable costumes on the little ones).... who were also trick r treating... with pillow case sized bags! I think that's really tacky. Stand back and take pictures, dumbkoff. Don't try to be a kid again.
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