That sounds about like what I do to prepare (I live near Somerville/Cambridge Mass, and our neighborhood is mobbed with kids). But we have a multi bowl system:
• the big bowl is fun-size candy bars, probably 50% Reese’s cups
• a smaller bowl is full of Dum Dums and Tootsie Rolls for surly teens in hoodies
• a third bowl has gummy candy and small toys for allergy-sensitive kids (teal pumpkin!)
• and we keep a small hoard of full size bars for super-creative kids with homemade costumes. Cripes, we get kids who put on skits and stuff. They get extra candy.
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Basically an old-timey cough drop.
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We also keep a separate basket with allergy-safe candies. Not often needed, but boy does the kid appreciate it when it is!
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Palmer is the shittiest of the crap ‘milk chocolates’ available on the market.
There. I said it.
@RexDart: There. You said it. Feels good to get it all out there, eh?
General question: How long before MJ edibles get on the list? Can’t be too many years out.
@anon67050589: I went trick-or-treating in farm country one year. Odd experience for this city Kidd. We hopped into the giant pickup truck and drove farmhouse to farmhouse. Didn’t get a ton of candy that year, but it was all full-size candy bars/bags.
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How are Mounds and Almond Joy not on this list?
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As is appopriate to the discussion: Ze Frank’s guide to halloween candy trading:
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Not my contention - more about chalk vs chocolate of US vs commonwealth smarties.
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the Best “Halloween” Candy:
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It is called Passion, Lurker, git you sum
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Eat 'em up yum!
You’re right. We should all just stop this nonsense and leave the internet’s infrastructure to practical, sensible business uses.
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Also:
- The black licorice hate is dumb.
- “Licorice (not black)” should read “Licorice (not actually licorice)” because “red licorice” should really just be called “red chewy candy.” It doesn’t even have white chocolate’s pretext for using the name of the real thing by containing an ingredient from the genuine article (true white chocolate uses cocoa butter for its fat content, or it’s not supposed to use the name).
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Just deadpan “what? They’re candy sticks! I defy you to find the word “cigarette” anywhere on the package! They look like old cigarette brands? Well, I don’t know, I was never the heavy smoker you obviously were” etc. when they come to complain.
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By all means NO! I was not suggesting that at all. I work in tech, so more traffic == more server purchases!
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My main bug bears.
Hershey’s chocolate should be below white bread. At least I can bread a cat with bread. Hershey’s is calories and am awful taste.
Also why the licorice hate.
In a word: dee-scust-ing
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For the record, I’d rather eat a horehound candy than red ‘licorice’ or Hershey’s chocolate. Now THAT’s saying something!
edited to add (as the thread is closed):
Saw this while waiting to check out at a craft store…
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Seconded. If you have ever had Fisherman’s Friend cough drops you know what it tastes like.
Also I like candy corn (and the various other similar confections) and I like Necco Wafers. If you don’t like em I will gladly take them.
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