How kids judge the Halloween candy you give out

[FelineOverlord]

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[Shermann]

1. What's wrong with Old Timer candy?? nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. "The Psychopath" is a good description...

... for the candy corn distributors, as far as I'm concerned.

I appreciated the old people who handed out pennies more than them, since a penny is worth more than ZERO.



Edit: Yes, I'm already aware that SOME people like candy corn.

[Archae]

3. They left out one...

The house that would get egged and TP'd because every year they'd never give out candy, just those stupid Jack Chick comic books.

[Pas-de-Calais]

4. One year a house block from ours

Was giving out jumbo snicker bars.
Word among kiddos spread fast
Line appeared to snake from that block into ours.

House never ran out!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Kids definitely share their best scores...

... while trick or treating.

My parents handed out jumbo candy bars one year, and they'd bought a lot, but they unfortunately ran out after word spread. Then that news apparently spread too, because the long lines of kids eventually turned into a few disappointed stragglers who didn't know about our candy shortage.

[Midnight Writer]

5. When I was a kid, we loved the houses that gave out home made treats.

Probably wouldn't be accepted these days, but we sure loved the popcorn balls, caramel corn, fudge brownies, chocolate chip cookies.

Those houses were our legends.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. They were sometimes excellent!

And sometimes it was too messy if those treats weren't sealed up well.

[gladium et scutum]

10. when I was young

lived in a rural area. Tricker treating was usually a 6-7 mile bike ride between the sparsely housed area. The treats were mostly cookies, brownies, candied apples, etc, something home made by the lady of the household. All of these things were very good to eat and appreciated. What was a very rear treat, and highly valued was an occasional real candy bar. Didn't see many of them in those days.

[Iggo]

8. I'd say I'm "Trusty Provider" and about a 5th to a quarter of the way down the road to "Legend."

Only packaged name-brand candy.

Would have been better this year, but you know, global pandemic.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

9. Don't forget those houses that handed out religious stuff.

Little bibles, children's stories about Jesus, or coloring books about Jesus.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Ugh! That never happened to me as a kid, thankfully.

I think I received little coloring books and cheap plastic toys from a few homes, but without any religious messages.

The "toy" givers often handed out wax lips. So pointless to me. I made the mistake of trying to eat the first wax lips that I ever received. Lol! (They're apparently made from edible wax, but who wants to eat that?!)

[haele]

21. Wax lips were for chewing after terrorizing your little brother with them.

You wouldn't actually eat them, you were suppose to chew them into a blob then spit them out Into the trash. There was enough of a flavor to have some fun with them.


Haele

[Buckeye_Democrat]

22. Yep, I didn't try to swallow...

... after realizing that the flavored wax had become a flavorless blob in my mouth.

Well, maybe a few chunks accidentally made their way down my throat. But it wasn't considered dangerous to do that, I guess.

[Marthe48]

12. I combine

I get snack size candy bars, sometimes gum or sour candy and fruit, usually apples. We didn't get any trick or treaters last year, although my grandkids came to my neighborhoood and we walked around with them. The VFD had a Halloween party the same night, so they went to that too. The most we ever had were 14.

I'll put the candy and fruit in a plastic bag and seal it and set it out where the kids can take one.

I think Trick or Treat had its heyday when I was a kid. I remember my grandmother saying she didn't trick or treat when she was a girl, and I don't think my parents did, either. But they got costumes for us and let us go up and down our street. My Mom gave us pillow cases to carry our treats, because the weather was usually terrible-rain or snow- and if we used paper bags, they fell apart. Plastic bags were in wide use then shows you how old I am One more thing: we didn't like any candy but chocolate! And Mrs. Kern's sugar cookies with a Hershey Kiss in the middle.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. It's been in decline ever since protective parents...

... got more involved, from my personal observations.

My parents' neighborhood was swarmed by young trick-or-treaters in the 70's and early 80's, without an adult in sight. After we started seeing parents standing on the sidewalks or even at the door with their children, the numbers of kids who participated started going way down.

Just found this article which seems to agree with my family's observations:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-no-more-trick-treat-ent-1031-20161028-column.html

When me and one of my brothers went trick-or-treating in the 70's, we sprinted from house to house. Our parents would've been a very slow nuisance in that situation, unable to keep up, and they would've made it less fun in general.

[Marthe48]

14. My sister-in-law and I walked with our kids

They ran like the wind, and we had trouble keeping them in sight. lol We let them go on their own when they were 10 or 11, small town and their grandparents' neighborhood.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

15. My brother was over 7 years older than me...

... so he might've been why our parents were never with us. A sister was 7 years older than him, and I'm guessing that she helped him as well. Then she had a sister 7 years older than her too! Lol. (My oldest sister is 21 years older than me.)

I was the fastest runner at my school, but maybe trying to keep up with my older brother gave me more sprinting practice than my classmates? Lol.

The masks for my costumes were always removed before the night was done. I got way too hot under the masks while trying to keep up with my brother, who treated trick or treat like some competitive event among his peers.

Many fond memories of trick or treating, though! I feel bad for kids who never have as much autonomy on that special night.

[Marthe48]

17. Great timing on spacing out the family :)

I remember having a good time out with my older brothers and sister. There were 5 of us. I remember my younger brother and me going out, and lagging behind the 3 older kids.

Yes, mask off.

I have Jerry Seinfeld's book Halloween. He mentions the string tab on the mask coming loose almost as soon as he starts out. lol

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. Lol! Masks were terrible in those days!

At least the hard plastic ones that little kids often wore!

I learned my lessons and finally stopped wearing them by age 10 or so, using Halloween makeup on my face thereafter.

It seemed like superior Halloween masks didn't become more widely available until I stopped trick-or-treating as a bigger teenager.

Halloween was my favorite event as a kid because of trick-or-treating. Enjoyed it more than Christmas.

[Marthe48]

19. My Dad had a life-like gorilla mask

rubber-like, which fit over his head. I have pictures of him wearing it, at one of his parties (he was a lot of fun!) My brother wore it one year. There weren't age limits back then, so he was proabably 15, and well over 6 ft. tall. He started late trick or treating late, so almost everyone else was done. He wore that mask. I guess he knocked on one neighbor's door, an older lady. She freaked out when he loomed over her from the side of the porch to the door. I think that was his favorite night out ever.

We loved that mask, no matter who wore it. lol

[jmowreader]

16. You forgot the dentist's house

If you were stupid enough to go to the dentist's house, you got a toothbrush. No candy. Just a toothbrush.

[MissB]

20. There is one house in our neighborhood that gives out "God sized" candy.

They own a grocery store chain, so there’s that. But it’s the 1-lb Hershey bars etc.

Usually they hire a bouncer that stamps the kids hands before they venture to the front door. It’s pretty funny.

The street that does trick or treating here only has the good stuff. They have to; it’s kind of a neighborhood competition.

No one else in the neighborhood really hands out candy- just that one street. My kids used to go around the block and fill their pillowcase after they did the usual trick or treat street. I mean, we do randomly get a trick or treater every 4 years so it makes sense to be prepared, and I think all the folks around the block do the same. Then if anyone shows up they pretty much dump the bowl into the bags the kid bring. And there is one dentist and he gives out brushes, floss, toothpaste. Always has to be one.