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DirtyD79
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Inspired by a thread about a stupid commercial where somebody is giving out pancakes I decided to make a thread about the worst stuff to get in your halloween bag. So what are the worst things you ever got in your halloween bag?
I'll get this tread started. Some of the worst things I ever got while trick or treating are Necco wafers and toothbrushes. Them Necco wafers tasted like dirt.
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I hated anything with marshmallow or any cheap, waxy chocolate candy. Bad chocolate that doesn't even melt in your mouth, but remains in there to be chewed like gum.
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Agree with Virginia...cheap/bad/old chocolate. I'm not a hard candy guy so I never liked it when people held out a dish of wrapped, individual pieces of hard candy so you could take a few pieces. Meh. Many years ago, before it was considered unsafe to give kids homemade stuff, I used to get quite a few homemade popcorn balls. Didn't really care for those either. My preferences ran to chocolate bars (of course), Bonomo taffy, Sugar Daddies, and the little boxes of Junior Mints and malted milk balls, and packs of Goetze's caramel creams.
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DirtyD79
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I remember getting those popcorn balls every year. Also I'm surprised with how so many people hate candy corn.
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Religious pamphlets....
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Virginia Dare
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Oh gawd...candy corn!! You always forget the obvious thing!
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Candy corn is the worst candy out there. Don't EVER give me any or else it'll get thrown back at you.
I also don't like... - licorice - caramels - Tootsie Rolls - Good 'n' Plenty, Mike and Ike or any other candy like that - Chuckles - anything with coconut in it - root beer barrels - the cheap kind of gum that loses its flavor after five seconds of chewing it |
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PaWolf
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...I actually forgot about people tossing those in the sack - yea, I got some of them and 'holy cards', too.
Like somebody thought there was even the slightest chance of 'saving' us.
Not quite 'the spirit of Halloween', doncha know...
SO wrong in so many ways.
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When we run out candy, I stick my finger in the kid's bag and flip my finger against the side. It sounds just like I put something in there.... It's fun to watch them try to figure out what I just put in their bag.....
(of course I'm jk)
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Hooty, if you know that trick, you are not joking...I've pulled that one off before, too...
(I had a great uncle - a professional magician, by trade - that was one of the first "magic tricks" he taught me - used to call it "catching invisible balls")
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Ditto on the Necco Wafers, they were like eating medicine tablets.
I liked apples but didn't appreciate them at Halloween, they weighed my candy bag down and I could always get apples at home. Chocolate with cherry filling - still hate that stuff. That Bazooka Joe bubblegum that was hard as a brick. |
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I guess the only bad things I got were the things I'd never end up eating. That was probably limited to those popcorn balls.
But that was no big deal. Back when I was a kid, we got so much candy, we were eating it into the next year. Those Halloween bags would sometimes tear due to the weight.
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That happened to me and my brother once, at Kadena in '69. The bag was so full the handles broke. That would be a night to relive....
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That's actually fantastic, Reg.
Lots of 'webs' out in this big ol' goofy world - it's great to hear that this one actually works; always great when any catches a misguided soul. Guess just some more proof that a harmless action that seems inappropriate to one is but a life-long blessing for another.
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Guess, as a kid, EVERYTHING that ended up in my bag was destined for the next year's donations if it wasn't a mini-milky way, or some other soft-chocolate...or an original tootsie-roll, or chick-a-stik (to this day, I do not know why I like them - but I do!).
I have all the apples and oranges to my Mom, so she could trash 'em (as we did with our children's 'fresh goodies') - NEVER allowed. (note: We used to spend an hour or so going through our own Pup's treasures before allowing them to go into sugar-induced comas - too many sick individuals out there)
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Yeah I remember as a kid we would often go to the local hospital after trick or treating. They would screen your candy for you. I think they probably still do.
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I think they would run the bags through an X-Ray machine. Better safe than sorry. Like Pa said there are some sick sons of bitches out there. |
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PaWolf
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...must have been nice to have been 'sheltered as a child', eh?
Hospitals do indeed do that - always seemed better than treating new patients.
Granted, we, as caring, semi-intelligent parents took that responsibility upon ourselves - and we were lucky.
All the same...what D79 mentions has been a rather standard 'wise practice' (and not humorous whatsoever) for many parents, for a number of years now. I simply do not understand what you find "funny" with it - and THAT is sad.
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Thor
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All of that fear, for naught.
Per Wikipedia:
The poisoned candy scare was a moral panic in the United States (and Canada) during the 1970s and 1980s regarding the threat that children could be in danger of ingesting razor blades, needles, or poison introduced to candy by tampering, especially during traditional Halloween trick-or-treating. Apart from one incident—actually an act of premeditated murder by a trick-or-treater's father—there have been no recorded incidents of deliberately poisoned candy during Halloween or any similar occasion.
Still, I think a little bit of fear adds to the fun of Halloween.
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They never caught you, did they, Thor?
Tell me you are not serious...you believe everything you read in Wikipedia?!
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We had a Metal Detector that we'd run over the Candy Bars to make sure nothing was inside them!
In 1970 (The same year i got "Saved") we had a new member of the Family, a Labrador Retriever Puppy. We Already had another dog, a Miniature Poodle. When I returned from my Round, I opened the bag and emptied it on the Living Room Sofa. The Poodle jumped up on the Sofa, the Labrador Retriever went to the side of the Couch and tried to sniff the Candy, however the Poodle came up to the edge of the couch and bared her teeth at the Puppy, "Guarding" the Candy for me!
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Wouldn't help with a piece of glass-filled Bazooka, though.
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