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From Washingtonian Magazine's Jessica Voelker
Treats to avoid unless you like your trees strewn with toilet paper.
It happens every year. You spend October worrying about flu shots and upcoming Thanksgiving traumas, and all of the sudden the guy on NPR reminds you that a bunch of little kids are going to come by tonight demanding candy. Or maybe youre a parent trying to forget the fact that your precious offspring is about to get a sugar stash so large hell spend the next few weeks as high as a script writer for Sean Saves the World.
This year, dont let trick-or-treat night sneak up on you lest you end up with a Halloween offering so offensive you become a prime target for neighborhood marauders. Here are ten candies to avoid if you also want to avoid toilet paper, silly string, andworst of allthe dreaded rotten egg.
10) Raisins
You should know this by now. Handing out those little red boxes is akin to begging some neighborhood punk to write hippie on your windshield with soap. Just dont do it.
9) Actually, any kind of dried fruit (or vegetables)
I know, I know. Your kids Skyler and Moonshine loooooove wrinkly dates and dont care where wasps like to lay their eggs. Come down to earth for a second and look around, thoughthe child in the Scorch Supernova costume does not want banana chips.
Whole list here:
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/holiday-eats/10-halloween-candies-that-will-make-you-a-tp-target.php
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)And I'm surprised they didn't include those three-toned chewy little rectangles that a part chocolate, part pink (never could keep it in my mouth long enough to discern the flavor), and part coconut. Pleah!
Not a fan of candy corn, either.
FSogol
(45,519 posts)I do like mellocremes (candy corn) and disagree with their hatred of Whoppers. Milk Duds would be #1 on my list to avoid.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)My favorite was probably Pixie Stix.
FSogol
(45,519 posts)Sadly, I had a sister who suggested we snort the stuff one year.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)I had blue snot for a week
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)However, Giraffes as a species ROCK!!!!
pintobean
(18,101 posts)and malt chocolate shakes.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)and kept on eating them. Or was it Pom Poms? No, I think it was Sugar Babies.I liked those and Sugar Daddys, except those gigantic ones that had to be cut.
FSogol
(45,519 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)I think I was 8 at the time.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)FSogol
(45,519 posts)Saw them in a movie theater and Target recently.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)As a kid I hated them.
FSogol
(45,519 posts)sakabatou
(42,170 posts)Atman
(31,464 posts)But then...I'm an old man.
Seriously, though, Good & Plenty? Whoppers? Almond Joy? Who wrote this list, a ten year old invading his parent's meth stash?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Malted milk balls...YUMMMY I recon kids taste change not with age but with generations?
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)....wrapped in a Halloween paper napkin with a ribbon around it. Also, tootsie rolls.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)If you go to any trouble to be creative and leave out the big bidness candy producers...you are likely to be arrested
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)...or at least I used to. For some reason, nobody knocks on my door anymore on Halloween.
Atman
(31,464 posts)I assume Halloween is much more quiet these days.
Atman
(31,464 posts)Atman
(31,464 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)They'll get rocks in their little orange plastic buckets and like it!
Buns_of_Fire
(17,191 posts)...until I neatly removed a crown one day. My dentist at the time (while he was cementing it back on) told me that they used to use them in dental school to remove temporary crowns. Good stuff, though, if you're willing to just wait for it to dissolve.
Nowadays, I just give the little terrorists money to buy whatever they'd like and make them sign a non-egging agreement.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Green Apple