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Me: 😋
CatMor
(6,212 posts)it was in the days when we still had a sane country and didn't have to worry.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Halloween netted some pretty decent candy. It was Easter that the most awful of candies were delivered. Circus peanuts and those really, really icky white cream filled hard candy coated eggs :blech:
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Gross.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...and a proud Type 2 Diabetic today!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)ever have divinity? Pure sugar.
Raster
(20,998 posts)... was divinity or at least one of their specialties. My family -both maternal and paternal- all cooked and baked prodigiously for the holidays. My mother -bless her heart- was a rather well-known local chef that had her own catering company on the side and always made Christmas platters of homemade goodies for family and friends. Good times... miss you, Mom.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)it was the aunts on my dad's side who made the popcorn balls and divinity. I can still smell that kitchen...
My mom brought the Italian side of sweets. I still make my nana's cookies with the neighbor kids every year before the holidays.
Croney
(4,660 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)I also loved those Rocket candies -mmmmm.
In fact, my kid loved trick or treating but not eating the candy.so much. And in all his trick or treating years,he never once had an aero or kit kat bar left in his bag the next morning. They were all removed (for "safety concerns ", aka for mom). Don't tell anybody I told you that. Keep it on the down lo
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)nycbos
(6,034 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Second favorite was popcorn balls.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)I liked them with nuts.
Damn, now I want one.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)dameatball
(7,398 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)Except anything "chocolate flavored."
I still consider that to be blasphemy.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)when us kids would get home from trick or treating i would dig out the 3 or 4 apples i had in my bag and have my dad check them for razors. i wanted to be the first kid in my town to actually find a razor in a Halloween apple. Alas, we never found one.
woodsprite
(11,915 posts)Then, of course, we always checked for needle holes in the wrappers.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)They don't taste the same, and I'm sure the recipe has changed.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)Although we didn't know that's what they were called. We called them "monkey brains."
Hmmmm, I'll have to go around and scoop up some more.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Foliage and multiple fruit
Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange, is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8 to 15 metres (3050 ft) tall. The distinctive fruit, from a multiple fruit family, is roughly spherical, bumpy, 8 to 15 centimetres (36 in) in diameter, and turns bright yellow-green in the fall. The fruits secrete a sticky white latex when cut or damaged. Despite the name "Osage orange", it is only distantly related to the orange, but rather is a member of the mulberry family, Moraceae. Due to its latex secretions and woody pulp, the fruit is typically not eaten by humans and rarely by foraging animals, giving it distinction as an anachronistic "ghost of evolution".
Maclura pomifera has been known by a variety of common names in addition to Osage orange, including hedge apple, horse apple,bois d'arc, bodark, monkey ball, bow-wood, yellow-wood and mock orange.
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Flowers and fruit
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Mature multiple fruit
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)(Note the name bois d'arc means "bow wood", and Native Americans showed the French explorers it was indeed well suited to bow making. Colloquially corrupted to "bodark".)
Years ago, I read that the seeds can be cleaned, air-dried, and popped in oil like popcorn. Never actually tried it. If you ever try it, be sure to tell folks it's fried monkey brains.
MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)AncientGeezer
(2,146 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)Best popcorn balls ever! Every Halloween, her house was all the kids' first stop.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)kysrsoze
(6,021 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,797 posts)and candy apples - the bright red ones and the caramel. Best part was going home, sitting on the floor with all the candy spread around me, choosing my favorites, eating them and falling into a candy daze. 😃😛
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)and what we called Flour Sack Brownies. Wow,that was 1948,geese,getting older. And we had one heck of a snow storm the night before and Halloween Night with a full moon and temps in the teens. And at Mrs.Warland's house,homemade Hot Coco with Marshmallows.
Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)
chocolate rabbits and Reese's peanut butter cups best.
woodsprite
(11,915 posts)She was an elderly lady who only made special treats for us girls who lived around her. We all used to play house with her granddaughters when they came to town. The littles across the street weren't allowed to have any of her treats if she gave them out at Halloween or Christmas. They were Jehovah's Witness and I guess they weren't allowed to accept heathen holiday treats.
I always knew they didn't do Xmas presents or dress up for Halloween, but when took the time and made you something special, I was always taught that you accept it and enthusiastically say "Thank you!" Even when you didn't really like it (gave me annisette cookies one time -- blech!!!) I never made fun of them or say nasty things about their parents like some of the other kids in school did, I just felt sad for them.
Now, we don't bake things for Halloween or make up those special goodie bags. I loved those as well since what you got was a mystery.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)I'm old enough to have trick-or-treated before ALL the treats were store-bought. Homemade popcorn balls, caramel apples, fudge...those were wonderful. And of course, it was ALWAYS great to get quarters and jingly change!
Just no thank you to those orange peanuts. blaaaccccchhhhh pTOOOEY!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Is that they're banana flavored.
Not peanut flavored, given their shape. Not orange flavored, given their color. Banana flavored.
They truly are the Frankenstein's monster of candy.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)I love the communal watching experience. I know that I can put them on anytime using streaming or dvd/blue ray but it's not the same. There is something special watching it on network tv when millions of other households are doing the same thing.
One of my favs when I was a kid.
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)I went to her house first and took my cupcake home before we got down to the business of trick or treating until midnight and darn near filling two grocery bags full of candy!
That was trick or treating in the 50's! The night before was almost more fun--"mischief night!" Soaping windows, throwing field corn at people's windows to scare them, setting bags of dog poop on fire and ringing their door bell so they'd come out and stomp out the fire. Good times!
Phentex
(16,334 posts)the candy variety
consider_this
(2,203 posts)And those tiny wax 'bottles' of colored sugar water. Mmm mmm
consider_this
(2,203 posts)My actual favorite was the homemade candy apples
keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Most any variety
pansypoo53219
(20,977 posts)tho i remember how bad circus peanuts are. and WI had a delicacy called the candy raisin.
benld74
(9,904 posts)Homemade popcorn balls
The size of softballs!!
They were great!!
And
If she caught caught you at her house
The 2nd never new night of treating( my hometown had them)
You would get chastised severely
iamateacher
(1,089 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)Last for ever and fun to stretch out.
trixie2
(905 posts)I don't like candy. I was my brother's best friend on Halloween. We would take pillowcases and fill them up.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)FSogol
(45,485 posts)Just kidding, Full size chocolate bars (Hershey's Special Dark) or M&Ms.
Talitha
(6,589 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)llmart
(15,539 posts)You don't see them much any more.
We lived out in the country and the houses were quite far apart, so we didn't get to go to too many houses. Most of the time we got homemade treats which I liked well enough, but once in awhile there'd be full sized candy bars.