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Time to take a sweet break and stroll down memory lane before you load up on the giveaway goodies for Trick-or-Treaters.
What's your most and least favorite Halloween treat?
I never cared for the 'Bit 'O Honey' because it was so hard a tooth would come out with every bite. Anytime an apple would appear in the orange plastic jack-o-lantern, it would magically find its way to that person's lawn once the door shut.
Miniature chocolate pieces (you know, the plastic bag with the tiny Mr. Goodbar, Special Dark, Hershey's with almonds, Nestle Crunch) were always a prize treat as were the highly coveted occasional Reese's peanut butter cup.
Oh yeah gotta love the Reese's. When I was like 7 or 8 there was an old couple down the street that we thought didn't believe in candy, turns out the lady had some rare form of diabetes smelling chocalate literally made her start into shock. Anyway they would take a bag and fill it with $1 bills and hand out one to each child. They also put in one 20 one 10 and one 5 all were given at randem. They wouldn't look in the bag just pull out one bill. I got a 10 one year.
Likely
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re: What's your most and least favorite Halloween treat?
At the risk of hijacking this thread, I'll mention my favorite Halloween activity.
Growing up in NYC (Queens, not Manhattan) it was an annual tradition for kids from different neighborhoods to invade other neighborhood turfs with eggs, shaving cream and chalked-filled socks and have a "war".
We're not talking about gang wars, just some fairly clean fun.
It was such a well known tradition that grocery stores would stock up on eggs and shaving cream early in October to be ready for the rush. I worked in a corner drugstore and we would order cases and cases of Barbasol shaving cream and sell it for 35 cents a can.
Sidewalk chalk placed in a long sock and crushed was used for marking sidewalks, houses and people.
Eggs were simply thrown at anything and everybody.
The only time it got nasty is when someone would slip in a can of Nair instead of shaving cream and you had to wait a few weeks until the hair grew back in the affected area.
You also learned to protect your eyes when you saw the tell-tale green of a can of Barbasol Menthol. That stuff burned a bit.
Ah, the memories...
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@DerbyDad03 and all,
Halloween traditions are considered treats and entirely welcome on this thread. Thanks for sharing. That bit of nostalgia could give the movie A Bronx Tale a run for its money and is the stuff that makes great movies. Perhaps you could call your memoir A Queens Tale, but you might find your audience expecting an Elizabethan period piece with powdered wigs instead of a Barbasol, chalk, socks and egg fight on the asphalt streets of New York City.
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re: powdered wigs
Well, after a few well place blows from a chalk-filled sock, our hair certainly had the appearance of a powdered wig!
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I guess I am not that old after all. "A Queens Tale" doesn't make me think "Elizabethan period piece with powdered wigs" but Two Wong Foo instead lol.
LikelyPractice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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@LikelyStory
Conjures up images of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything for you, eh? That's far more hip and current than my outdated imagination.
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Since DerbyDad03 shared his nice Halloween story, here's one of my own set somewhere in suburbia before the times when candy bags needed to be put through and x-ray machines and when it was safe to let kids go with other kids unescorted trick-or-treating. Well, safe that is, for the kids, but not for some unfortunate house that would always get egged and its front-yard trees would be garlanded with toilet-papered.
Every year there would be that house in the neighborhood where the occupants would be gone on that special night. But they would be thoughtful enough to leave a plate of goodies with a note on it for the neighborhood kids. "Take some and leave some" would say the note. And every year that plate would be empty because the first kids to that porch would take all and leave none. So much for the honor system.
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In my neighborhood, almost out in the boonies, everyone knew everyone. When I got too old to trick or treat most of the kids were still unsupervised but there had been a few problems not far from us. I had a small motorcycle, a dirt bike. I was known by all for doing silly stuff on that bike but I never caused trouble for anyone else so for holloween I dressed up and went out sneaking and watching the little ones. Most of the parents cought on to it. I just kinda watched out for them, I was bored not trying to be some hero, and some of the kids I was in school with had to walk their youbger siblings so I got to mees with them too.
I cought some older kids, even older than I was from another neighborhood out bag snatching. I give them a good beatin'. The next day I got plates of food candy and even a little money and thank you cards. Funny thing was at the time on that bike I thought as far as the parents were concerned I was the terror of the neighborhood. I even got a visit from the local sherrifs. After that for a long time I could do no wrong in that area. At the same time though I got grounded for taking the bike out after dark lol.
LikelyPractice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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When I was a kid we had certain houses we would go to for the best treats. One gave out Quarters and another home made popcorn balls. Sometimes we would hit them up twice by changing costumes. Now days the stores watch for unusually large purchases of eggs and toilet paper. So stock up slowly and early. I hand out cold beers to the parents that I know when the come to my door.
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I just remembered some more goodies...individually wrapped Kraft carmels in clear plastic and soft toffees wrapped in foil. Didn't care for the Sweet Tarts nor Jolly Ranchers.
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re: Now days the stores watch for unusually large purchases of eggs and toilet paper.
Do they really say "No. You can't buy X dozen eggs and Y packages of toilet paper."?
I can't imagine any store where I live limiting purchases of that kind.
Actually, I can imagine it happening many years ago when everyone knew everyone. "Now days" (sic) I doubt the cashier at my local big box grocery stores would say anything.
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How could I forget Kit Kat bars? Aside from the ridiculous name, the candy itself is quite tasty with a nice crunch.
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