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karstenkibbe said:
My next door neighbor does this and gives out cans of craft beer to the neighborhood adults. As a craft beer geek, I find this act quite neighborly 🍻
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I had a neighbor years back who brought a little shifter glass with him as he escorted his kids around, begging a little taste here and there on his rounds.

I, and I am sure other dad's, were envious of his enterprise.
 
First group just came. My wife and I work from home. Rather than ignoring them, we did the bucket and wrote "Take Two Happy Halloween!" This time of day it's usually the little kids. with their parents. This time, the first group was middle school kids. Bastards took the full bowl! Thankfully, I deliberately didn't fill the bowl. I have the little idiots looking at my Ring doorbell the whole time. I won't post it on the town facebook page, but it would be funny. Half the people would talk about the problems with today's youth and the other half would scold me for doxing the poor kids.

EDIT: 5 other groups have come since then. Mostly middle school kids. All took two each.
 
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Does anyone place red balloons on sewer grates? A guy at work left early to buy red balloons to tie to the drains. I know it’s related to the movie “It” but first person I heard of that does this.
 
Just went to CVS. Candy was 50% off. Neighborhood kids better like $100,000 bars because they're my favorite so that's what they're getting.
 
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huskyjawz said:
Less chocolate in the candy then there used to be. Wrappers now say "chocalate candy" instead of "milk chocolate". Not allowed to use the term. The Cocoa is too expensive and hard to come by due to drought and heat in West Africa so more sugar and more oil and less cocoa butter.
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Most USA candy bars are made with corn syrup instead of sugar. That is why I like the same candy bars from the UK better than from USA where they use sugar. For example Kit Kat Bar from UK made with sugar compared to Kit Kat bar from USA made with corn syrup.
 
I had to add to the cheez balls. And Mrs. Diesel had some Fun Dips. I fel better now.

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HooperScooper said:
Great, now you and Mrs. Diesel will be eating cheez balls for months. Get rid of that stuff first! 😂
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Turns out they are mini cheese balls. I opened up a pack and got two full hand fulls. They legit. But I still wouldn't hand them out.
 
JwittersPAC said:
Most USA candy bars are made with corn syrup instead of sugar. That is why I like the same candy bars from the UK better than from USA where they use sugar. For example Kit Kat Bar from UK made with sugar compared to Kit Kat bar from USA made with corn syrup.
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Handed out about 200 of these tonight. Seems like they have sugar (and real chocolate) and were made in Hershey.
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mussels said:
Handed out about 200 of these tonight. Seems like they have sugar (and real chocolate) and were made in Hershey.View attachment 112842
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I stand corrected about US Kit Kat bars. But many US candy does contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Many US candy bars use high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), including
Baby Ruth and Twix. Other Hershey products like Almond Joy and York Peppermint Patties also use HFCS, although the classic Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar does not. The specific ingredients can vary, so checking the label is the only way to be certain for any given product.
  • Baby Ruth: Uses HFCS along with sugar and corn syrup.
  • Twix: Includes corn syrup, though HFCS is not explicitly listed in the ingredients for the caramel bar.
  • Snickers: Uses corn syrup, and US versions contain HFCS.
  • Hershey Products: While classic Hershey's bars use sugar, products like Almond Joy and York Peppermint Patties contain HFCS.
    • Other Products: Many candies, including some versions of Butterfinger, contain HFCS.
 
Was a wild windy time in my area but the kids were out and having fun! We had a group with about 15 kids. In-laws were handing out full-size candy bars (Hershey's, KitKat, and Reece's) and had about 50 trick or treaters.
 
JwittersPAC said:
I stand corrected about US Kit Kat bars. But many US candy does contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Many US candy bars use high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), including
Baby Ruth and Twix. Other Hershey products like Almond Joy and York Peppermint Patties also use HFCS, although the classic Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar does not. The specific ingredients can vary, so checking the label is the only way to be certain for any given product.
  • Baby Ruth: Uses HFCS along with sugar and corn syrup.
  • Twix: Includes corn syrup, though HFCS is not explicitly listed in the ingredients for the caramel bar.
  • Snickers: Uses corn syrup, and US versions contain HFCS.
  • Hershey Products: While classic Hershey's bars use sugar, products like Almond Joy and York Peppermint Patties contain HFCS.
    • Other Products: Many candies, including some versions of Butterfinger, contain HFCS.
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There was an article in the NY Times this week that outlined how candy manufacturers are dealing with soaring cocoa bean prices consistent with what @huskyjawz posted above. So after buying Halloween candy, I looked at the Kit Kats label and was surprised to see they still had chocolate. Then your post made me curious to look again, and low and behold sugar not HFCS.

Guess the take away is that Kit Kats rock
 
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It was pretty much like this. It's about three hours of incessant handing out of candy with big groups of kids. It's a pain in the butt, but the kids all seem to be having a great time and the bulk of them are very polite.

I love that kids have no filter. My wife was making dinner, so quite a few kids mentioned that our house "smelled so good." One girl asked what that smell was, and I said it's pizza and she said "no, can't be pizza. I have never smelled pizza like that before". I wasn't kidding about people being bussed in. One little boy said to me "I have never been in this town before." I asked him how he liked it and he said "it's nice!"

It's fun enough, but I'm glad it's only once a year.
 
Welcomed baby 3 on Thursday afternoon so the in laws had the other 2 (almost 6, almost 2). Grandpa generously took the ~6 yr old around with the costumed up friendly neighborhood milfs. Grandma didn’t bother to put the ~2 yr old in his costume or go to a single house and put a bowl outside. Pretty disappointing, especially when the two jumbo meg bags where pillaged by 6:30
 
Chin Diesel said:
I had to add to the cheez balls. And Mrs. Diesel had some Fun Dips. I fel better now.

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Fun dip from the snack bar was a staple in my post game meal after a little league game.

I have a ton of candy left but my daughter’s school donates leftover candy to troops overseas. Hope they like Swedish Fish. Biggest hit of the night was a cooler of mini bottles of water that I left out all of which were snatched up. Of course now the empties are probably all over the neighborhood this morning…
 
Devland said:
Lol at posters bringing nutrition into Halloween candy thread.
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For a while, maybe 10 years ago or so it seemed like every fourth or fifth kid would ask whether things have nuts. If there was an obvious answer like Reese's or Snickers, I would tell them, but I'd always say it's probably best if you check with your parents before you eat eat them. I just didn't want to be the reason some kid slipped into anaphylactic shock. It's funny when I told them to check with their parents first they would look at me seriously and nod. I guess if nut allergies are an issue as a kid you learn to take it seriously.

I sometimes wonder why that seemed like it became such a thing. Was it that it just wasn't recognized before, or is there something environmental happening that's triggering it?
 
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Chin Diesel said:
I had to add to the cheez balls. And Mrs. Diesel had some Fun Dips. I fel better now.

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Nostalgia alert! I used to live on those giant Fun Dip packages in the late 70s. Would ride my bike with friends over to K’s Market on High Ridge in Stamford to buy that poison, along with Jolly Rancher sticks, 25-cent packs of Topps baseball cards and sparklers… because every nine year old needed to light those year-round.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Welcomed baby 3 on Thursday afternoon so the in laws had the other 2 (almost 6, almost 2). Grandpa generously took the ~6 yr old around with the costumed up friendly neighborhood milfs. Grandma didn’t bother to put the ~2 yr old in his costume or go to a single house and put a bowl outside. Pretty disappointing, especially when the two jumbo meg bags where pillaged by 6:30
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Congrats!!
 
We had a pretty steady flow last night. Our high school had an away playoff football game last night so we got only a few junior high kids.
 
CL82 said:
For a while, maybe 10 years ago or so it seemed like every fourth or fifth kid would ask whether things have nuts. If there was an obvious answer like Reese's or Snickers, I would tell them, but I'd always say it's probably best if you check with your parents before you eat eat them. I just didn't want to be the reason some kid slipped into anaphylactic shock. It's funny when I told them to check with their parents first they would look at me seriously and nod. I guess if nut allergies are an issue as a kid you learn to take it seriously.

I sometimes wonder why that seemed like it became such a thing. Was it that it just wasn't recognized before, or is there something environmental happening that's triggering it?
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Huge issue. New research is changing ways to alleviate the problem. Advising small doses at much younger age. My identical twin grandsons both had peanut allergies, and, fortunately, one actually outgrew it. Really difficult to determine how.
 
The full size Sour Patch kids were a bit too popular. Wife said some kids came four times.
 
mussels said:
There was an article in the NY Times this week that outlined how candy manufacturers are dealing with soaring cocoa bean prices consistent with what @huskyjawz posted above. So after buying Halloween candy, I looked at the Kit Kats label and was surprised to see they still had chocolate. Then your post made me curious to look again, and low and behold sugar not HFCS.

Guess the take away is that Kit Kats rock
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The article didn't say that there would be no chocolate in the candies, but less then there used to be.
 
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