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Deepster said:
I egged houses. When someone gave us apples? We'd whip them right back against their house.

One time, we all whizzed in a coffee can, leaned it against the front door and rang the doorbell. Glad they didn't have video doorbells then.
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I shudder to think about the stuff we did as kids. So much of it was so insanely dangerous and destructive by today’s standards.
 
Very chilly in my part of Florida tonight. In the mid 40's with wind chills in the 30's. It was high 70's at lunch time.

Halloween quantity has been severely dampened and I'm just hanging out a handful to each kid .

Mrs Diesel got Skittles and Skittles in green, M&M's and Peanut M&M's, mini Snickers, dots, Reese's and mini Reese's.

After working concession stand for HS football game, teens today are all about the sugar candies so I'm giving teens Skittles and Dots.

I care deeply about littlins choking so little kids get the M&M's

My generosity and scheming should leave max quantity of Reeses and Snickers for me.

As of 7:45, this what remains to hand out.

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Some old traditions are so bizarre, I can't imagine egging someone's house because they didn't give me candy.
 
Faves: As a kid I loved Mounds and Life Savers.

Hated: Sweet Tarts and Butterfingers


When I finally hung up the Unkown Comic bag in my mid-20s, my faves were still Mounds. And Mike & Ikes.
 
When living in Meriden I loved the looks on the kid's faces when they said their thing and I would hold up a rather large bowl of chocolate pudding. Priceless.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Very chilly in my part of Florida tonight. In the mid 40's with wind chills in the 30's. It was high 70's at lunch time.

Halloween quantity has been severely dampened and I'm just hanging out a handful to each kid .

Mrs Diesel got Skittles and Skittles in green, M&M's and Peanut M&M's, mini Snickers, dots, Reese's and mini Reese's.

After working concession stand for HS football game, teens today are all about the sugar candies so I'm giving teens Skittles and Dots.

I care deeply about littlins choking so little kids get the M&M's

My generosity and scheming should leave max quantity of Reeses and Snickers for me.

As of 7:45, this what remains to hand out.

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WOW!!!!!!!! Nice!
 
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Chuck said:
...Least favorite. Anyone remember Necco Wafers. The worst....
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I don't get the hate. There was a store near me that sold the all brown wafers. Oh, mommy!!!!!

Around 2002 I bit a wafer and broke a toof. I have avoided them for the most part since.
 
Huskyforlife said:
Some old traditions are so bizarre, I can't imagine egging someone's house because they didn't give me candy.
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Egging a house was rare and only reserved for the few known jerks It was mostly about getting in skirmishes with the kids around your age and protecting yourself from the older kids.

Kids spending all their free time holed up in their bedrooms gaming is weird to us older folks...we were basically never home outside of dinner time. It was riding our bikes snd playing in the woods for hours, when we got a bit older it was playing ball on the courts all day and always getting into some trouble...Think I was a part of the last generation that did all this stuff and I'm thankful for it, I think we had it way better.

Now if there is any trick or treating it's a set window of time deemed by the town, trunk or treat where kids just go to the school parking lot and parents hand out candy from the trunk of their car. Next it will be parents going to Walmart and handing their kids a $20 to pay for their favorite candy.
 
8893 said:
I shudder to think about the stuff we did as kids. So much of it was so insanely dangerous and destructive by today’s standards.
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By a few too many of today’s helicopter standards, most parents in my childhood neighborhood would have been ostracized after allowing us to trick or treat some years in rain, sleet, and even snow.

Heavy rain forecasts, some social media fear mongering, and calls to postpone until tomorrow or Saturday aside, we had a pretty good turnout tonight. Despite some rain drops, it was great to see most kids and their non-snowflake parents out enjoying themselves. No reported child abuse charges to boot! :cool:
 
superjohn said:
Egging a house was rare and only reserved for the few known jerks It was mostly about getting in skirmishes with the kids around your age and protecting yourself from the older kids.

Kids spending all their free time holed up in their bedrooms gaming is weird to us older folks...we were basically never home outside of dinner time. It was riding our bikes snd playing in the woods for hours, when we got a bit older it was playing ball on the courts all day and always getting into some trouble...Think I was a part of the last generation that did all this stuff and I'm thankful for it, I think we had it way better.

Now if there is any trick or treating it's a set window of time deemed by the town, trunk or treat where kids just go to the school parking lot and parents hand out candy from the trunk of their car. Next it will be parents going to Walmart and handing their kids a $20 to pay for their favorite candy.
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Things escalated pretty fast in my old neighborhood back in the day on Halloween. I was hardly the tough guy. While many were going out as pirates and emulating characters in the movie Warriors... I had a homemade costume. I was a crayon. We are talking 80's here.
 
BLUEDOGHOUSE said:
Things escalated pretty fast in my old neighborhood back in the day on Halloween. I had a homemade costume. I was a crayon. We are talking 80's here.
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Side topic: best costumes. Back in the day (early/mid 70s) when creating and making your own costume was still the thing, 2 costume winners in a few years at the local church’s post-candy collection contest:

1. 35mm cardboard box Camera made with functional flash and lens.
2. paper mache newspaper with recent front page and ads on back.

Best all-time costumes?
 
BLUEDOGHOUSE said:
Things escalated pretty fast in my old neighborhood back in the day on Halloween. I was hardly the tough guy. While many were going out as pirates and emulating characters in the movie Warriors... I had a homemade costume. I was a crayon. We are talking 80's here.
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None of us were really tough but it was fun to pretend we were tough, it was all pretty harmless fun. I don't understand what kids do for fun anymore. There weren'r even any trick or treaters on my street tonight.
 
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uconnell said:
I did that last year toward the end as I was tired of getting up. A kid just dumped the whole bowl in his bag.
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I usually make a deal with some of the older kids and tell them to come back at nine and I’ll give them whatever candy I have left.
 
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We usually get close to 50, this year only 30. Rain stopped at 5:30 and temps dropped a good 15-20 degrees with wind chill during the 6-8pm designated time. But we managed to get rid of everything. Toward the end, my deal was, "how much can you fit in one hand?"
 
Best: Snickers and $100,000 candy bar ( which when I was a kid was worth a lot more)

Worst freaking Smarties
 
Favorite: Zagnut, Clark, Skittles, Dots, Twizzlers, Nerds

Least Favorite: Hershey Bars/Kisses. I've never liked plain chocolate on its own.
 
Best:

1) Reese’s
2) Reese’s Pieces
3) Reese’s Minis

Honorable Mention: Reese’s Fast Break

Worst: If they don’t have Reese’s
 
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Do you ever have commercial flashbacks from your childhood?
(sung to a conga like rhythm)
Try a Necco Sky Bar
It's the 4 in 1 bar
English toffee
Fudge parfait
Honey nugget
Peanut whip

These kind of scare me when they come in the morning just as I am having my coffee
 
Bear in mind, my memories of trick or treating are 65 years old. A lot of the stuff that I know I would have liked wasn't even invented yet.

Loved...
Zero Bars
Reese's
Crunch/Krackle Both the same, one Nestle the other Hershey.
Boston Baked Beans (the candy, not the beans)
Necco Wafers. Just the black ones and the brown ones. Yes, I know I'm the only person in the world who ever liked these things.

Tolerated...
Plain Chocolate bars
Snickers
Milky Way
Candy Corn
Circus Peanuts
Tootsie Rolls
M&Ms
Peppermint Patties

Swapped with my next door neighbor...
3 Musketeers
Sky Bar
Chunky
M&M Peanuts (suddenly started appearing late in my trick or treat years)

Hated and couldn't pawn off on neighbor...
Almond Joy
Mounds
Anything else with Coconut
 
dennismenace said:
Do you ever have commercial flashbacks from your childhood?
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These kind of scare me when they come in the morning just as I am having my coffee
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The box is yellow and the pops are too
Shot with sugar, through and through
Kel-lo-o-o-o-gs Sugar Corn Pops
Sugar Pops are Tops!

The scary thing is, I hated that cereal. But the stupid jingle haunts me.
 
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joober jones said:
The only really bad Necco Wafers are the clove flavored ones. The rest aren't so bad.
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I loved close lifesavers. Aparently, no one else did, because they were discontinued a long time ago.
 
RichZ said:
Bear in mind, my memories of trick or treating are 65 years old. A lot of the stuff that I know I would have liked wasn't even invented yet.

Loved...
Zero Bars
Reese's
Crunch/Krackle Both the same, one Nestle the other Hershey.
Boston Baked Beans (the candy, not the beans)
Necco Wafers. Just the black ones and the brown ones. Yes, I know I'm the only person in the world who ever liked these things.

Tolerated...
Plain Chocolate bars
Snickers
Milky Way
Candy Corn
Circus Peanuts
Tootsie Rolls
M&Ms
Peppermint Patties

Swapped with my next door neighbor...
3 Musketeers
Sky Bar
Chunky
M&M Peanuts (suddenly started appearing late in my trick or treat years)

Hated and couldn't pawn off on neighbor...
Almond Joy
Mounds
Anything else with Coconut
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So you're old enough to remember those little Mary Jane candies that stuck in every crevice in your teeth, right up there with Charleston Chews and Sugar Daddies. And of course the ultimate jaw exercise, Turkish Taffy. No wonder we had so many cavities back then.

I recall getting plenty of that stuff in the mid-60s. Also, candy bags filled with some mix of individual Fireballs, Bazooka, Bull's Eyes, jawbreakers, chocolate coins and Dum-Dums.

The one thing for me that I wouldn't ever let touch anything else in the bag were Raisinettes. I usually just dumped those on the porch or in the garden, cursing under my breath. And I'd get excited about getting the rare Chunky, unless that had raisins, which just ticked me off to no end. Why ruin a perfect block of chocolate like that? I hate raisins to this day.

And yes, you can still buy candy cigs.
 
storrsroars said:
So you're old enough to remember those little Mary Jane candies that stuck in every crevice in your teeth, right up there with Charleston Chews and Sugar Daddies. And of course the ultimate jaw exercise, Turkish Taffy. No wonder we had so many cavities back then.

I recall getting plenty of that stuff in the mid-60s. Also, candy bags filled with some mix of individual Fireballs, Bazooka, Bull's Eyes, jawbreakers, chocolate coins and Dum-Dums.

The one thing for me that I wouldn't ever let touch anything else in the bag were Raisinettes. I usually just dumped those on the porch or in the garden, cursing under my breath. And I'd get excited about getting the rare Chunky, unless that had raisins, which just ticked me off to no end. Why ruin a perfect block of chocolate like that? I hate raisins to this day.

And yes, you can still buy candy cigs.
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Agree with all except the raisin hate. I was an insanely picky eater as a kid but always was good with raisins. Raisinettes and Chunky with raisins all the better.

Have you ever had meatballs or braciole with raisins, like they make them in certain parts of Italy? They cook right in so you don't even know they are there texturally, but they add a very nice sweetness that complements the savory flavors and the acid in the tomato sauce.
 
RichZ said:
The box is yellow and the pops are too
Shot with sugar, through and through
Kel-lo-o-o-o-gs Sugar Corn Pops
Sugar Pops are Tops!

The scary thing is, I hated that cereal. But the stupid jingle haunts me.
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"If you like peanuts
and chocolate too
Then snick snick snickers is the bar for you"
 
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