• BlueLineBae@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Best: twix, 100grand, candy corn, sweet tarts

    Worst: bottle caps, heath, unnamed hard candies, tootsie rolls

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Best: Full size Snickers, Reese’s Halloween editions

    Worst: Candy Corn and Circus Peanuts

  • Elise@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    I once gave a single banana to a group of kids and told them to be sure to split it between them.

    That was a massive improvement over the year before, where I had nothing at all.

    It was extra sad because their parents only allowed them to go through the building they lived in, and it didn’t have many people.

    Thing is, halloween isn’t really a thing there, plus I am absolutely terrible with dates.

      • KittenBiscuits@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        My MIL used to work for a dentist. One year he encouraged? required? the employees to hand out toothbrushes on Halloween. My hubby begged his mom not to do it, to just fib and tell her boss she had. But… she went through with it. They got egged that night & their pumpkin was smashed. She fucked around and found out.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I got eerily angry complaints from parents one Halloween after I gave out cotton candy “because it filled up too much space in their bags for something that would dissolve in their mouth all at once anyways as well as make them hyper as it’s just sugar”. Makes me wonder how they spent their evenings.

    • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Ha, I would take Necco over whoppers and sixlets any day. We should have been friends as kids; best candy trade partner ever.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Best: kit-kats, twix, heath bar, and the wee dark/light/crunch mix assortment.

    Worst: banana laffy taffy, smarties

    Also I freaking love black licorice and my kids do too but would never, ever dare hand it out, absolutely a trick not a treat for most kids.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Best: Reese’s, starbursts, Skittles

    Worst: Those peanut butter chews wrapped in orange or black that have a weird soft but chunky feel that reminds me of something half digested. Anything healthy. Anything not candy (stickers, pencils, etc).

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Came here to post unnamed peanut butter bullshit.

      Like, our parents were supposed to look at our candy to make sure it wasn’t tampered with (urban legend), yet everybody looked at the unlabeled wrap job on those pieces of shit and was like “yeah, this def doesn’t contain a razor blade.”

    • Today@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Glow bracelets go super fast in my neighborhood. They even take them off my skeletons. Of course we do candy too.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Worst: anything with coconut.

      We don’t take kindly to folks like you in this here town. Coconut is awesome.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Trick or treating isn’t so much of a thing in Australia, even though the idea of Halloween and dressing up has become more popular.

    Anyway, no one has ever done it in our neighbourhood, but just in case I buy a bag of chupa chups in October in case anyone knocks on the door.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Best: Subjective.

    Worst: religous pamphlets proletizing the youth because the religous must target those without fully functioning brains lest their numbers dwindle.

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’m sorry but propaganda does not technically count as candy.

      To be fair I once got 5 dimes wrapped in a little black mesh thing. It was lame as hell, but they did make an effort so I didn’t complain. But even back in the late 80s/early 90s, 50¢ wasn’t really useful, even for a kid.