Halloween is stupid

[rah]

We used to do 3 or 4 half filled pillow cases. That's a lot of fricken candy. 10 times what my mother would but to give out.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Any candy of mine that got stale was usually of the kind that tasted just as gross when fresh as when stale.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Any candy of mine that got stale was usually of the kind that tasted just as gross when fresh as when stale.

Even when I was a kid, I thought candy corn was like eating candle drippings.

 

[rah]

That's actually the most generous description that I've heard.

 

[Farm Boy]

I was 8 .... . the authority figures and the dammed lame stream media came down on me to take away my just rewards and rights to visit where i wanted to go. .....naaaahhhh!!! Still got the bestist candies and well justified tummy ache

The best house was my neighbor who didn't get the memo into the 90s. She still baked and decorated cupcakes. Man were they good. As her peer group aged off of the coil the younger families didn't stop by her house, but damn if I didn't go out of my way for the halloween cupcake.

I usually just turned out the lights and hijacked all the candy my parents had bought, but every year I told them that we had run out early and needed to get more for next time. By junior high I was probably in the two pillowcase range, and I never had even a hint of anything lasting long enough to get stale.

Kids cereals have less sugar in them these days too. Worst ones on the shelf anymore for that seem to contain granola and things to help one... move.

Candy corn is sugary candy drippings. Yum!

Also, for fruit, definitely Rubus Occidentalis.

It's better because you can't get it easy.

 

[HoloDoc]

I usually just turned out the lights and hijacked all the candy my parents had bought, but every year I told them that we had run out early and needed to get more for next time. By junior high I was probably in the two pillowcase range, and I never had even a hint of anything lasting long enough to get stale.

What I have learnt from this thread is that Tim was a morbidly obese thief of a child.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What I have learnt from this thread is that Tim was a morbidly obese thief of a child.

My childhood metabolism was sufficient that I couldn't have been obese if I had eaten the entire planet, and believe me, I tried. I was 6'2" 125# and eating five meals a day plus snacks when I started high school.

 

[PhroX]

I don't mind Halloween. I suppose it helps that I live on the top floor of a block of flats so I don't actually get any trick or treaters, but a bit of fancy dress and kids eating too much sugar are nothing to get worked up about. Holidays involving people setting off fireworks at ungodly hours of the morning on the other hand....

 

[HoloDoc]

My childhood metabolism was sufficient that I couldn't have been obese if I had eaten the entire planet, and believe me, I tried. I was 6'2" 125# and eating five meals a day plus snacks when I started high school.

You were 6'2" and only 125lbs? What were you eating, meth? I weighed that when I was 12-13, and I'm 5'6". Now I weigh considerably more.

 

[rah]

I was 6'2" and 125 in High School also. I could eat anything then. I only ate 4 meals a day though But alas, those days are gone and I'm closer to 175.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You were 6'2" and only 125lbs? What were you eating, meth? I weighed that when I was 12-13, and I'm 5'6". Now I weigh considerably more.

Like I said, raw metabolism. I also grew from 5'8" to 6'2" in under four months, so I was particularly skeletal at that point. I "filled out" to about 140 fairly quickly, but I was still under 150 when I started college...which is where I encountered meth.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I like wild blueberries - they are similar to ordinary blueberries, but smaller and have very dark-blue color.

Talking about more exotic stuff, some people grow chokeberry and sandthorn here.

Most popular are of course strawberries and raspberries.

sanddorn ice cream is amazing

 

[HoloDoc]

I was 6'2" and 125 in High School also. I could eat anything then. I only ate 4 meals a day though But alas, those days are gone and I'm closer to 175.

I'm 187 and 5'6". Of course, I'm also built like a lumberjack, but still. All y'all skinny.

Edit: Oh, and I will often eat only twice, or even once, per day. This has freaked out every romantic partner I have ever had.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm 187 and 5'6". Of course, I'm also built like a lumberjack, but still. All y'all skinny.

Edit: Oh, and I will often eat only twice, or even once, per day. This has freaked out every romantic partner I have ever had.

Well, that was then, this is now, and my skinny days are behind me. I am also down to one meal a day.

 

[HoloDoc]

Well, that was then, this is now, and my skinny days are behind me. I am also down to one meal a day.

I've been at one meal a day since high school. My youngest brother is the same. I have never met another human being with this bizarre ability to not eat. I even used to set alarms to remind myself to eat at one point, because I realised I had gone an entire day and a half without eating. And like I said, I'm not a light guy. And quite muscular. I actually have trouble eating more than two meals a day.

 

[metalhead]

Sounds like you should invest in some Soylent for your nutritional needs!

 

[HoloDoc]

Sounds like you should invest in some Soylent for your nutritional needs!

I tried that. It varies from person to person.

 

[Bamspeedy]

In the 80's-90's halloween seemed to run up until 9 PM (well past dark) with the teenagers smashing pumpkins some time after midnight

Sometime between then and now when I got out of apartment dwellings and became a homeowner to notice these things, most are done by 6 PM, with a few stragglers (mostly older kids) by 7. No more smashing pumpkins, but maybe that's just the homeowners not leaving them sit out after dark.

Inspect candy. Not saying you don't let kids eat any of the candy, but when it looks like it's been tampered with (previously opened, puncture marks), throw it out. Apples are easy to see if there are any puncture marks, caramel apples would cover up those puncture marks, so caramel apples will be thrown out.

https://lacrossetribune.com/news/lo...cle_1dcb1832-fdaa-5358-9bb4-c829e0436b4f.html

 

[metalhead]

I feel like the whole razor blade/poisoned candy thing is just an urban legend that got out of hand.

I don't have many curmudgeonly takes on things, but I definitely think we go way too far to protect our kids from stuff like this, or kidnapping, or whatever boogeymen are out there that suburban white parents are using to push their neuroses on their children.

 

[rah]

I remember back in the 60's that it got reported and that's where the "legend "originated.
I never really heard any further occurrences but the warnings became a ritual every year.

After a quick google.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pins-and-needles/