Halloween candy, redux

[dwenius]

Last night, Nina and several friends, plus assorted parents, toddled off around the neighborhood for trick-or-treating while I minded the house and sleeping boy and doled out candy. We got a slow but steady trickle, over 60 kids total, and gave out little treat bags filled with Smarties (tm), Sweet Tarts (tm), and lollipops. The gang returned home later to examine the haul.

• Vanilla flavored Tootsie rolls (tm). I didn't try one, but I approve.
  
• Inside-Out Reeses Pieces (tm). This is Sick and Wrong.
  
• There was a frightening lack of Willie Wonka products. In fact, between 4 kids, I spied a single small box of Nerds (tm). What is wrong with people these days? Can't they tell the One True Sweetness when they taste it? No Gobstoppers? What is the world coming to!
  
• One house gave away cupcakes with icing and candy corn on them in the shape of a smiling ghoul. Right. The candy and icing got scraped off and eaten, and beeeeoooooo, three cupcakes in the trash.
  
• Nina, who does not like chocolate, once again bemoaned the overwhelming abundance of bite sized Snickers (tm) etc.
  
• Anne and I steered far away from the Butterfingers (tm). Instant canker sores, them. Go ahead, see for yourself.
  
• Big, square, apple flavored Jolly Rancher lollipops. This is simultaneously a monstrous evil and proof of heaven's beneficence. I desperately wanted one for each cheek, but refrained.
  
• Almond biscotti? What?
  

Comments

[cda.livejournal.com]

we had those inside out reese's at the office the other day. they suck. they peanut butter is pretty much the same, but the chocolate filling is crap and the whole business is messy and crumbly.

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