What did you collect your candy in when you went trick or treating and after you ate all the good stuff, name one kind of reject candy that was always left?
1. Hard plastic jack-o'-lantern shaped bucket with a handle
2. Jolly Ranchers. I mean why even bother?
1. Pillow case.
2 Candy corn.
I'm not a candy corn fan either. In fact I almost posted a poll to see who did and did not like candy corn here but figured that might have already been done. It's a pretty polarizing candy. My father absolutely loves it though. It's his favorite Halloween candy so he got to have it all to himself.
share1. I had the same vessel as you as a kid which we would dump into larger bags my dad was carrying....as I got older a pillow case.
2. Thrills gum. Why would people give out soap tasting gum???
That's a smart idea, carrying larger bags to dump your candy into. It allows you to get even more candy!
I'm not familiar with Thrills gum. Maybe it's not something we have in the US.
Guess not. Lucky you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrills
THATS HOW ALI AND I DO IT....I WEAR A BACKPACK AND SHE DUMPS HER PAIL INTO IT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
share1. I don't recall
2. Tie - Circus peanuts, Smarties
Believe it or not I loved circus peanuts as a kid. I did not get to eat them very often so getting to have one seemed special. I don't think I could stomach them now though. Way way too sweet!
shareAren't Circus Peanuts just hard marshmallows?
shareNothing against marshmallows but I looked at most anything other than chocolate a disappointment. Bit-O-Honey and Mary Jane weren't bad either, but I wanted chocolate related stuff.
shareI liked Bit-O-Honey when I was a kid even though it got stuck in I my teeth. Mary Jane candies are tasty too.
share(1) I think the first few times I went out, I had a plastic jack o lantern too, but I quickly switched to a pillowcase.
(2) I can't remember but there were more than a few. I liked Jolly Ranchers though.
For some reason hard candy just didn't seem like much of a score. Something about candy being soft and especially if it was chocolate made it seem like the good stuff.
It wasn't just hard candy though. I also hated Tootsie rolls.
JOLLY RANCHERS ROCK....SMARTIES AND GENERIC HARD CANDIES WERE THE LAST THINGS LEFT.
shareI like Smarties! My daughter and my ex-wife hated Smarties so I scored on Halloween. Getting hard candies really does suck though. Those things remind me of the candy my grandmother gave me when I visited her. I wasn't thrilled.
shareWell I will concede that as hard candies go Jolly Ranchers are probably about as good as it gets besides Werther's Originals, but unless I'm having a coughing fit in a public place I generally don't go for hard candies.
sharesmarties are completely different here. I like Rockets, which are like your smarties.
ONCE AGAIN...UNEXPECTED LEARNING INSPIRED BY AN SSLSSG RESPONSE...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties_(tablet_candy)#:~:text=The%20candies%20distributed%20in%20Canada%20are%20marketed%20as
I SUDDENLY HAVE THE URGE TO BUY A BAG OF SMARTIES.
1. Same, hard plastic Jack O'Lantern with a black plastic handle. In fact, one of them survived to present day and I now use it with a bunch of similar buckets to make "lanterns" for our front walk on Halloween night :)
However, one year, when I was 9 and my brother was 11, going on 12 (his birthday is just over a week after Halloween), one of the fast food places we liked to visit had a Halloween bucket giveaway and had four, fun, collectible buckets with interesting lids, so that year, we used a witch bucket and a ghost bucket. To be fair, they weren't as much fun as the traditional pumpkin buckets, and somehow we lost them during one of our moves. I mean, they were plain plastic buckets that were different colors with images printed on the side, and interesting lids on top.
2. Anything with nuts in it. I'm not allergic, I just don't like the taste or texture.
And by the way, you could have sent those Jolly Ranchers my way, hehehe. I like those :)
That's cool that you still have your pumpkin bucket from growing up. I still have the ones my sons used. One was shaped like a jack-o'-lantern and one was shaped like a little black cauldron.
I'm not a fan of anything with nuts in it either despite also not being allergic. I don't want crunch where there is supposed to be softness. The exception would be Mr. Goodbars. I do love them.
About the only hard candies I'd say I truly like are Werther's Originals but I don't think anyone ever gave those out for Halloween.
It was actually kinda weird, how it turned up in the garage a few years ago in our current house when I was looking for mom's old Autumn wreath (I've moved a lot), and I then got an idea on what to do with it when I realized how easy it would be to just put a candle in it and put it out front. So I ended up going to Wal-Mart and a few other stores, and getting 5 more. What's interesting is, they all look similar, but the one from my childhood is paler and more translucent than the others pumpkin buckets I got, and the faces aren't exactly the same, but you can't tell from a distance.
I think that's a really cute idea! I'm sure the kids love it as they trick or treat. 😊
shareI used a white pillowcase and was out til around 9pm back in the 70's when people stayed up late and sat out in their driveways handing out candy. Always went for the good candy, i.e Snickers, Milky Way etc. Now in 2024, Trick or Treating is generally done by the time it gets dark and starts as early as 5pm, meaning it's done by around 7:30PM. Times have changed
shareIndeed they have and I miss houses handing out candy until 9:00. It was the same way in my neighborhood, parents sitting out on the porch handing out candy and visiting with people. I don't mind trick or treating starting before dark for the little tiny kiddos, but I wish it would last until 9:00.
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