****The Official Friday Silliness Thread****

[Lucky9teen]

The 10 Most Disappointing Treats for Trick-or-Treaters
On Halloween night, some houses struggle with the idea of candy. There are good houses, and there are bad houses. The best trick-or-treaters know to avoid the latter. At the food site Serious Eats, we all love Halloween, but wish certain homes would just stop handing out the classically bad "treats." They weren't good last year, the year before that, or now. Our own Erin Zimmer put together this list of our top 10 Halloween treats that nobody wants...

	Toothbrushes Dentists and orthodontists should not be allowed to celebrate Halloween if they're going to get all tooth doctory on us. Do not bring your work home with you, folks! We all have a personal responsibility to brush, and maybe some of us will forget, but your complimentary bristles on a stick (instead of a Snickers) will not help us remember. It will make us despise you and your trade.
Raisins Little boxes of stuck-together shriveled globs are not what little kids schlep around the neighborhood for all night. When they say trick-or-treat, they want candy that will rot their teeth, not wrinkled grapes.  (Using an empty box as a kazoo-like instrument, though, is kinda fun.)
	Candy Corn The most polarizing candy of all. The fruitcake of Halloween; it just never goes away. If you love them, fine. But don't subject the rest of us haters to the sickeningly sweet triangle that tastes like neither candy nor corn.
Smarties and Necco Wafers These chalky candies are supposedly "fruit-flavored," but no fruit I know tastes like dust -- and makes everything eaten after taste like dust, too.
	Dum Dum Lollipops Usually, foods on a stick are yummy (corn dogs, ice pops), but Dum Dums just can't be included on that list. Not even if they were breaded and deep-fried and served at a fair.
Apples Long before "poisoned candy" scares, evil people were handing out apples instead of candy on Halloween. This disappointing "treat" is the main reason to avoid unwrapped food while trick-or-treating.
	Tootsie Rolls It looks like chocolate and sort of smells like chocolate, but the mini brown tubes are not real chocolate. They taste like watered-down chocolate, and have a chewy texture that will strip the fillings right off your molars.
Miscellaneous, Wrapped Hard Candies Halloween is supposed to be a holiday for young people, not senior citizens who suck on hard candies all day. Something about the strawberry-shaped strawberries, gold-wrapped butterscotch, and peppermint feels past the expiration date. (These usually get set aside for Granny.)
	Laffy Taffy I do not laffy when I get these. I sobby. I get depressedy. Because it gets all stucky to my teethy and doesn't even taste that goody.
Anything Fun-Sized Who started calling it this? Since when is one bite fun?! Give us the rich houses with the sprawling driveways and full-sized candy bars any day. Portion control doesn't need to start this young.

[dragonblustar]

His poll is rising.

[Ronin]

There was this one farmer back in my hometown who (I SWEAR I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!) used to give out broccoli.

He said he just loved the look of dumb confusion on the kid’s faces when he dropped it in their bags.

Of course the next day all the broccoli had somehow managed to end up on the street and his house got TPed so bad you could barely see the place. That never deterred him in the slightest.

He said it was a tradition and he couldn’t change it if he wanted to.

[BibChr]

Ditto.

[The Chief]

Banana flavored is the only one I like!

[The Chief]

[The Chief]

[martin_fierro]

[JJR RNCH]

Tootsie rolls are just chocolate spit.

[ErnBatavia]

One night many years ago, I ate candy corn and then threw up.

Several years ago, I had the munchies at the office, and ate an entire bag of red vines.....I didn't sh*t normally for close to a week.

[Lucky9teen]

One thing that my kids have gotten almost every year, that they actually loved to get, was an uninflated balloon.

They loved blowing it up and letting it go again and again and again. Hours of fun....

And a cheap hand out too....