Posted on 10/30/2008 7:40:43 AM PDT by Oyarsa
With so many American children struggling with obesity, you may not find joy in handing out globules of empty Halloween calories.
The typical jack-o'-lantern bucket holds 250 small chocolate bars (about 9,000 calories), and 20 percent of kids eat every last piece they collect. If you don't want to be the neighborhood Scrooge who's giving out apples and dental floss—or worse, pulling toilet paper from your trees the next day—try these tricks to treat their sweet tooths without expanding their waistlines.
(Excerpt) Read more at health.msn.com ...
That would have to be the worst treat of all - to get 2 cents to give to the UN!
Good lordy. Okay, you win the “worst treat” contest.
Gum?! Raisins?! Might as well just say: if the kid might like it it’s bad.
It’s the parents’ responsibility to govern the kids’ candy intake. There’s nothing wrong with the kids eating all the candy, so long as it takes some time and they get some exercise. My job at Halloween is to give out candy and make kids smile. And you ain’t getting any smiles with raisins and trident.
Zagnut is my favorite, too. They are still around, but they typically don’t sell them at places like WalMart. You have to look at specialty candy stores, or on the Internet. The Internet has everything:
http://www.nationwidecandy.com/snacks/items/850.htm
Last year, i made Martha white sweet yellow cornbread with a goodly portion of candy corn. It was halloween corn bread.
The candy sank to the bottom and stuck to the pan, but it was pretty good.
The “best” list gets you labelled as the worst house to go to.
Single stick of trident and raisins? Bring on the fun....
I loved candy cigarettes when I was a kid! I also liked the bubblegum cigars!
I was too young to understand how much the UN sucked back then.
It was tradition in our neighborhood that the dads took the kids out trick or treating - we had our goody bags and dads took a shot glass.
Each house provided candy for the kids and a shot for dad (which was usually needed in New England at Halloween. Brrrrr.)
I was only 8 years old...
Well done!
http://bobmccarty.com/2008/10/24/a-teachable-moment-obamas-socialist-halloween/
A Teachable Moment: Obama’s Socialist Halloween
October 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I’m not a big fan of Halloween, but I have some advice for those of you who expect to take part in the costume- and candy-intensive ritual this year. Make the most of it! Why? Because Halloween 2009 will serve as a teachable moment about socialism if Barack Obama becomes the nation’s 44th president.
In much the same way as the Democratic Party presidential nominee told Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher he planned to raise his taxes in order to “spread the wealth around,” I fully expect that President Obama — it hurts just to use those words together — will levy a tax of sorts on children who take the initiative to get a little exercise and go door to door in search of crunchy, chewy, sweet, sour, gooey, yummy treats.
Here’s how I imagine such a tax will be levied:
After all of the treats have been collected at the end of the night, I suspect President Obama will require all children to bring their booty to central collection locations in their communities. There, government contractors — most likely ACORN workers who need work between elections — will collect the candy from the children and record their names and contact information for future use.
Once all of the candy has been collected from the children in a designated geographic area, ACORN workers will count the pieces of candy and begin the process of dividing it equally among the total number of children in the area, according to Census Bureau estimates.
After counting and dividing the treats, ACORN workers will attempt to contact children in the area — not just the ones who collected candy on Halloween night, but all children in the area, including the ones who stayed home that night.
Children will be advised to report to the locations where they had dropped off their Halloween night hauls earlier. There, each child will be able to pick up their “fair” share of all the now-stale candy collected 12 weeks earlier.
Your children will think it’s unfair that they did all the work but don’t get to reap the full rewards of their efforts. After you finish wiping their tears, you can use the occasion as a teachable moment and tell your children what they just experienced is an example of how socialism works (i.e., President Obama likes to “spread the candy around“). Then they’ll understand.
I like candy corn and the wax bottles. Agreed on the Circus Peanuts and the mysteriously wrapped peanut butter nuggets.
After eating a few of them in an hour, you build up a tolerance to it (and the inner part isn't as sour as the outer coating).
http://www.amazon.com/Nobel-Japanese-Candy-Nostalgic-3-09-Ounce/dp/B000EZWQ4Y
"You won't regret purchasing this candy.By the way, you don't want to eat the whole bag.It's not good for your tongue!LOL! And be prepared to watch people pucker and cry!"
I figure if that excuse works for Barack Obama Junior...
I give out sample tubes of toothpaste.
The kids love it— really!
I have both and will give it a try. Reminds of my introduction to pepperoni/pineapple pizza. I thought it sounded odd but was hooked instantly.
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