Halloween candy
 

What do you steal from your kids first?

I go straight for the Reeses, but I have to make sure nobody's watching. Flash is lucky. Jeff and Charlie both hate Snickers, so Flash gets all of his favorite with no complaints from the kids. OTOH, that takes all the fun out of it.

Kit Kats

25% Dad tax.

It prepares them for reality.

So with you-know-who's new tax plan, does this jump up to 39% next next if they haul in more than 250 pieces of candy?

I hear thats what Joe the Plumber charges his kids.

Deleted because I'm a major idiot.

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I suppose it will have to go up, eh?

The difference is that there is no redistribution.

But NINETYFIVE PERCENT of kids will get more candy under the new plan!! You believe that, right?

Candy Confiscation Priority:
1. Anything made in China - this goes in the trash. I'm the Dad version of the FDA here. This is usually in the form of a prepackaged candy "toy" - like candy rings, candy whistles, bags of gummy worms, etc. If it says Made in China it's basically crap that some cheapo bought down at the dollar store. Probably laced with lead and mercury and all kinds of bad junk.

2. Almond Joy (NB these are not necessarily my favorite, they are just rarer so I give them a higher confiscation priority)
3. Kit Kats (same reason as above)
4. Snickers
5. Reeses

My favorites would be ordered thus:
1. Snickers
2. Kit Kats
3. Almond Joy
4. Reeses

Hell, if I'm getting 39% of their loot, then they can get all the grub their little Indiana Jones candy bags can hold!

We've actually got a great gig going. People feel so sorry for Charlie in his wheelchair that they give him double or triple candy, not realizing that he's on an all-liquid diet. (And we're certainly not about to divulge the truth and risk losing out on the loot.) So by the end of the night Flash and I make away like bandits with the biggest haul in town. We're shameless.

Any of the fruit flavored stuff.....starburst, skittles, gummies, fruit tootsie rolls, individual packs of sweet tarts, etc..

Pass on candy corn, brachs butterscotch hard candy, smarties, anything pure chocolate, and random taffy.

Halloween night is a candy fest. The day after Halloween is usually candy before breakfast and intermittent snacking throughout the day. By the second or third day after, I am pretty sick of candy. That is when the "bowl" gets moved to the middle of the kitchen.....dont have the heart to throw the rest away, but it usually sits there for about a month.

I used to levy a tax on the collected goods, with a surcharge that resulted in all peanut M&Ms coming my way. We let our kids take huge hauls, so they were usually more than happy pay tribute, and knew any chocolate/nut combo was sure to win dad's favor.

I can still picture my hauls from the '60s. Do they still give out those rubbery marshmallow things that are shaped like a peanut? Hated those. Seinfeld comments on them in one of his routines, and said he'd simply tell the person dispensing them, "No thanks, we've got all the doorstops we need."

Next to Christmas and birthdays, Halloween was the best day of the year.

They are called Circus Peanuts and we have some in our house this very moment.

My mom keeps a stash of those and Necco Wafers (which are basically multi-colored antacid tablets) to snack on when she visits.

The odd thing is that she really goes out of her way to "hide" them, placing them in a bag and then putting the bag at the back of the cabinet.

I tried to tell her that nobody was going to eat them. In fact, over the summer, we had an ant infestation. Even the ants didn't touch the Necco Wafers.

http://snackerz.com/shop/images/snk2...us_peanuts.jpg

These are what I hate:
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They call them peanut butter kisses, but they're an affront to the good names of peanut butter and kisses.

As a general rule, Ferrero Rocher is the only chocolate which would make committing any crime absolutely legitimate, leave alone stealing. For the exception of my son who my husband and i would have to take a more diplomatic strategy and just start begging from.

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Just admit it - you're a candy elitist!

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I would be honored to accept the nomination specially coming from you ,whom i feel sort of close now that i have read your Camel training post some times ago ! :)

Isnt it the same company?

I know for sure that Necco is the same company that makes the traditional Valentine antacids that we see every year....with slogans like "Be Mine," "Cool One," "C U Later," and "Try Again"

Agreed. They are a poorly-executed homeless man's version of a Bit O' Honey. Growing up in a poor neighborhood (before I had the means to escape to greener pastures for trick-or-treating) I received a lot of peanut butter kisses. The usually ended up as ammo in my wrist rocket.

http://www.groovycandies.com/sendbin....jpg&Width=450

those taste nothing like bit o honey...no peanut flavor in delicious bit o honey

When the scriptures talk of Manna, they are talking about Bit O'Honey.

That is why nobody knew what it was and kept saying, "What IS that?"

They hadn't seen prepackaged candy before.

Can someone drop a few million into R&D to develop a wax paper that comes off easily, please? Seriously, it has been about 80 years and the paper still sticks to everything.

Sometimes I am so excited to eat my Bit O'Honey that I dont even bother removing all the paper. There is a break-even point wherein the distaste associated with the paper is outweighed by the utility received from the candy.