How to deal with Trick or treat

[peters]

they show what to give out and what you shouldnt put in a kids bag...to avoid scraping dried eggshit from your front door..
:D :D :D :D :D
the link is:
http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=1506&src=stf124

[ferretchucker]

in England smarties are like big, nicer tasting, M&M's.

Also, Hersheys taste Crap,so do Nestlé. Wheres the Cadbury's or the Galaxy!

[ShankS]

I park the cars down the road, so I have an empty drive, leave the curtains open and all the lights off in the fromt rooms up & down stairs and sit in the back lounge with the light on and the door shut.

kids go "oh look, they must be away on holiday no point knock there" :D works every time.

[bloodrayne]

I park the cars down the road, so I have an empty drive, leave the curtains open and all the lights off in the fromt rooms up & down stairs and sit in the back lounge with the light on and the door shut.

kids go "oh look, they must be away on holiday no point knock there" :D works every time.Umm...That's quite the sneaky elaborate plan...lol


But...HERE...We just turn off the porch light....It's commonly known that only the houses with porch lights on are participating...Makes it a lot easier so that kids don't waste their time

We ALWAYS participate though...and ALWAYS with chocolate...mmmm

The hard candies and gum suck...

[Roderick Usher]

I park the cars down the road, so I have an empty drive, leave the curtains open and all the lights off in the fromt rooms up & down stairs and sit in the back lounge with the light on and the door shut.

kids go "oh look, they must be away on holiday no point knock there" :D works every time.

perfect way to get egged:D

[ferretchucker]

When I go out trick or treating i only go to houses with pumpkins outside.

Is it weird hearing things from the childs point of view?

[crimson_ghost]

in England smarties are like big, nicer tasting, M&M's.

Also, Hersheys taste Crap,so do Nestlé. Wheres the Cadbury's or the Galaxy!


I agree, can't beat a nice ol' bar of galaxy :D

[ShankS]

I'd just like to add, USofA chocolate is rank compared to British Chocolate bars.

who wants a fight?

[stygianwitch]

I agree, can't beat a nice ol' bar of galaxy :D

yep... best chocolate in the world.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :D

[Haunted]

I'm going with the general consensus and saying..."Give 'em chocolate. Good chocolate, not shit."

[tic]

Star bars!!,

Marathons where good until they called them Snickers :eek:

[crimson_ghost]

yep... best chocolate in the world.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :D

got a carving for a bar right this minute, might have to wait til halloween and go trick or treating, might get turned down though, being 6'5, cant really pass off as a kid

[pinkfloyd45769]

WE always give caramel apples and we put a big pumpkin full of candy so kids can pick there own.Most of the houses gave shit this year. BASTARDS!!!

[1beastieibe]

I like to take the kids down to the very rich neighborhoods in Seattle...Last year these people put on this Haunted pirate show in thier front yard, and then gave out 12 packs of coke products:) Another Lady made giant baskets filled with aatleast 25 bucks of candy in each basket.

[Spallalala]

why do you have to give them candy anyway? why not come up with some more healther stuff...I do like candy apples tho. There worth givin out.

But thankgod we dont do trick or treat here hey..

[urgeok]

1) most kids hate healthy stuff
2) most kids LOVE candy
3) most things that are healthy arent given the same thought towards safety like the candy thats traditionally been given out.

apples used to be popular until sick fuckers started to put pins and razor blades in them. parents usually throw them out.

when i was a kid there was a dentist who gave out new toothbrushes .. pretty good idea - very appropriate - but you'd find them littered all over his lawn and he got egged enough to turn his house into an omelette on a hot day.

kids - and the fear of kiddie retribution drive the parents to provide what the little buggers demand - teeth rotting sugar bombs.

[Spallalala]

maybe trick or treat should be done away with then...ISn't america fat enough already. Why promote it more.

[urgeok]

it would be like saying - lets do away with christmas and thanksgiving if thats the reason..

besides .. its a tradition that the majority embraces. things like that arent done away with until the people/government want them to be.

not going to happen...

[Spallalala]

I personally wouldn't have a problem with getting rid all the stupid lil holidays.

Maybe people should get over tradition cos its killing em.

[pinkfloyd45769]

I agree with giving kids healthier treats, it would be great if everyone done that. However, trick or treat is only once a year.How many kids would walk their little asses off for toothbrushes and apples? And yes, Americans are killing themselves with traditions.

[crimson_ghost]

would 1 night of candy a year really fuck your teeth up anyway if your usually a healthy eater

[the_real_linda]

i take my kid sister out....not with a rifle....but she gets most of the sweets....me and dan try to steal stuff off her to better her health or some other lame excuse to get sweets

[crimson_ghost]

This thread makes me wanna go trick or treating now :( just gonna go out and get wankered instead:D

[Ginger<3]

this year i'm giving out chocolate bars, tootsie pops, mini chips ahoy chocolate chips cookies, gummy body parts, sour double bubble gum balls and then i have a bowl with toys like inects and spiders, reptiles, rings, pencils, erasers, stickers, skeletons, rats etc. and we're putting on a skit. i will be the patient and i will be operated on by dr freddy. yes that's right .... that freddy. we have a huge bottle of theatre blood and all.

[the_real_linda]

coming by your house sounds fun!!!!

[crimson_ghost]

would someone send me some chocolate?:(

[Ginger<3]

coming by your house sounds fun!!!!

yep yep, it's gonna be a blast. :D

[the_real_linda]

it tis the best holiday....horror and birthday rolled up in one ghoulish package

[Ginger<3]

it tis the best holiday....horror and birthday rolled up in one ghoulish package

awesome!! happy early birthday, i hope you have a great day!

[ferretchucker]

In england we just go around, get some sweets and go, we don't have rotten teeth, we dont get apples. The worst thing i ever got was a packet of mints.. The thing is, I usually go to a few american peoples houses because many live on my estate. No offence but american candy sucks compared to our sweets. Ours are sweeter, fruiter, easier to chew and have more flavour. Plus, as you can see, the creme egg, boiled sweets and sherbet all look a ,lot more apealing. The creme egg has this white sugary, cremy stuff in and the orange bit tastes like oranges.

They taste soooo much better than they sound!

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/sweets.jpg

Oh, and what's the point of thnksgiving? We dont have it. But then, we celebrate Bonfire night (big bonfires, lots of fireworks and we remember the gunpowder plot, we also have poppy day where we remember those who died in all the wars.

[tic]

@ ferretchucker

you forgot this
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n22/mule4468/Starbar.jpg

[ferretchucker]

look in the picture of the big bundle of chocolate, it's there!

[tic]

My mistake, sorry.

But it was worth a picture all on its own. :D

Anyways, when i was a kid and went out 'guising' they had to tell a joke or story, before they were given anything. Now we 'crabbit' adults are expected to give them something, just because they turn up at the door.

Do not think so - it's fun watching them trying to think of something, before the door slams shut, or the dog goes hunting.

[crabapple]

No offence but american candy sucks compared to our sweets. Ours are sweeter, fruiter, easier to chew and have more flavour. Plus, as you can see, the creme egg, boiled sweets and sherbet all look a ,lot more apealing. The creme egg has this white sugary, cremy stuff in and the orange bit tastes like oranges.

They taste soooo much better than they sound!


Damn you Ferretchucker; damn you all to Hell! I can see you UK folks do have better sweets and you are enjoying gloating over that fact! You like watching us suffer with sucky candies. It is SICK. By the way UK actually stands for UnKlean, as in Eville, as in you all are Eville.

Happy Halloween though!

[ferretchucker]

although, there is one american treat that is better than nearly half the sweets here. Reeses mini cups. Only good thing that every came from hersheys!

[Trilby Wearin' Maniac]

You missed out Thornton's chocolate..I could practically live off that, especially the continental selection:cool: I'm no fan of Hershey's, I have to say...someone brought me over a bar across the pond once and it seemed really waxy.

We never get many TT'ers round here being in a cul-de-sac, even though we have a cool pumpkin light thing in the window, but we normally have a couple of packs of choc bars to hand just in case

[crabapple]

I used to work at this place that had a kooky international market down the street, and during lunch folks would go down and get things there. They had this international candy section and it had some of the weirdest shit...bins of candies in strange wrappers, many odd flavors. You could take a bag and just pour different candies into it and buy whatever you chose by weight. These candies would make people who hated you become your friend. It was fun watching the girls eyeing the chocolate candies and worrying about the Chocolate Effect.

My favorite was a candy called "South Night"...had a picture of a quiet island at night, a tranquil ocean, the moon. All printed on a foil wrapper. Inside the wrapper was a dark chocolate-covered rectangle of marshmallow with like a cherry jelly layer.

It wasn't very amazing but it was weird and I liked the wrapper...every time I looked at it, I imagined Butt-Head from Beavis and Butt-Head saying, "Huh huh huh huh...South Night!! Huh huh." I don't know why. This was the only thing I could think of.

[ferretchucker]

sounds like these things we get called waggon wheels except they're round.http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/ww.jpg

[Trilby Wearin' Maniac]

Check out this site for classic sweets:

www.aquarterof.com

I bought some stuff from there once, but be warned, they come in HUGE bags. I was giving away foam mushrooms and white chocolate fish'n'chips for weeks!

[Spallalala]

would 1 night of candy a year really fuck your teeth up anyway if your usually a healthy eater

Have you actually come across a kid thats a healthy eater?

[urgeok]

i think my real answer to the title of this thread is :


1 kid at a time..

[ferretchucker]

from my experience it's all of the gimics that get us children.

Marshmallow fish and chips, lolly pops with a light in the middle, pez dispensers.

[the_real_linda]

In england we just go around, get some sweets and go, we don't have rotten teeth, we dont get apples. The worst thing i ever got was a packet of mints.. The thing is, I usually go to a few american peoples houses because many live on my estate. No offence but american candy sucks compared to our sweets. Ours are sweeter, fruiter, easier to chew and have more flavour. Plus, as you can see, the creme egg, boiled sweets and sherbet all look a ,lot more apealing. The creme egg has this white sugary, cremy stuff in and the orange bit tastes like oranges.

They taste soooo much better than they sound!

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/sweets.jpg

Oh, and what's the point of thnksgiving? We dont have it. But then, we celebrate Bonfire night (big bonfires, lots of fireworks and we remember the gunpowder plot, we also have poppy day where we remember those who died in all the wars.


its so damn true .......how delich! were cream egg McFlurry's???? i mean hmmmmmmmmmmm.....tho i love hersheys stuff....but other than them its our sweets

[Geddy]

I wanna Sherbert Lemon.

[ferretchucker]

hahaha! I only have to go 1 minutes down the road to find some.

[tic]

My dad used to work at trebor's factory in Colchester., think they where bought out by Cadbury's. He had to quit coz he couldn't find permanent residence down there and every week he used to come up to Scotland with bags of stuff.

When he left he needed to buy another suitcase for all the sweets he had. We sold them at the school tuck shop - made a good few pounds then.



Anyway I would offer Cola Cubes and sweet tobacco as contenders for the best sweets ever!

* sure sounds like another thread coming up*

[ferretchucker]

what about the ever popular mix of :

any chocolate bar/biscuit that went too big, small or things of that sort that have been crushed into powder to make



CHOCLICK!

[Disease]

Just feed them some wasabi peas, they won't be back next year!

[monalisa]

I agree, can't beat a nice ol' bar of galaxy :D

Chocolate is Chocolate , the better the quality, the darker the chocolate darker the quality...IMO

[AmericanManiac]

from my experience it's all of the gimics that get us children.

lolly pops with a light in the middle,

Man i'm old I never had one of them.

[ferretchucker]

i've just come back and this is my hoard. It doesnt look much but it takes up two mixing bowls and ways 1 and a half pounds.http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p255/ferretchucker/uuuuuuuuuu.jpg

[AmericanManiac]

Well i'm on my way outside to sit on the poruch in my costume the kiddies are almost here and i'm ready to see their faces :eek:

[ferretchucker]

wait, if you're in america (sorry if you're not) then wasnt it about 4:30 when you said that.

In england trick or treaters don't come until about 6:30 - 9:00. Anytime that it's dark really.

[AmericanManiac]

My area only trick and treaters are from 6-7, fucking retarded I know. When I was little it use to be 3 hours. This year it rained and I only got about 20 kids if that. But the first group of little kids wouldn't come in my yard cause I was just sitting there not moving with my costume and they didn't know if it was a dummy or a real person it was great. After standing there for about 5 mins they slowly walked up and I jumped up at them sent them screaming on their way with no candy !:D

[Geddy]

My area only trick and treaters are from 6-7, fucking retarded I know. When I was little it use to be 3 hours. This year it rained and I only got about 20 kids if that. But the first group of little kids wouldn't come in my yard cause I was just sitting there not moving with my costume and they didn't know if it was a dummy or a real person it was great. After standing there for about 5 mins they slowly walked up and I jumped up at them sent them screaming on their way with no candy !:D


That's awesome!I gotta try that next year. :D

[Roderick Usher]

the first group of little kids wouldn't come in my yard cause I was just sitting there not moving with my costume and they didn't know if it was a dummy or a real person it was great. After standing there for about 5 mins they slowly walked up and I jumped up at them sent them screaming on their way with no candy !:D

I did this in my Jason get-up while walking my kids around trick-or-treating. The wife would take the kids to the door of each house and I'd stand at he walkway like a statue until someone would say "he's not real"

Then a quick step and the kids (and quite a few parents) flip out.

two hours well spent:D

[AmericanManiac]

I did this in my Jason get-up while walking my kids around trick-or-treating. The wife would take the kids to the door of each house and I'd stand at he walkway like a statue until someone would say "he's not real"

Then a quick step and the kids (and quite a few parents) flip out.

two hours well spent:D

It was great my fiance kept telling me to move around I was like um no they get more scared when your not moving at all, because they don't know if your real or fake. I enjoyed even though we didnt have a lot of kids come by, damn weather.

[stinking_dylan]

We had loads of kids come round this year. What really pi$$ed me off was that my wife took our youngest (my other is old enough to go on his own with his mates) together with the little girl next door.

When they went and knocked on next doors house (the house this girl actually lives in) they wouldn't answer! Pretty damn tight not to give anything to kids, but when your own kids are out trick or treating and you pretend you're not in? Shocking.

Anyway, we were giving haribo sweets and cadbury chocolate (diary milk, diary milk bubbly (tates like wispa!), flakes and twirls). I think I must have eaten half the damn chocolate though :D