The “Trick” part goes both ways…
There used to be this small development near me that was very rich, but due to the rather extreme hilliness of the area they were a pain in the ass to get to unless you climbed through wooded hills. Well, my house was in a position where there was a rather short path over to their little area. We once did it last thinking they wouldn’t have any candy, but decided they might, so lets go. Turns out almost everyone there had kids, so they all handed out candy, then drove their kids the main part of the the town so they could meet their friends. This place was a gold mine, multiple full size candy bars from one house, whole packages of cookies, and other snacks, from another, pepsi big slams from yet another.
One guy however gave out roles of quarters. 10 dollars, to kids, in 1993. That was the absolute GOAT of Halloween. We made effort to start there from that point on.
One house gave my kids potatoes this year
One house gave ddr4 like wtf
One chudd gave out a single rtx 5090 like wtf I’m gonna do with this I need at least two to use DLSS5 SMH 🤦♀️
Glad you checked your kid’s candy. Would have been a disaster had you not caught this
The guy down the street that doesn’t pick up after his dog was handing out signed investment guarantees into data center proposals for any kids who had them. What the hell, dude.
We had a house like that in our street but it was all laptop-sized ram sticks. Nobody gives out the full-size ones anymore :(.
Oh no, that surely was meant for your local a.i mom n pop shop right?
someone gave my kid a rock
was it a cool rock?
no
:-( Sure would have been cooler if it was.
Was it Kid Rock?
So, the question is what the fuck did you do to your neighbors that got them all so pissed off that they all decided to give your kid a rock instead of candy for Halloween?
Why can I read your words instead of just hearing trombone noises?
My BiL always offers the option of a potato over chocolate. There are a surprising number of takers. I should note he gets a couple dozen kids so he can spend time messing with them. I get several hundred thanks to the haunted house a neighbour two doors down sets up. My door is lime an assembly line.
My mom for some reason always gave out little bags of pretzels. Most of the kids just had this sad look of disappointment, but occasionally you’d get a kid that was super-excited to get pretzels.
random lime appears
5 years ago I went to California for the first time and tried a lime out there. It was the best lime Ive ever had. Still havent recovered from that blow. I’ll cut limes in half and chomp down on one half, love em that much.
please don’t hurt me
I’d take a lime over a potato or candy
a friend of mine once went to a little middle-eastern store in our town and got a kg of whole dried limes that he started slipping into my bags, pockets, mailbox…
I have a whole bag of those things and I can’t even remember what dish I ordered them for. Some kind of Iranian stew, I think.
a friend of mine
That’s a friend of lime!.
I need context. Is the potato cooked? Raw? Why are people picking potatoes??
Kids will take the potato for the laughs. My brother did it one year, and quickly had kids excitedly go “ohhh you’re the potato house??” when he offered the potato. One year, he ended up going through like three giant bags of russets, and still had an almost full candy dish at the end of the night.
He lives on the curve of a horseshoe-shaped street that is a popular destination for trick-or-treaters. The entire neighborhood goes all out with the Halloween decorations, several neighbors coordinate with themes and set up haunted houses, etc… They basically treat it like a big block party, and fully shut down the entrances at both ends of the horseshoe so kids can safely wander around and play in the street. Experiencing your first Halloween in his neighborhood is basically a rite of passage for new neighbors. And parents looking for good trick-or-treat destinations like it because there’s a public parking lot at the end of the horseshoe. So they can park at the end of the horseshoe, walk the horseshoe with their kids for an hour or two, enjoy the low-stress chaperoning with the closed street and amateur haunts, and end up right next to where they parked afterwards. It’s a whole thing.
Since he’s at the peak of the horseshoe curve, he’s the halfway point for that specific street. Groups of trick-or-treaters pass each other on the sidewalk, and the group that got a potato will naturally be laughing about it. So by the time those new trick-or-treaters make it all the way down the street to his house, they have passed several groups that were all laughing about their potatoes. And of course by that point, they want a potato of their own.
It basically generates a real-time micro-meme, where kids excitedly discussing their potatoes makes other kids want a potato. And since he’s at the curve, he’d have trick-or-treaters talking about the potato house all the way down to both ends of the horseshoe. And that means that they’d be generating potato meme-force for the entire second half of their trek, (regardless of which end they started at,) all the way down the street. At a certain point, it becomes self-sustaining and kids are actively seeking out the potato house like it’s some sort of urban legend.
Just plain raw potatoes out of a bag. They have a reputation for this and some groups of kids will be chanting " potato, potato, potato" before they even open the door. They were saying they may spring for full size russet baking potatoes for the enthusiasts next year.
At least animate it
At the Irish-Italian parade in New Orleans, they throw potatoes, carrots, and cabbages off floats the way they throw beads and doubloons for Mardi Gras. I think I prefer the vegetables
We had someone so this a few years ago and it was a smash. Kids loved it though some ended up stomping on their potatoes, because they were dumb kids with blood sugar that needed to be charted ok a logarithmic scale.
home grown or sore bought?
sore bought
Sore what bought???
Who knows, but don’t show up without your painment method.
Sore bought, like you really didn’t want to buy potatoes, but you had to, and you were sore about it
That was me, but they had a choice of candy or potato.
One time I got a few bread rolls, and one had a bite taken out of it lmao.
My mom was convinced they had drugged my candy 🙄
You take this home, throw it in a pot, add a potato… baby you got a stew going!
Man, I printed little kaiju figurines, bought blind bags, filled them with candy and toys. And it freaking rained, got like 8 kids
As a parent I appreciate you for doing this fwiw.
It is awesome to see people in the community being nice and selfless like this.
Hopefully you’ll find a use for the extra stuff, or have it for next year!
I grew up pretty poor. Halloween was the best holiday. I like to go a bit extra now that I can- thanks for the appreciation :D
Yeah, I also grew up poor, and now I’m the cool house that gives out full-sized candy bars. Even in this economy, and after having a bad year financially, I refuse to compromise on Halloween. I always strive to be the house that kid-me would have wanted to tell his friends about.
Aww, that’s pretty sweet though, and you can tuck the bags away for next year. Wrapped candies keep well.
Oh yea the candy ain’t surviving ;). It uhhh, disappeared
Haha, it does tend to evaporate like that!
Umami > Sweet
The gift of soup
Until recently Halloween wasn’t really celebrated in Germany. However, we have Karneval and at least in my region there are lots of wagons and costumed marching groups and they throw candy at the costumed bystanders, mostly young kids and drunken adults.
However, not all of them throw candy. Some throw flowers, flower pots (take cover), bags of onions, leeks or bags of potatoes. This is because many farmers are involved and it’s originally a celebration before a 40 day fasting period and meant to celebrate the last big feast before it and to get rid of the perishable foods.
Maybe the stock cubes are meant in a similar way.
Karneval blows Halloween out of the water. A back pack full of beer, wine, schnapps, etc…and enjoy the festivities. Whatever candy I caught, I gave it to the children. Please don’t forget about Fasching!!!
Why did I have to come to Lemmy to learn this? Okay, I never have been that much involved in Karneval, maybe that’s it.
but have you ever eaten one raw after filling up yourself with candy and sugar water? it’s like a terrible punch in the face while having an orgasm.
It might be my masochistic side but this sounds lovely, hell make it a punch in the balls and im all in
Giggity
That would be me \s
\soup/
7-year old me used to think these were Hershey Nuggets. You can’t imagine the shock I had when I saw my mom cooking with these.
🎶 Suck on my salty unchocolaty cubes 🎶
put 'em in your mouth!
Put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em and suck 'em!
I would do this when I was a kid. I was weird. I also used to drink bottles of Tabasco. Fried crickets were my favorite snack.
There were chocolates called Ice Cubes that were that size of the bullion and came in shiny metal wrapper. So you were not off in your thinking if you ever ate one of those chocolates.
Totally irresponsible! Now your kids are gonna be rushing around with a salt high!
You kids need a nice broth…
I saw a video of someone saying it’s a great last minute Halloween snack buy, and a fun way to prank the kids. I am inclined to agree
My wife collects unused ketchups, soy sauce, sweet and sours, and adds them to the candy bucket as a trick to go along with the treats. In years when we didn’t go out, she’d offer a reach into the mystery sack for a chance of trick or treat, and kids would get a kick out of pulling out a barbecue sauce.
I do the same thing but mainly to see if a teenager dumped the whole unattended bowl in their bucket. If the ketchup packet is gone, then it means someone took everything without looking. Of course, I couldn’t nor wouldn’t do anything about it, I just like to know.
