What Is Your Favorite Halloween Treat?
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First (Score:2, Funny)
First candy bar?
Don't complain about lack of options (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't complain about lack of options (Score:2)
Ha, well, you'll *love* next month when... Xmas retail solvency season starts in November.
Though I've been much better at avoiding it lately... I think last year I managed to get through the whole two months without having to hear any Christmas music until the last few days, and even then it was the excellent and eclectic somafm mix.
Re:Don't complain about lack of options (Score:2)
What do you mean next month? They have already put up Christmas crap around here now....
Re:Don't complain about lack of options (Score:2)
Missing options include:
O I'm diabetic, you insensitive clod!
O US-centric poll!
O Other, please specify
Re:Don't complain about lack of options (Score:2)
Not complaining. But it's the 2nd halloween poll, and still no "I don't give a * about halloween" option.
It's just a spooky feeling; be prepared not to complain when it happens again. These two consecutive polls imply a trilogy -- perhaps unplanned at the least -- by accidentally creating conditions begging for a third, far more interesting poll: What Is Your Favorite Halloween Trick?
Re:Don't complain about lack of options (Score:5, Funny)
I don't give a bin about halloween
I don't give a boot about halloween
I don't give a etc about halloween
I don't give a home about halloween
I don't give a lib about halloween
I don't give a local about halloween
I don't give a proc about halloween
I don't give a sbin about halloween
I don't give a var about halloween
I think I am doing it wrong. Perhaps I should go do a different directory.
Re:Don't complain about lack of options (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Don't complain about lack of options (Score:2)
Slashdot doesn't really publicize (or at least didn't in the past) how large their user base is, but you can get a feel for the daily readership by watching the numbers of people that vote in the polls (in my estimate, a significant fraction of the daily readers; I usually vote). So only Slashdot can subtract one number from the other and arrive at a number of people that, through ignorance or sheer lack of desire, don't vote.
For the US elections, maybe we should ask counties to publish lists of people who are registered to vote but don't choose to exercise their right to do so. Entitle the list "Conscientious Objectors" or "Enemies of Democracy", whichever you choose.
Candy Corn? Bleh! (Score:2)
Re:Candy Corn? Bleh! (Score:2)
it's because everyone else remembers the horror of the peanut butter flavored mary jane candy.
Candy Corn + Peanuts = Payday Bar. (Score:2, Informative)
Take a handful of candy corn and roasted peanuts mixed up and pop it into you mouth all at once.
It tastes just like a Payday candy bar. No kidding.
Re:Candy Corn + Peanuts = Payday Bar. (Score:2)
Take a handful of candy corn and roasted peanuts mixed up and pop it into you mouth all at once.
It tastes just like a Payday candy bar. No kidding.
Mod parent up. My wife brought home a jar of peanuts with candy corn mixed in. I've always hated candy corn, but this is awesome.
Re:Candy Corn? Bleh! (Score:2)
Could someone explain the popularity of what is basically sugar, corn syrup, and wax
That would be the sugar.
HTH, HAND
Re:Candy Corn? Bleh! (Score:2)
I also love peeps around Easter. They're popular because they are basically just sugar, and you only really get them once a year. Regular candy is boring.
And yes, I know you can get peeps and candy corn year round. But who eats that stuff any other time?
Re:Candy Corn? Bleh! (Score:2)
I'd agree with you if you added 'in a microwave'
Re:Candy Corn? Bleh! (Score:2)
Nearly every non-chocolate candy is made of those three ingredients in varying amounts.
Re:Candy Corn? Bleh! (Score:2)
You need it for the US presidential debate. Bascially, whenever Romney lies, you eat a piece of candy corn.
It's a substitute for shots. You may gain weight and loose teeth, but at least you won't be comatose before the end of the introductions.
Re:Candy Corn? Bleh! (Score:2)
Thanks for the link. Here I was, all this time assuming that anytime an American show mentioned candy corn, that they were talking about flavoured pop-corn.
Considering most of the responses in the last poll (Score:5, Funny)
Surely this question and it's answers is a troll at this point?
Re:Considering most of the responses in the last p (Score:2)
It's = It is. Yes, I am trolling you as a grammar nazi. :P
Re:Considering most of the responses in the last p (Score:2)
I was thinking "Missing option: The tears of Australians"
Are we talking about Fosters here?
Beef jerky... (Score:5, Funny)
...bacon, hardboiled eggs and tangerines.
Re:Beef jerky... (Score:3)
For any American that wants a cured meat that will make you reject Jack Links and his ilk, hunt for a South African butchers (I have no idea how common they are there) and get yourself some Biltong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltong [wikipedia.org]
"handful of sugar" (Score:2)
Re:"handful of sugar" (Score:3)
Re:"handful of sugar" (Score:2)
Re:"handful of sugar" (Score:2)
Re:"handful of sugar" (Score:2)
Handful of sugar, because it is compatible with coffee.
Also, I don't care about Halloween, and neither do any of my countrymen.
Re:"handful of sugar" (Score:2)
No, its the most stupidest answer.
Do you think we don't know they have sugar in them? Seriously? They are different things. They choice is which think to you like.
How sad of a life you must have where they only way you can find any self importance is pointing out needless and pointless information.
Stop being boring.
Re:"handful of sugar" (Score:2)
Dark chocolate! (Score:2)
Love that dark chocolate. But I also have a sweet spot (bada-Bum!) for that nasty old candy corn.
M&M's, too.
And why is caramel apples an option on this list? Nobody gives out fruit any more, because parents just trash anything that isn't still in its store wrappers. Too many incidents of razor blades in apples and poisoned whatevers over the years.
Re:Dark chocolate! (Score:2)
Re:Dark chocolate! (Score:2)
Poisons, pins, and razor blades (Score:3)
Too many incidents of razor blades in apples and poisoned whatevers over the years.
Well, one incident, actually, if you exclude incidents where the kid or a parent doctored the treat him(her)self to get attention. Quoting the snopes article "...detailed followups concluded that virtually all of the reports were hoaxes concocted by the children or the parents." (But they did report one real incident, in 2000, although no one required medical attention.)
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp [snopes.com]
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp [snopes.com]
Re:Poisons, pins, and razor blades (Score:2)
as kids, we ate halloween fruit and homemade treats from neighbors. why not, knew them well & for years
giving out poison or razor blades when *people know where you live*?
the reality is that if someone tried that in most parts of the U.S., their bodies would be riddled with bullet holes or buckshot by a parent, or otherwise lynched. and that's the way it should be.
In a town without cons (Score:5, Funny)
Favorite Halloween Treat - Gummy (Score:2)
Girls in Slutty Costumes! (Score:5, Insightful)
Sorry but its true. Will be going out to a party and on the town, and the best treat is all the girls to pick that one night to really slut it up. Makes for an entertaining evening!
Eye candy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Eye candy (Score:2)
"She's my candy baby; she's hard, sweet and sticky!"
Holloween is Valentines day (Score:3)
for men.
What is this haloween of which you speak? (Score:2)
Another festive event invented by Coca Col'a marketing department?
Re:What is this haloween of which you speak? (Score:2)
Really, it's a holiday we made up ten years ago just to piss off all the European and/or hipster douchebags, because you people are just so amusing when you stamp your tiny feet any time anyone mentions an American tradition on an American website.
Well, that and to piss off Christians. [biblebelievers.com] It's a second front in the War on Christmas [theblaze.com].
Bits of Hardware (Score:2)
Chef's Special (Score:2)
Say everybody have you seen my balls they're big and salty and brown.
If you ever need a quick pick me up, just stick my balls in your mouth.
Oh! Suck on my chocolate salty balls, put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em.
Suck on my chocolate salty balls, they're packed vitamins,
and good for you, so suck on balls.
Troll Treats (Score:2)
Saw a picture set on the web somewhere last year where someone made caramel-covered white onions.
Look just like apples when coated.
Re:Troll Treats (Score:2)
How it goes... (Score:5, Insightful)
A couple of weeks before Halloween, you notice that the candy is all gone, so you buy a couple more bags of candy.
A week before Halloween, you notice that the candy is all gone, so you buy a couple more bags of candy.
Halloween comes and, after the first bunch of kids have come and gone, you notice the candy is getting low and you are not going to have enough for yourself later. You turn out the lights.
Snickers! (Score:2)
Smarties (Score:2)
This year I'd also whore myself out for Robin Choclates' salted agave caramels, though. I think I'll pop 'round her shop tomorrow and see if she can fill an order for a couple hundred in time for Halloween. As always my strategy is to mostly give away candy that I personally would want to eat.
Re:Smarties (Score:2)
Because to me (Canadian) this [tumblr.com] is what you mean when you say Smarties, but to my wife (American) you would mean this. [imperfectparent.com]
Re:Smarties (Score:2)
Re:Smarties (Score:2)
Re:Smarties (Score:2)
That's the one candy I can't stand anymore. I think it's just years of getting way too many of them at Halloween. I don't think there's much difference between those and say, SweetTarts or Pixie Stix. But for some reason I just can't tolerate Smarties any more.
One thing I always used to look out for (Score:2)
Those shitty little hard candy's that fizz up as they melt
mmmm
ob. anecdote (Score:2)
I cycled to Milton Keynes one Hallowe'en and came back with a bag full of free server gear. Built a working server out of it all as well (dual Athlon MP on a Tyan Tiger board, 185GB SCSI RAID... nice)
Salty liquorice (Score:4, Interesting)
"It's an acquired taste"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice [wikipedia.org]
If you don't like it, you are weak ;)
Re:Salty liquorice (Score:2)
Missing option (Score:2)
Why isn't "Slutty Costumes" an option? Are you trying to give us all diabetes?
There is only one choice! (Score:2)
Smarties!
Bits of hardware . . . (Score:2)
sharpened and stuffed in apples.
Beer. (Score:2)
Bits of hardware, and trolling the local kids (Score:3)
This year, everybody gets a Zune!
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Software on a stick is missing as an option.
Pendrivelinux?
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
Re:Missing option (Score:2)
* Yes it is, regardless of what Wikipedia says. Trick or treating was vanishingly rare or unknown over here before Buffy and the other high school programmes popularised it (and High School Proms, gawd help us).
"Mom" won't let me have candy (Score:2)
I too am diabetic. "Mom" is my wife.
Re:"Mom" won't let me have candy (Score:2)
Re:First Post (Score:2)
rare treat!
Indeed. I voted "Mum won't let me have candy", since that's pretty much how it worked when I was a child. Occasionally she bought chocolates, but I don't remember her ever buying sweets*.
In return, I still have perfect teeth and I'm not fat. I buy sweets about once a year, chocolate about once every couple of months. I eat them slightly more often, as colleagues bring them in whenever they return from a foreign trip.
* This post in British English ;-)
Re:First Post (Score:2)
For those of us reading in American English, can you differentiate between "chocolates" and "sweets"? It seems to me that the first is a subset of the second, but it's evidently, from your post, not.
Re:First Post (Score:5, Informative)
"Chocolate" — generic for the brown stuff, in any format, but "would you like some chocolate?" implies a piece of a bar of the stuff.
"Chocolates" — a box of individually-formed bite-size items, usually filled with anything from a nut to some gooey stuff, coated in chocolate.
"Sweets" — generic for anything sugary and sold in bite-sizes, but not including chocolate or chocolates, except when used by undiscerning parents.
"Candy" — specialist forms of sweets, often highly-decorated or made to look like something else; does not include chocolate or chocolates. An American term rarely heard in the UK.
"Boiled sweets" — sweets of boiled sugar, flavoured and set to a glass-like consistency, favoured by dentists as a way to increase income.
YMMV, and there are probably hundreds of local, regional, and dialect variants.
Re:First Post (Score:5, Interesting)
Australian usage pretty much follows the above, except that we tend to say 'lollies' where you would say 'sweets'. Not sure 'lollies' actually counts as a legit word or as slang, but it's used almost universally rather than 'sweets'. 'Sweets' is understood, but sounds very stereotypically British to our ears (much like 'candy' sounds stereotypically American). 'Candy' is a very particular thing precisely how you describe it, and the word is almost never heard other than on American TV shows.
And yeah, chocolate is altogether a separate thing than lollies/sweets. I lived in America for a few years and while I had no issue adjusting to saying 'candy', I never could get used to the fact that it INCLUDED chocolate. To me they are inherently different types of thing. Someone would say "want some candy?", and I'd say no, only to realise afterwards that they were offering chocolate and hell yes, I would have liked some :(
Re:First Post (Score:2)
In the UK lollies is short for lollipops which is normally a boiled sweet on a stick. In the USA I believe these are referred to as 'suckers'.
Candy Floss (Score:2)
"Candy" — specialist forms of sweets, often highly-decorated or made to look like something else; does not include chocolate or chocolates. An American term rarely heard in the UK.
Except at fairs where you get candy floss.
Re:Candy Floss (Score:2)
"Candy" — specialist forms of sweets, often highly-decorated or made to look like something else; does not include chocolate or chocolates. An American term rarely heard in the UK.
Except at fairs where you get candy floss.
Which, interestingly enough, is called "cotton candy" in the US.
Re:First Post (Score:2)
Re:First Post (Score:2)
I eat candy waaay too much
I am 6 foot tall and weigh 190 lbs, German decent male
I have had 2 cavities filled in my life
How?
Its called taking care of yourself, you eat candies? you get your ass on the exercise machine and brush your fucking teeth, hardly some high moral standard.
Re:First Post (Score:2)
I ate tons of candy as a kid. I also have perfect teeth and I am not fat.
Were you trying to make some point?
Favorite Treat... (Score:5, Funny)
Thank God for the modern day costumes......
Re:Favorite Treat... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Favorite Treat... (Score:2)
I prefer software...
Re:Favorite Treat... (Score:2)
Wetware...?
Re:Favorite Treat... (Score:2)
I prefer software...
You're not holding it right...
Re:Favorite Treat... (Score:2)
You're not holding it right...
That's the difference between you and me: what I'm holding is *supposed* to be soft.
Re:Favorite Treat... (Score:2)
perky soft but firmware
Re:Favorite Treat... (Score:2)
I believe that would fall in the bits of hardware category.
Hmmm, sounds like some seriously interactive software to me... Mmmmmm...naughty nurse.
Re:Favorite Treat... (Score:3)
I recently lost faith in humanity when I found out someone sells a "slutty Chewbacca" costume: http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/10/13/sexy-geek-halloween-costumes-star-wars-and-superheroes.html [geektyrant.com]
Re:I'm diabetic, you insensitive clod. (Score:2)
Re:I'm diabetic, you insensitive clod. (Score:2)
Re:Just a shakedown (Score:2)
It's mostly the same in the US, though I don't observe so much wanton destruction in recent years. I think the attention span of the U.S. youth has declined significantly in the last several decades or so. The Ex-Lax thing was an urban legend in my youth; I never knew anyone it happened to, but knew several people who said they knew people that were struck. You know how it goes.
Re:Just a shakedown (Score:3)
Kids have stuff to do now. AS a teen, I had bubcis to do. Play some DND? and fond something to do outside. Now we have computers and video games to keep kids busy.
Re:Just a shakedown (Score:3)
I thought that these days in the USA people and their kids only tended to knock on known doors with receptive candy-givers.
If you knock on the wrong door you may find someone who believes in an enhanced version of the 2nd amendment. (Like FL's stand you ground)
Re:Just a shakedown (Score:2)
it was like that 20 years ago, but now its mostly little pussies going to school or church to have equally rationed pre-packaged bags given to them for showing up, then wondering why johnny special didnt win king of halloween for standing there drooling.
Re:Sugar Babies! (Score:2)
they're totally different. for one, sugar babies aren't coated in fake chocolate, but sugar-panned [wikipedia.org] instead, giving them some firmness.
Re:I know this has NEVER been said, but: (Score:2)
it hasn't been said because it's not true. All Hallow's Eve is a Catholic festival, to commemorate the eve of All Saint's Day. Although little marked in the Catholic lifestyle, the Pagans have taken great joy in hijacking it to use as a celebration of the Dead as well as the Autumn Harvest. Believe it or not, Catholicism and Paganism ARE NOT AMERICAN INVENTIONS! They are EUROPEAN! The commercialisation of Hallowe'en and Christmas, not to mention Easter, Thanksgiving, and any other notable date, is ENTIRELY an American invention.
Oh, and Coca Cola invented Jolly Old Fat Santa Claus.
Re:I know this has NEVER been said, but: (Score:2)
Wrong.
The Catholics created all saints day to, once again, usurp pagan tradition. That's how they work. They do into an area, and then slowly make the local tradition their tradition. You see it even today where the are usurping Mexican tradition as their own. Why do you think Catholics has different type of celebration in different parts of the world?
At least they have been trained to get all pissy about it when they are called out on their crap.
All saints day was Nov. 1(or April 20 in Ireland and there parts.)
Harvest celebration and celebrating the dead during thins period is some manner is older then your mythical Christ.
Re:I know this has NEVER been said, but: (Score:2)
And what's wrong with incorporating local traditions into the Church? We Catholics are never ones to turn down an excuse to party. And is it more accurate to say the Church usurped pagan traditions, or that the pagans brought their traditions along with them when they converted?
I'm genuinely interested if there is any scholarly work on this topic - a quick Googling seems mostly to turn up either gross ignorance or axe-grinding.
Re:I know this has NEVER been said, but: (Score:2)
If the Pagans had truly converted, they would no longer need or want to practice their old rituals. But continue to practice them they did, so the Catholic Church had to weave a tissue-thin veil of lies^H^H^^H^H dogma around these practices in order to claim conversion even when there was none. And it wasn't limited just to the annual festivals, such as Spring, Harvest or Midwinter. Even the greater beliefs such as the first two commandments were subject to pragmatic compromise by the Church.
The Old Gods became "Saints". Of course, there is only one God, but you can have as many Saints as you like. They can even have their own individual festival days and spheres of responsibility. But, we will not refer to them even as demi-gods! No, no, no! In this way, you could still make prayers, petitions and even offerings to them just as you could with the Old Gods (no dead animals, please). And all without violating the first commandment. Isn't that convenient? This had the wonderful side-effect that the old idols no longer represented Gods as such, so they became mere statues or "icons" and thus, the second commandment was also safe. After all, praying at my little shrine to Saint Snigglefritz was really just asking him to talk to the One True God on my behalf, as I am but a worm in His presence and thoroughly unworthy of direct contact with Him myself.
But it's not just Catholicism - All religions suck.
Re:Ammonium chloride! (Score:2)
it works great in our dry fire extinguishers though.