primitives discuss home-made treats for Halloween

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115733296

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Manifestor_of_Light (16,902 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 05:55 PM

Halloween treats or cupcakes?

Ideas? I'm gonna make spice cake cupcakes and put them in baggies. Maybe some of the mini ones too.

<<<ever since college many years ago, has always given out fifty-cent pieces as treats.

cbayer (125,364 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 06:01 PM

1. Yummmmm... cupcakes.

Only problem is that some parents won't let their kids eat home made foods. If you live in a small community where everyone knows everyone, that probably won't be an issue.
 
And I'd much rather have a cupcake than a candy bar!

Manifestor_of_Light (16,902 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 06:16 PM

3. I live in a small town.

There are 1400 people, and the religious nuts have damn near destroyed trick or treat as being "evil" or "Satanic". They have a substitute at churches called Trunk or Treat, where they hand candy out in the parking lot. Very few people actually turn on their lights or pass out candy. The Methodists and Baptists do Trunk or Treat instead. They probably don't allow certain costumes like witches and vampires and devils. I think it's kinda stupid.
 
One year we hung a tarp on the side of the house, got out the LCD projector, and showed the original Frankenstein movie & Creature from the Black Lagoon and Day the Earth Stood Still.
 
The kids were so hyper none of them could sit down and watch it. I remember them mostly kicking the shit out of the lawn chairs they were sitting in & rocking them nearly to the point of breaking them. So we gave up on that idea.

We have the coolest pumpkin in town this year. We were in San Antonio recently and I got a big talavera pumpkin you can put a light inside. Que pasa, calabasa???

cbayer (125,364 posts)      Sun Oct 27, 2013, 06:39 PM

5. So, did you plan to take the cupcakes to one of the Trunk or Treat events?

I love Halloween, but we never get trick or treaters to the boat.

We just moved to Mexico and Day of the Dead is the big even here. There are all kinds of special things to eats, elaborate altars and people have already started costuming at some local events. I'm really looking forward to the whole thing.
 
Thanks for the reminder about the pumpkin. I'm going to try to find one to carve, but I haven't seen them in the markets.

^^^too bad they didn't take nadin with them.

Manifestor_of_Light (16,902 posts)   Sun Oct 27, 2013, 07:32 PM

6. No I don't go to church.

We get pretty big crowds because so few people bother to decorate and hand out candy.
 
I made my own witch's robe several years ago after consulting a book about pattern drafting, and wear it every year. I also have some circle contacts (corrective of course) that look weird and I wear those.

cbayer (125,364 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 08:22 PM

7. That sounds like a lot of fun.

I used to make my own costumes and costumes for my kids. They are always the best kind.
 
And your eyes should be great.

I bet once the word gets out, you'll be swamped.

  (18,681 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 06:05 PM

2. Unless you know the families, they won't eat the cupcakes

I'm sure they'd be delicious, but parents won't know if they are safe.

Arkansas Granny (15,465 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 06:23 PM

4. It's a sweet idea, but if my kids brought home a homemade treat from door to door trick or treating, I would trash it. The only exception would be if I personally knew the person who had given it to them.
 
Another consideration would be how it would hold up to bring carried around in a treat bag or basket for a couple of hours.

Okay, franksolich's annual trick-or-treating story; I tell it every year, just like I repeat the Admiral Lord Nelson joke every year on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

When I was a little lad--probably about five years old--and we still lived alongside the verdant Platte River of Nebraska, before we moved up into the Sandhills, I went trick-or-treating with a bunch of older kids.  I disremember who I was costumed as; maybe Jawahal Nehru or someone like that.

There was an old house on the edge of the town, wherein lived an old lady with a bent back.  Nobody had ever gone trick-or-treating there, for one of two reasons; she was assumed to be too poor to give out treats, or she was a mean bitter grouchy old witch.

The older kids dared me to go there.

I went.

The old lady looked at me with surprise, and then invited me inside.  The older kids, standing on the sidewalk next door watching, were horrified when they saw me go inside the door, and waited, breathessly, to see what would happen to me.

She took me into the kitchen, where she sat me down at the table, which had an oilcloth covering on it.  Only poor people used oilcloth in that time and place, and so I wasn't impressed.  Then she fired up the natural gas stove and taking a big cast-iron griddle, proposed to make me a grilled-cheese sandwich as a treat.

I was agreeable, provided she used whole-wheat bread, and real butter and real cheese.  Also, could I have a glass of milk, please, a really big glass, and real milk, none of this thinned-down stuff.

While she was busy, she was talking a mile a minute, probably telling me things she'd never told anybody before.  The problem was, myself being deaf, I had no idea what she was talking about, other than that she was talking about it with passion and color.

She cut the grilled-cheese sandwich in half, and sat down at the table, still talking to me.  I asked for more milk, having already gotten some given me in a pint jar.  After three pints of milk, and finishing the sandwich, I wiped my mouth and thanked her for the repast.

She then led me out the door, and I got back to the older kids--who'd been waiting for, maybe, half an hour, to see what'd happen to me.  They were relieved and disappointed.

[BannedFromDU]

     In my experience, if you give homemade treats, you'd better be ready and willing to clean them off your yard, house, driveway, and car.

[Celtic Rose]

Trunk or Treat is, in my experience, about making sure that kids are safe and about reducing the amount of walking that little kids have to do in rural areas.  If he/she really wants to make halloween cupcakes, trunk or treat would actually be one of the few places where they might be accepted, assuming that he/she actually knows a few people who attend the church. 

[freedumb2003b]

Trunk or Treat is, in my experience, about making sure that kids are safe and about reducing the amount of walking that little kids have to do in rural areas.  If he/she really wants to make halloween cupcakes, trunk or treat would actually be one of the few places where they might be accepted, assuming that he/she actually knows a few people who attend the church.  

I recall free x-rays of Halloween candy when I was in the ages between trick-or-treat and trick-or-drink.  Back then, most people just had H/ween parties and didn't even allow their kids to trick-or-treat.  Is this still needed?

I haven't seen a trick-or-treater in 10 years or more (I have lived in 2 condos though so I don't know about single-family homes).

[freedumb2003b]

     In my experience, if you give homemade treats, you'd better be ready and willing to clean them off your yard, house, driveway, and car.

Threadwin.

[GOBUCKS]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115733296

Oh my.

<<<ever since college many years ago, has always given out fifty-cent pieces as treats.

A guy on Twitter said he always gives out little packs of razor blades.

Can you still buy Gillette Blue Blades? ("The Friday Night Fights are on the air!")

[Karin]

I recall free x-rays of Halloween candy when I was in the ages between trick-or-treat and trick-or-drink.  Back then, most people just had H/ween parties and didn't even allow their kids to trick-or-treat.  Is this still needed?

I haven't seen a trick-or-treater in 10 years or more (I have lived in 2 condos though so I don't know about single-family homes).

Holy cow!  I get 300 kids!  We always do it up right, with the big old house. 

Stupid DUmmie with the cupcake.  Can you imagine what the thing would look like after a couple hours of being hauled around by a rowdy kid?     They never think things through, ever.

[fitman]

We rarely get kids showing up at our house-dead end road with a handful of houses very far apart out in the middle of nowhere. One year though we forgot what day it was and couple kids did show up. Gave them $5 bucks each..Yeah they were happy.

My dad though lives in a prime Trick or Treating area lot's of houses close together. 250-300 kids is not out of the norm so we normally help him out handing out the goodies.

Yeah homemade treats is lame..ranks up their with getting an apple or an orange or a pack of gum.

[BlueStateSaint]

We rarely get kids showing up at our house-dead end road with a handful of houses very far apart out in the middle of nowhere. One year though we forgot what day it was and couple kids did show up. Gave them $5 bucks each..Yeah they were happy.

My dad though lives in a prime Trick or Treating area lot's of houses close together. 250-300 kids is not out of the norm so we normally help him out handing out the goodies.

Yeah homemade treats is lame..ranks up their with getting an apple or an orange or a pack of gum.

It could be worse . . .

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-FaTuuglo[/youtube]

[BannedFromDU]

Holy cow!  I get 300 kids!  We always do it up right, with the big old house. 

Stupid DUmmie with the cupcake.  Can you imagine what the thing would look like after a couple hours of being hauled around by a rowdy kid?     They never think things through, ever.

     If a DUmmy gave my kid a cupcake to haul around, I'd endorse the application of that cupcake to their windshield, as well as a healthy scattering of Tic Tacs in their yard with a little sign explaining
that these are "impeachmints" from 2007.

[Skul]

She should just hand out little bags of Skittles.
On the other hand....
Being a cheap-ass DUmmie, she'd probably break the packs open and just hand out individual pieces.

[Mike220]

I see the available stock of eggs and toilet paper dropping precipitously at the local grocery stores around the Manifestor of Stupidity's house.

[BannedFromDU]

She should just hand out little bags of Skittles.

    Are you kidding? After the martyrdom of St. Trayvon, Skittles are like the Eucharist to liberals.

[Skul]

    Are you kidding? After the martyrdom of St. Trayvon, Skittles are like the Eucharist to liberals.

Ok, OK, give them some grape koolaid to go along. 

[BannedFromDU]

Ok, OK, give them some grape koolaid to go along. 

     That would actually be tea.

     Holy vestments would be a hoodie.

[GOBUCKS]

Are you kidding? After the martyrdom of St. Trayvon, Skittles are like the Eucharist to liberals.

Nah, poor innocent li'l Trayvon is already slip sliding down the memory hole.

Another six months and he'll be as forgotten as the round red sodomite, if idiot Zim can stay out of trouble.

[Dori]

I recall free x-rays of Halloween candy when I was in the ages between trick-or-treat and trick-or-drink.  Back then, most people just had H/ween parties and didn't even allow their kids to trick-or-treat.  Is this still needed?

I haven't seen a trick-or-treater in 10 years or more (I have lived in 2 condos though so I don't know about single-family homes).

The churches here still do the trunk or treat.  When my kids were little they had a school carnival on Halloween.  We get very few kids now, but Halloween is still a big deal with all the parties etc.

[GOBUCKS]

The churches here still do the trunk or treat.  When my kids were little they had a school carnival on Halloween.  We get very few kids now, but Halloween is still a big deal with all the parties etc.

The risk of sabotaged treats is a massive media hype.

Nearly all the reports are bogus, coming from nutcase parents who want publicity.

Trick-or-treat kids are vastly more likely to be hit by a car.

It's all a part of making kids frightened, all the time, so the government can take care of them.

I'm surprised the media doesn't promote requiring trick-or-treaters to wear helmets.

[Karin]

There's always an entertaining thread from the cheapskate DUmmies around Halloween.  Remember the one who said that she was going to hand out pencils, "one for each child."     I would have loved to see her property the next morning.   

[Bad Dog]

The risk of sabotaged treats is a massive media hype.

Nearly all the reports are bogus, coming from nutcase parents who want publicity.

Trick-or-treat kids are vastly more likely to be hit by a car.

It's all a part of making kids frightened, all the time, so the government can take care of them.

I'm surprised the media doesn't promote requiring trick-or-treaters to wear helmets.

The original post brought to mind a hippy-dippy neighbor who told my mom she loved to make bread because her fingernails were so clean after she finished kneading it.  Mom would graciously accept the offered loaves and dump them in the trash as soon as she left.  It was the only time mom ever asked me to lie about something.

[GOBUCKS]

There's always an entertaining thread from the cheapskate DUmmies around Halloween.  Remember the one who said that she was going to hand out pencils, "one for each child."     I would have loved to see her property the next morning.   

When I was a kid, I much preferred something like a pencil, that I could use, rather than those repulsive NECCO wafers and black licorice sticks.

[BannedFromDU]

When I was a kid, I much preferred something like a pencil, that I could use, rather than those repulsive NECCO wafers and black licorice sticks.

     ^5 and mostly agree. When I was a kid, there was a lot of that taffy in orange or black wax paper, and a lot of those Hershey's miniatures. The candy kids get nowadays is amazing - mine get full candy bars a lot of the time, which would have sent us into convulsions when I was their age. I also recall popcorn balls, Bit O' Honey, and Sweet Tarts.

     At school we always got pencils and pens at holidays, as well as walnuts and oranges. They also had those windmill cookies...I suspect they were issued to schools by the district, because they were everywhere.

[Ptarmigan]

The risk of sabotaged treats is a massive media hype.

Nearly all the reports are bogus, coming from nutcase parents who want publicity.

Trick-or-treat kids are vastly more likely to be hit by a car.

It's all a part of making kids frightened, all the time, so the government can take care of them.

I'm surprised the media doesn't promote requiring trick-or-treaters to wear helmets.

The whole Halloween candy scare stemmed from this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O'Bryan

[franksolich]

More.

Tien1985 (685 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 10:12 PM

8. Unfortunately, I wouldn't have

Been allowed to eat cupcakes if I got them at Halloween (razor blades/needles).

But if your neighbors will are okay with it, cupcakes are definitely better.

grasswire (38,232 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 11:10 PM

9. unless the Canada geese and the salmon in my front yard come a'calling...

....I won't see any trick or treaters. Maybe I'll go visit some family in another neighborhood that night. Unless it's raining.
 
I used to always have carrot and raisin salad for family on Halloween. Black and orange! Chili, cornbread muffins, and carrot-raisin salad.

msanthrope (19,879 posts)    Sun Oct 27, 2013, 11:24 PM

10. I get over 300 kids at my house....and they have a good time, when I rise from the toe-pincher coffin and hand them treats.

But it's wrapped candy.

^^^Ms. Piggy ostensibly lives in Chicago, or the area surrounding.

[JohnnyReb]

Pot laced brownies and Arizona Tea in memory of St. Trayvon's Day.