A serious question about trick-or-treating

This meme got me thinking. Would you allow your kids to consume anything that wasn't packaged by a manufacturer (e.g., loose cookies)? When I was a kid, it was a no. Mom would examine each candy piece carefully to make sure it wasn't open or tampered with. But some candy isn't quite sealed in the first place (e.g., lollipops) so I have mixed feelings.

Razor apples and needle granola never ever happened.
It was an urban legend.
Your mom was paranoid for nothing.

Say I put glass in a popcorn ball.
You know how easy that would be to trace back to me?
I'm the only guy in town with the fucking popcorn balls.
I'm arrested the next fucking day.
Knowing that, I don't do that.
And everyone knowing that, no one does that.

I can't imagine the combination of crazy it would take.
They'd have to be smart enough to make poison candy, but dumb enough to risk getting caught.
It would have to be someone who WANTS to go to jail, and wants to hurt kids to do it.
How many people do we have like that?
It's gotta be in single digits.
It's not a legitimate fear.

Sometimes. It depends upon how sanitary is the person handing out the candy/treats.

No, I would only ever let my kid eat it if it were wrapped, like a condom.

This. I always thought that would just be about the stupidest thing. I grew up in small towns and when each of my sons were young we lived in a small town. It would just be too easy to track down the idiot that wanted to poison/injure children at Halloween. I believe the neighborhood my niece and nephew trick or treated had at least one house giving out homemade treats and I thought that was wild. Didn’t think anyone did that anymore.

Never got any unpackaged treats, except for some dog treats once.

Hey, good to see you.

Everything going okayish?

I hope you egged that house for giving kids dog treats on Halloween.

Ask Federal Farmer. I heard he's going as Spanky the Clown this year.

His mom probably hopes there are razor blades in his candy apples.

Not really. Today's going to be a very hard day. I just wanted to check in, pretty much, to feel a little bit of normalcy.

You’re too old to go trick or treating.

Fun fact: no one is giving kids weed candy either. A bag of 10 THC infused gummies runs $25--trust that kids ain't getting shit.

The whole poison candy shit started in the 80s by a man who was later discovered to have poisoned his own kids himself for insurance

these days, wouldn't prepackaged candy-specifically chocolate bars-be far more questionable for risk of peanut contamination?

Good. Fuck these peanut allergy douchebags and especially their parents.

1,000 kids have the joy of peanut butter sandwiches taken away from them because one little shit in the cafeteria might go into anaphylactic shock.

Disagree.

Is trick-or-treating even a thing anymore? I stopped passing out candy in my early twenties because it was dead for like three years in a row, and pretty much everyone I know who has kids does something other than regular trick-or-treating because their neighborhoods are dead or because it's counterproductive as far as teaching their kids that strangers are evil and not to be trusted. Often times I'm driving around on Halloween and it seems dead to me.

Where I live currently it's always been dead, but I live in a very ethnically diverse area and most of my neighbors don't celebrate Halloween, so it might not be a good example.

Doing DoorDash I'll probably get a better sample size, but in 2019 I was in the hospital and last year was plague year. This year I'll observe and report back with my findings.

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

Important note: Werther's Originals are delicious.

Smarties are good. If you don’t want yours, give ‘em to me.

Are you talking about the real Smarties or the bullshit American ones?

As a stupid Yankee, I wasn't aware there was a difference in the ones overseas.

Why you gotta be a dick all the fucking time?

I've only eaten Smarties that are sold in the US. If there's difference between US Smarties and Smarties made in any other country, I don't know what it is. So, I'd say the ones you're talking about are the bullshit ones.

American Smarties are basically sugar compacted into round wafers.

The original Smarties (found in the UK, Canada, etc.) are small round chocolates covered in a hard candy coating. Somewhat similar to M&Ms (which they also predate) but bigger and crunchier. The chocolate in the UK Smarties is actually even better than the Canadian version.

The reason the candies are different is apparently because of trademark issues.

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Pleased to meet you.

(Hope you guessed my name.)

many?
must be a borg thing...

Then it’s not the same candy, is it?

Fucking candy elitist hipster douchebaggery on parade. Do you custom order your AUTHENTIC smarties with the flavor of your own farts?

Jelly-Belly are better than generic old-timey waxy jellybeans.
Lindor Truffles are better than...well, anything Hershey shits out, really.
Ben & Jerry is better than store brand.
If that's hipster-y, then the hipsters haven't gotten the memo, cuz they won't give me my fucking membership card.
I've no doubt British Smarties are better than M&M's.

I'm sure he has no problem recognizing the difference in quality between various cannabis strains.