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09/21/2006: New Halloween Candy For 2006 — Part 2!

Continuing on from yesterday’s article, here’s Part 2 of 2006’s Greatest Halloween Candy, which admittedly isn’t as “greatest” as the stuff in Part 1, but without tricolor Twistables, how could it be?

I’m trying to think of a Halloween-themed survey that we haven’t already done to death in previous years. Hmm. Okay, got one. “Mischief Night Memories.”

I know the term differs from state to state to a degree, but for me, “Mischief Night” took place on the eve of Halloween. Our costumes weren’t on yet and our sacks weren’t full yet, but we were covered in egg, covered in shaving cream and covered with conviction to make everything around us just as covered with those things. Despite the inherent immaturity involved with squirting shaving cream on someone’s car, I always felt five years older than I was on Mischief Night. My friends and I always ended up running with the bad seeds in town, because if you didn’t swear allegiance to them, they’d peg you in the belly with eggs. And they wouldn’t even crack them first. Those things felt like god damned golf balls coming from the right arm. Though Mischief Night’s heydays are over in my town, the local grocers still ban sales of eggs and shaving cream to minors around Halloween. It’s so awesome to get carded when I go to the supermarket for eggs in October. Discuss your Mischief Night memories in the comments.

Yes! I hate Whoppers too, but I love them. I see the carton and think “That’s for white trash.” But I would have no problem pouring it straight in my mouth. Very strange.

I can’t say that I have ever tasted Whoppers before or, you know, have heard of them before. I assume they exist here in Canada, I just have never, ever, heard of them before, what do they taste like, anybody?

Whoppers=WOOF!
I’m going to see Nightmare on Elm Street on the big screen tonight…todays my birthday…YAY!!!

We used to take entire cans of shaving cream, put them in the freezer over night. The next day we would head out, armed with a sackful of frozen cans of shaving cream and a can opener. Target a house, use the can opener to open the bottom of the cans and slide out a frozen cylinder of Gillette. Stick it in a mailbox and walk away, as the shaving cream thawed, it would start expanding and voila! insta mess!

I tried this same stunt last year and nearly lost a finger. So be careful Childens! It’s a wonder my friends and myself are still alive!

Pretty good mix! Candy aside, one of my favorite Halloween-season-only foods is Kettle Corn. Reminds me of all the old Texas school carnivals and Fall festivals of my youth. I’m still totally jealous that you got to have it in Salem, Matt

Mischief Night was never that big in my neighborhood and the idea of smashing pumpkins before Halloween pretty much makes me want to cry. Usually we’d all just trick or treat until about 10pm and then tear around town eating our candy beneath the bridge or on the playground, ding dong ditching, and /then/ smashing pumpkins as a way of sending off our dearly departed Halloween.. Once we got to middle/high school, Halloween night meant trolling for girls more than anything else, so we’d either go to parties or commercial haunted houses and stand around looking stupid and drenched in fake blood. Man.. now I’m all nostalgic :/ “Brown-leafed vertigo, where skeletal life is known, I remember Halloween!”

Kraft caramels aren’t anything new. Mom used to get them all the time, with sticks and all.

Those cats - wow, I sooooo wish they were vegan!

It’s not everyday you get to eat a black cat.

God, I’ve never seen such lame ass candy as the “bits” with the straws. Craminy, they could’ve tried a tad bit harder. lol

I’ve never egged, TP’ed or smashed pumpkins, nor used shave cream, or whatnot, in a bad way. I have absolutely no Mischief Night memories… then again, I didn’t realize it existed until about 7 minutes ago.

Tyler: If you’ve never tasted malted milk powder, there’s really no good point of reference, so it’s hard to describe, but I’ll try– Imagine the texture of a dense, crispy, sponge that tastes like vanilla, coated in chocolate.

Btw Matt, I’m not a big fan of the malted candies everytime I bite into one, it makes my teeth feel like they do when I chew on Tinfoil.

Also my mom hates the word Malt, it makes her physically shudder whenever she hears it. Wait till I call her and tell her the review I read today:)

I hate Whoppers because when I was about 8 and I was visiting my grandparents’ dairy farm, my cousin and I accidentally spilled our bag of Malteasers (English version of Whoppers) in the cow pasture. Whenever I think of them I still remember watching them fall and splat, one by one, into a fresh cowpat. No five second rule that time.

Mischief Night mostly involved me and some other invisible-nerd girls walking around the neighborhood hoping to see guys we knew. Lame.

Maybe the candy gravel that comes with the straws is meant to be eaten *through* the straws?

The candy gravel is there because Albert wanted me to include “Spooky Straws” in an all-candy review.

I have the same relationship with Whoppers, except if I happen to eat some, I can only eat like one or two.

Did I mention that I finally (FINALLY) found the Cocoa Cats? I’ve been looking for the hot chocolate Peeps since the Cocoa Bats on the Countdown ages ago. Found ‘em at Jo-Ann Fabrics (and Crafts) of all places. So delicious!

I have no Devil’s Night memories. Around here there was a big curfew or something, I don’t really remember. I don’t know if they ever enforced it. I wouldn’t have been participating anyway, though. I guess I’m just a Halloweenie. What I’m really surprised about is that no one ever did anything to us on Devil’s Night. I guess we got it bad enough the rest of the year. (I say this now, and watch- it’s totally going to happen.)

Also, I saw “It’s a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” fruit snacks at the store today. I didn’t buy any because it was $5 a box (although it was big). There seemed to be cutouts on the back.

Man there’s a lot of hatred for Whoppers going on - I think Maltesers (and therefore I’d assume Whoppers) are pretty awesome. Does that make me trashy?

When I think about mischief night I think about that rainy night in the barn where Winnie Cooper and I nestled together in the hay… wait a second, that wasn’t me, that was Kevin Arnold on the two-part finale of The Wonder Years. Dang.

Whoopers make me feel like I’m chewing on tinfoil too. The taste isn’t that great either.

Mischeif Night has never ever been a big thing over here, so I don’t have any memories except maybe like one egg got thrown at our garage once.

I once toilet papered my own house on Mischeif Night. Why you ask? My mom thought it would be fun. I personally never had any inclination to go out and do so.

Also, I just want to say thank you Matt for the countdown. When I come home from work dead at 2:30 am or later, having something to do when no one is awake to talk to makes me hate my job slightly less.

You’re not alone in your hatred for whoppers, yet I still eat them when my boyfriend leaves them by my end of the couch.

“Treat her right! Treat your mother right!”
I love that video no matter how much I watch it. The backup dancers (mothers probably)look like every teacher I had in elementary school.

Oh yeah, I had the Mountain Dew Pitch Black Icee at Target yesterday.. grapey goodness.

okay i feel really uncool right now because i actually LIKE whoppers especially the kind they have at easter…shaped like eggs and covered in a candy coating…thats pretty much the best part of that holiday.

Matt, my friend brought up a great point the other day: You claim to hate grape-flavored sodas with a wild fervor, so forwhythenwho do you enjoy Pitch Black Mt. Dew?

I love Whoppers of all kinds, especially when they try to tell me they’re Robins Eggs. I actually prefer the Reese’s shapes to the cups, they’re all smooshy and full of much more peanut butter goodness than the Big Cups. One year I swear I bought upwards of 10 packs of Reese’s Eggs during the Easter season.

Never did anything particularly mischevious on fright night, except once my friends and I stayed out slightly past elotted Trick-or-Treat time and scored all the leftovers.

There was no Mischeif Night anyplace I have ever lived. However, once you got to old to trick or treat you’d go out in regular clothes with eggs and TP. But it was tough to get anyone, seeing as they all were at there door handing out candy. It ended up being mostly just egg fights among your friends.

However, when I lived in the suburbsand were in jr high, TPing and egging seemed to be every weekend events in the fall. We’d get teachers, boys we liked/hated etc. And all stores would have a one dozen limit per group of kids. When it was cold here, people would leave the egg on their houses until it was above freezing, so it didn’t peel the paint off their house. We also would “fork” lawns. That’s just taking a bag of plastic forks and stabbing them into the ground. Taking them out was annoying, I think that was the point of it all.

Oh, when I saw thosee whoppers, I thought of my mother and how she always wanted to have holiday color themed candy in a dish on the coffee table and how we were never allowed to eat it cause at some point “company” might stop by and want to eat the dusty old candy.

I feel EXACTLY the same way about whoopers as you do… Whenever I see them, I think I hate them. But, when put in a situation where they’re my last resort, I can’t find anything to complain about.

Funny, I grew up on S.I. too, and I did all my shaving cream/ eggs stuff on Halloween itself (we called it “Bombing”). But the best memory I have is stealing a bunch of pumpkins and decorations, climbing in through the window of my best friends class room at Our Lady Star of the Sea (which he purposely unlocked earlier in the day) and smashing said pumpkins and decorations all over the room- eggs in the text books and all. Not the smartest move in the world, but when you’re 14 you’re not really thinking about breaking and entering and vandalism charges.

Whoppers. I’ve experienced the same feelings Matt. I can’t explain it either. I may not like them because they look so similar to Milk Duds, but they will never reach the level of goodness that is the Milk Dud. Another reason is that there are a lot of Whopper knock offs, especially around easter, that are left in bowls and baskets uneaten only be saved in the drawer with the Werthers hard candies until next year when they are brought out again. Also, I think the Whopper milk cartons are a bit too much. I picture overweight internet nerds pouring back a mouthful of milk carton Whoppers after every typed sentence. Mmmm, thats good Whoppers!

That Mr. T clip comes from this after-school type special called “Be Somebody or Be Somebody’s Fool” and I have it on DVD. Not only is it an hour and a half long, but that segment is only the beginning of the absurdity. Everyone should have to watch it.

Girls (or guys) does anyone remember Beverly Hills Teens? It was on in the late 80s, and I’ve been wanting to get a copy for ages and I finally scored one - see here, I wrote about it and took pictures. Momentous. Can’t wait to watch it.

Whoppers have always made me gag. I only tried them once, and that was at some sort of missionary night we had at church when I was like seven. I was on a bus at the time, but the inside was supposed to look like a plane. I remember thinking bitterly that they would never serve Whoppers on a real plane.

I love whoppers, and I offer no apologies. I think you people that don’t are the ones that should be ashamed. Malt is like the best thing ever. The only time they are gross is when they are in bridge mix and you pick out what you think is a malted milk ball, but it ends up being one of those nasty vanilla creme things inside. That’s a bummer.

And, Mystie, I also like my reeses better in the shapes, because the chocolate is thicker and there is more peanut butter inside. To me, that’s the point. The very best is the “reester bunny” they had out this year. Full sized chocolate rabbit full of peanut butter. That was pushing it, but it was soooo good.

Those kitty peeps are soooo cute! I have a black cat, and his name is Spooky. And he kicks ass.

I dont think I ever did naughty things around Halloween. My friends and I did go thru a tp phase, but it was just a general non-seasonal thing. We did the yard forking too. Such dorks.

Nice Jester! The Crow….my favorite movie. I watch it every year on/around Halloween.

Growing up, egging and TPing were common events throughout the entire month of October. It wasn’t until I saw The Crow that I found out that there was a specific day for such madness, and that night was Devils’ Night. So we pretty much just egged or TP’d the nemesis flava of the week whenever it occurred to us.

I love Whoppers, though I don’t eat them nearly as much as I did in my candy eatin’ hey-day.

Went to A Nightmare On Elm Street Last Night. While it was good to see on the big screen, I do have a couple of complaints. First off, I live in Seattle, but did it play anywhere near Seattle? No. I had to drive 30 miles. No big deal. That much more of an event I guess. Then I get to the theater, which is this 17 screen mall-monstrosity. No problems. My friend and I settle into our seats aqnd prepare for the scares. The crowd is quite young. I’d be surprised if there were anyone over the age of 15 in it besides me and my friend. It was kind of weird watching a movie that I actually remember when it came out with a bunch of people that were still like 10 years from being born when it was released.

So the movie starts, but they forget we’re in the theater or something and don’t turn down the houselights. Someone finally had to go and tell them. After that, all was okay.

It was shown on a digital projector. A poor quality digital projector. There was this kind of faded blue oval around the center of the screen. Distracting at times. But I still dug it. And after the credits they show a special real of “Freddy’s Greatest Kills”, which is actually every Freddy kill from Nightmare 2 through Freddy vs. Jason. Good stuff. Though I was surprised that Freddy only had two real kills in F vs. J. But I guess Jason did do most of the killing in that one since Freddy was sort of non-corporeal for a bunch of it.

I don’t think I’ve ever done anything for Mischief night. In fact, my years of trick or treating weren’t all that grand. Halloween only got really good when me and Colonel Catsup started chaperoning his younger cousins.

Talking smack about everybody and their mothers was never as good as on those nights. We talk smack everyday of the year, but it just felt soooo right on Halloween.

The most particularly strong memory was playing FFVII right before going out. So that must have been 97. Snowboarding and halloween DO mix. If you’re avoiding moogles in the process.

Damn. Hate to back-to-back post, but my morning net surfing has yielded this bit of info:

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Man, whoppers (Malted milk balls) are the shiz. When I was a yout, going to K-Mart and just getting to look at the toys was a huge treat. When my dad went, though, he’s usually get one of those milk cartons of Whoppers and we savored every one. (Except that one that was an empty shell and had no malted milk filler). The only two food things I ever remember seeing at Kmart were Whoppers and canned ham.

I love Whoppers! I usually get them with cheese and as part of a value meal with Coke. Did I miss something? Also, kudos to Eddie Lightning Frog for the Misfits lyrics! This song is still a must at any Halloween party I attend.

We really don’t have a prank-night kind of thing here. Probably because if someone did that, this is such a small-time, one-horse, two-bit, cam-jammin’, old-fashioned, lip-smackin’, hip-crackin’, moon-shinin’, teeny-tiny, red-neckin’, fudruckin’, truck-drivin’, egg-suckin’, pimple-poppin’, pepper-belly, pencil-neck geek of a hick town, that everyone will know who did it by the next day.

But I might do the frozen shaving cream thing with a Jack O’Lantern on Hallowe’en day, so it starts to vomit right around Trick Or Treat time. Be sure it’s shaving Cream, and not the gel.

I seem to have the same phenomenon with Whoppers: I love them, but I always forget that I love them. Maybe it’s because I confuse them with Milk Duds, which I don’t like.

No, no, no. We cannot have it. That award show shant go on. Those bands are going to corrupt the youth of England, not sure why I care–seeing as I’m from Vegas–but they will. I’d like to beat them to bloody death, if I could actually engage in physical activity more strenuous than hitting a few keys on my keyboard, and writing same-y, waif-like lyrics.

Just curious, would that frozen shaving cream trick work with a can of foam insulation? If so, It’d be cool to try it with a can of Great Stuff and watch the poor homeowner try to get it all out of their mailbox. It’s possible that I might have to get a little mischevious this Halloween….

There use to be a black cat that hung around my house that I dubbed Johnny Winter, after the famous 60’s rock guitarist. Ironically, the human Johnny Winter is an Albino, but he had a song called “Black Cat Bone”.

I used to do Mischief Night just about every year too. We had a “Crazy Guy” in our neighborhood, who believe it or not, was really Crazzzy! He did things like run around on his front lawn naked and pack tennis ball cans full of his tighty wighties and hide them in the woods behind his house. -
anyway, we would toilet paper the hell out of him every year. We thought we were being sooo badass by doing it. There would always be a small part of me that felt kinda bad about it, but looking back, its only toilet paper!

We called it Devil’s Night, and the one that sticks in my memory most is the night all of the kids in my group (except me) got arrested. It all started when my friend Paul decided to take the normal tic-tac (what we called egging houses) routine a little too far. He started smashing peoples pumpkins on their porches. This warned me to keep my distance from the group. I still followed, of course, to see all the mischief first hand. Paul got the bright idea to start throwing huggies he stole from his house (they were to be passed out the next night for trick-or-treat) at peoples doors. They would hit the door and make an enormous sound, because for some reason, everyone in my neighborhood had giant metal screen doors. Well as he threw the infamous huggie bottle at the last house the door opened and an old lady took one in the face. Despite the fact that I knew it was sooo wrong, I laughed until I almost shit myself. I was standing about a block from the rest of the guys. They took off running. I was the only one smart enough to act as if I was completely innocent and just strolled off in the opposite direction at a normal pace. The next thing I see is like ten police cars zooming down the street. Each one with a few kids crammed in the back. I had escaped the horror of being grounded on Halloween. I was the ONLY one of our group allowed to trick-or-treat. That Halloween I WAS GOD.

This makes me wonder, are there HUGGIES brand juice bottles in other places? I swear I had like 30 of these in my bag EVERY YEAR. they are made by Daily’s Farms, and come in all sorts of colors and flavors. The have some of the most annoying foil covering the top of the containern and are shaped kinda like a beer keg. Just curious as it seems they are wildly popular trick-or-treat giveaways here in Pittsburgh.

We would steal those big pumpkn yard bags that people filled with leaves and create a pyramid out of them in some farmers field along the school bus route so the next morning kids would see huge pumpkin pyramid on the way into town.

In my CVS, we gots candy, but just the minor stuff Matt said already, like the whoppers & the oreos, but we probably got the Twistables too.

also, click my name to see the MUSIC VIDEO for the Fat Boys’ “Are You Ready For Freddie?”!!

Mara has finally caught up with the countdown! Not having internet at home is seriously limiting my XE time. Tis sad. But next week, the non-internet time will be over

I want all of the candies you wrote about, except the Whoppers. I have the opposite problem you do - They sound fine to me, but when I have them, they are nasty. It’s the texture. Ew. Like aerated chalk. Gag me.

Mara - you worked with a blacksmith? That’s so rad, seriously. I’m a fan of your color choices too. I keep wanting to get an etsy store.

Old E: I don’t know if they’re the same brand here but we definitely have those juice drinks! I remember my grandma used to pick me up from elementary school every day, and she’d always have one of those for me because I’d be thirsty and the damn teachers didn’t let you get water often enough.

Mischief Night must be a Northern thing, we don’t do that here, which is just wierd. Southerners being more well behaved than yankees? Ah, I guess it may be that the bible thumpers of the bible belt aren’t into halloween. Anyway, I love whoppers, I had never heard of them being considered trashy before. What I love even more is Candy Corn. I hate all you candy corn bashers, you’re the reason I only got 2 little bags last year. (and I had to trade for one) Nobody gives it out anymore.

Sorry to double post, but when you said throwing huggies at doors I thought you meant dirty diapers. Ewwww! Down here in Florida we have the same thing, only they’re called Little Hugs. God, those things have enough sugar in them to cause halucinations. I’ve never gotten them for halloween but my Grandmother used to give them to me.

I’m actually slurpping on a Blue “Little Hugs” brand juice barrel right now!

im from philly and all i remember about mischief night was your regular throwing eggs stuff, but i remember when i was little my older cousin would always tell us about bag snatchers. older kids that saw little kids without a parent would run by and snatch their bag. thats really low. i never seen it though. this has nothing to do with this, but does anyone know when the adult swim show kargoth is going to starts its season

October 30 is my birthday and as a kid no one came to my parties because everyone had some other fancy Halloween party or bonfire to go to. If I would have known about Mischief Night, I could have egged their houses in retaliation for ditching me. Sadly, it was not a tradition in our town. In fact, I’ve never heard of it before.

Never did mishcief night…talked about it though…my grandma bought little hugs at Rite Aid in Seaview Square Mall back in the day….they were like 2 bucks for a 20 pack or something…the sell them at BigLots now…

I have a Mr T sighting to tell everyone….2 nights or so before Christmas last year…I saw him at a Best Buy, he was watching this little black kid play a xbox 360 demo. Everyone was all hushed and in awe…like…psst psst ..its him! psst psst …Mr T!

oh yeah…i read his autobiography in 1989 for a Book it! book report. He had his groin burned by a hot poker froma fire place by accident, when he was little..i remmeber that part.

Hazzard: I’m in Florida too, and yes I think it is a northern thing. The only times I’ve heard of it were either on TV, in books or through talking to people from up north.

Actually, a thought just ocurred to me. While I never did anything mischeivous, I do recall one Halloween night when my family got a pumpkin through the rear windshield of our car. They didn’t even try to take anything. They just broke the window.

Matt, I envy you. I haven’t even found the regular Black Cat Peeps yet, and I sure as heck haven’t run into any Cocoa ones. All I’ve seen are the plain old ghosts and pumpkins. I usually found better Peep selection at Super Fresh, for some strange reason, so maybe I’ll see if my knee is up for heading over there next week.

No Whoppers here! Yuck. Sorry, I hate anything malted. I’d always trade them with my sisters for Snickers and Mr. Goodbars (they don’t like nuts) after Halloween and Easter.

I guess I’m a bit of a goody-two-shoes, but I never did Mischief Night, either. It usually happened on the 28th or 29th in most of Cape May County. As far as I know we never had anything done to us, but my stepdad’s a very intimidating and visible man and most neighborhood kids likely feared the things he’d bellow if they got within five milimeters of his property.

Mischief Night was never big in my neck of the woods. usually one of the schools would host a Halloween carnival that night to keep everyone entertained so they had somewhere to go. The tactic seemed to work because everyone in town with nothing better to do would go to them….

I have some Spooky Cats from 2 Halloweens ago. I can’t bring myself to get rid of them. They’re rock solid now.

Who does Brandon Flowers think he is? I mean seriously. Back me up Brianfax.

Giant (central PA): Pumpkins
Wal Mart: Pumpkins
Target: Pumpkins and Ghosts
Dollar Tree: Pumpkins

Nary a cat of any color of flavor to be seen. I’m going to need to expand my perameters.

Oh, Spoodles! That reminds me, I just dropped off your jumbo peeps +some at the post office today. I’ve been having a fuck of a time remembering to go when it’s open, but since the package was under 16oz I weighed it on the scale, slapped a bunch of stamps on it and shoved it in the mailbox.

I’m a October 30th birthday too. But my family does halloween up right and my birthday is never lame because you can kind of roll it into halloween and pretend the people who just came to score your kick ass candy are your friends. Awesome.

Our house is the one on the block with the severed head in the tree and the dummy on the rocking chair a week before who may or may not have a person inside on the big night just waiting for you to let your guard down so he can give you pyschosomatic diseases.

I found a website that sells the Cocoa Cats as well as the Spooky Cats, click on my name for the link.

Kneg, ahh, those were good times, the few years we did it in secession. But my cousins grew to be hellians and prefer to consider them non-existant. You live down the street from them, you know what I mean. But oh! Remember the year we were rounding back to your block, it was nearing 8pm, and we passed your neighbor’s house who just recently had hung (er, hanged. Sounds wrong everytime I say it) themself from the tree in their backyard (clear as day from the street). You were telling me the story and another neighbor shouted from her porch, “You shouldn’t talk about stuff you don’t know about!” and then you made some smart ass remark to her? Ahhh, the memories….

Oh, and I’ve been wanting to bring this up for two weeks now, waiting for the topic of candy to hit the blog, and so it has, so here it is; speaking of staples of Halloween, Smarties has always been my favorite. And for the past two weeks, when my girlfriend and I are heading home after the bar, we make a cigarette/midnight snack stop at 7-11, I discovered GIANT SMARTIES! It looks just like a normal roll of smarties, only it’s HUGE! I’ve eaten roughly 5 rolls. Granted, it takes a little longer to eat than a normal sized smarties roll…

I love Whoppers. I never used to, they were always this really odd candy in my treat bag, but now I think they’re fabulous. But I tend to eat them until I get sick, and with malted milk balls, that doesn’t take long.

I think I like them so much because they’re old-fashioned tasting, like butterscotch pudding or kettle-cooked chips.

When I was 16 or 17, I went out with a bunch of older kids on Devil’s Night. These guys were complete assholes. They were into bending down road signs to the ground (thankfully no stop signs). We ended up at the park and were chased into the woods by the cops. I was completely drunk and stoned. The group broke up and I ended up with this one guy who was tripping his balls off. He wanted to go home, but couldn’t remember where he lived. I walked around town with him for a few hours. He kept wandering into people’s yards. At one point, he started talking to this fenced up dog and yelling “ATTENTION!!!” to it, like he was starting a dog army or something. Really fucked. Towards the end, he pulled me aside and said “I’ll give you all this acid if you’ll eat it all right now.” I totally did it, went home and passed out.

I sat up in bed the next morning with a sheet over my head, laughing. I took me a while to figure out how to get the sheet off, but I got there. I got up and went to school (missed like the first two classes) totally wasted.

I literally didn’t “come down” for three days. I must’ve eaten half a sheet of acid (30+ tabs). The story got around pretty quick, and during the three days, friends ans complete strangers wanted to smoke pot with me and hear the story. I’ve heard the story a few times from other people about “this guy who ate a sheet of acid and tripped for days” at parties and such. I don’t tell ‘em, but I’m the guy.

Colonel, how could I forget? She wasn’t exactly in the know herself. And she was just that side of completely whacked. She apologized years later during a visit to a late-night breakfast buffet, after I let her know she didn’t know shite either. That sounds odd, but it was after the majority of our neighborhood went midnite bowling.

Ahh, Mischief Night. My foremost memory of it is pure Philadelphia. It’s called Watching Camden Burn Down. Some part of Camden is always burning down — that’s like a given. But Mischief Night was the grand champion of watching Camden burn. All the news copters would be up giving panaramic shots of the carnage, making it look like the Seventh Circle of Hell. There was one year in particular when it was especially bad, like two dozen buildings up in roaring flames. Initially, they were blaming the fires on kids pulling stupid pranks in abandoned buildings. I believe it turned out that the owner was torching them all for the insurance money.

Someone else said they saw the Cocoa Cats at Joann’s Fabric? Mine has them too, so if you got one nearby, and want ‘em, gooooooo!

Cool! Two birthdays on the 30th, mine Nov 1st, and the We’en in-betwe’en! Three days of PAR-TAY!!! Wake the neighbors, shoot the dog, and shock the monkey!

Jessica Marie - Yeah, the blacksmith job is great

I go back and work with her every summer when I’m home, and I’ve got a bench set up so she sends me work while I’m at school.

I too have the strange love/hate relationship with Whoppers. Forever I was convinced I hated them, but then whenever I eat one, I really like it. Weird.

We never had a “mischief night” where I grew up. Or maybe I was just a loser and didn’t have the friends that would do such a thing.

Also, Matt, I was in our breakroom today and saw something that screamed “Halloween” although it seems to be a year-round snack. It’s “Blair’s Death Rain” brand Habenero potato chips. The bag is an evil, black color and just feels so Halloween. Anyway, click on my name for their official site, or check out this other site below:

Has anyone else tried these “Island Chips” that are sweet? Not halloween at all, but hella good nonetheless.

I would have never thought that Matt would like the Original Reese’s better than the Holiday versions. Whether it’s eggs, trees or pumpkins-these things have more chocolate and Peanut Butter. I hated Reese’s until someone gave me a Reese’s tree.

I always liked Reese’s peanut butter cups until I tried Trader Joe’s ones. Those ones have a thick chocolate shell that doesn’t stick to the paper and delicious creamy peanut butter that doesn’t taste like oil-caked sawdust. If you don’t live near a Trader Joe’s supermarket, you should move.

Has anyone played the “dark movie” game? M&M’s is using it to promote thier dark chocolate candies.
Thought Matt would have something about it.
If you havn’t played make sure you do.
It took me a whole 2 1/2 hrs to finally solve it.

So far this years batch of candy i’ve seen around Stop n Shop and other places certainly ‘look’ impressive. But as usual much of the same, a few nice differences though, haven’t seen the Whoppers yet, really would like to though.

As for the M&Ms dark movie game as posted by Nick above, really is good fun. Got a time of 4:03 min lol…second time round lol, just to see how fast i could remember.

I actually came across the M&Ms game today while looking up Kellogg’s cereals. No idea how that happened, but it seemed interesting to try out. Not immediately, but sometime this weekend.

Working on Friday’s Countdown now, so stick around if you’ve nothing better to do.

Jones party next week. woohoo!! Got some fingertraps too, because well 6 of them for a buck is just too good.

Friday is well worth celebrating :D. It was long enough in getting here.
Welcome to the blog Dan!

I haven’t been able to find any Jones Halloween-themed sodas, but I have recently become addicted to the regular line. Strawberry Lime Soda totally kicks my ass!

Yes, Target has gone beyond any other year. I especially liked the faux paintings (a witch, a pirate, and a “butler”) that when you press the button, they say something spooky and then all of a sudden, their eyes pop out of the painting, as does an unusually long tongue. Must admit, I did jump. I think they were somewhere between 20 to 30 bucks. Well worth it. I was just impressed with the new “technology” that Halloween decorations are stepping into.

I have confirmed that my local Target (Wyomissing, PA) does, in fact, have Pitch Black icees.

Oh, I forgot. My Target had Mountain Dew ICEEs as well. But they only had Live Wire. Well it couldn’t have been a PERFECT trip, just wouldn’t be my style. Greatland had better have Pitch Black.

Ohh, today I went to Canadian Tire (with Canadian Tire money in hand!) and I found these really cool paper ball lights with little ghost faces on them, really awesome! Also today the family and I went to Best Buy to buy a keyboard, and course we came out with 2 movies also, Short Circuit, and Silver Bullet. I have never seen Silver Bullet, but I was quite impressed, so many classic stupid lines from Gary Busey! And who could go wrong with Corey Haim.

i agree with the Welsh Rabbit- reeses are indeed ‘oil-caked sawdust’ blegh. the best peanut butter candy was at easter- the peter pan eggs- same size and shape as a cadbury egg, but filled with creamy delightful peanut butter. i havent found them in years though. very sad

In my neck of the woods, Northern New Jersey, the night before Halloween was known as Goosey Night. In my neighborhood, the “delinquents” would soap cars and egg houses. I heard from a friend that an easy way to create “instant” rotten eggs was to bury a fresh egg in a flower bed, marking the exact place you had buried it, then come back two days later and dig it up, being careful not to break it in the disinterment process. PHEW! I remember one of my neighbors used to stand guard in his front yard on Goosey night with a salt gun.

I am SO glad I’m not half the freak I thought I was. With Matt and then others commenting here I now know I am not the only one who has the love/hate relationship with whoppers. I always thought it was some sort of psycological factor concerning something I had seen or heard from my childhood of someone getting sick on them or maybe some forgotten episode were I got sick on them but I guess not. So now my secret is out and I don’t feel so bad anymore. But I disagree with sweet Matt on the whole not liking the revamped Reese’s cause I actually like the pumpkins and christmas tree Reese cups better then the originals. I know, I know. Sacrelgious-Scandelous-B-A-D, but I can’t help it. I’ve tried figuring it out too and can’t seem to. Maybe it’s because they give just a bit more (or in MY opinion a lot more) pb in them….Who knows but I always love Reeses on holidays. And a comment about the carmel apples-So I just tried my hand at some of them today as a matter of fact because I had this great idea to make some for work and my mom got me a milk maid bag with YES FREE POPSICLE STICKS! And so I went at it and it was working all fine, as soon as I figured out to add some water to the melting carmels, until I got to the part were you peel the apples off the wax paper and I had failed to grease it-DUN-DUN-DUN! And so I had painfully remove the papers with carmel ending up all over counters,fingers,floor,knife,shirt (sort of souds like a bad porn film or something…)then it struck me with awful pain-how would I wrap these to take these to work because then I would have to grease the WHOLE APPLE in order for the paper not to stick when I wrapped them up to take them to work so now I am on a mission-to find an easy solution to this problem on WHAT to wrap the finished product in so I could take it to work so people won’t have to pull their apples off the same tray and it would easier to transport them TO work if I could package more together without them sticking together. So far my results have proved fruitless other then all these other websites keep referencing me here and I love Matt to death but doubted he could help me out in this situation but I did give me quite a few laughs thatI needed to get rid of this frustration-So if anyone may by chance have ANY ideas on WHAT I should wrap my apples in in order to transport them to work (I’ve got 35 to do

I’d GREATLY appreciate it

There’s a local (NJ, PA, NY) chocolate store chain that sells little filled chocolates called smidgens. I happened to go by a store in a mall recently that was giving away free samples of Pumpkin Pie Smidgens. THE BEST HALLOWEEN CANDY EVER. I had to buy a whole box after trying them. Not only do they really taste like pumpkin pie, but the flavor lasts a good 5 minutes after you eat one. And they’re shaped like jack-o-lanterns! Try ‘em, you’ll like ‘em!!

mmmmm candy. i’m seriously thinking about buying all that candy you showed. Although i’m not too fond of the thought of becoming diabetic before i turn 30, but piging out on sweets is a halloween tradition.
And yes i find Whoppers disgusting, but that won’t stop me from eating them if someone places a box in front of me.

Thank you for mentioning Peeps. I can eat a whole package of them in about 5 minutes. I’ve searched in vain for the “Decorate Your Own” peeps they released for Easter. But in NYC, you’re lucky to get some bunnies in a Duane Reade, and I’ll be damned if you can find a Cadbery Creme Egg. I know I’m seasonally way off, but just like Jesus, it’s the time of year when Peeps are reincarnated.

Oh gosh, every time I see my father eating a big honking THING of Whoppers I feel my lip curl as a sneer takes over my face…but when I eat those damn things they’re just so good.

Spooky Cat Peeps: The dark purple cat Peeps actually came out before the cocoa cat Peeps. I know it’s difficult to tell the order of things because sometimes the product availability seems so random! I know this may be minutiae, but I live for it–just as you do.

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