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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.


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Discussion Thread: 107 comments

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.

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 09/21/2006 4:11 PM EDT

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.

The foil never bothered me though, I always just jammed a straw in it.

Ghosted by jazzy @ 09/21/2006 4:21 PM EDT

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. :(

Ghosted by Hazzard @ 09/21/2006 4:34 PM EDT

Spaceballs: The Cartoon coming in 2007.
http://primetimepulse.insidepulse.com/articles/61141

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 09/21/2006 4:43 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Hazzard @ 09/21/2006 4:48 PM EDT

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

Blue=Best

Ghosted by Jester @ 09/21/2006 5:15 PM EDT

JLAJRC: Spaceballs the Cartoon! That’s enough to make my whole damn year!

Ghosted by Mazoo @ 09/21/2006 7:01 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by pdac @ 09/21/2006 7:24 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by GloomyJack @ 09/21/2006 7:25 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/21/2006 7:27 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/21/2006 7:29 PM EDT

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.

Halloween in the south is kinda watered-down overall though. It kinda sucks.

Ghosted by jazzy @ 09/21/2006 7:34 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Rhino @ 09/21/2006 8:16 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 09/21/2006 8:27 PM EDT

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….

Ghosted by kittycatgirl @ 09/21/2006 9:19 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Mystie @ 09/21/2006 9:33 PM EDT

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

Emo: Dangerous::The Killers: Cool. i.e., they’re not.

Ghosted by K- @ 09/21/2006 9:41 PM EDT

My Peeps account…

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.

Ghosted by Spoodles @ 09/21/2006 10:14 PM EDT

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. :P

Ghosted by Mystie @ 09/21/2006 10:23 PM EDT

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.

Any one else do that/have that done to them?

I love halloween so so much.

Ghosted by Travis @ 09/21/2006 10:41 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by jazzy @ 09/21/2006 10:54 PM EDT

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…

Ghosted by ColonelCatsup @ 09/22/2006 12:03 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Ronald MacKinnon @ 09/22/2006 1:18 AM EDT

Mystie, you are a goddess :)

Ghosted by Spoodles @ 09/22/2006 2:36 AM EDT

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.

I don’t know if this story is cool, sad or just scary for parents.

Ghosted by Fungusmungus @ 09/22/2006 5:37 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by K- @ 09/22/2006 6:46 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by LemurCat @ 09/22/2006 9:32 AM EDT

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! :)

Ghosted by Ryane @ 09/22/2006 11:51 AM EDT

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!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 09/22/2006 12:27 PM EDT

Jessica Marie – Yeah, the blacksmith job is great :D 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.

Thanks for the compliment on my jewelry, I need to get more up there…

Etsy is the greatest!

Ghosted by Mara @ 09/22/2006 1:21 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Tracy @ 09/22/2006 1:21 PM EDT

Hey Matt, I want to see your Spooky Straws Puppet Show!!!

Ghosted by scudge @ 09/22/2006 1:57 PM EDT

“…and the We’en in-betwe’en!” is my new favorite thing to say!

Boo neglected birthdays!
Hooray Halloween!
Hooray beer!

Ghosted by Deuce @ 09/22/2006 2:22 PM EDT

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:

http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=2540

Ghosted by Frito @ 09/22/2006 2:36 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by K- @ 09/22/2006 6:36 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Clayton @ 09/22/2006 8:00 PM EDT

Wooo FUNT! Or FNT! Ok, no one else is here. Just felt like celebrating.

Ghosted by Terror Claws Cole @ 09/22/2006 8:06 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Welsh Rabbit @ 09/22/2006 8:32 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Nick @ 09/22/2006 8:50 PM EDT

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.

Anyway longtime reader, since 2003, seriously lol, firstime poster.

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.

Real time was 19 something.

You should all try it, some are harder than you’d think.

Ghosted by Dan @ 09/22/2006 9:46 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/22/2006 9:59 PM EDT

YEEEEESSSSSSS!!!

Finally scored at Target!!!!!

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

Ghosted by K- @ 09/22/2006 10:02 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 09/22/2006 10:11 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by Retro Playback @ 09/22/2006 10:17 PM EDT

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.

The future is now!

Ghosted by ColonelCatsup @ 09/22/2006 10:19 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Mystie @ 09/22/2006 10:20 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by K- @ 09/22/2006 11:01 PM EDT

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’m off to hang up my lights!

Ghosted by IHAQ @ 09/22/2006 11:19 PM EDT

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 :(

Ghosted by mightypiratekalypso @ 09/23/2006 2:37 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Some Jeff @ 09/24/2006 5:17 PM EDT

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