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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.

Posted by Matt on 09/21/2006. E-mail me!



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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/21/2006 4:11 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 09/21/2006 4:21 PM

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. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Hazzard @ 09/21/2006 4:34 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/21/2006 4:43 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Hazzard @ 09/21/2006 4:48 PM

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

Blue=Best

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 09/21/2006 5:15 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Mazoo @ 09/21/2006 7:01 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by pdac @ 09/21/2006 7:24 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by GloomyJack @ 09/21/2006 7:25 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/21/2006 7:27 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/21/2006 7:29 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 09/21/2006 7:34 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 09/21/2006 8:16 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 09/21/2006 8:27 PM

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….

Chestnuts roasted by kittycatgirl @ 09/21/2006 9:19 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/21/2006 9:33 PM

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

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

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 09/21/2006 9:41 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 09/21/2006 10:14 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/21/2006 10:23 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Travis @ 09/21/2006 10:41 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 09/21/2006 10:54 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by ColonelCatsup @ 09/22/2006 12:03 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Ronald MacKinnon @ 09/22/2006 1:18 AM

Mystie, you are a goddess :)

Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 09/22/2006 2:36 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Fungusmungus @ 09/22/2006 5:37 AM

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