As a kid, what Halloween treat did you most look forward to?🍏🍎🍭🍬🍫🍪

[Floyd R. Turbo]

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Me: 😋

[CatMor]

1. The homemade cookies, cupcakes and fudge....

it was in the days when we still had a sane country and didn't have to worry.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Yes! Except Mrs. Flannery's dill pickles! 🤢

[CatMor]

12. At least it was better than a penny or two from Mrs. Smith

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. Oh yea! Mrs. Smith! 😢

[meadowlark5]

2. Snickers and Bit o Honey

Halloween netted some pretty decent candy. It was Easter that the most awful of candies were delivered. Circus peanuts and those really, really icky white cream filled hard candy coated eggs :blech:

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. Those eggs are the worst! 🤢

[Dave Starsky]

46. Don't forget Peeps.

Gross.

[Raster]

3. My grandmother's homemade popcorn balls, candy apples and caramel apples...

...and a proud Type 2 Diabetic today!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. My mother's candy apples would pull the teeth out of your head! 😏

[Phentex]

39. We got homemade stuff too and loved it...

ever have divinity? Pure sugar.

[Raster]

40. OMG... My maternal grandmother and my mother's specialty...

... was divinity or at least one of their specialties. My family -both maternal and paternal- all cooked and baked prodigiously for the holidays. My mother -bless her heart- was a rather well-known local chef that had her own catering company on the side and always made Christmas platters of homemade goodies for family and friends. Good times... miss you, Mom.

[Phentex]

41. sweet memories though...

it was the aunts on my dad's side who made the popcorn balls and divinity. I can still smell that kitchen...

My mom brought the Italian side of sweets. I still make my nana's cookies with the neighbor kids every year before the holidays.

[Croney]

4. Full-size Butterfingers and Hershey Bars.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. Hell yes! "Fun Size" gimme a break! 🤬

[Dave Starsky]

67. Reminds me of this...

[donkeypoofed]

6. I always ate the little aero & kit kat bars - and no molasses candies allowed!

I also loved those Rocket candies -mmmmm.

In fact, my kid loved trick or treating but not eating the candy.so much. And in all his trick or treating years,he never once had an aero or kit kat bar left in his bag the next morning. They were all removed (for "safety concerns ", aka for mom). Don't tell anybody I told you that. Keep it on the down lo

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. It'll cost you! 😏

[nycbos]

7. I was always partial to M&Ms

[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. M&Mmmmmm! 😋

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. Carmel coated apples on a stick.

Second favorite was popcorn balls.

[PJMcK]

30. X 1,000

I liked them with nuts.

Damn, now I want one.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. Be picking corn outta my teeth for weeks!

[dameatball]

9. Almond Joys and Mounds. But never got many.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Sometimes you feel like a nut.........😋

[Archae]

10. Just about anything chocolate...

Except anything "chocolate flavored."

I still consider that to be blasphemy.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

48. Blasphemy indeed! 🤬

[Kurt V.]

11. Apples with razors in them!

when us kids would get home from trick or treating i would dig out the 3 or 4 apples i had in my bag and have my dad check them for razors. i wanted to be the first kid in my town to actually find a razor in a Halloween apple. Alas, we never found one.

[woodsprite]

29. Growing up, for a few years the ER in our town did free xrays of your bags of treats.

Then, of course, we always checked for needle holes in the wrappers.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

49. We lived dangerously! Never checked for anything. To the best of my knowledge, no kids were lost!

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Heath bars

They don't taste the same, and I'm sure the recipe has changed.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

50. Loved them smashed up in peanut butter! 😋

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. Osage oranges lying all over the ground.

Although we didn't know that's what they were called. We called them "monkey brains."

Hmmmm, I'll have to go around and scoop up some more.

Maclura pomifera

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Foliage and multiple fruit

Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange, is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8 to 15 metres (30–50 ft) tall. The distinctive fruit, from a multiple fruit family, is roughly spherical, bumpy, 8 to 15 centimetres (3–6 in) in diameter, and turns bright yellow-green in the fall. The fruits secrete a sticky white latex when cut or damaged. Despite the name "Osage orange", it is only distantly related to the orange, but rather is a member of the mulberry family, Moraceae. Due to its latex secretions and woody pulp, the fruit is typically not eaten by humans and rarely by foraging animals, giving it distinction as an anachronistic "ghost of evolution".

Maclura pomifera has been known by a variety of common names in addition to Osage orange, including hedge apple, horse apple,bois d'arc, bodark, monkey ball, bow-wood, yellow-wood and mock orange.
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Flowers and fruit
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Mature multiple fruit

[Floyd R. Turbo]

51. Very cool!

[eppur_se_muova]

66. A very durable hardwood -- Roy Underhill often sings its praises. :)

(Note the name bois d'arc means "bow wood", and Native Americans showed the French explorers it was indeed well suited to bow making. Colloquially corrupted to "bodark".)

Years ago, I read that the seeds can be cleaned, air-dried, and popped in oil like popcorn. Never actually tried it. If you ever try it, be sure to tell folks it's fried monkey brains.

[MaryMagdaline]

15. Candy corn and snickers

[Floyd R. Turbo]

52. Sweet! 😋

[AncientGeezer]

16. Carmel coated popcorn balls....yes I'm frigging old.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

57. Welcome to the club! 😏

[redstatebluegirl]

17. My Grandma's homemade popcorn balls!

[Paladin]

34. An elderly neighbor made them, every year.

Best popcorn balls ever! Every Halloween, her house was all the kids' first stop.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

58. Yum! 😋

[kysrsoze]

18. Tootsie Rolls and Milk Duds!😃

[Floyd R. Turbo]

65. Yep! 😋

[Polly Hennessey]

19. Homemade popcorn balls

and candy apples - the bright red ones and the caramel. Best part was going home, sitting on the floor with all the candy spread around me, choosing my favorites, eating them and falling into a candy daze. 😃😛

[Wellstone ruled]

20. Home made Krispie Bars,

and what we called Flour Sack Brownies. Wow,that was 1948,geese,getting older. And we had one heck of a snow storm the night before and Halloween Night with a full moon and temps in the teens. And at Mrs.Warland's house,homemade Hot Coco with Marshmallows.

[Mike Nelson]

26. I liked...

… chocolate rabbits and Reese's peanut butter cups best.

[woodsprite]

27. Reese's PB Cups and Mrs. Knauss' homemade caramel, gingersnap cookies and fudge.

She was an elderly lady who only made special treats for us girls who lived around her. We all used to play house with her granddaughters when they came to town. The littles across the street weren't allowed to have any of her treats if she gave them out at Halloween or Christmas. They were Jehovah's Witness and I guess they weren't allowed to accept heathen holiday treats.

I always knew they didn't do Xmas presents or dress up for Halloween, but when took the time and made you something special, I was always taught that you accept it and enthusiastically say "Thank you!" Even when you didn't really like it (gave me annisette cookies one time -- blech!!!) I never made fun of them or say nasty things about their parents like some of the other kids in school did, I just felt sad for them.

Now, we don't bake things for Halloween or make up those special goodie bags. I loved those as well since what you got was a mystery.

[pnwest]

28. More like what DIDN'T I look forward to?! Just those weird mushy orange peanuts....HATE those.

I'm old enough to have trick-or-treated before ALL the treats were store-bought. Homemade popcorn balls, caramel apples, fudge...those were wonderful. And of course, it was ALWAYS great to get quarters and jingly change!

Just no thank you to those orange peanuts. blaaaccccchhhhh pTOOOEY!

[Dave Starsky]

63. The strangest thing about Circus Peanuts...

Is that they're banana flavored.

Not peanut flavored, given their shape. Not orange flavored, given their color. Banana flavored.

They truly are the Frankenstein's monster of candy.

[tymorial]

35. The specials 😀

I love the communal watching experience. I know that I can put them on anytime using streaming or dvd/blue ray but it's not the same. There is something special watching it on network tv when millions of other households are doing the same thing.

One of my favs when I was a kid.

[lunamagica]

37. +1

[Greybnk48]

36. Our neighbor's huge scratch cupcakes!

I went to her house first and took my cupcake home before we got down to the business of trick or treating until midnight and darn near filling two grocery bags full of candy!

That was trick or treating in the 50's! The night before was almost more fun--"mischief night!" Soaping windows, throwing field corn at people's windows to scare them, setting bags of dog poop on fire and ringing their door bell so they'd come out and stomp out the fire. Good times!

[Phentex]

38. Mary Janes...

the candy variety

[consider_this]

42. Candy cigarettes

And those tiny wax 'bottles' of colored sugar water. Mmm mmm

[consider_this]

43. Really, though

My actual favorite was the homemade candy apples

[keithbvadu2]

44. Chocolate

Most any variety

[pansypoo53219]

45. grew up in an iffy neighborhood, so not many halloweens to remember.

tho i remember how bad circus peanuts are. and WI had a delicacy called the candy raisin.

[benld74]

47. 4th Grade teacher's

Homemade popcorn balls

The size of softballs!!

They were great!!

And

If she caught caught you at her house
The 2nd never new night of treating( my hometown had them)
You would get chastised severely

[iamateacher]

53. Wax lips

[BarbaRosa]

54. Sugar Daddys

Last for ever and fun to stretch out.

[trixie2]

55. Only chocolate bars

I don't like candy. I was my brother's best friend on Halloween. We would take pillowcases and fill them up.

[OriginalGeek]

56. full bars

[Totally Tunsie]

59. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - Yummmmmmmmmm.

[FSogol]

60. Chick Tracts and other Holy Roller literature.

Just kidding, Full size chocolate bars (Hershey's Special Dark) or M&Ms.

[Talitha]

61. SNICKERS !!!!!!!

[sakabatou]

62. Reese's

[llmart]

64. Oh, I loved those Bun maple candies.

You don't see them much any more.

We lived out in the country and the houses were quite far apart, so we didn't get to go to too many houses. Most of the time we got homemade treats which I liked well enough, but once in awhile there'd be full sized candy bars.

[area51]

68. Hershey bars. n/t