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

Reply to Kurt V. (Reply #11)

Thu Oct 11, 2018, 04:05 PM

Oct 2018

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

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As a kid, what Halloween treat did you most look forward to?🍏🍎🍭🍬🍫🍪 [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 OP

The homemade cookies, cupcakes and fudge.... CatMor Oct 2018 #1

Yes! Except Mrs. Flannery's dill pickles! 🤢 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #5

At least it was better than a penny or two from Mrs. Smith CatMor Oct 2018 #12

Oh yea! Mrs. Smith! 😢 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #21

Snickers and Bit o Honey meadowlark5 Oct 2018 #2

Those eggs are the worst! 🤢 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #22

Don't forget Peeps. Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #46

My grandmother's homemade popcorn balls, candy apples and caramel apples... Raster Oct 2018 #3

My mother's candy apples would pull the teeth out of your head! 😏 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #23

We got homemade stuff too and loved it... Phentex Oct 2018 #39

OMG... My maternal grandmother and my mother's specialty... Raster Oct 2018 #40

sweet memories though... Phentex Oct 2018 #41

Full-size Butterfingers and Hershey Bars. Croney Oct 2018 #4

Hell yes! "Fun Size" gimme a break! 🤬 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #24

Reminds me of this... Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #67

I always ate the little aero & kit kat bars - and no molasses candies allowed! donkeypoofed Oct 2018 #6

It'll cost you! 😏 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #25

I was always partial to M&Ms nycbos Oct 2018 #7

M&Mmmmmm! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #31

Carmel coated apples on a stick. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Oct 2018 #8

X 1,000 PJMcK Oct 2018 #30

Be picking corn outta my teeth for weeks! Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #32

Almond Joys and Mounds. But never got many. dameatball Oct 2018 #9

Sometimes you feel like a nut.........😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #33

Just about anything chocolate... Archae Oct 2018 #10

Blasphemy indeed! 🤬 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #48

Apples with razors in them! Kurt V. Oct 2018 #11

Growing up, for a few years the ER in our town did free xrays of your bags of treats. woodsprite Oct 2018 #29

We lived dangerously! Never checked for anything. To the best of my knowledge, no kids were lost! Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #49

Heath bars Cirque du So-What Oct 2018 #13

Loved them smashed up in peanut butter! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #50

Osage oranges lying all over the ground. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 #14

Very cool! Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #51

A very durable hardwood -- Roy Underhill often sings its praises. :) eppur_se_muova Oct 2018 #66

Candy corn and snickers MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #15

Sweet! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #52

Carmel coated popcorn balls....yes I'm frigging old. AncientGeezer Oct 2018 #16

Welcome to the club! 😏 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #57

My Grandma's homemade popcorn balls! redstatebluegirl Oct 2018 #17

An elderly neighbor made them, every year. Paladin Oct 2018 #34

Yum! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #58

Tootsie Rolls and Milk Duds!😃 kysrsoze Oct 2018 #18

Yep! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2018 #65

Homemade popcorn balls Polly Hennessey Oct 2018 #19

Home made Krispie Bars, Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #20

I liked... Mike Nelson Oct 2018 #26

Reese's PB Cups and Mrs. Knauss' homemade caramel, gingersnap cookies and fudge. woodsprite Oct 2018 #27

More like what DIDN'T I look forward to?! Just those weird mushy orange peanuts....HATE those. pnwest Oct 2018 #28

The strangest thing about Circus Peanuts... Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #63

The specials 😀 tymorial Oct 2018 #35

+1 lunamagica Oct 2018 #37

Our neighbor's huge scratch cupcakes! Greybnk48 Oct 2018 #36

Mary Janes... Phentex Oct 2018 #38

Candy cigarettes consider_this Oct 2018 #42

Really, though consider_this Oct 2018 #43

Chocolate keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #44

grew up in an iffy neighborhood, so not many halloweens to remember. pansypoo53219 Oct 2018 #45

4th Grade teacher's benld74 Oct 2018 #47

Wax lips iamateacher Oct 2018 #53

Sugar Daddys BarbaRosa Oct 2018 #54

Only chocolate bars trixie2 Oct 2018 #55

full bars OriginalGeek Oct 2018 #56

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - Yummmmmmmmmm. Totally Tunsie Oct 2018 #59

Chick Tracts and other Holy Roller literature. FSogol Oct 2018 #60

SNICKERS !!!!!!! Talitha Oct 2018 #61

Reese's sakabatou Oct 2018 #62

Oh, I loved those Bun maple candies. llmart Oct 2018 #64

Hershey bars. n/t area51 Oct 2018 #68