Caught With Your Hand in the Treat Bag?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So which Halloween treat do YOU rob from your child’s/sibling’s/niece’s/nephew’s/scary little neighbor kid’s Treat Bag?

My kids aren’t trick-or-treaters any longer, too old for such “nonsense” they say, but I USED to riffle thru their candy stashes for all the Almond Joys or Mounds bars I could find–loved those little mini-bars! Also liked Smarties, NOT the fake USA ones but the REAL Smarties brand which I think is Canadian, IIRC.–sweeter than the fakes, anyway. I’d also nosh their candy corn (in the individual packets of about 4-5 pieces each) just for the ache they caused in my teeth, and that rush of corn-syrupy sweetness. And Junior Mints—mmmm, mmm!

Anyone buy more candy than they know they will be serving to all the little monsters just so YOU have the leftovers around?

Anyone besides me think Halloween treats aren’t:
Just for kids
Just for breakfast
Just for late October
anymore?

I’m especially interested in the types of treats you non-USA dopers can’t resist dipping in to at Halloween. Please tell all!

–Beck

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Sweet Tarts
Milk Duds
Whoppers

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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

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No Almond Joy is safe from me.

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For some ungodly reason, my children do not like carmel in their candy, so I get to rifle through and eat all the “Milky Way” bars and “Milk Dud” boxes I can find.
Sigh.
November is such a hard month to lose weight.

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Well, I’m not a parent but should any Almond Joys or SweetTarts find their way into my nieces’ treat bags, I’d be happy to help them find their way out (and into my mouth.)

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Bottle Caps and Dots here. Mmm, chalky soda flavor

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Anything chocolate.

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Peeps addicts all my life. Mmmmmmmmm…articially colored orange pumpkins

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Here those go by the luscious name of “mellocremes”. Same cloying sweetness as candy corn, only more—creamy. My kids hated them so I, uh, was able to put them to use.

Thanks for the reminiscence!

–Beck

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Mini Aero and coffee crisp bars are the best. The full sized bars don’t taste as good for some reason.

I also remember something called BB bats. It was toffee on a stick, but I don’t know if they make those any more.

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Whoppers.

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More like taffy on a stick, if these are the ones you’re thinking of. Used to be made in my state.

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That’s them! They weren’t my favourite at the time, but damn I could go for one of those right now.

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Oh, yeah, me, too.
My son’s not real big on chocolate (prefering sugary-sweet stuff like Nerds and Bottlecaps), so he doesn’t really care that Mom raids his stash.

I like 3 Musketeers bars. They’ve always been my favorite.
I’d kill for a Tootsie Roll. I’ve had braces for about a year and a half and Tootsie Rolls are at the top of the No-No list. I’m supposed to get them off in December, and I plan on stopping at the 7-11 and buying one of those king-sized Tootsie Rolls the day these things come off.

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Pixie Stix. Mostly out of self preservation.

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Dots
Sugar Daddies/Babies/Slo Pokes
3 Musketeers
Milky Way
Luckily, my kid is indifferent to all my faves, being also of the sour or fruity candy variety.

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Those little Snickers bars. And Mounds. I can control myself around the rest.

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That inexpensive molasses candy you only see in bags at Hallowe’en. I like that.

I also stubbornly cling to the ’ in we’en.

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No kids here - and I have given up chocolate. But I would have been a terror on the kid’s bag. I used to be a chocoholic and I’m sure I would sneak stuff from their bags all the time.

Almond Joys - Check
Snickers - Check
Anything with Chocolate and Almonds
Anything with Chocolate and peanut butter