# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 454
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9063 "2025-11-01T02:04:56Z")
I haven’t tried enough of those sauces to have an opinion. I assumed that not decorating included only putting out a jackolantern, as that didn’t seem to be an option. I always have some candy, and would be happy to hand it out; but most years nobody shows up here. I rapidly and sketchily carved a pumpkin, put a candle in it, and put it out on the (open, no roof) front porch, as I do every year. This year it was raining and windy, and I couldn’t get the thing to stay lit, though I tried several times. Hope that’s not an omen. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9064 "2025-11-01T02:24:03Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I assumed that not decorating included only putting out a jackolantern, as that didn’t seem to be an option. One of the options was, “i have decorated with jack-o’-lanterns” ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9065 "2025-11-01T02:28:38Z")
I only put out one. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9066 "2025-11-01T03:12:20Z")
Sorry, that wasn’t meant to exclude decorating with a single jack-o’-lantern. Just that “jack-o’-lanterns are at least one of the types of decoration you used”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9067 "2025-11-01T03:15:36Z")
Feast or famine when it comes to T&T’ers it seems. I never get anyone here 3 years running now (tho I tried to put on my outside light only to note it is burned out), but this is a complex of mostly older people, tho there are residential neighborhoods nearby. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9068 "2025-11-01T05:35:20Z")
Our house is a little hidden away from the main streets so we usually get very few trick or treaters. This year we had ten. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9069 "2025-11-01T05:40:56Z")
I actually calculated how many trick-or-treaters I got. I had a bag of 75 pieces of candy. I gave each trick-or-treater 2 pieces, and I had 17 left. Therefore I had 29 trick-or-treaters at that point. Then 2 more came after that, so 31 total. They came in onesie / twosies at first, then 2 big groups of kids, then the 2 individual kids. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9070 "2025-11-01T16:59:14Z")
We have one of those plastic dachshund skeletons that Target sells. We hang it over our front door where it hangs in front of the very dark brown (almost black) beam that frames the door. The beam makes the white really stand out, and our porchlight shines on it so it almost glows. We hang it with fishing line, and it looks like it’s actually floating. Re: tattoos. At the Holloween party last night I was talking with a neighbor I hadn’t met before. She had some of the most attractive tattoos I’d ever seen (most I’ve seen are lame). She’s Phillipina and told me that they’re cultural/tribal tattoos with a deep meaning for her. They were geometric designs along the outside of her calves and on the inside of her forearms. I mentioned that if I ever got a tattoo it would be of a dachshund, and she was really encouraging me to do it. I’m tempted. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9071 "2025-11-01T20:06:30Z")
To be honest, my wife does most of the seasonal decor, but I do help. She enjoys doing it. This year we had tiny flashlights also for the kids (and water bottles for the adults)- the flashlights were super popular, a couple kids came up just to ask for one. Plus there was a bowl of candy and another bowl full of cheap toys- a kid could grab whatever from those two bowls. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9072 "2025-11-02T10:21:01Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I’m amused that more people have had a threesome than have been to Africa. Yeah, but how many have had a threesome in Africa? I’ve been to Africa but never had a threesome, although I told friends in college that I did. To be fair, I’m sure that they didn’t believe me. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9073 "2025-11-02T12:18:13Z")
Here is a video of the group Threesome performing the song “Africa”. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OValevnk1K0) mmm ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9074 "2025-11-02T16:36:13Z")
On the other hand, it appears that the band [Africa](https://www.louielouie.net/blog/?p=6313) never recorded a song called Threesome, although they did cover Louie Louie. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9075 "2025-11-02T17:36:06Z")
Are you sure their version wasn’t Louie Louie Louie? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9076 "2025-11-03T13:14:09Z")
What - no rye or pumpernickel? just kidding. If the poll is about what many here at the SDMB call _white bread_, meaning soft, mass-produced, Wonder Bread-like loaves, then I don’t eat it. But then I don’t eat soft mass-produced whole wheat bread either. White breads like a nice chewy sourdough or crusty french bread are as good, or better than whole wheat bread with a gazillions seeds added. And I really like the seeds. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9077 "2025-11-03T13:28:55Z")
Back when I could still eat bread, the darker the better for sandwiches, but something white and sour for toast. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9078 "2025-11-03T13:47:43Z")
I eat mostly sourdogh, with some occasional multi-grain wheat. I voted white \> wheat. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9079 "2025-11-03T13:48:00Z")
The first year we were married, my husband made all our bread. And he made all whole wheat bread. And at first i loved it. And then i came to realize why historically, white flour was a luxury good. Now i eat a mix: whole wheat, rye, white sourdough, white baguettes, sometimes even a loaf of a seedy sandwich bread for the freezer, destined for pb&j sandwiches. I voted “white\>wheat”, because I’m pretty sure i eat more white bread than whole wheat bread, especially if i count the white sourdough, which i think i should. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9080 "2025-11-03T13:59:17Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > What - no rye or pumpernickel? just kidding. I took “whole wheat” as if it were “whole grain”. But it occurs to me that my own bread, which is what I mostly eat, has some unbleached white flour in it, although it’s mostly whole grain. So maybe I should have voted more whole than white; except that reads as if I eat a significant amount of white bread, which I don’t, although a few times a year I do. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9081 "2025-11-03T14:05:58Z")
I wonder (heh) what happens to that poll if you limit it to mass produced sliced bread. Lumping a nice baguette or sourdough round in with the crap my mom used for my PB&Js seems wrong. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9082 "2025-11-03T14:06:35Z")
I suspect they are nutritionally similar, even if the “real” bread tastes a lot better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=453) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=455)