# Halloween 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-2025/1023942 "2025-10-13T20:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**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:** [October 31, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-2025/1023942/34 "2025-10-31T23:22:42Z")
Three Halloween polls tonight! > [@Polls only: No discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6350): > > Jack-o-lanterns. When i was a kid, you advertised you were giving out Halloween treats with a jack-o’-lantern by your door. That’s a lot less popular now. [poll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6350) For this poll, a fake jack-o’-lantern is made of something that isn’t a fruit or vegetable. Like plastic or ceramic. A real one is a carved fruit or vegetable (probably a pumpkin) with a design (perhaps a face, but other designs count) so that you can see the light inside it through the carving. If it’s just thin, rather than carved all … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-2025/1023942)._