# Have you cheated (and sampled your Halloween candy) yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735 "2010-10-11T00:48:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/21 "2010-10-26T18:42:19Z")
Okay, I’ve prepared little zip-lock baggies of H’ween candy, so I don’t have to hurriedly grab from the various bags under the intense gazes of the kids’ anxious and impatient eyes. Each kid will get a baggie containing: 1 mini-packet of Whoppers malt balls 4 mini-lollypops with no redundancies 3 tiny candy bars: 1 Milky Way, 1 3 Musketeers, 1 Snickers (the Twixes and Milky Way “Midnight” (dark choc.) ones are mine, mine, MINE, I tell you!) 1 Sugar Daddy caramel lolly (a long rectangle of caramel on a lolly stick) But I ran out of the Whoppers packs, so the remainder will get an extra three mini-lollipops instead. If this largesse translates into one less incident of vandalism and especially car vandalism over the years, it’ll be well worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/22 "2010-10-26T18:45:45Z")
I broke into one of the bags of Junior mints and had a couple of the mini-boxes. I love me some Junior mints. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/23 "2010-10-26T18:47:19Z")
Payday and Snickers bars. Nom nom nom nom … ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/24 "2010-10-26T19:03:34Z")
We get like 1 to 2 trickertreaters a year MAYBE, so of course I went and bought a big 'ol bag of candies! I bought Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter cups and will probably save 1 to 2 pieces for the kids. They may have to split one. But WHATEVER, I just found out i’m pregnant so I figure I want them more than the kids! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/25 "2010-10-26T19:09:28Z")
**Scrivener** , you’re a lot more generous than we are - kids get two little chocolate bars from me - and that’s AFTER walking up a big hill in front of our house! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! Dark chocolate peanut butter cups? If we get those here, I will be in serious, serious trouble. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/26 "2010-10-26T19:16:11Z")
I tried to wait until Halloween, but this morning I needed to shave and had to break down and open the Wilkinson Swords. . . It’s a joke, ok? We live in the country on a long private lane. Never had a trick/treater ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/27 "2010-10-26T19:23:36Z")
This year I’m thinking of grabbing the box of skittles and starburst, as we only had about 12 kids last year. I grabbed a couple bags of cheesies (with individual bags inside) last time and I ate them until I was sick of them so I brought them to work. I don’t have candy yet, not cuz I would eat it but my son and mom would be all over them and I’d have to buy more by Halloween anyway. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/28 "2010-10-26T20:09:00Z")
I actually bought mine early this year (instead of the night before) and am proud to say that I haven’t even touched it. In fact, I almost bought more having forgotten about the candy. But, I keep a bowl of Kisses on my counter for when I get the chocolate munchies, and I made myself a batch of [haystack cookies](http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,187,159184-231192,00.html) - and compared to haystack cookies, candy is so MEH. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/29 "2010-10-27T04:34:53Z")
I needed a couple of tootsie rolls for my sewer water punch for our halloween party this weekend, and I bought some extra halloween candy for halloweeners while I was at Wal-Mart - they’ll be getting tootsie rolls and hallow-mallows (marshmallows shaped like pumpkins and ghosts and shit). I get the good stuff - the kids get the cheap stuff. Hmm, I may have the wrong attitude towards this trick-or-treating stuff. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735/30 "2010-10-27T17:08:29Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > **Scrivener** , you’re a lot more generous than we are - kids get two little chocolate bars from me - and that’s AFTER walking up a big hill in front of our house! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! > > Dark chocolate peanut butter cups? If we get those here, I will be in serious, serious trouble. Thanks, but I managed to get everything on sale, so it wasn’t so bad. 😉 And in recent years, my downstairs neighbors have been downright shitty and haven’t put out any candy, so I feel I have to overcompensate. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-cheated-and-sampled-your-halloween-candy-yet/556735.md?page=1)