I due to various reasons never got to go trick or treating much as a child but a couple of times when I did ive gotten some weird items … mostly from people who forgot it was Halloween …
When I was 6 we had a irish neighbor who worked at the steel plant who had some job that was long hard and very dangerous and when he wasn’t working he was drinking but was a pretty good guy
Well that year I came up to the door right after he got home and he smiled said he liked my darth vader costume and dropped 2 heavy things in my sack…
one was a big bottle of root beer for me and a bottle of strohs for dad (we hoped anyways)
and one year I went around with a large group of older kids and some of them received kittens yes real live kittens …
We walked through a haunted house type of thing and the way you got treats was you walked through a almost pitch black room the only light was a flashing strobe light and you got grabbed by a bunch of hands and one of them slipped a treat in the bag
When it was discovered we were blocks away when they began to move and the adults were shocked and since we didn’t know where exactly where they came from they were taken home ,…
How we figured out where they came from was it became a topic of discussion after church and one of the members mentioned his neighbors moved and he didn’t get to see the kittens because miraculously they found homes for 13 kittens :eek:
apparently yhe reason I didn’t get one is my dad gave me a kitten a few weeks earlier …
So what weirdness have yall gotten on trick or treats ?
A Jack Chic tract (first time I’d ever seen one) and an intentionally long time-wastey speech about the ‘Evils of Halloween’.
It was at a Huge mansion type house where everything inside looked museum grade. I’d been talked by friends into trick-or-treating there on that street because they went to school in that town and “come on, they probably give out snickers bars”.
The guy giving the speech had a custom-made smoking jacket, pipe, Italian slippers… was surrounded on all sides by priceless artwork… yet he seemed just so pleased with himself for ruining our night and giving us a cheap pulp newspaper packet of hate.
I think the next time I heard his name it was years later … he was arrested for tax evasion. I remember thinking that I should find out where he was going to prison so I could send him a Jack Chic tract.
I haven’t gotten anything really weird, but “Nutty Club” unsalted sunflower seeds always puzzled me. They looked like this package, but they were unsalted: “Nutty Club” sunflower seeds
Unsalted sunflower seeds in the shell are an abomination.
Dentist in the neighborhood used to hand out toothbrushes and toothpaste. Yeah, kids figured out not to stop there.
People used to hand out homemade treats - popcorn balls, caramel apples, cookies - I haven’t seen this in years. My son, however, got coins at one house last year.
My son got a baseball signed by a major league baseball player. A family that lived down the street from my mother had a son that made to the major league level with the Yankees. He stopped by home just before Halloween and dropped off a couple dozen signed baseballs. His mother gave them away as Halloween treats.
In the '60s, I used to like getting Hershey Miniatures for Halloween – except for the dreaded “Butterchip.” This was milk chocolate with bits of butter toffee, which were sticky and annoying to get off of my teeth.
What makes this strange is, a few years ago I posted about this on a few candy-themed websites, and nobody else remembered Hershey’s Butterchip. I even wrote to Hershey, and they denied that such a thing existed. I eventually found proof – someone who saw one of my posts emailed me a scan of a full-size Butterchip wrapper that he found when removing the insulation in his attic – but Hershey still denies that Butterchip was ever part of their Miniatures assortment. Their records are definitely flawed, because I got too many Butterchip Minatures in my Halloween bag, and no one in my neighborhood ever gave out full-size chocolate bars on Halloween.
If you want to do your part to fight tooth decay, you can go down to your local comic book store and pick up a discount pack or three of Halloween mini-comics to hand out instead of candy. (And if you’ve got leftovers, they’ll keep until next year.)
Only strange thing was a lady back when I was little. She gave full-sized candy bars but Bible tracts went with them; you got one and you got the other. My family was very religious and active in church but I still always found that a little off for some reason.
(Another older lady had a tray of plastic novelty rings; the kind that changed design as you changed the angle? You got to pick the one you wanted. That I never found strange at all until just now.Or the house with a couple early 20somethings who passed out Hippy Sippy one year. I may still have a couple of the buttons in the attic.)
I can understand your comment with regard to the Chick Tracts, but why did you quote my post there? Pokemon, Mickey Mouse, and Grumpy Cat are religious proselytizing?
Apples. Baby carrots. Yes, those little dentist kits. I think maybe there were little joke books one year - teeny, tiny ones. Last year the kids got small bottles of Gatorade from someone down the street.