Monday, October 31, 2011

NO GOLDENBERG PEANUT CHEWS?  Lucy inventories her haul for the evening:
9 Snickers
2 Almond Snickers
1 Peanut Butter Snickers
1 mini Almond Snickers
9 M&Ms
3 Peanut Butter M&Ms
3 Dum Dum lollipops2 Tootsie Pops
2 flavored Tootsie Pops
3 Skittles
7 Kit Kats
3 Smarties
5 Laffy Taffys
2 Mr. Good Bar
6 Whoppers
1 large Whoppers
2 SweetTart packs
1 Oh! Henry
1 Live Savers gummi pack
1 Dots
1 Fireball
1 Zotz
1 Hershey's Kiss
1 Dubble Bubble
1 Ring Pop
1 pack jelly beans
6 Crunch mini bars
6 Milky Way mini bars
6 Twix mini bars
1 Exploding Candy
1 Krackel
1 Milk Dud
1 Starburst
(Total weight: apx. 5 lbs.  Also of note: the number of parents on Pine and Delancey Streets offering wine to adults in need.)

42 comments:

  1. After having four trick-or-treaters last year, we decided to turn off the lights and hide out in the basement and eat the candy we bought.  There are worse ways to spend a Monday night.

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  2. No trick-or-treaters - just freaks - in Williamsburg.

    Of Lucy's loot - what did she care about?

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  3. Point of clarification--I assume all were fun size or mini unless specifically noted, because if all of those were full size bars, you have the most uncommonly generous neighborhood I've ever seen.

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  4. Correct, though Lucy's count appears incomplete.  I see a Rolo.

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  5. Just one Dots?  Either Lucy selects candy badly, or there's something amiss in Philadelphia.  

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  6. JosephFinn11:45 PM

    Were those regular Milky Ways or the infintely preferable Midnight Milky Ways?

    And when I saw "Laffy Taffy" I thought she somehow snagged 5 Affy Tapples, which would be fantastic.

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  7. Only 1 Hershey's Kiss? That's a tragedy. Back in my day...

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  8. I am quite confident that you would never ever take advantage of the incompleteness of the count to take candy without being noticed, right?

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  9. JosephFinn11:49 PM

    Come to think of it, no one's answered the essential question: what was Lucy going as?<span> </span>

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  10. Pirate/prisoner, with #24601 as her badge.

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  11. Hannah Lee11:57 PM

    My teeth hurt just reading that list.

    Nice take, though.  And she seems to have avoided the dreaded Bit-O-Honey.

    We had a light turnout of Trick or Treaters tonight, with an early run of 2-8 year olds, then a gap, then several batches of teenagers.  At least one collection of teenagers seems to have driven themselves to my neighborhood, which makes me think they could have just continued down the road to the nearest White Hen Pantry and bought their own darn candy.   But, unlike last year, the late arriving teens were all in costume, all polite, and except for one who seemed a bit embarrassed to be out begging candy, all happily said "trick or treat!"

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  12. Jenn C12:01 AM

    M&Ms seemed to be the Candy of the Season, we had a lot here too. A disturbing lack of Reese's here in VA and I noticed none on Lucy's list. That makes me sad. And angry. I wanted a peanut butter pumpkin!

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  13. My little one went as Hermione.  It was a hit.  (I tried convincing her to substitute "Accio candy!" for "Trick or Treat" if the person at the door seemed to know who she was, but she didn't go for it.)

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  14. JosephFinn12:32 AM

    Awwwwwww<span> </span>

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  15. KarenNM12:50 AM

    My 8-yr-old son's take was 119 pieces, though we didn't categorize as above.  I'm not sure who will eat it, since he suddenly seems to not like candy.  He didn't eat any while we were out, and he had only one piece after, at which point I offered another, and he asked "can I have a healthy snack instead?"  Seriously, what happened to my kid?

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  16. JosephFinn1:04 AM

    It's Halloween.  Did the sidhe steal him and leave a changeling?

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  17. Roger1:45 AM

    Man, there are some households in your neighborhood with terrible taste in candy.

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  18. The neighborhood kids *love* Snickers.

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  19. Jordan7:39 AM

    It's great that no one gives out Necco wafers anymore.  Even the house giving out pennies was better.  The kids around here aren't very smart, or at least aren't very cultured.  Our candy bowl was filled by one of those mixed bags (Hershey Bars, Almond Joys, Reese's Cups and Kit Kats).  The Hershey Bars were hit the hardest, the Peanut Butter Cups were barely touched.  I blame a younger than usual crowd just going for bar shaped things, but hey, the better for us.

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  20. Meghan7:57 AM

    My 2-year-old got a decent haul and she'll never notice what's missing.  But she did very well with the trick-or-treating and seemed to enjoy herself.  One person in my neighborhood gave out Jesus cards.  As I said on FB last night, just leave the light off.

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  21. Anonymous8:02 AM

    We had a neighborhood party at our house. Everyone brought a dish, and we all ate before we wandered out. Some adults dress up and bring along drinks (I was Regan from The Exorcist). The neighborhood was light on trick-or-treaters, but we had a good time. My youngest traded away all her candy during the party when I wasn't looking. Thank goddness for the older one, who doesn't like chocolate. We're not sure where she came from.

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  22. lisased8:02 AM

    That was me. Grr. Too early...

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  23. How may kids asked "Hey, didn't I read about you in the Journal today?"

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  24. spacewoman9:42 AM

    I tried to get our little Harry to do the same thing, but no dice.  Apparently you can be too jaded even at 5.

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  25. spacewoman9:45 AM

    We live on a street that was written up in the SF Chronicle a few years ago as the best for trick-or-treating in the East Bay...so we get a lot of trick-or-treaters.  I bought 700+ pieces of candy, and we have maybe 20 left.  Total awesome bedlam.

    Our haul looks pretty good, but both of our kids forget about the candy within a day or two.  We have weird kids.

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  26. victoria10:27 AM

    700?! Wow! I thought our neighborhood was nutso and we've never needed more than 250. We had bad weather so we only had about 40 kids this year.

    Our neighborhood gets a lot of trick-or-treating tourism, which I put down to the fact that a.) most of the people around here are at home by trick-or-treat time; b.) it's a reasonably quiet street, but close enough to a major road that people from surrounding neighborhoods can get there easily; and c.) the people in the big ol' houses on the street behind us give out full-size bars. It's funny -- there are so few kids living on our street, but Halloween is usually madness. We had one kid come by where the parent was following them down the street in an SUV. I was all, "seriously?"

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  27. kd bart10:41 AM

    Thankfully, no rocks.

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  28. Genevieve11:03 AM

    Number of Dots it took for me to lose a crown:  1.

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  29. I LOVE Bit-O-Honey!

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  30. I think the peanut allergies is probably limiting the Reese's.  My nephews had a pretty good haul, even with being allergic to nuts.

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  31. Marsha11:27 AM

    Me too! Although I freely admit I didn't develop a taste for them until long after childhood.

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  32. Marsha11:30 AM

    There was a story on NPR yesterday about Main Street in Newtown, Connecticut where the families are told to expect 3,500 trick-or-treaters. That is not a typo. It is so out of hand that the local churches and the Elks raise money to help Main Street families purchase candy.

    Of course, trick-or-treating had to be postponed in Newtown this year until next Saturday because they got hit my the storm and power lines are still down all over town.

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  33. Marsha11:34 AM

    Eleven years of living in my apartment and we have never gotten a single trick-or-treater. This makes me sad. (And yes, this is true even if I put a sign on the front door.)

    My kids got a massive haul at two different events on Sunday. We did not go out last night as they were already well provided for.

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  34. My building does have a trick or treating schedule, but it's from 6-8, which is hard enough to make it home for (and we had trivia last night, which took priority--my team did include a cat and Black Swan and her dance partner, and we also saw Napoleon, George Washington, Daniel Craig from Cowboys and Aliens, Indiana Jones, and a Ninja Turtle on other teams), so no tricks or treaters for me.

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  35. 3,500?  Because it's the only street in town with a sidewalk??

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  36. Last year my kids were small so I could get away with taking them out for a few blocks, bringing them home early, and diverting half their stash into the candy bowl to be given out to other kids.  No such luck this year -- they were very attentive to their haul and we stayed out late enough that most of the Trick or Treating was over by the time we got back.  

    I live a few blocks from a college, so I am trying to figure out how to donate some of our leftover candy to the dorms in a non-creepy fashion.  Any ideas? 

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  37. Will K3:01 PM

    After t-o-t with my 8 y/o and 5 y/o here are my thoughts (despite the fact no one cares)
    1) If you are not giving out candy, don't open your damn door (my kids don't care about your excuses);
    2) If you run out of candy, see above;
    3) If you are wearing a bathrobe when you open the door, I will immediately quarantine the candy you give my kids;
    4) If you are one of those people who places the candy in the t-o-t bag so that I cannot tell which candy you gave my kid, I will probably google the #&@% out of you when I get home;
    5) No one should ever give laffy taffy unless you are a pediatric orthodontist with a great sense of humor and/or significant back taxes;
    6) If you are a parent and you come to my house and your kid has a nut allergy, please do not allow your child to affect a puppy dog look and say "there is nothing in here I can have" because all that will happen is that my wife will feel bad and give your kid a dollar and we can't afford it;
    7) If you are a parent and th above scenario happens, please do not let your kid tell other kids because (shocking I know) all of a sudden everyone will have nut allergies and I will be out $25.
    Thank you

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  38. Paul Tabachneck3:37 PM

    That wouldn't explain the abundance of Snickers, though....<span> </span>

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  39. Marsha5:12 PM

    There was no explanation as to why. I found it odd as well. But yes, 3,500.

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  40. Squid5:28 PM

    <span>If you are one of those people who places the candy in the t-o-t bag so that I cannot tell which candy you gave my kid...</span>

    What's the alternative?  Hold out the bowl and watch your adorable tyke shovel it in by the armload?  'Cuz that's how it seems to work in my neighborhood.  Seriously -- do you carry around a Sharpie so you can label each candy bar with the address it came from?

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  41. littleredyarn7:08 PM

    We had an alarming number of older trick or treaters in the neighborhood yesterday. And by older I mean "almost old enough to drive a motor vehicle" old. 

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  42. I googled this - yes, it's the only street that has sidewalks, as the community is all spread out.  So, all of the kids in the area descend on the one block.  The block is not just houses- it's also businesses and the schools. 

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