Halloween Overload

[bjarvis]

A few days ago, Kent agreed we should arm ourselves appropriately with candy should the neighbourhood kids come trick-or-treating. What harm could it do?

When I was out shopping on Sunday, I bought a couple of bags of little Kit-Kat bars as they're something I always looked forward to when I was a kid. And I tossed in some M&Ms for variety. And then some Three Musketeers as Kent likes them. And things kinda got out of hand from there.

I was a good boy: I didn't touch the stash before Halloween. Not much, anyway.

And not a soul came to our door. Nada. We have 15 lbs of freakin' Halloween mini candy bars to give away and not a kid approached our house. Now I have to eat the entire basket of goodies myself.

BURN IN HELL YOU LITTLE TWERPS!

Comments

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Throw the [unwrapped] M&M's & Kit Kat bars into a blender or food processor. Process into medium sized crumbs. Toss the mixture into a double boiler along with an appropriate amount of UNsweetened, BITTERsweet, or SEMIsweet chocolate. (With that much sugar and milk chocolate, I'd lean heavily towards UNsweetened or BITTERsweet myself.)

All of this work (it's not much work, really) makes a kickass dessert sauce. It can also be used as a cake filling or truffle filling.

Or so I'm told...

[rticboy.livejournal.com]

In the 10 yrs I've been in Ottawa now, not a single kid has ever come by trick or treating. We don't even try to buy stuff for them anymore. Enjoy the nummies.

[rlegters.livejournal.com]

This is why Troy and I just go out to dinner every Halloween. Our first year in this house (and, thereby, this neighborhood) we had maybe three trick-or-treaters, and I don't recall any of them even bothering with costumes. At that point, we decided we'll just buy candy when we want it, and Halloween is a night out for a nice dinner.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Babe, an uneaten bag of Kit Kats after Halloween in THIS house would be just oxymoronic. That or Reese's Cups.

I'm come over and help you get rid of em!

Those are two things I'd never waste on the bell-ringers.

[geomikes.livejournal.com]

I think David said we had exactly 4 trick-or-treaters. As I wasn't on the ground floor no where near the door, I didn't care. More candy for me. Yum.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

We were mobbed, as usual, but at least this year we didn't run out of candy.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

We never get them. John thinks that in Cambridge the kids only go to the houses of people they know. We never even bother to buy candy.

I think one trick-or-treater showed up once, about 10 years ago. We had to send him/her away empty-handed.

Always buy junk!

[josephdress.livejournal.com]

That's why I buy stuff I won't eat! Jim bought some Kit Kats which were too tempting for me, so the little monsters that came to the door first, got lots of good stuff. The left over crap went to the coworkers today. I'm sure it's gone by now!