I say yes the mrs says no , they look haloweenish.

Your average trick or treater (4-10yrs) will probably prefer more ‘normal’ treats.

It’s a NO from me.

For kids, I would say no. Imagine the ram a handful of them in, oh on 2nd thoughts its a great idea.

Handful of rabbit droppings.

That’ll learn ’em.

How proficient are you at cleaning raw egg off of windows and / or your car?

didn’t somebody do razor blades in apples once? or was that a film storyline and urban myth?

More people should dish out Wasabi nuts, it might put a stop to the scourge of beggars going door-to-door.

G

£20 notes for the poor old oiks

nut allergy risk and way too hot for most kids

Nip out to the shops now, buy a massive load of ferrero rocher, and a bag of sprouts. Decant the rocher into your face, then wrap up the sprouts in the empty wrappers ready for handing out as treats (tricks).

Job done

Toffee Onions.

Those kids need to know that toffee apples are not the only option.

Or just ignore the annoying little darlings knocking at the door

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I take it none of miserable gits went trick or treating yourself then?? 🙄

Yeah it’s a laugh especially in less affluent areas where old and vulnerable people are too scared to answer the door at this time of year.
And why should we be expected to provide sugary snacks to random strangers? The whole thing is pathetic

Can’t stand Halloween but no to the Wasabi nuts. Recipe for trouble.

You lot really are a ray of sunshine aren’t you 😉

its always good to teach the kids how to make demands with menaces under a thinly veiled guise of tradition.

You can get wasabi peas 🙂

Simple around me. If you’re open for trick and treater’s, put a pumpkin outside, or a picture of a pumpkin in the window, or go the whole hog and decorate the porch with skellingtons and fake cobwebs as our american friends up the road do.

If you aren’t, don’t, and we’ll leave you alone.

It’s not extorting sweets under threat of menace, it’s kids having fun. Did you lot hit adulthood without passing through this stage?

Did you lot hit adulthood without passing through this stage?

Yup (seems I’m in a majority here too).

Got some chilli’s dipped in chocolate left in the cuppboard…….

Sprouts and toffee onions, have neither the time not dedication to do either for tonight, but they both just made me laugh, a lot 🙂

shame you cant buy those tasty delights as easily as the heavily marketed seasonal sweets on sale at the moment. I’d quite like the idea of trick sweets for the punters tonight.

Whilst I dont like the commercialism and the concept, it does get the kids out and about.

I can’t recall when trick or treat hit Yorkshire but it was way past my childhood I do think it is fun if you are prepared. Very embarrassing if you are a single bloke with no idea of the date and open the door to a perfectly made up wicked witch 3 foot high and say “Fuxk me that’s scary” then see two aghast dotting parents in the gloom behind.

theotherjonv +1

Bunch of miserable gits. 😀

People witter on about the breakdown of community then don’t join in with nice community events for kids. 🙄

Simple around me. If you’re open for trick and treater’s, put a pumpkin outside, or a picture of a pumpkin in the window, or go the whole hog and decorate the porch with skellingtons and fake cobwebs as our american friends up the road do.

Same round our way.. it’s a very effective system..
There’s little enough fun and festivity in this dour little kingdom and with sour-faced fun police to contend with, it’s no wonder some of the kids are revolting..

It’s crap. Bring back penny/pound for the guy.

I like it, great to see groups of small kids wandering around the neighbourhood really enjoying themselves.

Although the sprouts and toffee onions are a thing of genius 🙂

It’s crap. Bring back penny/pound for the guy.

Has it gone away? I never got the memo don’t think kids around here did too.

We did it as kids yes the retail industry now sees it as a money maker but that’s retail for you. Got sweets in, got decorations in and others are in the garage ready to be out out. My kids are heading out tonight.

You can buy super sour sweets at a good sweet shop, the very very sour ones not the normal sour ones, they’d be a good trick with the odd one dropped in a random bag.

Mrs Wombat has made me remove my “Caution, Ebola Virus” sign from the sweet jar….apparently it’s not in good taste (whatever that is)

I take it none of miserable gits went trick or treating yourself then??

Nope, it didn’t exist in my childhood other than in American films and TV. We did penny for the guy which is more passive begging.

It’s never really sat well with me, I’m afraid.

It’s good that kids get to do something a bit different and have some fun, and I can totally get behind rewarding them for going to a lot of effort in making costumes.

But Trick or Treat makes me uncomfortable for two reasons.

1) is that we spend 364 days of the year telling kids not to accept sweets from strangers, then on Halloween we encourage them to do it. Mixed messages, what are they supposed to believe?

2) The premise of Trick or Treat is “give us a treat or we’ll play a trick on you.” I really don’t think that teaching kids that extortion is a great way of getting free stuff is a particularly healthy life lesson.

I like the concept of it, I just wish we could package it up a bit differently to remove the implied threat. Penny for the Guy is a similar thing, but it’s presented as “hey, look how much work we’ve put in to making a scarecrow.” (Ok, the central theme is burning a man alive, but hey, he was a bad man, right?)

1) It doesn’t, kids get that.

2) Kids like to have fun playing harmless tricks is good fun, still is an adult.

Wasabi nuts are a great idea if you want to have your car wing mirrors ripped off, windows egged, dog turds put thru your letterbox.

Go for it!

It didn’t really exist in our part of cumbria when I was growing up so never did it.

People witter on about the breakdown of community then don’t join in with nice community events for kids.

That’s quite easy to say from in some areas* but in Woodhouse, Leeds where I’ve lived previously, we used to get people spitting through letterboxes, firing fireworks at the house or launching eggs at you if you said you didn’t have anything, there was even an incident where one of the kids threatened someone on our street through the window with a breadknife. I can think feeling some animosity towards it under those circumstances is pretty understandable.

*last year I didn’t realise what the date was and answered the door to some trick or treaters and when I said I had no goodies they apologised and offered me some of theirs. Wylam’s a bit different.

when the kids were properly young we only used to T or T our immediate neighbours, and used to go round the day before to give them sweets and prompt them to say how scared they were 😉

The older folk loved it, seeing kids having fun in a non-threatening way. Granted, i live in the affluent south east so there aren’t gangs of feral kids roaming the streets extorting sweets with threats of menace – but if that’s a serious issue in other areas, I’d suggest it’s more a problem of parenting and society in general than the fault of a one night a year ‘harmless’ bit of (overcommercialised) fun.

Why oh why can’t parents just force their kids to stay inside or at very least scuttle under a rock when I, in my cloak of Righteous Self Importance, stride through the neighbourhood. As for knocking at my door do they NOT KNOW I’ve got the box set of Downton Abbey to re-watch?

I personally can’t believe that children enjoying themselves is any kind of justification for the rampant commercialism and cynical exploitation of my not inconsiderable middle age middle class resources by FORCING ME LITERALLY AT GUN POINT to buy some sweets.

It’s an OUTRAGE!!!!!!

Nope, it didn’t exist in my childhood other than in American films and TV.

Existed in my childhood. “Guising” in Scotland is a tradition that goes back to at least 1895 according to wiki.

The American influence is really just the “Trick or Treat” part which, round here at least, is just a phrase. The kids would be properly confused if you answered “Erm… Trick please” 😉

As an aside,

I was in ASDA the other day, and some of the staff were made up in Halloween gear.

Announcement came over the PA, “Good afternoon shoppers. If you’re looking for ideas for horror masks for Halloween this year, why not check out our staff!” I had to go for a sit down.

Nope, it didn’t exist in my childhood other than in American films and TV.

Existed in my childhood. “Guising” in Scotland is a tradition that goes back to at least 1895 according to wiki. And celebrating All Hallows Eve goes back much further with its roots in Paganism.

The American influence is really just the “Trick or Treat” part which, round here at least, is just a phrase. The kids would be properly confused if you answered “Erm… Trick please” 😉

My kids are well prepared for that. Anyone asking for a trick will be forced to endure one of my jokes.

Once word gets out, they expect a bumper harvest of treats.