Popcorn Balls

[DD]

It is sad that many schools dont have a Halloween or Christmas party. Come on DD, you HAVE to be politicaly correct these days. :roll: I think they call it Winter Solstice party....whatever. :roll:

I don't know how to type the sound I want to make...place tongue between lips and blow...I don't care what they call it, I'm just glad my kids grew up with Halloween and Christmas parties with candy and home made cookies!:roll:

...sounds a bit paganistic, dontchthink?

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;-)

 

[Mango]

When my sister lived in N.C. the preschool didn't allow Halloween parties. :roll:

We are of the same school of thought as Shelly. MANgo cuts a deal and gets the full sized candy bars. We also get the fun sized because we get sooo many kids now in our neighorhood, but we load up a bag full of different ones. Word got out and out neighborhood is generous. It's a social event, so everyone makes something, brownies and have small paper cups of juices, etc. Of course, we give that to the kids we know, parents too, but also a bag or two of candy.

But those popcorn balls sound scrumptious. Great idea DD.

Shelly, check out CVS. They have been having a sale on full sized bars for 2 for .88.

 

[DavidD]

Popcorn ball are old school goodness. Those and carmel apples. I tried to make popcorn balls as a kid once but they didn't hold together. They sound like a good project to try with the kids. Thanks for posting the recipe!

 

[Rudyjohn]

Nothing says Halloween like Wax Lips or Wax Vampire Teeth.

To paraphrase Dracula...IMO, in comparison to yesteryear, Halloween Sucks.

When I was a youngster many, many full moons ago, Halloween was the best holiday in the universe! Because we lived in the city, we could easily fill a large paper grocery bag (with LARGE nickel candy bars) two times--stopping by the house to dump it when it was half-full and too heavy to carry. A family with 2 or 3 kids would be able to fill the vegetable crispers in the fridge to the brim with just Hershey Plain and Almond bars ALONE! We got candy apples and homemade treats that we were actually allowed to eat without fear of drugs, razorblades or needles.

My heart aches for today's kids who tirelessly trudge the streets/malls on Halloween nights only to end up with half of a plastic pumpkin of those thimble-sized candy bars...(the marketing genius at Mars, Nestles or Hershey who came up with the moniker "Fun Size" should be taken out in the middle of Times Square and shot).

In protest, I still give out "nickel" $1.39 candy bars...old habits, like Dr. Frankenstein's monster, die hard.
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Shelly,

Halloween still is the best holiday in the universe as far as I'm concerned!!
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[ASH]

Sad to see halloween reduced to what I have seen as a trunk party in the parking lot of a church. The poor kids go from car to car and get goodies out of the trunk of each car and then they go home. They don't get to see a whole bunch of made up yards, Jack-O-lanterns, try to figure out who is who walking down the street. Heck, half of them never even got dressed up, probably because someone told them it was evil. They all know each other cuz they all go to the same church and they know the vehicles.

What's really crazy is that the world is a lot less safe today than it was 20 or 30 years ago when we had none of these rules.

This current generation is really missing out.

 

[DD]

Sad to see halloween reduced to what I have seen as a trunk party in the parking lot of a church. The poor kids go from car to car and get goodies out of the trunk of each car and then they go home. They don't get to see a whole bunch of made up yards, Jack-O-lanterns, try to figure out who is who walking down the street. Heck, half of them never even got dressed up, probably because someone told them it was evil. They all know each other cuz they all go to the same church and they know the vehicles.

What's really crazy is that the world is a lot less safe today than it was 20 or 30 years ago when we had none of these rules.

This current generation is really missing out.

Absolutely!

 

[Minnie]

It truly is sad, now it has to be Fall Festival instead of Halloween. I think when we stopped allowing kids to be kids on Halloween and Christmas is when the world took a serious turn for the worse.

Bring Back Halloween!!!

 

[Matt J]

I miss Halloween, in Elementary school the entire school took the day to enjoy the Halloween carnival. There were booths set up around the entire school, the stage in the cafeteria was a haunted house, and we watched classics like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (the Disney animated version).

Suddenly in Middle School we had rolled back the clock to puritanical times and has a Fall Carnival. Absolutely nothing of an "evil" nature. No witches, ghosts, goblins, ghouls, or even vampires. I believe my childhood was over right then.

 

[Sheila]

I am really, really That I have had to park my broom! Damn it to hail, it was always the best night for me!

Anyone have a good recipe for some eye of newt and the first toad after the full moon?

 

[DD]

I am really, really That I have had to park my broom! Damn it to hail, it was always the best night for me!

Anyone have a good recipe for some eye of newt and the first toad after the full moon?

Lemme google it and I'll get back to ya.