Happy Halloween

[Barrister]

I wanted to do the "potato vs candy" thing this year.

You still have all your regular candy, but you offer every kid a choice - either candy, or one potato.  While lots of kids still take the candy, apparently quite a few kids get excited by getting a potato.  Maybe it's just the novelty of it.

Unfortunately I won't be handing out candy at my place this year as I have a rec hockey game.

[garbon]

The novelty of a potato?

[crazy canuck]

The novelty of a potato?

It's Edmonton

[Barrister]

The novelty of a potato?

For Halloween?  Sure.

But it's an actual thing.  Go ahead and google it.

I suspect the amusement is being given a choice between candy, or a potato (giving only potatoes sounds like a good way to get a potato through your window before the end of the night).

[garbon]

The novelty of a potato?

It's Edmonton

[Barrister]

Forget it Jake - it's Edmonton.

[Valmy]

We always special order full size candy instead of the little crap they give you at stores these days. Now we are neighborhood famous for being the full size candy bar house.

[Grey Fox]

My gf bought candy for 300 kids, like I wrote before we only get about a 100.😆

[Admiral Yi]

Dropped by Walgreen's to pick up some more candy, and was startled by the significant price differences.  A family size bag of mini Kitkats at $19 vs. Twix at $5.  Guess which one I grabbed.

[crazy canuck]

My gf bought candy for 300 kids, like I wrote before we only get about a 100.😆

At this point isn't she your wife under the Quebec Civil Code?

[Josquius]

My gf bought candy for 300 kids, like I wrote before we only get about a 100.😆

"Only"?
Thats insanely high. Every house round there has kids?

[Grey Fox]

My gf bought candy for 300 kids, like I wrote before we only get about a 100.😆

At this point isn't she your wife under the Quebec Civil Code?

The equivalent, yes. It only takes a year of living together for it to trigger.

[Grey Fox]

My gf bought candy for 300 kids, like I wrote before we only get about a 100.😆

"Only"?
Thats insanely high. Every house round there has kids?

No, not at all. Maybe 1 in 4 or even 1 in 5. I live in a big suburb. The area denoted by the 1st 3 characters of my postal code is 37k, just over 1000/km² density.

[Savonarola]

We give out the full sized candy bars as well.  Some kids still ask for extra; so we tell them that they have to perform for us if they want a second piece.  Only one kid took us up on that last night, and told us a joke:

Q:  What's the scariest tree in the forest?
A:  Bam-BOO!

(Yes, bamboo is a grass, not a tree.  It was still worth a second piece of candy.)

[Barrister]

We've gone over to the full-size chocolate bars - I think it's a thing pushed by candy companies as you can easily buy boxed of full-size bars leading up to Halloween.

I kind of feel like it's too much candy though.  As a kid (or adult!) you can scarf down like dozens of the mini candies, but one or two full size bars and you're kind of done.

I heard on the radio reports of someone handing out full family-size bags of chips this year...