If you've been to my house, you'll know that my roommate (for privacy purposes lets just call her "Mom") puts out seasonal chocolates in our bathroom. For example, during Valentines day we have hershey kisses with cherry filling, easter we have little hershey kiss eggs and so on and so forth. Well, being that it is 2 days to the first day of the month containing the wonderful holiday of Halloween, our lovely candy dish in the pooper is filled with little black and orange wrapped hershey kisses.....which got me thinking.
When i was a kid and read my 10 page books, one that i would read annually was The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat. A simple book about halloween and two carnivorous mammals who decided to go trick or treating for halloween. One thing i always noticed was the way their candy was distributed. They would always dish out handfuls of candy corn and gum balls and peppermints in no wrapper, right into the children's bag. Now i don't know about you but i was always told to be cautious about strange people handing out candy that looks like its been tampered with. Charlie Brown seemed to have this sort of shady neighborhood too. Didn't they have parents that told them not to eat these potential sugar balls of death? I know every year as a kid my dad would always have his "sifting" time with my candy. Although it usually involved him saying "oh this one might be dangerous.....*munch*......oh ok we're safe" on numerous occasions. Maybe the Berenstain Bears lived in a happy go lucky town where everyone knew each other and trusted each other and there were no razor blades in any circus peanuts or roofies in pez dispensers.
Lets go back to the good old days. I vow to only serve candy that i have bought in a bag, opened the bag, and dumped into a dish. It'll be like the sweetest complimentary peanuts you have ever had, and only for one day a year. I mean, if they do it in a cartoon it must be good for you.
PS: i always thought it was Berenstein Bears....not BerenSTAIN. I guess they are a little less jewish than i thought
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