One house gave my kids potatoes this year
someone gave my kid a rock
was it a cool rock?
no
:-( Sure would have been cooler if it was.
Was it Kid Rock?
Why can I read your words instead of just hearing trombone noises?
So, the question is what the fuck did you do to your neighbors that got them all so pissed off that they all decided to give your kid a rock instead of candy for Halloween?
My BiL always offers the option of a potato over chocolate. There are a surprising number of takers. I should note he gets a couple dozen kids so he can spend time messing with them. I get several hundred thanks to the haunted house a neighbour two doors down sets up. My door is lime an assembly line.
random lime appears
I’d take a lime over a potato or candy
a friend of mine once went to a little middle-eastern store in our town and got a kg of whole dried limes that he started slipping into my bags, pockets, mailbox…
a friend of mine
That’s a friend of lime!.
I have a whole bag of those things and I can’t even remember what dish I ordered them for. Some kind of Iranian stew, I think.
5 years ago I went to California for the first time and tried a lime out there. It was the best lime Ive ever had. Still havent recovered from that blow. I’ll cut limes in half and chomp down on one half, love em that much.
please don’t hurt me
I need context. Is the potato cooked? Raw? Why are people picking potatoes??
Just plain raw potatoes out of a bag. They have a reputation for this and some groups of kids will be chanting " potato, potato, potato" before they even open the door. They were saying they may spring for full size russet baking potatoes for the enthusiasts next year.
My mom for some reason always gave out little bags of pretzels. Most of the kids just had this sad look of disappointment, but occasionally you’d get a kid that was super-excited to get pretzels.
home grown or sore bought?
sore bought
Sore what bought???
Who knows, but don’t show up without your painment method.
Sore bought, like you really didn’t want to buy potatoes, but you had to, and you were sore about it
We had someone so this a few years ago and it was a smash. Kids loved it though some ended up stomping on their potatoes, because they were dumb kids with blood sugar that needed to be charted ok a logarithmic scale.
At the Irish-Italian parade in New Orleans, they throw potatoes, carrots, and cabbages off floats the way they throw beads and doubloons for Mardi Gras. I think I prefer the vegetables
One time I got a few bread rolls, and one had a bite taken out of it lmao.
My mom was convinced they had drugged my candy 🙄
You take this home, throw it in a pot, add a potato… baby you got a stew going!
Man, I printed little kaiju figurines, bought blind bags, filled them with candy and toys. And it freaking rained, got like 8 kids
As a parent I appreciate you for doing this fwiw.
It is awesome to see people in the community being nice and selfless like this.
Hopefully you’ll find a use for the extra stuff, or have it for next year!
I grew up pretty poor. Halloween was the best holiday. I like to go a bit extra now that I can- thanks for the appreciation :D
Aww, that’s pretty sweet though, and you can tuck the bags away for next year. Wrapped candies keep well.
Oh yea the candy ain’t surviving ;). It uhhh, disappeared
Haha, it does tend to evaporate like that!
Until recently Halloween wasn’t really celebrated in Germany. However, we have Karneval and at least in my region there are lots of wagons and costumed marching groups and they throw candy at the costumed bystanders, mostly young kids and drunken adults.
However, not all of them throw candy. Some throw flowers, flower pots (take cover), bags of onions, leeks or bags of potatoes. This is because many farmers are involved and it’s originally a celebration before a 40 day fasting period and meant to celebrate the last big feast before it and to get rid of the perishable foods.
Maybe the stock cubes are meant in a similar way.
Why did I have to come to Lemmy to learn this? Okay, I never have been that much involved in Karneval, maybe that’s it.
Karneval blows Halloween out of the water. A back pack full of beer, wine, schnapps, etc…and enjoy the festivities. Whatever candy I caught, I gave it to the children. Please don’t forget about Fasching!!!
The gift of soup
I saw a video of someone saying it’s a great last minute Halloween snack buy, and a fun way to prank the kids. I am inclined to agree
Umami > Sweet
Watch that sodium intake, kids!
Sounds delicious. Wouldn’t even be mad tbh
The “Trick” part goes both ways…
Better than cult propaganda!
That would be me \s
\soup/
You kids need a nice broth…
Must be the British.
I think it was Marco Pierre Whit
