After two days of candy posts there’s a pretty clear majority rule emerging: nuts are important in the candy world. Snickers, PayDay, peanut M&Ms, Baby Ruth, Mr. Goodbar, Oh Henry!, Take 5, even that classic Hershey’s with Almonds – well, I don’t know if it’s nuts or the combination of nuts and chocolate but whatever it is, these candy bars have a hardcore following. I’m not immune to their draw either.
People with nut allergies must face a particularly hard time when it comes to trick or treating. I thought I did well – the only item I bought with actual peanuts were those fun sized (aka you’ll eat five before you know it) Snickers, intending to have plenty of options for kids with dietary restrictions. Gluten free and peanut allergies, anyway. But as I was dumping candy into a giant bowl I noticed warnings on bag after bag: This item was made in a facility that produces peanut products and cross contamination is possible. COME ON!
Good intentions and all that jazz.
So we prepped the bowls with about 400 pieces of candy – I heard lots of kids roll through this neighborhood and we’d be running out regardless but that sounded like a more than respectable first Halloween effort. What nobody (and I do mean nobody) was ready for was the nuttiness.
The day before they started calling for rain. Then big rain. Then long term big rain. But I was all “big deal, it’s water falling from the sky, you’re telling me kids won’t come for free candy because of a little RAIN??” Nah, I was convinced we’d still be fine.
On Thursday we were rolling to an appointment at 3:45pm when the tornado watch came out. That’s right, the tornado watch. I have never been so blessedly grateful not to have kids of trick or treating age because that was a call I didn’t want to make – youngun in costume sobbing to please let me go versus, you know, impending doom. I crossed my fingers because So Much Sugar.
The severe thunderstorm warning popped around 5pm. I checked the radar and hoo, boy, the outlook wasn’t good but again…fingers crossed.
I’ll skip right to the end. After less than two dozen kids – big, little, and everywhere in between – the sky OPENED. There was torrential rain and lightning and thunder and So Much Badness. Trick or treating came to a shrieking halt leaving a mountain of processed sugar piled on my dining room sideboard.
Nuts.
Linda hosts Stream of Consciousness Saturday. This week’s prompt is “nuts.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
Wild. We got snow.
When we lived on post, we had hundreds and hundreds of trick-or-treaters. I have been in safer mosh pits. We get zero every year. This makes me happy. My husband still buys enough candy to please hundreds of Spidermen and Elsas tho.
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Snow?? Can’t process that one either.
We had one HUGE group of guys (middle school, I think) come through. I called hubby to the door to help get 15 large kids off my porch and glanced up to see GI Joe (seriously) snap his eyes back to mine kind of guilty-like. When I closed the door hubby asked if I noticed him peering around me at daughter who getting ready for basketball practice. (Yes, they had practice on Halloween, they’re pretty hardcore.) Busted out laughing at that one.
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Hahaha!
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A tornado watch on Halloween? Yikes!
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It did seem particularly dire…one of those Friday the 13th kind of coincidences that made me think uh uh, no way would my kids be venturing out there tonight!
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Aw shucks or oh yay.
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We’re gonna go with oh yay. It’s hard to complain when there’s Smarties involved…
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I’d be happy to help take all that processed sugar off your hands…
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You are a kind and giving soul, John… 😆
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We don’t get kids in our rural, tiny neighborhood so too much/too little is not an issue. Usually I’ll have something chocolate on hand for me, so in an emergency I’d be okay, but this year Halloween fell too close to time to shop again, so my bowl was (and is) empty.
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That definitely keeps you from stealing candy out of the Halloween supply! 😉
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Rule #1 of Halloween – buy stuff you like.
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This is Halloween Gospel.
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WOW – that is nuts! Glad to read that you, your house, your family, the neighborhood and all the candy survived!!!
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True. We actually heard some folks in our last neighborhood had some wind damage — it really did kick up pretty hard and we had some of that sideways rain going on. I’m glad there haven’t been any reports of trick or treaters who got hurt.
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Wow – that’s quite the storm! I’m glad to hear no one was hurt. Now what are you going to do with all that candy?!
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I have absolutely no idea. I’m nibbling, the kids are taking some for lunches, maybe I’ll drop a bunch on the table for the sports awards cuz who doesn’t love free sugar, right?? 🙂
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Sounds like a great plan – you’ll be the star mom!!
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Oh dear, that was quite unlucky. I am sure you will be able to off load it though.
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You’d think so. We’re doing our own damage, picking up something each time we walk by. Problem is everybody around here is in the same boat so everywhere you go right now there’s a bowl of Halloween candy sitting out!
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We never got one kid round this year. So we are in the same boat. We clearly control a large part of the worlds candy supply – how should we yield our power.
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Ooh! Resale value! We can stockpile all the candy until people go into sugar withdrawal then make a pretty penny on the resale…
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Maybe you can save it, for next year!🤣
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Oh, I WISH I had that kind of willpower. If I tuck away a gallon bag of it now, though, I’ll have candy for Christmas stockings. That seems like a reasonable compromise. 😉
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This is a better solution. 🤩
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