For me, it begins and ends with Whoppers.

Well, I do like Smarties every now and then...

Kraft Caramels.
Moment of silence.
Yum.

if it were my choice, i gotta go with whoppers...
but it's a movie thing. not a halloween thing.

i live on a non-halloween road and so i get to pass on this holiday (happily) and instead good friends are coming over and we're having lemon oregano roasted chicken with garlic sauteed greens over polenta - and pumpkin bread pudding for dessert.

oh - and lots of wine...

Red Twizzlers.
Adults should NOT dress up-it's weird.

Our neighborhood has organized itself for two hours to do the trick or treating. Then it's grown-up time with inspiration from today's NY Times...Patricia Wells's Chicken with 40 cloves of Garlic. Gotta protect ourselves from lingering vampires!

I usually prefer to give out candy I don't like so I'm not tempted to have it laying around the house, but I did get a few old favorites: Nerds, Jujyfruits, and animal crackers.

But the Raisinets I bought are for me and me alone. Don't touch my Raisinets.

And I'm not dressing up. This year. I've got a closet full of costumes in case I change my mind, though.

Leftover candy corn...to be made into syrup in lieu of RC Cola?

Candy corn mixed with peanuts (preferably dry-roasted) is about the best combinatin ever.

Forget the candy question--I'm going trick-or-treating at Claudia's. Maybe she'll throw a couple cloves of garlic into my pillowcase.

Or a leftover steak from Lobell's.

Or she might trick you with some bottarga.

Speaking of Raisinets, Jeremy Barlow over at Tayst is promising to release his menu soon for a Movie Night, along the lines of his McDonald's dinner earllier this year. Can't wait to see his take on Junior Mints, Popcorn and Raisinets.

I always go for the Snickers first, in any size...
We're giving out chocolate in a variety of forms...
I'll simply be wearing a black Spamalot TShirt inscribed with the phrase "I'm Not Dead Yet!"...
Leftover candy corn is perfect for loading into a blunderbuss to fire at the advancing hordes of peeps come Easter...

Outfits I've worn since 2K:

The Pope
Star Wars Stormtrooper
Mad Max (Road Warrior version)
Jesus Quintana
Antonio "Tony" Montana (M-16 version)
and of course, El Zorro, compleat w/ a saber, whip and a silver chalice to imbibe in style.

As far as treat, Tweezers and peeps rock!

guys, guys! you've got me all wrong. no tricks up my sleeve... but you are all invited for dinner - if not on this auspicious night, then just pick another! the new and hopefully improved bottarga has landed and we're giving it a whirl next week... as for the lobel's steaks. you're on your own. there are never leftovers and we count up change for a week prior...

This may be the year my wife actually decides to dress our daughter as Serpico.

For Jesus Quintana, I hope you didn't have to knock on people's doors and register.

We keep two caches of trick-or-treat candy: yummy name-brand chocolates for the cute little tykes in Halloween costumes, and cheap-ass expired-shelf-date flotsam for the surly chain-smoking teenage hoodlums.

Mr. Pink:

DO NOT let your daughter open any tenement doors!

And I'm purple-clad Bowling Jesus, not "birdseed" Jesus. And only an Achiever will get that reference.

I also have two bow, one with lil' Dove chocolates and one with cheap-ass red-ball candy from Dollar General.

Bowls, not bows!

I'm home now. My stomach hurts and I'm afraid my teeth are going to fall out. Just handed the last of the candy to prepubescent Mike Ditka and Jerry Garcia. My neighbor brought over a honeycrisp apple to wash away the Tootsie Roll scum. It was the best apple I have ever tasted in my life.

carrington, you'll want it all again by friday. you'll be rummaging through your kids leftovers while they're in school... scratching your body, looking over your shoulder. needing, wanting the sugar...

My Fav candy: Reeses Peanutbutter Cups or York Peppermint Patties.

I bought Snickers and Twix to hand out, but no one stopped by. Might have had something to do with the lights being off...

Didn't dress up.

at the first sign of the trick-o-treaters, i turned off all the lights and ate dinner in the dark.

I always buy candy that I'll eat, because we only get like four trick-or-treaters in our ghetto end of Shelby Bottoms. Last night it was Smarties, Snickers mixed pack, Twix mixed pack (Dark Chocolate twix!!), Reese's Peanut Butter cups. Now all happily stacked in my Treat Drawer of my work desk.

Reese's Cups are probably my favorite, but I'm really a candy junkie on every level. Anybody read Candy Freak by Steve Almond? It's gospel.

I went to the East Nashville pub crawl with four girlfriends and we all dressed as shots. White Russian, Sex on the Beach, Purple Hooter Shooter, Buttery Nipple (that's me), Redheaded Hooker. I don't know if anybody got it, but it was fun.

Dare I ask how one dresses as a Buttery Nipple?

thank you pink.. i was working on that visualization myself. wondering of course what butter she used... plugra, kerrygold, vermont butter and cheese - or just good old breakstone... ? and where they might have been afixed... (nah - no way...)

Twix are my favorite!

There was a lot of candy given out in the Richland 'hood where I was last night, and lots of small tired costumed tikes being carried home by dads (most of whom fortunately DID NOT dress up.)

I'm so out of control about candy that we can only give out gum. We had a bowl of it left, and I can chew it without putting on weight. If it were chocolate, it would already be gone.
With props to Carrington's 'hood, my street IS Halloween. Partay! There were wine bottles, squashed pumpkins, empty cups and candy wrappers all over this morning. I wore a bloody, realistic stake through my skull -- children edged away and our pediatrician stopped to ask if I was ok.
I love Halloween!

The buttery nipple costume involved four well-cleaned Land-O-Lakes wrappers and some artful tucking. I really thought you'd ask about the Sex on the Beach costume...

asking...

!!!!!!

Wait, where are my glasses...?

Ohhh...artful tucking. Never mind.

Artful tucking as in Jame Gumb?

PUT THE LOSHON IN THE BASHKET!

pink you are hilarious. just totally, adorably hilarious...

and Z... embarrassingly, you are so over and beyond my reference point that i miss all the good stuff! i inevitably end up googling your comments. a veritable wealth of trivia, you are!

And you are kind beyond reason.

Land o' Lakes Wrapper Tucking: by careful and artful tucking of the wrapper or the outer cardboard - one can give the Indian Maiden on the label a whopping pair of well you get the idea.

I always hand out those styrofoamy (sp?) candy peanuts to kids in my neighorhood. They're my favorite.