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It's a shame that Halloween 'trick or treating' has been over-shadowed by all the nastiness. When I was little, I'd bring home 4-5 large size paper shopping bags (the sort with rope handles) filled with treats over the course of our evening's run from door to door. I'd have to go home after an hour or two, drop off a bag (bags,) pick up empty bags and hit the streets again. At the end of the night my mother would go through everything and throw away anything that wasn't commercially wrapped. That would still leave me with 2-3 shopping bags filled with candy, cookies, cakes, etc. but I was only allowed to eat a couple of things each night, and bring something to school for desert at lunch. I didn't know it at the time, but over the next week, my mother would throw out a few handfuls each day while I was in school just so I wouldn't eat so much junk. Hundreds of kids would be making the rounds in the neighborhood, and my mother would hand out mini-Hershey bars or rolls of Life-Savers, Cinnamon Red-Hots, etc. starting around 4:30 in the afternoon until around 11pm. The last time I was in the States, one child came to the door, and she was accompanied by a parent... Parents in cities are just too afraid to let their kids out alone these days, or take candy from strangers. Probably a bit better in rural communities, but being a city kid with dozens of 6-10 floor apartment buildings within a three block radius, I could knock on over 1,000 doors between 6-11pm. That's a lot of treats! With four apartment doors at the end of a hallway, we would ring all four at once, gather our treats, then run to the other end of the hallway and do it again, then run down one flight of stairs, run to the end of the hallway, etc. Mass production trick or treating!
My treat right now is unbranded Keemun tea. That never fails to make me happy!
Stitchawl
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