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Emperor1956 -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:13:00 PM)
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Oh my. Be careful reading this post...we might dispell some myths and break some hearts.
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missturbation: After reading the thread in general about halloween i just have to ask what is the big deal about halloween? I live in the U.K and we just don't really make much of it - what is it that you Americans go so nuts about?
There are so many reasons, miss. From a scholarly explanation of how the holiday allows geographically disconnected suburban Americans to "connect" by roaming in packs at night thru their neighborhoods to a Jungian desire to play with flame on the night that was Samhain and then All Hallow's Eve (and the Day of the Dead) to the fact that you get to dress up and act goofy...at any age. In fact, Halloween has been marketed within an inch of its life, and is now the second major "adult holiday" after New Years Eve for adult parties and liquor consumption. Fun as it is, all these posts are buying into a pretty crazy consumer frenzy. (and this doesn't even take into account what happens if you have little ones.)
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justheather: Ok, I will explain to you the big deal, but you have to sit down first.
Are you sitting down?
Ok.
People give you chocolate.
For free.
And not just cheap crappy chocolate, either.
Ok, some give you cheap crappy chocolate.
But you also get real delicious good name-brand chocolate too.
All you can carry.
For free.
She's right. and you don't even have to put out for it, unlike that OTHER chocolate based holiday!
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julia: Any excuse to roleplay. I am trying to talk Daddy as going as Major Nelson and Jeannie this year. I need to start doubling up on my situps though
You just want an excuse to say "Yes Master" in public over and over and over and over *GRIN* And WE want pictures!!!!
NOW we get to the crux of this post. Beware:
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
If you eat too many pumpkins it makes you sick, candy corn is not as rich...lol
[justheather]: I would like to see the scientific data to support your claim.
Also, I would like to point out that the pumpkins are far more spiritual than the candy corn.
Uhmmm...ladies....Once upon a time yours truly owned an import company that among other things imported a small amount of foodstuffs, and also contracted to have food (mostly essential oils and candy) tested by American labs to allow its import under the FDA regulations. And....in the course of this...I learned that except for food dyes used the pumpkins and the candy corn are made of identical...I repeat Identical ... ingredients. They are both molded corn syrup products. Any taste difference, spiritual level and other distinctions are the product of external forces.
I told you someone was gonna get hurt...*
And by the way, the introduction of Halloween Peeps is a SURE SIGN of the Apocalypse. Peeps are for Easter, for God (or whomever's) sake!
E.
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* DO NOT READ FURTHER. NO. YOU. DO NOT. STOP.
Ahem...one of the things that you get from the food lab is the "allowable" parts per million of insect parts, dirt and fecal matter allowed in a shipment of...oh....say...candy corn.
I TOLD YOU TO STOP READING. Might I suggest you try the Halloween apples? Scoured first with Clorox, of course. With bottled water? VERY VERY clean.
E.
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