Trick-or-Treat. . . Smell-my-Feet

This week, Carole has us thinking about the treats in our Trick-or-Treat bags.

As for me, I try to avoid Halloween candy.  It's so tempting this time of year. . . to grab a bag (or two!) of your favorite "Miniatures."  For the Trick-or-Treaters, you say.  Sure, I say.

I tend to buy my treats rather at the last moment.  (So I don't eat them first.)  And I tend to buy candies I don't really like.  (So I don't eat them at all.)

But. . . where's the fun in that?

So, today, I decided to take you on a little trip in the Way Back Machine.  Back to the 1960s.  Back to when I really DID have a Trick-or-Treat bag!

 

Me, a bunny, in 1961. . . bossing around my not-much-younger cousins!

 

Back in the 60s, "miniature" candy bars hadn't been invented yet.  I never got a Snickers or a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup in my Trick-or-Treat bag.  (If I had, I'd have thought I hit the jackpot!)  Yet, my bag was always full!

What DID I get in my Trick-or-Treat bag. . . back in the 1960s?

1. Atomic Fireballs (so hot!)
2. Banana Split Taffy Chews (one of my favorites!)
3. Bazooka Bubble Gum (WITH comic strips!  bonus!)
4. Turkish Taffy (these were bigger treats, so all the more coveted)
5. Candy Cigarettes (Ooooo!  Forbidden Fruit!)
6. Candy Buttons (pure Sugar "dots" . . . on long, narrow sheets of paper; great for sharing on the playground)
7. Chicklets (tiny little two-to-a-package gumlets!)
8. Mary Janes (chewy peanut butter and molasses!  mmmmm!)
9. Milk Duds (two-to-a-box!)
10. Tootsie Rolls (another of my favorites)
11. Malted Milk Balls (the best!)

How about YOU?  What's in YOUR Trick-or-Treat bag (either now . . . or then)?

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Comments

[margene]

Occasionally we would run across a very generous neighbor who handed out the big candy bars. Bars were so much bigger then! I spent November and December in a fog of sugar headaches, as back then I never met a piece of candy I didn't like. Thank goodness I'm a little more discretionary today. :)

[Donna]

Atomic Fireballs were my weakness. I thought I was the only one with a banana taffy love. Glad to meet ya!

[Marilyn]

Last year I went to Sam's Club and bought the big candy bars. They were a hit! And I'm thinking that it will be remembered by the kids. I need to get to Sam's in the next week! :D

[Nichole]

Fireballs... another good one!

[Patty]

We were given apples. Lots and lots of apples. But a homemade popcorn ball was always better. I remember those little 2-packs of Chiclets too.

[Vicki]

Oh! Bit O' Honey!! I hated those, but always seemed to have a ton of them. We always knew the houses where they gave out full-size candy bars! I remember one house, though, where you had to stick your hand through the door and into something in order to retrieve it, though! I'm sure it was just a fur-lined box, but CREEEEEPY when it's dark and you just don't know!!

[Carole]

Remember Squirrels and Mary Janes? Yummm! But I'm mostly about the chocolate these days. Not that I'll be indulging, I have great resistance.

[Dianne]

Atomic Fireballs! SO fun to remember those!

[Janet]

Homemade popcorn balls, in various colors. (I lived in a very small community so people didn't have a lot of trick or treaters, so they could take the time to make stuff for the few of us out there.)

[susan]

I always prayed a neighbor would drop Chuckles or Indian Pumpkin Seeds in my bag.

[kmkat]

I loved Atomic Fire Balls and Milk Duds (cinnamon, and caramel chocolate, mmm).

[Beverly]

Oh, those candy cigarettes made me feel quite fancy! Like a movie star lady!

[Brenda]

Bun candy bars from Pearson candy company! My husband now buys them for me from the Old Time Candy website. They are the only candy bar I like (I like all three flavors though: vanilla, maple and caramel). Malted milk balls rock!