Halloween--giving out Hershey's Kisses?

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  • Francesca3162
    Francesca3162 Posts: 520 Member
    I would give them out:-)
  • Going4Lean
    Going4Lean Posts: 1,078 Member
    No friends or other relatives who would take them ?
  • funkyspunky872
    funkyspunky872 Posts: 866 Member
    My parents looked over my candy as a kid..... (SO DAD COULD STEAL ALL THE SNICKERS!)...

    As someone with a food processing background I can tell you if you unwrap a hershey kiss to mess with it you are never gonna get it wrapped back up... LOL.

    Personally I wouldn't worry about it, but that's just me. Knowing what I know now, I would probably let my kids have a select few pieces of the candy and throw the rest out anyway.. no one needs 6 pounds of candy in one night.

    Yeah, but it's one night in a year. It's tradition. It's a socially-accepted 'binge'. (Not that that's right, but more importantly...)

    It's FUN, so why the hell not? Make yourself sick with candy with friends once a year, brush your teeth a billion times, and move on the next day. Anybody can get 6 pieces of candy any other day of the year... An entire pillowcase? Let your kids live a little. Why go trick-or-treating if you can't EAT THE CANDY?
  • KaydeForce
    KaydeForce Posts: 96 Member
    What do you think should have happened to them? Do you think somebody poisoned sweets?

    I don't get it... Well, I'm not American, maybe that's it...

    But if you're scared your kids are going to eat poisoned food, then don't let them go take candy from strangers... It's as simple as that.
  • susanswan
    susanswan Posts: 1,194 Member
    I think it's a 50-50 prospect of will they throw them out. Give them out and save a few bucks or give them to a friend, take them to work, or give to a food drive if they are sealed and not your cup of tea.
  • mstifb
    mstifb Posts: 230
    Hershey kisses are my treat - each kiss is around 22 calories and is perfect size when you need a little chocolate, especially after a meal. I'd freeze them and find a use for them.
  • RunMyOregonBunsOff
    RunMyOregonBunsOff Posts: 862 Member
    Could you use them in goodie bags for you kid's friends (if you have kids)?
  • juliaamilee
    juliaamilee Posts: 262 Member
    Our local hospital xrays the candy for the kids! Id keep it anyways. its hard to hide something in a kiss, i d think...
  • jerbear1962
    jerbear1962 Posts: 1,157 Member
    sure glad my mom didn't give me three bags of kisses...I'd be eating them. I used to eat them but that was 100 years ago
  • kwest_4_fitness
    kwest_4_fitness Posts: 820 Member
    Always ate the kisses out of my bag and my son's bag. Haven't had a bad trip yet.
  • kwest_4_fitness
    kwest_4_fitness Posts: 820 Member
    Our local hospital xrays the candy for the kids! Id keep it anyways. its hard to hide something in a kiss, i d think...

    lol! Irradiated Halloween candy!
  • just4nessa
    just4nessa Posts: 459 Member
    I wouldn't be tempted by them, but my boyfriend definitely would...even if they were old, stale and tampered with. Feel free to send them my way. :laugh:
  • SuffolkSally
    SuffolkSally Posts: 964 Member
    What do you think should have happened to them? Do you think somebody poisoned sweets?

    I don't get it... Well, I'm not American, maybe that's it...

    But if you're scared your kids are going to eat poisoned food, then don't let them go take candy from strangers... It's as simple as that.

    Yeah - pretty strange... good luck with your adjustment from Europe, LOL. Staying put, myslef.
  • jarrettd
    jarrettd Posts: 872 Member
    One year, we took our kids trick or treating in our brand-new neighborhood. Okay, slum, to be straightforward about it. Run-down trailerparks and all that goes with that.

    Since we hadn't yet got to know anyone nearby, we played it safe. I bought loads of candy, and kept it in the closet. When we returned home from trick or treating, I "checked" the candy they got...straight into the trash, and replaced it with the candy from the closet. They never knew the difference.

    Turns out, it was a pretty decent neighborhood. Mostly people like us; working low-paying but steady jobs, going to school and paying astronimical daycare, etc, just trying to live and raise a family. There were a few nutballs, but aren't there always, even in the best neighborhoods?

    My vote is: give out the candy. You have no control over how it's used (or not) once it leaves your house in any case.
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    I always ate them when I was a kid. No one ever tried to poison me or anything like that. I'd say it's fine, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about it if i had children. I feel like its more dangerous now than it was in the 90s.
  • dinoskycm
    dinoskycm Posts: 267
    I don't think I ever got hershey kisses in my trick or treat bag, but if I did, I probably wouldn't eat them. You could donate the sealed bags to like a church or something. I doubt they would chuck them out because churches usually have their own halloween stuff going on, and if the bags are sealed, they obviously haven't been tampered with, so the kisses inside would be fine because I don't think their preacher would want to poison the kids. haha! Just a thought if you are super worried about it.

    I was thinking about something like that. Maybe even giving the sealed bags to a neighbor with school-aged kids to take to their school for the Halloween party there.

    My parents only let us go trick-or-treating to people we knew, but they still threw out anything that wasn't well-sealed. And somehow all the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups disappeared too. 'Twas an annual mystery :bigsmile:

    I just would feel bad for the kids if their parents tossed them when they returned home. I know I hated it when I was little.

    And it's not like I wouldn't also be passing out other candy that is better sealed, so they'd still get something they could keep.

    Yea, that's what I would do. Like I said, at least they could use them and they won't be thrown out. I used to trick or treat all over the neighborhood, but we also threw away anything that wasn't sealed. You can never be too careful! haha :)
  • 126siany
    126siany Posts: 1,386 Member
    One year, we took our kids trick or treating in our brand-new neighborhood. Okay, slum, to be straightforward about it. Run-down trailerparks and all that goes with that.

    Since we hadn't yet got to know anyone nearby, we played it safe. I bought loads of candy, and kept it in the closet. When we returned home from trick or treating, I "checked" the candy they got...straight into the trash, and replaced it with the candy from the closet. They never knew the difference.

    Turns out, it was a pretty decent neighborhood. Mostly people like us; working low-paying but steady jobs, going to school and paying astronimical daycare, etc, just trying to live and raise a family. There were a few nutballs, but aren't there always, even in the best neighborhoods?

    My vote is: give out the candy. You have no control over how it's used (or not) once it leaves your house in any case.

    I bought this house in October (a few years back now) and I only had 2 trick-or-treaters the first year! I hadn't met many of the neighbors yet, so they kept their kids away the first year. Now I get a steady stream though as the parents apparently don't think I'm an axe murderer or somesuch. :)

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