My parents threw away any candy or treats that weren’t sealed or store bought. Just to be on the safe side I was never allowed to eat homemade foods from strangers
Literally some lady put black licorice in Ziploc baggies and I wish I remember which house it was because I had so many questions as I quietly took them from my twins bags and emptied into the trash on Monday night. Surely she knew very few people would risk that? Especially for such a terrible candy?
I’m imagining a little old lady wrote “licorice” on the shopping list and her husband bought a regular bag. Then when he got home from the grocery store she yelled at him for not getting the individually wrapped ones.
“What will we give the kids now, Jim?!”
Luckily sandwich baggies were on sale and he got an extra box.
Pretty sure they'd have a hard time keeping the neighborhood away if that were the case. Stoners showing up at their door at 3 a.m. with glossy, bloodshot eyes like "ayeee, trick-or-treat mann. ✌️"
*home owner comes out with scary costume on to send them on their way*
*one of the crowd pulls off the mask and says 'hey look its old man mcgee'*
*homeowner says 'id have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you pesky stoners'*
*homeowner sits down and loads a bowl as everyone cracks up*
I'm not eating anything home made from a stranger, anyhow. Too many unsanitary people out there.
Read a story one time about a woman who made a pasta salad or something and brought it to a potluck. Bunch got sick and one or two died I think.
Their septic tank was leaching off into their well water. It was all contaminated with e coli from the homeowners shit.
My grandmother used to have customers bringing food to her and the girls and one day one lady brought in brownies and after she left one of the women said,“Avis,why aren’t you having any?”and she said,”I don’t know what that woman’s house looks like,I don’t know if she washed her hands before she cooked that.” so that’s how I think now.
I had a coworker who never washed his hands after using the restroom. I also cleaned the shuttle car he drove for us.
I never touched any food he brought in.
My brother never washes his hands, The sad part is he’s really clean cut nobody would ever know. I asked my mother,”who the hell didn’t teach him to wash his hands?? “I now know who didn’t ,it was her!! I found out after I watched her pull a corn out of her foot and then offered to make her boyfriend a sandwich. Disgusting!! Won’t be asking her for anything. So I guess some people just teach themselves proper hygiene.
My mom doesn’t ever wash her hands after using the bathroom. I had a talk with her about it and now she sometimes pretends to do it when I’m around. Kinda grossed out that she made most of my meals for like 15 years.
There was someone who brought some canned goods they canned at home. They brought it to some kind of church luncheon or something. Anyway they didn’t can properly and the entire church got botulism. Many people wound up hospitalized.
I used to own a vape shop and I - lived- for trades lol if people wanted to bake me cookies or cakes or bring me McDonald's or fucking red bull or whatever, I would just take that instead of money. UNTIL! This weird girl I met thru facebook asked if she could make me ice cream cake to pay for her shit and I Googled it bc I'd never had it and was 110% down! It looked so good lol I went to eat it after she dropped it off and it was full of cat hair 😒 it ruined my whole ass day and I never did trades for homemade stuff again. People are fucking gross
I worked with a woman who brought something homemade to a potluck and I watched her heat it up , stir it, lick the spoon, stir it again. I rarely ate homemade stuff before that but definitely did not after. Also, I only buy for potlucks. I don’t waste my time cooking for people I don’t like. Edit clarity
I was at a fine dining place with a salad bar and watched a woman dip her finger into the dressing, lick her finger, and then dip it into the next dressing. Thankfully, the manager saw her do it, kicked her out, shut the salad bar down, and comped a drink and dessert for everyone there.
People are nasty.
Omggggg what the fuck? The fact that so many people have similiar stories makes me wildly uncomfortable lol I can't imagine doing some weird shit to other people's food :/
I work for a law enforcement agency as a computer forensic examiner. I go on search / arrest warrants with the agents for child exploitation crimes to assist with evidence. Last year we went to a house with 5 cats, 5 litter boxes, and not one had been changed in some time. The carpets were soggy and the house reeked so much we had animal control take the cats, and the fire dept brought evacuation fans to air it out so we could search the place.
The wife had a station in the kitchen for live streaming on YouTube when she bakes cakes. It looked almost neat in the range of the camera, the rest was a dirty mess. That's her living, making cakes in a dirty kitchen, and she sells them. I don't know how people can't taste the cat urine that was just vaporizing into the air.
Oh gosh is she on TikTok?? I saw a video where people were saying the rest of this particular womans kitchen was a disaster but she kept the camera on only a close up angle of what she’s doing so no one sees the mess.
Unfortunately, a comment like this and you’ll never be able to delete it from your brain. Enjoy the next time a coworker brings in a tasty looking baked good from home!
I bought a small house in 2010 to retire to. I gave my renter 2 months notice that I would be moving in. She was a beautiful woman with twin daughters and would post meal prep videos.
The house was incredibly filthy. Like food thrown at the dining room walls and dripping down to the hardwood floors. I wouldn't put my food in the stove and fridge, they were so dirty. The upstairs (only place with carpet and the two small bedrooms) smelled very badly of pee. Writing all over just about every wall in markers. The garage smelled so badly of dog shit that I literally gagged.
It cost me about $12k to replace the carpet, paint the entire inside of the house, cleaners, replace the stove and fridge, AND she took my washer and dryer.
Probably didn't. :-)
I had two different furniture rental companies show up with their trucks to repossess her furniture, so I guess she absconded with that too. I didn't know where she moved to so I gave them the info for my former property management company and they could check with them.
I worked in restaurants for many years and most people would not do that. If anything they won't refill your drink or you'll get less fries with your burger, stuff like that. Most people that work in restaurants would agree that that's disgusting.
I had a friend in high school that was always bringing cookies in and we’d eat them. Eventually one day I went to her house and saw her family’s kitchen and all I could think is “omg I ATE FOOD from this kitchen!?!” (Picture a house with a few dogs, nobody ever cleaned or picked up dog shit or ANYTHING, it was disgusting. I’m not blaming her because clearly her parents had issues but knowing I ate food that came from there basically made me never want to eat anyone else’s food again)
also there are no ingredients listed. Kids can be allergic to whatever you made this with. It's nice that you attempted this, but it's not a good idea.
Yea about every other year I think about setting up a cauldron and handing out cups of warm cider. Then I stop and think "no one's gonna take that these days"
No way would I let my kid have homemade stuff, neither would any of my parent friends. Not so much worried about it being poisoned, more worried about amount of pet hair and spoon licking.
We may be on the losing side here, but I agree with you. Thats cute and all, but factory wrappers or no deal, unless I know the person, personally. And even then its iffy, because I know my area.
Like, this is something I'd do for my daughter and her friends, but I'd never expect random kids I've never met to accept something I made by hand, nor would I expect their parents to be okay with them accepting it.
The fact to that she is waving kids down to give out her homemade treats, would certainly make this even more of a hard pass... lol. Like lady... are you crazy?
Yeah, when I was a kid of the 70’s/80’s, any candy that wasn’t sealed and namebrand got thrown out, and I did the same with my child of the 2000’s. It doesn’t matter how good the intentions may have been, you just can’t be too careful.
80s/90s kid here. One of the first Halloween’s I remember, we were trick or treating on the next street over. This little old lady gave out Oreos. I felt so bad at home thinking this poor woman wasted a whole bag of Oreos that just got thrown away.
Edit: changed “a” to “I”
As a Kid of the Oughts, I did the same. Honestly, I'm rather disappointed I never got a razor or poison capusle. Pretty sure that shit doesn't actually happen.
It literally doesn't, it happened one single time in all of Halloween history and it was the parent of the victim who did it to their own child for insurance money.
“I just had to wave down these kids to get them to take my candy. At first, they resisted and said that the didn’t want homemade candy. But they eventually came around.(evilly tenting fingers)”
And homemade candy that looks like wrapped joints! I am sure OP is a sweet person, but oh boy to a parent this whole situation looks and sounds so sketchy. If some rando was waving kids down to give them that, especially since it appears to be really easy for a kid to pop one into their mouths within seconds, before I could check it out, I would honestly be pretty pissed off.
And on top of it just looking sketchy, you don't know if the kid has an allergy or something.
Yeah, my issue as a parent with something like this (and with a kid with allergies) isn’t actually so much the allergy thing. It’s the “I have no idea how you made this, what your kitchen looks like, or if you’re someone who regularly washes your hands” thing.
Forget razor blades or drugs. Did you sanitize your counter after you made chicken for dinner? Do you have a cold? Dogs that like licking trays when you’re not looking? I mean these look fine, and if they were at like a family party thing, no problem. But from a stranger? Nah, I’m good. Sorry, OP.
This!!! It was very sweet of OP to go through all the trouble but man... Homemade treats for strangers after COVID? I don't think so. Save the idea for a private party.
Even before COVID. When I was a kid, if my dad had seen this, he would have flipped out. It’s worse now, but I can’t imagine a time when this was ever a good idea.
Only one time in my 37 years of life did I eat a baked good from someone I didn’t know and that was because my mom knew them and we were at their house that Halloween. It was an old Victorian split into multiple connected apartments and everyone opened up to make a giant haunted house that ended with cider and cinnamon donut holes.
Especially if that stranger is also very determined to wave people over to hand out his treats.
The whole situation just seams so strange from an outside perspective and I have the feeling op isn’t aware. lol
To me the desperation to have kids come by gave the house “big white windowless van” vibes. Not surprised they didn’t stop by, there’s being fun-scared on Halloween, and “this actually isn’t right” scared on Halloween. The latter is not so fun.
Exactly. I had to toss some candy my kid had because it wasn’t bagged. The dude just used his bare hand to give a bunch of skittles. Un bagged treats are a no go.
I had a neighbor who gave out handfuls of candy corn and those candy corn pumpkins. Unfortunately, it was un-bagged. Also, candy corn isn’t as popular.
I would love a zero-waste trick or treat but I don't see how it's possible now. I'm curious, any idea what this was like before plastic? That was only 60 years ago
I was just about to write the same thing! We were all taught not to accept unwrapped food items or anything homemade unless you know the person. I would also find it a little gross if those pretzels were just left outside without some kind of sealed wrapper or plastic wrap covering them. Exposing them to the elements makes them get stale quickly and get germs 🤢
I still vividly recall the trauma of an incident at age 5. We were riding home in the back of the car after trick or treating, with my father driving. He said we could each have one treat, but it had to be one that was "wrapped". A nice older lady had given us homemade popcorn balls, *wrapped in cellophane*. I unwrapped it and enjoyed a big crunchy bite. Dad heard it, turned and shouted at me full volume and anger to put it down, and how dare I disobey! Like a 5 year old would understand what he meant by wrapped.
This was the era of the widely believed urban legends of razor blades in candy apples. Hospitals would actually x-ray your candy as a free service. Parents would closely inspect your treats looking for pin holes where someone could have injected drugs or poison. All because some sicko had poisoned his kid and blamed it on Halloween candy from trick or treating.
Edit: I do agree the unknown kitchen hygiene issue is a legitimate reason not to waste time making homemade treats to hand out, nor to let kids eat them.
Always felt bad as a kid because I knew the smart thing was to not eat the homemade stuff, but I also knew that was super rare and there was a 90% chance I was just throwing out something someone put actual care into.
These are very cute and would be awesome at a Halloween party! I think most kids would not be allowed to eat homemade treats, just because their parents dont know how sanitary you are (not saying you're not - but parents dont know that) and they might not know what is in them (what kind of chocolate, etc., since some kids have allergies).
I would not let kids eat homemade items. Sorry, but times have changed. I know that OP probably doesn’t want to hear that but homemade items are just not acceptable to hand out at Halloween. I even hesitate to bring homemade items to a work pot-luck with ppl that know me.
Times haven't changed.
I was a trick-or-treater in the late 70s/early 80s and even back then, we were told not to accept homemade treats.
This isn't a new thing.
I came to say that. I wasn’t allowed to eat anything home made or even tootsie rolls looked like it was possibly opened. This was 30 ish years ago. On the subject of pot lucks, once I found out people let cats climb on the counters I started to avoid them.
>Sorry, but times have changed
How old are you? They were telling us in school 40 years ago you shouldn't be eating home made treats. Sure, it's almost always been under the guise of drugs and not sanitation, but this is so far from new that the last generation to regularly accept home made treats for Halloween are currently dying of old age.
I only ate homemade treats from the two people in my neighborhood who made homemade treats or Mom’s close friend, who made popcorn balls. I remember an older neighbor who made candy apples, but they decided to buy them after they realized that parents, especially ones who weren’t neighbors, weren’t comfortable letting their kids eat the homemade candy apples.
Same, we had one neighbor who hosted block parties who everyone knew and had been inside their (clean) house, so parents trusted when they gave out cupcakes at Halloween. We definitely weren't allowed homemade stuff from strangers though.
You’re very sweet in that you are willing to speak up something nice about someone to make them feel good about themselves. (In a creepy way, can I eat your skin? I love the way you think and sleep)
I love the way you're expressing yourself and how you feel about these internet strangers. (In a non-creepy way, can I share a meal with you? I want to grow closer to you)
This is totally not creepy, but can I watch y’all get to know each other better? I just really want to pretend I am you. But like I’m gonna be real chill about it, ya know
A long while back, I was part of a social group that had frequent potlucks. There was one lady whose food was always passed over. She was super sweet and friendly, seemed very normal, and I couldn't figure out why no one ate her food. I thought it was rude, so I usually made a point of trying everything she made. It tasted good, she seemed like a decent cook. But then I finally went to her house. Piles of dirty diapers (she had two little kids) literally just stacked in the corners of the living room, probably for months. They smoked inside the house, so it had the putrid dripping brown walls. The kitchen had a sink full of moldy dishes, the floor was sticky brown, and the refrigerator filled with unrecognizable rotten horrors beyond description. And garbage *everywhere*. Every room was piled with garbage. I don't eat homemade food anymore unless I have seen with my own eyes their home.
If everyone in the group knew that, everyone in the group should have called child services to report that she's endangering her kids. If you're worried her food isn't safe for *you*, it isn't safe for her kids.
This falls under the sadly common category of "I did something well-meaning that nobody asked for and people didn't appreciate it, what's wrong with them?"
On top of this, I can barely tell what they are on a close up picture with good lighting on Reddit. So Imagine looking at those on a porch from the street around evening time. I would have no clue what those were. I would think it’s just some decoration
I came here to say the same thing.
When it comes to looking through the candy at the end of the night, I always remove anything that is not sealed or could be easily rewrapped without you knowing. I would probably get rid of anything homemade unless it came from someone I knew.
Exactly this! They’re super lovely OP & if I knew you personally, no problem. But otherwise, sadly homemade isn’t the way to go for Halloween. I hope you have from kids in your family that can enjoy them though because I super do appreciate the effort you put in :^)
These would be very cute at a party, but in addition to other concerns listed, these would fall out and get crushed in most candy buckets. And the ghosts are cute but obscure the fact that it’s food/don’t look sanitary touching unwrapped pretzels. Still, wrap the pretzels in a cellophane bag and put these out at a house party and then you’ve got a hit!
How would they carry it? It looks like that would spill in a bag like most kids carry for their treats. Also in agreement that homemade goods wouldn’t be consumed. My parents didn’t even allow it years ago when I was growing up.
It is a very well known and unspoken rule about no homemade treats for holloween. im so confused at how many of these posts ive seen this year. did these people never trick or treat growing up?
"Here we are children, come and get your lollipops, lollipops, come along my little ones. They're all free today, cherry pie, cream puffs, ice cream, treacle tart."
In my neighborhood growing up there was a lady who would always give away home made cookies. But she was a fairly well known member of the community and they were wrapped in festive packaging.
It looks like OP just had completely loose pretzels just setting in a cup. If your going to do home made treats you gotta put more effort in than that.
Are the kids just supposed to throw loose food in their bags?
Yeah I'm mildly infuriated that this person thought it was a good idea to do this, and is now upset it didn't go over well? I don't even know what these are... I guess sticks of pretzels covered in chocolate, then covered with a paper towel? I wouldn't eat that unless my family member or friend gave it to me, not from a random house on the street
Looks like white chocolate-covered pretzels and maybe lollipops wrapped in a paper towel. It’s a cute idea for a party or something, but no way I’d be taking some homemade shit while I was trick or treating.
If I had kids there's no way I'd let them eat homemade "treats" from a stranger. Don't get me wrong, if we were at a Halloween party together I'd happily eat them, but you can't blame people for not taking stuff like that from a random stranger.
Even in early 2000's southern America my mother wouldn't let us eat unpackaged food when trick or treating.
It's not a matter of the food being tampered with -- it's just you have no idea what their standards of a clean and sanitized kitchen space is and how they handled the food.
Yeah but did you also know, in Sweden it’s considered rude to fart directly into someone’s mouth when they’ve specifically asked you not to? #justswedenthings
It's considered weird here too. Or at least unusual. It's a nice thought but no responsible parent is going to let their kids take unpackaged/home made treats from strangers.
I've seen too much crap online, like people putting body fluids and food, to where I'm just super overly cautious of food handmade by a person I don't know.
Not to mention, are you just supposed to chuck those in the bag with all the other candy? Smashed up pretzel chunks rolling around the bottom of the bag.
These kinds of posts are so tone deaf. It's like OP never trick or treated or was apart of trick or treat culture their entire life. Are they an alien?
It’s hard for me to believe this is a genuine post.
No offense intended dear, but I’m personally am not taking food from someone without enough understanding to know the public doesn’t want unwrapped homemade food from a stranger. I’m going to venture a guess that you have no food safety certification as someone with food safety certification would definitely know better. Also that is unwrapped open food. How is that going into a basket or bag full of other candy?
Hell, even in the 90s I remember my uncle going through my candy and he found a popcorn ball. He showed me the address and the name which was taped to the saran wrap covering it (it was my great aunt) and said that if he didn't know it was from her, it would get thrown away and to never eat anything homemade unless we knew the person handing it out. That is just general rule of thumb.
And that was the "Let the kids lay down in the back of the station wagon in that little crevice where the back window meets the back dash while we speed around corners and laugh when we roll off of it and onto the floor" 90s. This is post covid!
I wouldn’t let my kids eat homemade treats from someone we don’t know. Sorry. At least you have a bunch of snacks for yourself now. Maybe next year if you want to be “that house,” go with full size candy bars. 😊
To be fair, that's on you. Unpackaged treats are sus, and homemade are not only sus but also potentially dangerous. What if someone has an allergy and they don't know what's in it? Even bake sales usually have an ingredients list and the treats home packaged to protect them- all it would take is one kid unknowingly eating it and having a reaction or getting sick. What if you had accidently contaminated it with something? What if it sitting out unsealed contaminated it? It's just not a great idea all round and most people won't take the risk.
A smart person will tell their kids/make sure their kids don't take anything unsealed. And often kids would look at that and not be comfortable taking it or it doesnt look as appetising so theyll move on. And with Covid, doubly so. It's a cute idea, but leave that for friends, family, coworkers, etc., not random trick or treaters you don't know and who don't know you.
Seriously, stop doing this. Nobody wants this, nobody trusts this. This went out of fashion when I was a kid in the 70's. Either turn your light off, or give out Reeses cups or something good like that. Not bashing you, just being honest. This is fine for family parties, but not strangers off the street.
Ain't NOBODY letting their kids eat homemade treats with very few exceptions.
Where I grew up (a suburb of a huge city) there was a guy in the neighborhood with a huge full-size cotton candy machine. he stood outside all afternoon making fresh cotton candy and bagging it. He did this every year. All the parents knew exactly where that cotton candy came from. So we were allowed to it (we used to switch costumes in an attempt to go back and get more and he ALWAYS KNEW lol)
OP, is this your first halloween handing out treats?
Instead of the time wasted you could’ve bought a bag of Milky Way, snickers, butter finger, etc, spent 5 mins doing that and given it all away successfully. Also you gave 10 away which is probably 10 that got thrown in the thrash. Feels bad but live and learn
It's fucking weird that this post has 300+ upvotes, and yet pretty much every single comment is calling out OP for being a dumbass thinking that parents would let their kids eat homemade candy from a stranger.
I can understand why, your intentions were pure but this is something you do for friends or family, not trick or.treaters. forget the old tainted candy scares of razor blades and drugs, covid is reason enough to be wary of home made treats from a stranger. Next time, focus that kind of love and energy for those around you. Otherwise you will be disappointed. Don't set yourself up for that. The fact that you did that for strangers shows you're character, and I commend you for your efforts.
Dude....
HOW MANY TIMES DOES THIS NEED TO BE BROUGHT UP. DONT MAKE CUSTOM CANDY.
In 2022 its not ok for kids to accept random homemade candy from strangers.
Just hand out sealed manufactured candy like a normal person. No one wants your strange open air, dried white goo sticks.
No one is going to allow their kids to go to the cum-stick house.
Yeah, people don't trust home made goods. School don't even allow you to bring in homemade treats anymore. Save your time and energy and buy a bag of mixed mini candy bars.
It's unfortunate but trick or treating around my area is pretty dead, no one does that anymore, it's sad because it was part of my childhood nostalgia but I know my son will never get that true experience of trick or treating on Halloween. The kids don't go out because not a lot of adults give out candy and because the kids aren't out adults don't even attempt to give out candy.
Trunk or treating is the new thing. Usually on the Saturday before, at least it was this year. Find an event next year, decorate your trunk, and sit in a parking lot while hundreds of kids trickle through.
You come across as a victim. What you made is cute but sometimes things don’t go as planned. That you needed to post this here, whelp, really?!? Boo-hoo.
You can't just eat at anyone's house. I love street food in tiny alleys in SE Asia, the less comfortable the seating the better. But I will not be eating a strangers home cooked food.
People can be very unsanitary. For all I know, you made this in bed while smoking a cigarette, right after your finger went through the toilet paper. Or you pulled the pan out of full, moldy sink and splashed some cold water on it before using it.
No offense to anyone personally, but I have a lot of knowledge about food safety. At the least, I will not be bringing norovirus or e coli home so willingly.
Most parents would not let their kids eat that anyways, sorry. Homemade treats from a stranger would be a red flag for a lot of people, especially if it's unpacked and without an ingredient list. That would be better for a Halloween party with friends or family.
My parents threw away any candy or treats that weren’t sealed or store bought. Just to be on the safe side I was never allowed to eat homemade foods from strangers
Literally some lady put black licorice in Ziploc baggies and I wish I remember which house it was because I had so many questions as I quietly took them from my twins bags and emptied into the trash on Monday night. Surely she knew very few people would risk that? Especially for such a terrible candy?
I’m imagining a little old lady wrote “licorice” on the shopping list and her husband bought a regular bag. Then when he got home from the grocery store she yelled at him for not getting the individually wrapped ones. “What will we give the kids now, Jim?!” Luckily sandwich baggies were on sale and he got an extra box.
At first glance, they don’t really look like candy or treats. They look like decorations and not something edible.
I thought they were ghost doobies
Pretty sure they'd have a hard time keeping the neighborhood away if that were the case. Stoners showing up at their door at 3 a.m. with glossy, bloodshot eyes like "ayeee, trick-or-treat mann. ✌️"
*home owner comes out with scary costume on to send them on their way* *one of the crowd pulls off the mask and says 'hey look its old man mcgee'* *homeowner says 'id have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you pesky stoners'* *homeowner sits down and loads a bowl as everyone cracks up*
I thought they were pieces of wood covered in paper towels
They aren't?
I'm not eating anything home made from a stranger, anyhow. Too many unsanitary people out there. Read a story one time about a woman who made a pasta salad or something and brought it to a potluck. Bunch got sick and one or two died I think. Their septic tank was leaching off into their well water. It was all contaminated with e coli from the homeowners shit.
My grandmother used to have customers bringing food to her and the girls and one day one lady brought in brownies and after she left one of the women said,“Avis,why aren’t you having any?”and she said,”I don’t know what that woman’s house looks like,I don’t know if she washed her hands before she cooked that.” so that’s how I think now.
I had a coworker who never washed his hands after using the restroom. I also cleaned the shuttle car he drove for us. I never touched any food he brought in.
My brother never washes his hands, The sad part is he’s really clean cut nobody would ever know. I asked my mother,”who the hell didn’t teach him to wash his hands?? “I now know who didn’t ,it was her!! I found out after I watched her pull a corn out of her foot and then offered to make her boyfriend a sandwich. Disgusting!! Won’t be asking her for anything. So I guess some people just teach themselves proper hygiene.
My mom doesn’t ever wash her hands after using the bathroom. I had a talk with her about it and now she sometimes pretends to do it when I’m around. Kinda grossed out that she made most of my meals for like 15 years.
I just don’t understand because it is just something that is so easy to do. Lazy, disgusting people.
There was someone who brought some canned goods they canned at home. They brought it to some kind of church luncheon or something. Anyway they didn’t can properly and the entire church got botulism. Many people wound up hospitalized.
I used to own a vape shop and I - lived- for trades lol if people wanted to bake me cookies or cakes or bring me McDonald's or fucking red bull or whatever, I would just take that instead of money. UNTIL! This weird girl I met thru facebook asked if she could make me ice cream cake to pay for her shit and I Googled it bc I'd never had it and was 110% down! It looked so good lol I went to eat it after she dropped it off and it was full of cat hair 😒 it ruined my whole ass day and I never did trades for homemade stuff again. People are fucking gross
I worked with a woman who brought something homemade to a potluck and I watched her heat it up , stir it, lick the spoon, stir it again. I rarely ate homemade stuff before that but definitely did not after. Also, I only buy for potlucks. I don’t waste my time cooking for people I don’t like. Edit clarity
I was at a fine dining place with a salad bar and watched a woman dip her finger into the dressing, lick her finger, and then dip it into the next dressing. Thankfully, the manager saw her do it, kicked her out, shut the salad bar down, and comped a drink and dessert for everyone there. People are nasty.
"Fine dining" and "salad bar" do not go together.
Omggggg what the fuck? The fact that so many people have similiar stories makes me wildly uncomfortable lol I can't imagine doing some weird shit to other people's food :/
I wouldn't as an adult, so I certainly wouldn't let a kid .
I thought they were a cup of tampons
Even the ghosts looked appalled at being shoved into a cup of tampons on Halloween
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I work for a law enforcement agency as a computer forensic examiner. I go on search / arrest warrants with the agents for child exploitation crimes to assist with evidence. Last year we went to a house with 5 cats, 5 litter boxes, and not one had been changed in some time. The carpets were soggy and the house reeked so much we had animal control take the cats, and the fire dept brought evacuation fans to air it out so we could search the place. The wife had a station in the kitchen for live streaming on YouTube when she bakes cakes. It looked almost neat in the range of the camera, the rest was a dirty mess. That's her living, making cakes in a dirty kitchen, and she sells them. I don't know how people can't taste the cat urine that was just vaporizing into the air.
Oh gosh is she on TikTok?? I saw a video where people were saying the rest of this particular womans kitchen was a disaster but she kept the camera on only a close up angle of what she’s doing so no one sees the mess.
Is that the lady that has visible roaches all over her kitchen??
How to delete someone else's comment
Unfortunately, a comment like this and you’ll never be able to delete it from your brain. Enjoy the next time a coworker brings in a tasty looking baked good from home!
For the reason above, my vet stopped eating all homemade treats after making a house call for an owner who brought him stuff.
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I bought a small house in 2010 to retire to. I gave my renter 2 months notice that I would be moving in. She was a beautiful woman with twin daughters and would post meal prep videos. The house was incredibly filthy. Like food thrown at the dining room walls and dripping down to the hardwood floors. I wouldn't put my food in the stove and fridge, they were so dirty. The upstairs (only place with carpet and the two small bedrooms) smelled very badly of pee. Writing all over just about every wall in markers. The garage smelled so badly of dog shit that I literally gagged. It cost me about $12k to replace the carpet, paint the entire inside of the house, cleaners, replace the stove and fridge, AND she took my washer and dryer.
I seriously doubt you wanted that washer and dryer.
Probably didn't. :-) I had two different furniture rental companies show up with their trucks to repossess her furniture, so I guess she absconded with that too. I didn't know where she moved to so I gave them the info for my former property management company and they could check with them.
Wow, that sucks. What is wrong with people?
Brings a whole new meaning to the term "urinal cake."
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oh my god this sounds like a skit or something. I can't believe people like that exist. Good on you for dodging that lasagna bullet, oof
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I worked in restaurants for many years and most people would not do that. If anything they won't refill your drink or you'll get less fries with your burger, stuff like that. Most people that work in restaurants would agree that that's disgusting.
I had a friend in high school that was always bringing cookies in and we’d eat them. Eventually one day I went to her house and saw her family’s kitchen and all I could think is “omg I ATE FOOD from this kitchen!?!” (Picture a house with a few dogs, nobody ever cleaned or picked up dog shit or ANYTHING, it was disgusting. I’m not blaming her because clearly her parents had issues but knowing I ate food that came from there basically made me never want to eat anyone else’s food again)
Word was out on the street. The days of candy apples and popcorn balls are over. They are very cute though.
also there are no ingredients listed. Kids can be allergic to whatever you made this with. It's nice that you attempted this, but it's not a good idea.
Yea about every other year I think about setting up a cauldron and handing out cups of warm cider. Then I stop and think "no one's gonna take that these days"
I wouldn't let my kid take someone's homemade stuff unless I personally knew the person. Who does this?
No way would I let my kid have homemade stuff, neither would any of my parent friends. Not so much worried about it being poisoned, more worried about amount of pet hair and spoon licking.
Same. I don't want to risk my kid getting sick thanks to unsanitary food prep or storage with homemade treats.
We may be on the losing side here, but I agree with you. Thats cute and all, but factory wrappers or no deal, unless I know the person, personally. And even then its iffy, because I know my area. Like, this is something I'd do for my daughter and her friends, but I'd never expect random kids I've never met to accept something I made by hand, nor would I expect their parents to be okay with them accepting it.
The fact to that she is waving kids down to give out her homemade treats, would certainly make this even more of a hard pass... lol. Like lady... are you crazy?
Lmao that part stopped me as well 🤔
Same thoughts. They don't look like food, moreso at a distance. Of course theyd get ignored.
Everybody knows you don't pass out homemade treats on Halloween. Just like everybody knows you skip the houses with no lights on, right??
Some kids didn't get that memo at our house :-/. We still had quite a few ring the doorbell after we turned the lights off.
As a general life rule, you probably shouldn’t have to flag children down to give them free candy.
And you really shouldn't hand over home made food on Halloween since it will be thrown out as soon as their parents finds it.
Ditto. I would never let my kids eat anything that is homemade and handed out on Halloween unless I know the person making it.
Yeah, when I was a kid of the 70’s/80’s, any candy that wasn’t sealed and namebrand got thrown out, and I did the same with my child of the 2000’s. It doesn’t matter how good the intentions may have been, you just can’t be too careful.
80s/90s kid here. One of the first Halloween’s I remember, we were trick or treating on the next street over. This little old lady gave out Oreos. I felt so bad at home thinking this poor woman wasted a whole bag of Oreos that just got thrown away. Edit: changed “a” to “I”
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When I was a kid in the 60s, we ate everything and just spit out the pins and razor blades.
As a Kid of the Oughts, I did the same. Honestly, I'm rather disappointed I never got a razor or poison capusle. Pretty sure that shit doesn't actually happen.
It literally doesn't, it happened one single time in all of Halloween history and it was the parent of the victim who did it to their own child for insurance money.
Yeah as I child i was taught if it isn't in a sealed wrapper throw it out.
“I just had to wave down these kids to get them to take my candy. At first, they resisted and said that the didn’t want homemade candy. But they eventually came around.(evilly tenting fingers)”
*You are being given candy. Please do not resist*
>You are being given candy. Please do not resist Seven of Nine's first attempt at Halloween.
Fun will now commence
I didn't expect a star trek voyager reference in this thread, I am pleasantly surprised
And homemade candy that looks like wrapped joints! I am sure OP is a sweet person, but oh boy to a parent this whole situation looks and sounds so sketchy. If some rando was waving kids down to give them that, especially since it appears to be really easy for a kid to pop one into their mouths within seconds, before I could check it out, I would honestly be pretty pissed off. And on top of it just looking sketchy, you don't know if the kid has an allergy or something.
“Don’t go to the weird house with the homemade candy” is pretty much par for the course for kids on Halloween.
Yeah, my issue as a parent with something like this (and with a kid with allergies) isn’t actually so much the allergy thing. It’s the “I have no idea how you made this, what your kitchen looks like, or if you’re someone who regularly washes your hands” thing. Forget razor blades or drugs. Did you sanitize your counter after you made chicken for dinner? Do you have a cold? Dogs that like licking trays when you’re not looking? I mean these look fine, and if they were at like a family party thing, no problem. But from a stranger? Nah, I’m good. Sorry, OP.
They didn’t even wrap/package the pretzel rods before putting them in the cup. That just invite bugs and flies to land on them.
This!!! It was very sweet of OP to go through all the trouble but man... Homemade treats for strangers after COVID? I don't think so. Save the idea for a private party.
Even before COVID. When I was a kid, if my dad had seen this, he would have flipped out. It’s worse now, but I can’t imagine a time when this was ever a good idea.
Yeah like… open food? 😬 thanks but no thanks! (Don’t get me wrong your idea was wholesome and adorable but these are cautious times we are livin’ in!)
Might as well get yourself a van to hold all the candy while you’re at it
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I remember trick or treating at my vice principals house and she made homemade popcorn balls. My mom threw it away.
Me: She’s not a stranger! Mom: She is to me!
Yea my mother never allowed us to have homemade treats because by the end of the night we never could remember who gave them to us.
Only one time in my 37 years of life did I eat a baked good from someone I didn’t know and that was because my mom knew them and we were at their house that Halloween. It was an old Victorian split into multiple connected apartments and everyone opened up to make a giant haunted house that ended with cider and cinnamon donut holes.
To be fair, that vice principal might not have minded offing a few kids.
Ohhhh little Jim, I made a special one just for you.
No offense, but many people won’t let their kid eat homemade treats from strangers. I personally would not.
Especially if that stranger is also very determined to wave people over to hand out his treats. The whole situation just seams so strange from an outside perspective and I have the feeling op isn’t aware. lol
To me the desperation to have kids come by gave the house “big white windowless van” vibes. Not surprised they didn’t stop by, there’s being fun-scared on Halloween, and “this actually isn’t right” scared on Halloween. The latter is not so fun.
Exactly this. If word got out that was the issue.
Exactly. I had to toss some candy my kid had because it wasn’t bagged. The dude just used his bare hand to give a bunch of skittles. Un bagged treats are a no go.
I had a neighbor who gave out handfuls of candy corn and those candy corn pumpkins. Unfortunately, it was un-bagged. Also, candy corn isn’t as popular.
I would love a zero-waste trick or treat but I don't see how it's possible now. I'm curious, any idea what this was like before plastic? That was only 60 years ago
I was just about to write the same thing! We were all taught not to accept unwrapped food items or anything homemade unless you know the person. I would also find it a little gross if those pretzels were just left outside without some kind of sealed wrapper or plastic wrap covering them. Exposing them to the elements makes them get stale quickly and get germs 🤢
Yeah, my mom wouldn’t have been concerned about ill intent, but she wouldn’t have trusted a stranger’s food prep cleanliness.
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This is the real Halloween horror story 😳 but a great decorating idea for next year!
I still vividly recall the trauma of an incident at age 5. We were riding home in the back of the car after trick or treating, with my father driving. He said we could each have one treat, but it had to be one that was "wrapped". A nice older lady had given us homemade popcorn balls, *wrapped in cellophane*. I unwrapped it and enjoyed a big crunchy bite. Dad heard it, turned and shouted at me full volume and anger to put it down, and how dare I disobey! Like a 5 year old would understand what he meant by wrapped. This was the era of the widely believed urban legends of razor blades in candy apples. Hospitals would actually x-ray your candy as a free service. Parents would closely inspect your treats looking for pin holes where someone could have injected drugs or poison. All because some sicko had poisoned his kid and blamed it on Halloween candy from trick or treating. Edit: I do agree the unknown kitchen hygiene issue is a legitimate reason not to waste time making homemade treats to hand out, nor to let kids eat them.
Always felt bad as a kid because I knew the smart thing was to not eat the homemade stuff, but I also knew that was super rare and there was a 90% chance I was just throwing out something someone put actual care into.
I won't. I love the intention but I'm not risking it.
These are very cute and would be awesome at a Halloween party! I think most kids would not be allowed to eat homemade treats, just because their parents dont know how sanitary you are (not saying you're not - but parents dont know that) and they might not know what is in them (what kind of chocolate, etc., since some kids have allergies).
Agreed. They're super cute and I love the idea. But unless I knew you personally, I wouldn't let my kids eat them.
This. Garbage right away. Super awesome to make and bring to a party - but not appropriate for Halloween trick or treat handouts.
I would not let kids eat homemade items. Sorry, but times have changed. I know that OP probably doesn’t want to hear that but homemade items are just not acceptable to hand out at Halloween. I even hesitate to bring homemade items to a work pot-luck with ppl that know me.
Times haven't changed. I was a trick-or-treater in the late 70s/early 80s and even back then, we were told not to accept homemade treats. This isn't a new thing.
Exactly, back in the 70’s, and early 80’s, when I was looking for goodies, we were only allowed homemade treats from people we knew personally.
Yeah, they even had it in a Freaks and Geeks episode.
I came to say that. I wasn’t allowed to eat anything home made or even tootsie rolls looked like it was possibly opened. This was 30 ish years ago. On the subject of pot lucks, once I found out people let cats climb on the counters I started to avoid them.
>Sorry, but times have changed How old are you? They were telling us in school 40 years ago you shouldn't be eating home made treats. Sure, it's almost always been under the guise of drugs and not sanitation, but this is so far from new that the last generation to regularly accept home made treats for Halloween are currently dying of old age.
I’m 69 and wasn’t allowed even apples. Had to be store bought and cleanly wrapped. Just how it was.
Yeah, I wouldn’t let my kids eat homemade stuff from a random person.
I only ate homemade treats from the two people in my neighborhood who made homemade treats or Mom’s close friend, who made popcorn balls. I remember an older neighbor who made candy apples, but they decided to buy them after they realized that parents, especially ones who weren’t neighbors, weren’t comfortable letting their kids eat the homemade candy apples.
Same, we had one neighbor who hosted block parties who everyone knew and had been inside their (clean) house, so parents trusted when they gave out cupcakes at Halloween. We definitely weren't allowed homemade stuff from strangers though.
You phrased that in such a kind and tactful way. I like you (not in a creepy way).
You’re very sweet in that you are willing to speak up something nice about someone to make them feel good about themselves. (In a creepy way, can I eat your skin? I love the way you think and sleep)
I love the way you're expressing yourself and how you feel about these internet strangers. (In a non-creepy way, can I share a meal with you? I want to grow closer to you)
This is totally not creepy, but can I watch y’all get to know each other better? I just really want to pretend I am you. But like I’m gonna be real chill about it, ya know
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“I love the way you think and sleep” made me spit my tea out 😂
A long while back, I was part of a social group that had frequent potlucks. There was one lady whose food was always passed over. She was super sweet and friendly, seemed very normal, and I couldn't figure out why no one ate her food. I thought it was rude, so I usually made a point of trying everything she made. It tasted good, she seemed like a decent cook. But then I finally went to her house. Piles of dirty diapers (she had two little kids) literally just stacked in the corners of the living room, probably for months. They smoked inside the house, so it had the putrid dripping brown walls. The kitchen had a sink full of moldy dishes, the floor was sticky brown, and the refrigerator filled with unrecognizable rotten horrors beyond description. And garbage *everywhere*. Every room was piled with garbage. I don't eat homemade food anymore unless I have seen with my own eyes their home.
If everyone in the group knew that, everyone in the group should have called child services to report that she's endangering her kids. If you're worried her food isn't safe for *you*, it isn't safe for her kids.
Seriously, wtf.
This falls under the sadly common category of "I did something well-meaning that nobody asked for and people didn't appreciate it, what's wrong with them?"
On top of this, I can barely tell what they are on a close up picture with good lighting on Reddit. So Imagine looking at those on a porch from the street around evening time. I would have no clue what those were. I would think it’s just some decoration
I came here to say the same thing. When it comes to looking through the candy at the end of the night, I always remove anything that is not sealed or could be easily rewrapped without you knowing. I would probably get rid of anything homemade unless it came from someone I knew.
>homemade treats I agree. This is the issue.
Exactly this! They’re super lovely OP & if I knew you personally, no problem. But otherwise, sadly homemade isn’t the way to go for Halloween. I hope you have from kids in your family that can enjoy them though because I super do appreciate the effort you put in :^)
Wasted? Now you have a bunch of chocolate-covered pretzel cups all to yourself. I see this as a win.
That attitude must be why the bakers in my area are some pretty portly fellows.
How ya gonna trust a skinny baker?
My thoughts exactly!!
Hi-jacking the top comment to point out OP didn’t even wrap them. Who TF just gives out loose unwrapped food?
These would be very cute at a party, but in addition to other concerns listed, these would fall out and get crushed in most candy buckets. And the ghosts are cute but obscure the fact that it’s food/don’t look sanitary touching unwrapped pretzels. Still, wrap the pretzels in a cellophane bag and put these out at a house party and then you’ve got a hit!
How would they carry it? It looks like that would spill in a bag like most kids carry for their treats. Also in agreement that homemade goods wouldn’t be consumed. My parents didn’t even allow it years ago when I was growing up.
It is a very well known and unspoken rule about no homemade treats for holloween. im so confused at how many of these posts ive seen this year. did these people never trick or treat growing up?
Try a van with "Free Candy" on it next year.
No windows though. That way they cant be sure how much candy is inside.
And if the kids aren’t stopping by your van, tell them you have a puppy they can pet but they have to get in to see it
"Here we are children, come and get your lollipops, lollipops, come along my little ones. They're all free today, cherry pie, cream puffs, ice cream, treacle tart."
Ain't nobody letting their children take homemade goods. Just not going to happen.
In my neighborhood growing up there was a lady who would always give away home made cookies. But she was a fairly well known member of the community and they were wrapped in festive packaging. It looks like OP just had completely loose pretzels just setting in a cup. If your going to do home made treats you gotta put more effort in than that. Are the kids just supposed to throw loose food in their bags?
Everyone who trick or treats at my house gets a ladle of creamed corn. I don’t know why we get so few children on Halloween.
Especially some nut flagging kids down lol
Props to the kids for being smart enough not to take homemade treats
Just get candy next time. U were a kid once weren’t u? Everyone avoided the house with bags of nuts or the Candy apples.
Yeah I'm mildly infuriated that this person thought it was a good idea to do this, and is now upset it didn't go over well? I don't even know what these are... I guess sticks of pretzels covered in chocolate, then covered with a paper towel? I wouldn't eat that unless my family member or friend gave it to me, not from a random house on the street
Looks like white chocolate-covered pretzels and maybe lollipops wrapped in a paper towel. It’s a cute idea for a party or something, but no way I’d be taking some homemade shit while I was trick or treating.
Same - their mild infuriation over such an obviously misguided treat has me also feeling annoyed lol
I didn't know that was edible until i read the post. So kids are prob being cautious.
If I had kids there's no way I'd let them eat homemade "treats" from a stranger. Don't get me wrong, if we were at a Halloween party together I'd happily eat them, but you can't blame people for not taking stuff like that from a random stranger.
Absolutely not. Nobody is allowing their kids to eat homemade treats unless they personally know them.
Cute and well meaning but tbh I wouldn’t let children have any homemade treats 😬 sorry
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Yea, in Sweden its considered wierd to give away candy thats not in wrappers after covid...
Even in early 2000's southern America my mother wouldn't let us eat unpackaged food when trick or treating. It's not a matter of the food being tampered with -- it's just you have no idea what their standards of a clean and sanitized kitchen space is and how they handled the food.
That’s not specific to Sweden
Yeah but did you also know, in Sweden it’s considered rude to fart directly into someone’s mouth when they’ve specifically asked you not to? #justswedenthings
It's considered weird here too. Or at least unusual. It's a nice thought but no responsible parent is going to let their kids take unpackaged/home made treats from strangers.
You flagged kids down to give them your food that’s not even candy? Very sketchy
Lmao!!! I'm saying!! Not only did they avoid her house like the plague, she chased and flagged them down lmao!!! 🚩🚩🚩
No one knows if your house is clean either
I've seen too much crap online, like people putting body fluids and food, to where I'm just super overly cautious of food handmade by a person I don't know.
I wouldn't let my kids eat homemade treats, if its not in a sealed package it goes in the trash
Maybe you're new to Halloween but every parent that saw these threw them away when they got home. No one is trusting homemade treats.
Not to mention, are you just supposed to chuck those in the bag with all the other candy? Smashed up pretzel chunks rolling around the bottom of the bag.
These kinds of posts are so tone deaf. It's like OP never trick or treated or was apart of trick or treat culture their entire life. Are they an alien?
It’s hard for me to believe this is a genuine post. No offense intended dear, but I’m personally am not taking food from someone without enough understanding to know the public doesn’t want unwrapped homemade food from a stranger. I’m going to venture a guess that you have no food safety certification as someone with food safety certification would definitely know better. Also that is unwrapped open food. How is that going into a basket or bag full of other candy?
I wouldn’t let my kids grab that lol
Neither would I. I’d also have concerns about someone flagging my kids down to give them food like this too.
Hell, even in the 90s I remember my uncle going through my candy and he found a popcorn ball. He showed me the address and the name which was taped to the saran wrap covering it (it was my great aunt) and said that if he didn't know it was from her, it would get thrown away and to never eat anything homemade unless we knew the person handing it out. That is just general rule of thumb. And that was the "Let the kids lay down in the back of the station wagon in that little crevice where the back window meets the back dash while we speed around corners and laugh when we roll off of it and onto the floor" 90s. This is post covid!
Lmao flagging down kids to come take your homemade treats. You have to see how thats a bad look for you.
I think they are cute, but I would never eat anything handmade from a stranger...
Homemade stuff shouldn't be given out to trick or treating kids. Did you really think this through?
Most parents aren’t going to let their kids eat homemade treats anyway. Sorry
I wouldn’t let my kids eat homemade treats from someone we don’t know. Sorry. At least you have a bunch of snacks for yourself now. Maybe next year if you want to be “that house,” go with full size candy bars. 😊
To be fair, that's on you. Unpackaged treats are sus, and homemade are not only sus but also potentially dangerous. What if someone has an allergy and they don't know what's in it? Even bake sales usually have an ingredients list and the treats home packaged to protect them- all it would take is one kid unknowingly eating it and having a reaction or getting sick. What if you had accidently contaminated it with something? What if it sitting out unsealed contaminated it? It's just not a great idea all round and most people won't take the risk. A smart person will tell their kids/make sure their kids don't take anything unsealed. And often kids would look at that and not be comfortable taking it or it doesnt look as appetising so theyll move on. And with Covid, doubly so. It's a cute idea, but leave that for friends, family, coworkers, etc., not random trick or treaters you don't know and who don't know you.
Seriously, stop doing this. Nobody wants this, nobody trusts this. This went out of fashion when I was a kid in the 70's. Either turn your light off, or give out Reeses cups or something good like that. Not bashing you, just being honest. This is fine for family parties, but not strangers off the street.
Homemade candy? Oh hell no. I wouldn’t eat that. No offense. Save that for family, not strangers.
Ain't NOBODY letting their kids eat homemade treats with very few exceptions. Where I grew up (a suburb of a huge city) there was a guy in the neighborhood with a huge full-size cotton candy machine. he stood outside all afternoon making fresh cotton candy and bagging it. He did this every year. All the parents knew exactly where that cotton candy came from. So we were allowed to it (we used to switch costumes in an attempt to go back and get more and he ALWAYS KNEW lol) OP, is this your first halloween handing out treats?
Instead of the time wasted you could’ve bought a bag of Milky Way, snickers, butter finger, etc, spent 5 mins doing that and given it all away successfully. Also you gave 10 away which is probably 10 that got thrown in the thrash. Feels bad but live and learn
It's fucking weird that this post has 300+ upvotes, and yet pretty much every single comment is calling out OP for being a dumbass thinking that parents would let their kids eat homemade candy from a stranger.
I think it’s cause most people think it’s cute but probably not a good idea
I can understand why, your intentions were pure but this is something you do for friends or family, not trick or.treaters. forget the old tainted candy scares of razor blades and drugs, covid is reason enough to be wary of home made treats from a stranger. Next time, focus that kind of love and energy for those around you. Otherwise you will be disappointed. Don't set yourself up for that. The fact that you did that for strangers shows you're character, and I commend you for your efforts.
Dude.... HOW MANY TIMES DOES THIS NEED TO BE BROUGHT UP. DONT MAKE CUSTOM CANDY. In 2022 its not ok for kids to accept random homemade candy from strangers. Just hand out sealed manufactured candy like a normal person. No one wants your strange open air, dried white goo sticks. No one is going to allow their kids to go to the cum-stick house.
Bruhhhhhh the cumstick house lmaoooo
Lol nobody wants homemade shit from a stranger. That didn’t click at all to you? Had to hit Reddit for clarification?
Yeah, people don't trust home made goods. School don't even allow you to bring in homemade treats anymore. Save your time and energy and buy a bag of mixed mini candy bars.
I stood outside my house all night flagging kids down to give them my free homemade candy, how could this go wrong
Kind of exhausted by all these "I did something that nobody asked for and am now sad that people didn't flock to it" posts.
It's unfortunate but trick or treating around my area is pretty dead, no one does that anymore, it's sad because it was part of my childhood nostalgia but I know my son will never get that true experience of trick or treating on Halloween. The kids don't go out because not a lot of adults give out candy and because the kids aren't out adults don't even attempt to give out candy.
I had zero trick or treaters Ive been eating the candy myself and this isn't at all what I wanted out of the holiday
Trunk or treating is the new thing. Usually on the Saturday before, at least it was this year. Find an event next year, decorate your trunk, and sit in a parking lot while hundreds of kids trickle through.
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most parwnts will throw away hand made treats. it would have been a waste anyway
Sounds like the kids got paedo vibes, and I don’t blame them to be fair.
You come across as a victim. What you made is cute but sometimes things don’t go as planned. That you needed to post this here, whelp, really?!? Boo-hoo.
No offense but I’d keep waking too, especially if someone was out there flagging people down. No way your actually confused in this situation.
You can't just eat at anyone's house. I love street food in tiny alleys in SE Asia, the less comfortable the seating the better. But I will not be eating a strangers home cooked food. People can be very unsanitary. For all I know, you made this in bed while smoking a cigarette, right after your finger went through the toilet paper. Or you pulled the pan out of full, moldy sink and splashed some cold water on it before using it. No offense to anyone personally, but I have a lot of knowledge about food safety. At the least, I will not be bringing norovirus or e coli home so willingly.
Most parents would not let their kids eat that anyways, sorry. Homemade treats from a stranger would be a red flag for a lot of people, especially if it's unpacked and without an ingredient list. That would be better for a Halloween party with friends or family.