HOPPY HALLOWEEN!
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what’s your favorite type of candy?
what’s your favorite type of candy?
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Good mornoonevenight, everyone! My favorite treats are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. And Snickers. And Payday. And….
What’s shakin’ today?
mmm, I’m licking my lips from the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of the day. Your post… spoke to me!
I baked a jack-o-lantern cake for the office party but the jack-o-lantern I painted with frosting got all smeared as I clutched my cake plate walking to work. And it fell when I took it out of the oven so now it’s a chocolate-orange swirl sugar bomb.
hi lil! feel like we haven’t crossed paths in ages. sorry to hear about the cake bomb, I hope you managed to salvage enough of it to still enjoy some.
Hi Manee — It’s good to “see” you. Since my home computer monitor died and I’ve been trying to stay more work-focused on the job, I haven’t been here much lately.
We’ll find out about the cake at party time in a couple of hours. How bad can it be? <cough cough>
Hi Lil. Sorry to hear about your home monitor. Got a new one coming up in the future?
Can you hear me sighing at the angst provoked by your question?
Don’t mind me I just have home computer anxiety.
Sorry to bring up such angst. I’ve been there many times before.
Thanks FM, I hope all is well with you and yours, including all hardware and software!
Yep everything seems to be going fine so far. However, in my case, I just have to be in the same vicinity of something mechanical and something will go wrong. Still waiting for this computer to poop out on me.
Is your computer screen for a desktop or a laptop?
It’s a big old desktop monitor — I’d love a flatscreen, but the computer box is pretty old too so I want to buy a whole new system when I finish paying off some debts. My daughter has a MacBook with some very cool features built in and though I’ve always been a PC gal I’m considering switching.
Yep I think my next one will be an Mac. too. I’ve been wanting one for a long time.
They ate it!
Happy Halloween everybody! May all your loot be exactly what you like best.
Ooo – Reeces Pieces, in all varieties – a long time favorite.
I have to agree Manny, Reeses rock, and Snickers – especially the bite sized ones.
Unfortunately, Reeses are not sold in Oz, except at the specialty import store, were a three-cup pack is six-dollars-fifty!
Oh, and Hallowe’en, not really done here. The stores are trying to get it to catch on as holiday that they can market to, but so far it hasn’t.
It’s the first day of dia de Los Muertos (Nov.1st). Who are you talking to? Anyone? Any panaderias around you baking the skull breads? I can never decide if it feels right or wrong to celebrate Samhain in spring, or if it really has to happen in autumn. It’s all topsy turvee down here. And Christmas in the middle of summer – all wrong!
Hi keres, I worked on an altar all day today at work. I’ll post pix tomorrow once it’s finished. I was able to find Pan de Muerto fairly easily, but the sugar skulls were elusive. I scored today at lunch with a shop that had calaveras all over the place – I got lost for awhile checking it all out.
I look forward to seeing pics of your alter.
I used to work in the Mission District of San Francisco, where the bakeries had fantastic Muertos displays – whole skeletons made of bread, bone by bone, in their front windows, and lots of festive goodies on display. If I ever get to Mexico City, I’d love to be there on November first or second and go to the Island of the Dead.
I consider it one of the greatest failings of modern European cultures, that we do not acknowledge, much less celebrate, our dead.
I think I’ll look for our “Dead Can Dance” CD.
My friends and I do a silent feast (also known as a dumb supper) on Halloween, wherein we honor those who have passed. It’s no where near as elaborate as Day of the Dead, but it is a simple and comforting way to remember those who have passed before us. However, it is likely this is a more modern tradition and not found in ancient European religions.
LOL, you so can’t celebrate Samhain in the spring, that would be like celebrating Beltain (fertility and birth) in the fall. Christmas in summer is bizarre, but Yule (the darkest night) in summer is even more twisted. :>)
Welcome bogenrim to the Halloween festivities and the pond.
For the question. Any candy is my favorite type.
Strawberry Nerds.
Hi SN. Is that a candy or an insult. 😛
Nestle’s crunch. Or almond joy. Or mounds.
Or kitkat.
I like the seasonal treats. It tastes better when you can only have it once a year. Candy corn time.
mmm and caramel apples. Not the store bought monsters eiher.
I found a new appreciation for candy when I read a book called Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by (appropriately named) Steve Almond. I didn’t realize there used to be candymakers all over the country who mostly have been swallowed up by the big companies. Almond describes regional delicacies that used to make him swoon and his writing made me want to be more adventurous in my candy eating. Oh to be young again.
Here’s what the blurb in Powells’s says:
If you can’t read about candy on Halloween by golly when can you?
Here’s a suggestion for Easter. My favorite is the gold brick egg.
http://www.elmercandy.com/seasonal_easter.htm
I was out with my friends and family tonight and we came across this incredible house with dozens of carved pumpkins. This one caught my eye and I took the picture, but didn’t even realize how perfect it was for here until just now. I’m not a great photographer, so I didn’t know how to adjust the light so that it is too bright and not as cool as the picture above.
My favorite Halloween candy is probably smartees or dots. I’m not a huge chocolate fan, unless it’s really good chocolate or truffles or such, though a bite-sized snickers or milky way is tasty too.