Halloween. Do kids still eat candy apples?

[Anonymous]

I made a whole heap of them last year and the trick or treaters didn't seem fussed on them. Like I had made toffee apples, chocolate apples, honey apples, caramel apples, syrup apples. Is it maybe American kids won't be tricked by fruit posing as candy? We used to love candy apples at Halloween back home.

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I talked about it with some of the other parents at a community meeting. It all worked out.

[Peter_Penetrator]

I was never a big fan of candied apples. While growing up, l heard of a lot of people that would eat them.
We also indulged in that Pagan ritual of bobbing for apples. Of course over the last 30 years, in the US, all of our Christian churches have steered children away from an innocent night of fun. Halloween is frowned upon due to its ties with Pagan rituals.

I think the parents of these children that disavow Halloween only due so because the idea of their children dressing up in scary, sometimes gruesome costumes is an embarrassment more than anything. I mean some towns still don’t allow school kids to dance with each other.

I have my own relationship with God, but to deny children the chances to participate in fun activities like Halloween or a high school prom, now that is just down right evil.

Why is it the church sees fun activities as being influenced by the devil? Maybe because they feel they will be judged, not by God, but only their peers.

[Asker]

You know Christmas trees are a pagan thing. St valentines day. Carnivals. On and on. I've never seen any Protestant religion celebrate Jewish stuff like Jesus would have.
Bobbing for apples is just a game, like apple on a string. Like other Halloween games past and present b4 video games and movies on a dark October they were just a way of entertaining kids.

[Peter_Penetrator]

Kids need to be kids. My video games of choice were playing in the woods, stealing lumber scraps and nails from homes being built in my neighborhood and building tree houses. Riding my bike from dawn until dusk. Fishing from dawn until dusk. Playing in the creeks that meandered through my neighborhood. Of course back then neighborhoods were safe and free of gang violence. I might have gotten into a fistfight or two, but never felt the need to start my own street gang for protection. If l got my ass beat, oh well. I lived free to see another day.

[LiamSawyer]

For the past 50 or 60 years we've been warned and taught to not trust homemade Halloween treats due to a handful of very sick, twisted & deranged persons with a desire to hurt kids by adding pieces of razor blades, poison and other harmful objects to Halloween treats mostly the homemade ones but not limited to them, and have been warned to inspect the treats the kids have collected prior to allowing them to eat any. That may possibly be why your lovely candy apples were shunned.

[Screenwriter]

There have been so many bizarro problems with homemade treats made by the errant psycho that parents don't allow children to eat anything but prepackaged treats.

If you and the parents KNOW the kids coming by, ask if you can give "your" kids special treats. I'm sure if it's people in your block you're familiar with, there'll be a few takers.

[Apple1996]

Nah not a fan of those since they are bad on the teeth

[Asker]

American kids drink buckets of soft drinks and energy drinks.

[love_conquers_lust]

Oh yeah. Just can’t hand them out to other strangers kids. They will probably trash them.

American kids have too high of rate of obesity, so do the adults. Not my problem or my niece’s or nephew’s, but I know they aren’t nearly as skinny as myself or my sister was when we were their age. Nostalgia.

[Likes2drive]

They do but not from people they don’t know, it’s not good for Halloween because of past sickos so people only hand out wrapped candy instead now

[Asker]

If its that bad then not a good idea taking kids to get candy from a stranger

[Likes2drive]

Some neighborhoods don’t anymore

[madhatters4]

funnily enough i've NEVER had one in my life

but my kids love them. so yes i think some kids still eat them. i don't know if they are as popular as they once were

[Jennz6]

I hope they don’t, I heard they put razor blades in apples

[Asker]

Who would do that?

[Jennz6]

A sick person

[AmeerX]

Jennifer that's just a single case? No?

[Jennz6]

@AmeerX yea maybe

[Sparkie460]

Do to hazard scares taking homemade treats from people are frowned upon. Your immediate neighbors may know you and accept but strangers would not.

[Sparkie460]

I've heard where people use a syringe and inject poison into foods.

[Asker]

But if you are already going to strangers doors then surely they could have interfered with your kids candy. Where i lived one year a couple thought it was funny to hand out Laxative sweets

[Sparkie460]

It's easier to see if a wrapper was tampered with than to check homemade foods

[Asker]

But will a child notice that? If they are using a syringe to inject poison then that should be easy with Mars bar.

[Sparkie460]

No a child wouldn't notice it. That's why parents are with them to make sure they don't eat anything until they get home and it is checked under better lighting.
I used to take my kids around the neighborhood with other parents. Sometimes we skipped houses if it looked suspicious.

[Sevenpointfive]

i'd take one. maybe your house should be an adult stop? serve those with water and fuck the children's needs. i'm sure the adults would appreciate your effort

[TrueConfection]

We make our own at home. I never allowed my kids to eat anything homemade that was handed out on Halloween.

[Iron_Man]

Yes, of course have you ever heard of bobbing for apples?

[Asker]

... yes and apple on a string too. But that's not candy apples.

[Iron_Man]

You put the apple in the water and the kids, Bob with it with their mouth and the first one that gets it wins

[Iron_Man]

A tub of water outdoors

[Asker]

I'm well aware lol, been played in my home country long b4 America was a country. Also apple on a string. Its an apple tied to a string that you hang from something like a door frame and take turns trying to take a bite.

[Iron_Man]

I had never heard that one

[Asker]

It's just as tricky

[slatyb]

Nice thought, but a waste of time and money and perfectly good apples. You can give these to families that know you.

[XXblack88]

When I was a kid, my mom would have thrown any bake goods/ candy apples away unless it came from a Halloween party we were at.

[OfMiceandMen]

They were my favorite, still getting some fruit... so it's somewhat good for you?🤔

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I can maybe have one at Halloween but got to be careful because of the sugar content in them.

[HippieVeganJewslim]

I never tried them as a kid. I remember how my stepfather brought sweet apples as a teenager. That’s just once. I think my brother was still a kid back then.

[DarkLegacy]

American kids just want fill their faces full of sweets, im pleased here in the UK we are closing down these so called American candy shops.

[shortster]

They do, but not from strangers. Too many stories about razor blades or poison found in unpackaged treats. Even though the basis of these stories is a parent poisoning his own kids on Halloween.

[exitseven]

I think the razor blade trick sort of put the kibosh on candy apples.

[RealMarek]

Yes, we have candy apples for the kids right now.

[RedInnocent68]

Sure, but only at parties and specialty candy/chocolate shops

[Still-alive]

Been awhile since i had any but yeah they make them here still

[worldscolide]

They do in my neighborhood.

[Mansearching]

No. Not that I know of.

[Jamie05rhs]

Those kids are ignorant!

[Masterodd]

I don't know... I DO know I do. :)

[Exterminatore]

I don't know. I do.

[Drewtate]

They do.

[In_Trance]

Yes they do

[ReesesThins2]

Yes.

[robocop666]

their cool