Do you give out potatoes for Halloween?

[AviatorTom]

Tonight is Halloween, and kids in many parts of the world will be out trick-or-treating in their funny or scary costumes.

Apparently, giving out a potato instead of candy is becoming a thing. Some kids even seek out houses that give potatoes, as a collection item and to impress their friends.

Do you give out potatoes? Do you know anyone who does?

[purplepoppy]

Lots of records of bread and cheese from the past here. Kids would go door to door singing rhymes asking for bread and cheese for the messager of the dead. Broth was often given to the poor. But I've never heard of the potato thing. Could it be Irish?

It was once common (still is when not raining) to cook potatoes on a Halloween fire and there's a few divination spells involving potatoes here. But I couldn't see kids being impressed with a potato.

[RandomGirl42]

No.

[jshm2]

No. I would have murdered anyone who gave me one, when I was a kid too.

Who the fuck do they think the kids are? Irish peasants?

[exitseven]

no I give out little bags ofpretzels/

[RandomGirl42]

Pretzels? I am so toilet papering your house.

[exitseven]

@RandomGirl42 I have little bags of cheese balls too

[Massageman]

We did not get a single trick-or-treater today. We DO live on a small, dead-end street, but in the past, we have usually gotten at least 5-10 kids. No problem - more Tootsie Rolls for me.

[sage2021]

I gave out 🪥 toothbrushes one year and the kids thought it was cool.

[Xawyx-2]

Nope, never, they are not sweet.

[AviatorTom]

@Xawyx-2 Maybe sweet potatoes? 😏

[Xawyx-2]

They are kinda sweet, but not as sweet as chocolate :P

[OlderAndWiser]

Never before heard of that practice.

[FunkyMonkee]

This year, I gave out boxes of spaghetti.

[RandomGirl42]

Mental note to self: Don't go trick or treating at Monkee's house.

[FunkyMonkee]

@RandomGirl42 Lol.
I don't get more than a dozen kids up here, otherwise, I would've had to give them each just one stick of spaghetti.

[FunkyMonkee]

@RandomGirl42 Next year, I'm giving out condoms. It's rubber, it's chewy, they're kids, they'll think it's gum!

[mysteriousNicholas]

No tom

No I do not

[Shiprex]

I don't. I like them for myself more.

[Cubus]

No. Why would I?