Trick or Treat, Daily Kos Style
The contributing editors of Daily Kos occasionally confer via mail about various site things. Who’s going to write about X breaking news subject. Does anyone want to do an interview with whatever media outlet. Travel schedules and the like. But occasionally what starts out as a fairly straightforward matter of site administration runs a bit off subject. That happened that afternoon, on the vital subject of Halloween loot. I learned that in some boutique liberal neighborhoods in some of America’s bluest, East Coast states that children return from trick-or-treating with something called UNICEF pennies. I think I surprised some of my fellow contributing editors with the harsher news that I occasionally dumped my Halloween loot on the table for inspection (to form certain I didn’t eat a sweet bar spiked with a pin, a razor blade, or the brown acid everyone at Woodstock was warned not to drop) to discover I had been given a devout tract (and seldom the cool ones like Chick Tracts that declared my Catholic family apostates). We even learned that Good N’ Plenty is America’s oldest branded sweet.
In an effort to use the collected knowledge and wisdom of our community, I propose three questions for the community to mull.
First, what was your least favorite bit of Halloween loot? sweet Corn?
Second, what was your favorite morsel of Halloween greatness? A full-sized Hershey bar? My favorite, a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup? Gift certificate to your local adult lingerie shop? Lawn darts?
Finally, whether you could give out a crappy Halloween treat to any politician, name the treat and the politician.
In a totally unfair and arbitrary contest, the best answers will be posted tomorrow on the front page a the top of an open thread.
To get you started, here’s a hierarchy of Halloween greatness as proposed by Hunter:
Mini chocolate bars, dimensional (3 Musketeers, Snickers)
Mini chocolate bars, flat (plain: Hershey, Krackle)
Mini chocolate bars, flat (dark)
Mini chocolate bars (w/ coconut or almonds)
Pumpkin-shaped sweet corn (not considering it was good, but considering it was pumpkin shaped)
Tootsie Pops
Other shapes of sweet corn, aside from “corn” (turkey, ghost)
Hard sweet, whether you were allowed to take a handful from the bowl yourself
milk duds, mini pack
Tootsie Rolls
Hard sweet, whether you were handed it one or two pieces at a moment
Quarters
Good N’ Plenty
“Toys”, e.g. whistles, cheap plastic things shaped like something
Candy corn, corn shaped
Nickels
Peppermints
Pennies
“Healthy” food
Original post by DHinMI

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