A 3rd grade boy in Covington, Georgia was suspended from school for possession of banned objects. The banned object was the sugary disc candy known as Smarties. It wasn't so much the Smarties that was the eye opener here though. It was the fact that he wasn't eating them. He was snorting them. Snorting them like lines of cocaine.
If you find Good and Plenty in your trick or treat bag, you could be celebrating Halloween the same way your parents, grandparants and great grandparents did!
The San Antonio Express-News did a survey on the best and worst Halloween candy according to their readers and since it is just one set of readers from one paper in one town, national conclusions can be drawn.
Halloween is a favorite holiday for kids; it's the one day of the year when you can get dressed up and ask other people for candy. As fun as Halloween is, it's a good idea for parents to encourage kids to practice safe habits when trick or treating. Here are some safety tips to keep in mind this and every Halloween.
Trick-or-treating is fast approaching and it's time to stock up on the sweets for all of the visitors. Are you the cool house that gives away the whole candy bars? I certainly hope you're not the house that hands out pennies, pencils and apples...
Maybe you’ve given up eating candy years ago because you’ve been told one of a couple things.
It’ll raise your blood sugar.
It’ll go straight to your hips
Or
It’ll rot your teeth.
Still, there’s always one that you have to have on certain occasions...
With Halloween just around the corner, what a perfect time to combine our favorite era with our favorite sweets! Even though you can still find many of them today, sweets like original candy bars, Bottle Caps, Good & Plenty and Abba Zabba were some of our favorite treats in the 1980s.
It’s that time of year again when we apologize to our pancreas and then eat until we're sick -- Halloween candy season! Everywhere we turn, we’re bombarded with chocolate and gummies and sour things and those peanut butter taffies in the wax paper wrapping that no one ever eats. Somehow those things have survived the ages but our favorites have gone by the wayside. It’s bittersweet heaven on earth