Yup, my inner eight year old says pretzels for trick or treating suck big time. She says SweeTarts, Swedish Fish, and Sour Patch Kids are the way to go.

According to Anne, the only things lamer than trick-or-treat pretzels are (1) trick-or-treat raisins and (2) trick-or-treat-not-food-at-all like bat shaped erasers or orange and black pencils. She will make an exception for temporary tattoos if they are sufficiently gruesome. For several years we have gone Halloweening in Old Town Alexandria because our own neighborhood is extremely trick-or-treater unfriendly (5 acre lots, most of the driveways have gates, some of our neighbors are drug dealers, although very upscale ones, some of the other neighbors have large unfriendly dogs to discourage the drug dealers....) Anne knows by sight the house where the "Crazy Raisin Lady" lives. So unless you want to be known as the "Crazy Pretzel Lady" I'd give it a pass.

Agreed. Pretzels are definitely SUCK... though, chocolate covered pretzels would REALLY work for me. Preferably high quality dark chocolate... I'm just saying.

Did you happen to notice how beautiful it is outside today? OMG. Frelling weather.

Yeah... you got me in your RenBrown Outfit. But at least I looked up from the cleavage for long enough to realize it was YOU.

I never thought I'd say this to ANYbody... but you look good in Brown.

"This hot and humid sh*t" is one thing... but for it to be bookended by comfortable, clear, mild weather is the real pisser for me.

My favorite response to the weather was when sunni walked up to me and we just looked at each other and started to laugh. It's the weather, what else CAN you do but laugh?

Yes, you are a purist, but I think we all are. Halloween is about candy, for pity's sake. When I think back on my Halloween hauls, it's not the rare boxes of raisins that I remember... it's the mini Milky Way bars.

Yeah, have to agree...while it is nice the company wants to donate, has their corporate leadership forgotten what it is like to be a kid and get raisins, apples and/or fig newtons in their Halloween sacks...yuck!

Personally, I think they should donate Almond Joys and Mounds but alas, that is so I don't have to steal them from Skivee this year :-)

depending on how outspoken you want to be, you could point out to the company that if they want their name to be associated with sucky treat hauls at Scary Perry, they can donate pretzels, but that most kids prefer awesome candy. *g*

honestly though? i like pretzels. as a grown-up. ;)

Pretzels blow.

Tiny bags of pretzels? No way. Not unless they come with tiny bottles of beer, too.

I prefer temperate and dry, but I will take hot and humid over cold and windy any day. (Perhaps that's because I don't own any warm Renwear.)

...I'd tell the Altruistic Pretzel Corporation of American to keep their damned pretzels. No kid on the face of the planet has ever said,"Well, these (insert brand name of whatever random combination of peanuts, nouget, caramel, and chocolatey flavored edible wax coating they happen to be holding) are pretty good, but I'd REALLY prefer a tiny bag of stale pretzels, please."
Wth that as a starting point, can you imagine how quickly Scaret Perry would become "that place that the kids won't let us take them anymore" if EVERY freakin' house on the whole freakin' street was giving those little darlings out? The only sounds you would hear outside are the whisper of tumbleweeds and the odd distant cayote.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM pretzels ...used as packing for a great whopping pile of chocolate, salt and nuts. Or with a sparkling cold glass of Pickle Juice Splash!

Candy all the way. Hell, when I do the annual check-over of the kid's haul, I get offended by the non-candy items. If it's not candy, it'd better be money. And not a couple of pennies.

We have a tradition at our house. Started it the first year we were here, and that was in 1999. We've actually become very well known. We give out full sized candy bars. And we let the kids pick which kind they want. Every year is plain Hersheys, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and random candy bar of choice (we've done Milky Ways, Snickers, Kit Kats... um... others...). Good thing for that Sam's Club membership.