Public Announcement: Hallowe'en sweets - please read

[MouldyCandy]

My son offered me one of the packets of sweets from his Hallowe'en collection bucket tonight.
I opened a packet of Milky Bar buttons and thought they tasted a bit funny.
On checking, the best before date is September 2019! They are FIVE years out-of-date! 🤮
Who keeps mini packets of sweets at the back of their cupboard for 5 years??
Please undertake a quality control of the sweets your kids were given.

Or...don't take sweets from strangers

Yeah, normal. I use Halloween to get rid of all the sweets we’ve had in the cupboard since the previous Halloween

Completely normal! Halloween's the ideal time to jettison all the crap from the sweetie cupboard!

Hate to be annoying but it’s 4 years.
how did someone hang onto those for that long though!!

Oft! There must have been a bulk buy bargin 5 years ago 🤢😬

Yeah, normal. I use Halloween to get rid of all the sweets we’ve had in the cupboard since the previous Halloween

🤣🤣🤣

Slightly dramatic thread title OP - I thought this was going to be about razor blades found in lollipops or something! Out of date chocolate won’t make you ill.

My dd came home from trick or treating with the usual drumsticks and refresher bars but also some very strange brightly coloured square packets that I at first thought aghast were condom wrappers. There was no writing on them at all. Upon opening them they contained a white powder I assume was sherbet.
They went in the bin.

Parents, as they should, go to great lengths to protect their children 364 days a year then one day the take leave of their senses and send them to strangers houses to ask for sweets or money. Totally mad!

Go begging 🤷‍♀️

We ran short and I found some old chocolate pennies in the cupboard.

they definitely weren’t from last Christmas but they went in the treats bucket.

it’s not like it was out of date chicken.

The thought of giving children raw chicken breasts in their thick or treat bags is making me smile

I was just panicking that I was older than I thought because 2019 was FIVE years ago! But then I realised it wasn’t was it…🙈😂

Yeah I look through my cupboards and desperately put things out.. trifle topping? Great! Those naked bars no one likes - in they go

It's not strangers a lot of the time, it's neighbours. People only have this attitude about Halloween, when it's Christmas no one has trouble accepting chocolate from neighbours.

The thought of giving children raw chicken breasts in their thick or treat bags is making me smile

Raw Brussels sprouts dipped in chocolate tend to work quite well at dramatically reducing your visitor numbers the following year

I did exactly the same. Had Quality Street, Cadbury Roses and Penny Bubbly gums left over from last year so put them together in a tub and now there's only a handful left.

My kids one year ate all the sweets then wrapped up carrot chunks in the wrappers and gave them out instead. We chuckled all night that we had helped with everyone’s 5 a day!

How? Most kids wouldn't remember where they got anything from.

4 years out of date is a bit rank especially when giving it to children- pp saying what do you expect- seriously are odd, why partake in Halloween?

"Public Announcement" 😂😂😂

How do people not eat Milkybar buttons for four years? Don’t they know they are delicious??

Bit like harvest festival at school 🤣
have a rummage for tinned stuff that you bought and never used at the back of the cupboard

They're even better when they're stale! That kid lucked out

Thinking back to when I went around the houses at Halloween in the 80s our housing estate was as far as we ventured. I knew everyone. Also knew the best houses where there was a lot of nice food...my elderly next door neighbour being one!

Think its different though for kids who have to travel further from their house, for example those who live in remote areas, then a parent/guardian would be needed.

I love those wee bags of Milkybar buttons, they're the perfect size.

Who remembers this woman?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483609/amp/Woman-wielding-fake-knife-handed-trick-treat-children-real-lambs-heart-knocked-door.html

But one group of children, dressed as witches and zombies, got much more than they bargained for when they were handed a real LAMB'S HEART.
The children, aged nine to 12, were knocking on doors in Orpington, south east London, last night, when they were confronted with the real life horror.
The mother of two of the terrified children said the scary prank was played on the youngsters by a woman, who opened the door wearing a blood-stained butcher's apron.
She said a table set out outside the woman's home was adorned with raw cuts of meat, as well as offal, including intestines.
After placing the lamb's heart - which was wrapped in a plastic bag - into the children's hands, the woman picked up a fake knife and chased after the group.
The angry father of the children stormed round to the woman's house to demand why she had played the terrifying prank.
She reportedly told him she was 'just getting into the spirit of Halloween' and meant the prank as a 'bit of fun'.
The mother of two of the four youngsters, who asked not to be named, said : 'I can’t believe anybody would do anything so sick. To give children raw meat as a treat is just disgusting.