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To give fruit out on halloween?

179 replies

MrsMotherHen · 21/10/2017 17:02

I was looking on pintrest last night and seen these (will attatch pic)

Would it be grim to give them out rather than sweets? I think they are fun. My sister thinks my house will be egged as a result.

To give fruit out on halloween?
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MacavityTheDentistsCat · 21/10/2017 20:23

Am really surprised by some of the replies on this thread. We've been giving just apples out for years (apple trees in garden) and streams of kids come for them. One group of regulars (who are now mid-teens) have even got to the point where they ask for apples from one specific tree. Halloween Grin

Holz657 · 21/10/2017 20:24

Nice idea but you won’t be popular!

JWrecks · 21/10/2017 20:55

For Halloween in a crowded neighbourhood in the States (a million years ago), we set up at the end of our drive and had something for everyone. We had big bowls of factory wrapped candy and sweeties for the kids, and we had cans of lager, bottles of water, and some grilled hot dogs for the adults who were out slogging through the streets towing kids for 4 hours! That went over really well, as there are loads of adults just hating life out there walking around!! :)

There weren't very many who took us up on the hot dogs, but there were several (mostly the dads for some reason) who did, as they got pretty hungry out there with only chocolate on hand! The lagers went so fast we ran out and had to get more, though!

Halloween is such a massive thing in the States you wouldn't believe it! It's as big as Christmas! The best thing about it was the sales on left over candy on Nov 1!! All the supermarkets put their abundance of big massive bags of yummy sweets on sale for 75+% off!! :D I do miss that!

YouCantBeSirius · 21/10/2017 21:01

All the houses we visit on Halloween make up loads of little bags for the guisers. They usually have a satsuma, some sweets and maybe a small packet of crisps in them. They children don't seem to mind the fruit.

ForalltheSaints · 21/10/2017 21:02

Why give anything at all? We are not the 51st state of the US.

GinIsIn · 21/10/2017 21:06

@ForalltheSaints Because Halloween is actually Irish and British in origin, and not from the US?

SummerRoberts · 21/10/2017 21:08

Aw no, fruit isn’t a “treat”! Buy a bag of fun sized mars bars!
I wish we could have trick or treaters but we live in a second floor flat Sad

Threenme · 21/10/2017 21:11

ForalltheSaints- Because we aren't misery guts and like to see excited little kids enjoy their night and be happy??

meltingmarshmallows · 21/10/2017 21:19

@JWrecks this is why I dream of spending a Halloween in the states!!

Mustang27 · 21/10/2017 21:20

The sweetclems in ASDA are amazing right now and I absolutely loved monkey nuts when I was younger. I’d have a choice or let them rake a sweet and a piece of fruit they will say no if they don’t want it.

bimbobaggins · 21/10/2017 21:20

Do you want trick or treaters 2014?
Trick or treating etiquette dictates that you need to put a pumpkin or something similarly Halloween esq at your door to let people know you are welcoming guisers.
I wondered why I never had any for a couple of years

minisoksmakehardwork · 21/10/2017 21:30

We visited a house one year where they offered a bowl of fruit as well as a bowl of sweets. DD’s and Ds1 all went to the sweets. Ds2 went straight for the fruit bowl and was rewarded with a handful of sweets for choosing an apple as well. The Apple, incidentally, was also the first thing he chose to eat from his bucket.

TBH I think it’s cute and I would offer both out as long as you are happy to eat what isn’t taken.

Stopyourhavering · 21/10/2017 21:58

I grew up in a different time in Scotland in the 60's/70's and we celebrated Halloween by going 'guising'...which entailed making up a little routine( poem/song) to be performed at your neighbours
www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow_halloween.htm

We often also had parties which included 'dooking for apples' where you had to kneel on ground and retrieve an apple from a bucket of water...or blindfolded trying to bite out of a sticky treacle scone suspended on a piece of string above the ground ( not sure if I'm explaining myself very well here!Grin
We'd maybe get some monkey nuts to eat and some fruit or sweets,nothing like the consumerism today
And forget pumpkins....we had to use swede lanterns which were a bugger to carve out and smelled awful
My dh was a medical student on duty when he was in placement in Kirkcaldy in '86 for his paediatric placement, and had the best Halloween party ever on the kids Ward!
Happy days!

Evelynismyspyname · 21/10/2017 21:58

On the subject of guising - we live in a country (Germany) where Halloween definitely isn't traditional (though visiting graves on all souls is), but a know it all locally had read up on it and insisted the kids do a turn when friends of my DD knocked on his door. Her friends (3 13 year old boys) recited a poem they'd learnt by heart in English and were duly rewarded with a packet of biscuits each :o

Fekko · 21/10/2017 22:06

We should reconvene on the 31st to do our 'turns'!

lurkingnotlurking · 21/10/2017 22:17

Boo nanas and pumpkin oranges!! I'm buying a sharpie. I can't be doing with all that sweetie crap that my young children come back with.

manicinsomniac · 22/10/2017 05:46

Oh, I think they're lovely and would definitely do this but I'm not really in a trick or treat area and we're not home much in the evenings.

I don't think children would be disappointed with them. If they got fruit at every house then yes, I can see that would be unpopular.

But one cute little satsuma with a funny face alongside 20+ little chocolate bars, packs of sweets etc from other houses would go down very well and make for good variety I'd have thought.

steff13 · 22/10/2017 05:52

I was very afraid of what I would see when I googled monkey nuts.

CiderwithBuda · 22/10/2017 06:15

I'm Irish (and old!) and when we did Halloween when I was a child back in th early 70s you dressed up and went out with your bag and went to neighbours and said "Help the Halloween Party" and were given fruit or nuts. Some sweets but that was unusual. Some people broke up coconuts and you would have a piece of that.

We always had colcannon - kale and mash - with sausages for dinner and then Halloween barm brack which is a fruitcake which had a ring in it. Whowever got the ring would be supposed to be married within the year.

Then we dressed up and went out.

There was always a bonfire nearby which my dad hated. The local boys would have been collecting wood for weeks and storing it somewhere. One year my mum let them store it in our garden. My dad was furious!

We lived right by the green where they lit the bonfire. They spent ages setting it up one year and my dad made them move it as it was too close to the electric cables overhead.

When th fire was lit all th neighbours would come down and stand around watching and we would start eating our haul.

Bonfires are still a big thing at Halloween and it's the fire brigade's busiest night.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 22/10/2017 06:39

Whoever mentioned mini boxes of raisins, I love that idea. Already have mini Mars, Buttons, etc, will get some raisins which Gdcs can have if left over. Will do some satsuma faces too - they look very Halloween-y! No problem to eat them if left over.
Most years I've bought mini packs of Smarties, and hoped to have some left over for me! Couldn't find them this year, v pissed off about that.

Doesn't anybody else use up their pumpkin next day? I make mine into Thai style soup, with ginger, chillis and coconut milk. Only cottoned on to this a few yrs ago - beats chucking it out.

permatiredmum · 22/10/2017 07:02

Giving out fruit makes you look like such a Tryhard

laundryelf · 22/10/2017 09:59

Anyone else remember a rhyme we used to say when the door was answered, something like " The sky is blue, the grass is green. Please may we have our Halloween?"
Makes no sense!
Giving away my age but I spent many hours learning Pam Ayres poems to recite or sang songs with my siblings. All for fruit, monkey nuts and occasionally sweets. Most successful was when I took my accordion along, got coins as well!
We did ducking for apples recently and kids loved it.

FineAsWeAre · 22/10/2017 10:07

I made some of the pumpkin face oranges a couple of years ago and put them in the trick or treat bucket with sweets, chocolate etc so kids could choose. The kids absolutely loved them and they disappeared in minutes! I do them every year now and they always all go. My son can't eat chocolate and isn't that fussed for sweets so he loves stuff like that.

ScootieAllan · 22/10/2017 10:37

I actually tried this a couple of years ago. All the satsumas were ignored in favour of the mini Mars bars and I had to eat satsumas with silly faces for the next week

FindingNemoandDory · 22/10/2017 10:40

It's a lovely thought but I wouldn't! Stick to Haribo, Freddis and cheap sweets

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