Happy Halloween From Food Lovers!

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Correen – Wow I have so many fond memories of Halloween as a kid! Crazy how much candy we used to haul in from our run around the neighborhoods. As a kid in the 60′s we never had parents tagging along and like NanLT mentions we’d fill up our sacks, drop em’ off at home and head back out again and again. One of those years, due to the poison candy scare, my mom had to inspect every single piece of candy before we could eat it and most of the “homemade treats” ended up in the trash.

By far the spookiest…downright scariest thing that I ever experienced was a haunted house my brother took me to when I was in my late teens. Thinking back on the night I just know that he’d been there already and knew it would scare the bee-gees outta me! Room after room in the haunted house had me terrified, screaming my fool head off. The more I screamed, attempted to run, the more the monsters and headless people would pursue me. To leave the haunted house you had to go down a huge slide that had a “rubber” nail at the end…I squealed to a dead stop at the bottom and had a 10 people pile up behind me! I swear I could not get outta there fast enough!

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NanLT – Growing up, I lived in a small town in Kansas and every child was out on Halloween night getting candy from every house in town. I remember going out with my paper bag, going home to dump the bag, and going back out again on another run. Then once home for the evening I had to sort through all the takings, trade candies I didn’t like for candies my brothers didn’t like, and sort out what order I was going to eat them in.

As an adult though, Halloween is more about my own children. They are are an age where they love dressing up and trick or treating. Life has changed, we live in a larger metropolitan area and they can’t be allowed to go out on their own. I do love watching their faces when they trick or treat and someone gives them a treat though.

Pork is just coming back into season, and in pre-industrial times it would have been during the months of September into October and November that pigs which had been growing all summer would be butchered. Every part of the pig would be used. “Everything but the oink.” my mother-in-law would say. Crowning the table though would be a lovely roasted joint with crispy crackling adorning it.

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Ecolicious – I never cared for Halloween much growing up. Then I had kids and my sisters had kids and before I knew it I was happy to see my kids so excited about Halloween. I love the way they are so shy going up to a door their first time trick-or-treating. Trick-or-treat can barely come out of their mouths. As they grow older they grow bolder and they can knock on doors, shout the magic words, say thank you and then walk over to the next door.

Last year, my kids and my sisters’ kids did it together. We were all together this year and so were our husbands and boyfriends. We went to my oldest sister’s house and we took a long enjoyable but tiresome walk to a Halloween event in some school parking lot. There was music and a group of parents sitting down while the kids danced. My kids wanted to dance too, but they were shy to do it without us, so my husband went in and I watched my husband dance his gringo dance with my kids and I loved it.  So, if Halloween means spending time with your family, enjoying the lives we live before we die, than I love it.

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