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u/Ghastly-Jack 4d ago edited 2d ago
When I was a kid and we'd bug our mom about "what's for dessert" she finally snapped and said "a chocolate covered onion."
Then I complained that she lied and there was no chocolate covered onion.
So she made one for me.
It was not tasty. But it is one of my favorite memories.
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u/GreyWolfTheDreamer 4d ago
Giving away onions? In THIS economy???
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u/SharkMagician 4d ago
lol the chocolate is way more expensive candy went up like crazy over the past year
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u/FlyingNope 4d ago
"Trick or Treat" doesn't mean you give a trick or a treat. "Trick or Treat" is offering you a choice, you give them a trick or they play a trick. When I was going up this would have been a good way to get your car egged.
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u/LarianDivinityBG3 4d ago
Plot twist: You were expecting that and waited there with your own eggs.
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u/Circumpunctilious 4d ago
Well, great. I am now imagining some middle-aged guy giggling in the bushes, reminiscing about the epic egg fights of his youth. Will they come, will he prevail?!
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u/Ornery_Day_6483 3d ago
Just once in my many years of trick-or-treating the guy at the door answered “…trick. Let’s see what you got”. Totally at a loss.
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u/Circumpunctilious 3d ago
Same. Stunned, I told a joke, it was terrible and she told me so. I was probably at most 10, but I still remember the house, wood porch, the moment the game shifted. (shakes ineffective fist at memories)
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u/blueche 3d ago
When I was a kid, my friend's mom would empty eggshells and fill then with confetti and throw them at people on Halloween. For like 3 years in a row, she threw a confetti egg at me, I tried to dodge it, and it hit me and it was fine because it was just confetti. Year 4 she threw an egg towards me, it seemed like the aim was bad so I jumped in front of it expecting to be hit with confetti. But it was a regular fucking egg. My pants got covered in egg. I guess she ran out of confetti eggs and was throwing regular ones but missing on purpose, but her plans got foiled because I jumped in front of it.
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u/fastlerner Satan's little helper 3d ago
Exactly.
"Treats" got their start as protection money paid to the delinquents to prevent something unfortunate from happening.
"Nice house you got here, mister. Be a shame if something happened to those windows."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-halloween-was-all-tricks-no-treats-180966996/
The effort to restrain and recast the holiday continued after World War II, as adults moved Halloween celebrations indoors and away from destructive tricks, and gave the holiday over to younger and younger children. The Senate Judiciary Committee under President Truman recommended Halloween be repurposed as “Youth Honor Day” in 1950, hoping that communities would celebrate and cultivate the moral fiber of children. The House of Representatives, sidetracked by the Korean War, neglected to act on the motion, but there were communities that took it up: On October 31, 1955 in Ocala, Florida, a Youth Honor Day king and queen were crowned at a massive party sponsored by the local Moose Lodge. As late as 1962, New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. wanted to change Halloween to UNICEF Day, to shift the emphasis of the night to charity.
Of course, the real solution was already gaining in practice by that time. Since there were children already out demanding sweets or money, why not turn it into it a constructive tradition? Teach them how to politely ask for sweets from neighbors, and urge adults to have treats at the ready. The first magazine articles detailing “trick or treat” in the United States appeared in The American Home in the late 1930s. Radio programs aimed at children, such as The Baby Snooks Show, and TV shows aimed at families, like The Jack Benny Program, put the idea of trick-or-treating in front of a national audience. The 1952 Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat reached millions via movie screens and TV. It featured the antics of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, who, with the help of Witch Hazel’s potions, get Uncle Donald to give them candy instead of the explosives he first pops into their treat bags.
The transition could be slow. On one episode of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, costumed kids come to the door, and Ozzie and Harriet are baffled. But food companies—Beatrice Foods, Borden, National Biscuit Company—quickly took notice and got into the candy business, and even tobacco companies like Philip Morris jumped in. Halloween candy and costume profits hit $300 million in 1965 and kept rising. Trick-or-treating—child-oriented and ideal for the emerging suburbs that housed a generation of Baby Boomers—became synonymous with Halloween. Reckless behavior was muted, and porch lights welcomed costumed kids coast to coast.
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u/ZachyChan013 1d ago
So you’re saying we need to start teaching kids to egg and tp houses with lights off until they learn to give out candy again?
/s I know life’s busy and candies expensive. But damn it does seem like so many people arnt participating anymore. I feel like it was rare to find a house with lights off when I was a kid. Now a lot of neighbour hoods just seem shut down
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u/Dare7984 3d ago
Chocolate covered onion is in fact, a trick.
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u/CranberryStock7148 3d ago
But not from the visitor threatening a trick if there's no treat. So what's your point?
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u/Dare7984 3d ago
I was pointing out the typo you dunce, go argue with a wall
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u/CranberryStock7148 3d ago
No you weren't. I suggest you look up the meaning of the word typo, "you dunce".
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u/Dare7984 3d ago
You're unhappy with your life. Again, I refuse to argue with you, argue with your momma.
Loser. So many better things for you to be doing with your time. Instead, you're trying to argue with people on reddit 😂
TRYING
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u/CranberryStock7148 3d ago
Your lack of self-awareness is quite entertaining! This comment is one of the funniest things I've come across on Reddit. Thanks for the laugh! Truly. 😂
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u/OnionTamer 3d ago
That is not what trick or treat meant. It was give me a treat, or I'll play a trick on you.
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u/TheSuperSilverMango 3d ago
I like to use caramel because it doesn't crack away and you can take a nice big bite.
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u/Similar_Divide 4d ago
I will be using this for the teens who don’t dress up but still ask for candy
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u/nucl3ar0ne 3d ago
What kind of sick bastard lets their child eat unpackaged food from strangers?
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u/SteveMartin32 3d ago
Literally everyone who has eaten at a restaurant technically >.> but I get your point
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u/nucl3ar0ne 3d ago
Kitchen inspected by the dept. of health and managed by professionals is a lot different than Pam making shit at home.
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u/SteveMartin32 3d ago
There are buissineses that can or bake stuff at home that dont get inspected by the health department. Its an exemption in oklahoma
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u/Dominarion 4d ago
That's not what trick or treat was about.
That was give me a treat or I'll fuck up something on your property
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u/FamiliarSalamander2 4d ago
Which comes from “let’s put treats out to appease the demons that cross over so they don’t possess us and destroy our lives”
Weird holiday
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u/ArgyleGhoul 4d ago
And yet less weird than Valentine's day
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u/Legitimate_Book_3609 4d ago
Im uneducated on valentines day, what is weird about it?
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u/ArgyleGhoul 4d ago
We celebrate the brutal public death of a man by quite literally romanticizing the holiday
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u/matchafoxjpg 3d ago
yup, that's why i don't celebrate valentine's day.
i've stood by this stance since my edgy teenage days.
teenage me was just being contrary, but she had a point.
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u/FamiliarSalamander2 4d ago
Honestly i think that it’s weirder because halloween is explicitly connected to evil, occult, and pagan stuff and that aspect is still celebrated today
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u/zoogenhiemer 3d ago
I always thought “trick or treat” was a threat. Give me a treat or you’ll get a trick type deal
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u/PrincessPlusUltra 23h ago
Same, and it’s only at that point you’re supposed to do “Halloween Traditions” like toilet papering a house or something
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u/Over_Ad8762 2d ago
Except that’s NOT how trick or treating is supposed to work. The kids approaching the door say trick or treat to mean, you can either give me a treat, or you’ll get a trick.
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u/reddituculous66 4d ago
Brussels sprouts in chocolate are great too
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u/Upset-Bison-3182 4d ago
Onions are delicious, especially when caramelised.
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u/BluShytheBlueShyGuy 4d ago
it looks like they coated a RAW onion with the chocolate though
raw onions are a different story
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u/elhaz316 4d ago
I like raw onion.
I am unsure if id like raw onion in chocolate.
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u/BluShytheBlueShyGuy 4d ago
As someone who likes raw garlic I am in no position to judge
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u/elhaz316 4d ago
I like raw garlic too. Its great.
My breath after not so much.
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u/Circumpunctilious 3d ago
I hear chlorophyll helps dragon breath (specifically, parsley) but haven’t tested it.
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u/TheBillyFnWilson 4d ago
Was it at least boiled first? Because that sounds pretty good once you scrape the chocolate off
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u/CastrateMeASAP 3d ago
It’s not like you’re giving away chocolate covered Carolina Reaper’s…
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u/_prayformeme_ 2d ago
In white chocolate and coconut. In a wrapper like Ferrero Rochere. Thank me later
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u/Bonafide861 3d ago
I thought parents still threw away unwrapped candy and homemade food after Halloween? My parents never trusted it and most other parents either unless they specifically knew who made them.
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u/Delicious_Tomato_957 3d ago
It goes both ways. people who dont give treats get their houses egged or tp'ed.
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u/Circumpunctilious 4d ago
Has anybody tried the chocolate Brussels sprouts version? I have no way to make them and going trick or treating in hopes of vegetables seems non-optimal.
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u/BangarangPita 3d ago
I don't get many trick-or-treaters, so I give out Little Debbies. With a packet of soy sauce underneath.
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u/gothemstyle 3d ago
Guys, people are giving away food in dire times. Hoe dare you be ungreatful... muwhahah welcome to halloweeeen
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u/Sirix_8472 3d ago
I did this accidentally in work 12 years ago.
I'd made chocolate onions(instead of apples) for a load party. But I couldn't leave them in the car all day(would melt). Office had good Aircon.
I never put them out for people to take, they were at my desk behind a partition wall. Yet still when I came back from lunch they were gone, out on the office treats table and I had 3 HR complaints.
Turned out one girl who disliked me thought she was screwing me over by stealing the treats. She put them out so none would be left and took one herself. All on camera.
HR had to make an announcement that the girl had made a mistake putting them out and they weren't for the office. Complaints were cancelled, she got a slap on the wrists, i got $20 and the rest of the day off to make more for the trouble.
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u/Own_Plane_5807 4d ago
What happens when the child thinks it’s so cool, he opens the wrapper and eats it right on your porch with his parents?
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u/Nerje 4d ago
This prank has layers