getting ready (HUNGRY) for HALLOWEEN

HEY YOU GUYS!!!!!! (said in my best FAT ALBERT voice)....
I'm Getting HUNGRY for HALLOWEEN!

When I went Trick-or-Treating as a wee lad in the 1960s it wasn't really for the "whole bag of tricks...er, candy." As a child, teen, young adult, and now Jurasic dinosaur... I have never been much of a "sweets eater." I've always liked ice-cream and root beer, and as an adult learned to appreciate apple pie and cheese cake... candy as candy never was my thing. To be sure, I always had a box of Lemon Drops when I went to the movies. Heck, ya had to have Lemon Drops (or maybe Milk Duds) to balance out the Godzilla sized popcorn tub!

Other kids ate from their Halloween sacks randomly (fist-full in the dark night unobserved) and ad hoc. Rogue Evolent had to wait until he was in the light of a porch to pick through his loot looking for about the only three things he truly enjoyed. Not counting peanuts (they're not candy) my favorite three Halloween treats were:

# 3) Plain M&Ms - - I have loved M&Ms ever since my Mom first gave them to me (only one of each color at a time) to eat, and to keep me occupied while the family was fishing out of boat in the middle of Northern Minnesota lake. I was easily distracted I guess, and not greedy. I never developed a craving for the Peanut M&Ms until I was in the Navy and had no other choices presented to be by the vending machine.

#2) Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar -- Unlike my pals, I never did like the chewey, caramel-y, soft centered candy bars which were so popular: Three Muskateers, Milky Way, and Snickers. But I loved the hard, crunchier, milk chocolate bars... especially Hershey's. I later developed a taste for their CRUNCH BAR!

Plus, it was fun to break the "scored" pieces apart and eat the thing in sections. I hardly ever just took a bite out of it like you see below :)

#1 BUTTERFINGER - - Like Homer Simpson and son Bart, "nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!!!!! These were my favorite candy bars back in 1964 and thereabouts... and they're still my favorite candy bars in 2011.

Postscript: And as much as I am for feeding the poor and impoverished children of the world (even as a kid) I hated those "do gooders" who would stick the UNICEF donation cards into my sack with pennies inserted in some of the slots INSTEAD of giving me my stash!!!! Also, and even worse, what the deuce was wrong with the jamokes giving us kids APPLES!!!! Hey Mr. School-marm... we're not celebrating Johnny Appleseed's birthday here...

IT'S HALLOWEEN....

and I'm HUNGRY again!