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Posted on 11-03-10 04:21:17 PM Link | Quote
Nothing really special, I guess. I stopped trick-or-treating around 12-13 and the holiday hasn't been that common in Finland. Easter, in the other hand, is our trick-or-treat holiday. Dressing as witches / monsters, bringing catkins into houses and getting candy...

I did once get a miniature plastic bow.

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Posted on 11-03-10 05:02:08 PM Link | Quote
That's interesting, Pandaren.

I think Halloween originated as a Celtic festival in places like Ireland, and it was brought to North America by immigrants, so I'm not surprised that some parts of Europe ignore it.

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Posted on 11-03-10 05:27:57 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Wikipedia
In Finland, Sweden and Denmark, traditions include egg painting and small children dressed as witches collecting candy door-to-door, in exchange for decorated pussy willows. This is a result of the mixing of an old Orthodox tradition (blessing houses with willow branches) and the Scandinavian Easter witch tradition. Brightly coloured feathers and little decorations are also attached to birch branches in a vase. For lunch/dinner on Holy Saturday, families traditionally feast on a smörgåsbord of herring, salmon, potatoes, eggs and other kinds of food. In Finland, the Lutheran majority enjoys mämmi as another traditional Easter treat, while the Orthodox minority's traditions include eating pasha (also spelled paskha) instead.
I personally hate mämmi though D:

Now that I think way back, I think we got a really odd chocolate egg back then. It came in a wrapping littered with russian and it tasted like it had alcohol in it. Nothing really "freaky" though.

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Posted on 11-03-10 08:53:05 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Chaos Force
I got a piece candy that already had a bite out of it.

Don't worry, it was just a security measure.

Anyway, there used to be this one house that gave out nickels, but that's pretty much it.
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Posted on 11-04-10 10:20:05 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by The Red Snifit
Originally posted by Chaos Force
I got a piece candy that already had a bite out of it.

Don't worry, it was just a security measure.

Anyway, there used to be this one house that gave out nickels, but that's pretty much it.


I've been given dollar bills (a couple 1s, I think) in the past, if I remember correctly... but that's the only weird thing.

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Posted on 11-05-10 12:39:05 AM (last edited by FieryIce at 11-04-10 09:39 PM) Link | Quote
No apples for me, I've been given dollar bills, as well (as much as $10s), but nothing I could consider weird.

In Puerto Rico kids would sing "Halloween, trick-or-treat, dame chavo y no maní" which translates to "give me money, not candy." So the money really isn't 'weird'.

I have no idea where that phrase came from.

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Posted on 11-05-10 02:46:55 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FieryIce
No apples for me, I've been given dollar bills, as well (as much as $10s), but nothing I could consider weird.

In Puerto Rico kids would sing "Halloween, trick-or-treat, dame chavo y no maní" which translates to "give me money, not candy." So the money really isn't 'weird'.

I have no idea where that phrase came from.


...$10s on Halloween? Holy shit.

I wonder how much you've ever gotten in one night?

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Only weird thing I got were dollar bills, too. Only I liked them, so it wasn't too weird. :p

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Posted on 11-06-10 03:30:53 AM Link | Quote
Yeeeah I'd totally take dollars over candy xD just saying.
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Posted on 11-07-10 06:29:00 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Darkdata
Would you believe 3 apples? Slightly rotten?

Into the garbage with them...

this. i mean seriously the candy costs less than the apple probably.
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Posted on 11-08-10 04:09:04 AM Link | Quote
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They may have been going bad and they wanted to get rid of them. :p

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Posted on 11-08-10 03:56:38 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by paulguy
They may have been going bad and they wanted to get rid of them. :p

haha. Watch someone handout trash next year

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Posted on 11-10-10 07:01:34 AM (last edited by Keitaro at 11-10-10 04:04 AM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by Maxwell
Originally posted by paulguy
They may have been going bad and they wanted to get rid of them. :p

haha. Watch someone handout trash next year

people already hand out candy corn! *shot*

...oh come on, that stuff...I just don't see the appeal candy pumpkin on the other hand....
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Posted on 11-10-10 12:19:08 PM Link | Quote


Originally posted by Keitaro
Originally posted by Maxwell
Originally posted by paulguy
They may have been going bad and they wanted to get rid of them. :p

haha. Watch someone handout trash next year

people already hand out candy corn! *shot*

...oh come on, that stuff...I just don't see the appeal candy pumpkin on the other hand....

Are candy pumpkins really that different from candy corn? I mean, I like them both, but the pumpkins are basically fat candy corn...

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Posted on 11-10-10 12:20:14 PM Link | Quote
Never was a fan of candy corn.

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Posted on 11-10-10 12:45:27 PM (last edited by Keitaro at 11-11-10 02:41 AM) Link | Quote
The pumpkins taste more like marshmallow to me, whereas candy corn...has no flavor I can make out
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Posted on 11-10-10 05:25:44 PM Link | Quote
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Candy corn is nauseating to me.

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Posted on 11-10-10 05:37:18 PM Link | Quote
What IS candy corn?

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Posted on 11-10-10 07:11:21 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Zero One
What IS candy corn?



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Posted on 11-13-10 12:28:54 AM Link | Quote

I never really get anything unusual. The weirdest thing I've gotten was probably a packet of forget-me-not seeds (for planting, not eating).

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