Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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And it tastes worse than ever.
All that delicious palm oil
And hfcs
Mmmnnn Hershy’s Vomit bars
Ok, I’m not the only one.
I’m pretty sure American commercial chocolate companies are why I don’t really like chocolate. I can eat it and it’s not literally revolting, but I sure as fuck can’t imagine passing a rack of hershey bars and going “ooh!”
I like chocolate. I like European chocolate much more than American chocolate.
But it’s just those particular candy bars that have a vomit aftertaste to me now & they didn’t use to when I was a kid.
Prices are fine in Canada. Happy Halloween, ‘Murica.
Considering global coffee and chocolate prices, I’m surprised. Are sizes the same as last year?
I normally do full sized bars considering how many people we get on average. I normally buy them at Costco Business and it looks like they’re still priced the same. Prices at regular Costco are similar to what I remember of last year too.
We probably make most of our chocolate here. In the area around where I work there are at least 4 Mondelez plants. I know Mars has a few plants in or around the GTA as well.
Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.
As a kid I yearned for the mines
The stupid shit tho is five years ago the candy would go on sale the day after and it $4 a bag. The candy is not expensive and the candy is probably somehow circulating from 5 years ago. Is all supply and demand, fucking capitalism.
Yeah that’s what’s so shocking about it, these bags would be $5 only a few years ago. And I remember how painfully impoverished large swaths of the country were then.
I cannot imagine how the average American in the Midwest is surviving at the moment.
Have you been to a dollar tree? And everything is $3 or more
Wife and I both work, everything is carefully calculated to have us constantly worry about bills and unexpected expenses. If one of us misses 1 day of work there is 1 bill that won’t be paid, which means multiple phone calls from bill collectors. A lot of them are super fast about sending to collections. I no longer fret about my credit score.
And the ultra-wealthy yearn for the “mine!”
I always take call on Halloween so my coworkers who have kids can go out and have fun with their family… This bums me out on their behalf.
Are prices at places like Costco still decent? Or those restaurant supply type stores? Or some mythical product that isn’t candy and won’t be soul-crushing to a kid expecting candy?
“Heres a baggie with a toothbrush, a travel size toothpastea box of raisins, 50 pennies, and an apple”.
I’ve been a full size candy bar house for a while. Buying bulk candy bars spiked in 2021. Boxes usually average about $1.25 per bar, but you can find sales at Costco at $0.60 each if you aren’t picky on exact candies.
Non-candy options I sprinkle in that are hits are rice krispy treats, bags of microwave popcorn (unpopped) and the packaged 2 pack of cookies.
You literally just have to do 5 seconds of planning and not buy from the top manufacturer 3 weeks before Halloween. Everyone is just looking for reasons to bitch with this rage bait.
Shit is getting stupidly expensive. People are gonna bitch. You’re gonna complain about them. I’m gonna make a comment about that because i can’t help it. We’re all fucked. Let the person air their grievance about overpriced candy. Fuck’s sake 🫠
Ah the ol “blame the consumer” bit
Yes. I spent $20 last year. It’s not hard.
Found the house that gives those shitty buttercorns.
I’m a house that buys Full size Candy bars. We average 50 kids in our neighborhood, so generally 1 fundraiser box covers us.
I still have my 2024 screen shots and as you can see the price went up 31% I know it’s not an exact comparison, but the box I gave away last year appears to have been discontinued. On lower count packs its gone up nearly 45%.
I was planning on doing Roasted Chestnuts and Apple cider for parents as a fun gag, but now I’m considering doing that exclusively.
Where do you get roasted chestnuts?
Well first I have to pick them. I go here https://ohiochestnuts.com/#visit
And then I plan on roasting them the day of, I’ve got an antique cast iron chestnut pan and a grill.
You need to find an open fire
¡Hecho en México!
At that price, I think I’ll just hand out dollar bills. Kids love money, right?
We are doing stickers and glow sticks. Bought the “rave family special” online. It was still cheaper than candy.
Worst case Ontario - we now have emergency lightning, and an activity that will take hours for the kids.
Worst case Ontario
It’s water under the fridge.
Gnomewhatimsayin?
Water you saying?
It’s not rocket appliances, Ricky.
We are doing the same. No candies. My partner will give out stickers, pencils, and some organic savoury puffs that she managed to snag somewhere in bulk.
I would have to assume that if you handed out single dollar bills, kids wouldn’t really know what to do with it.
Pool it together and buy bags of candies at 70% off on November 1sr
the stripper bar is only two blocks away…
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when I was a kid, people would give out pennies when they ran out of candy
I get about 50 kids in average every year.
So no matter the price (unless it gets any higher), I’ll spend a couple hundred on candies. I’m not wealthy but I can afford it once a year … I actually prefer spending more on this holiday than for Christmas.
Plus I loved this holiday when I was a kid. What other time or place do you have an opportunity to see a strangers house and get candy in a safe and public holiday? So I’ve made it a rule in my life that on Halloween when a kid comes to my door, they’re getting a few handfuls of candy. I also don’t care of the kids age … they could be two or twenty (as long as they’re polite and non aggressive) they’re getting candy.
I once had a group of college kids who were Indian nationality who were just out having fun with some face paint and daring each other to visit houses … I gave them a bunch of candy, told them which houses to go to and made them laugh.
Tricks it is, then.
laughs in danish
To clarify; danish candy prices are fucking ridonkoulus.
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Leave a note on Your porch saying “come back tomorrow”.
That’s my favorite day for cheap candy
I only got about five groups last year, maybe 15 kids total.
I noticed a couple of days ago that the Halloween candy was out at Walmart, but I didn’t check prices. If this is accurate, then, yeah, porch light off this year. It’s not even worth putting out a pumpkin. Also, I’d end up eating the leftover candy, so that’s not good either.
If homemade cookies weren’t shunned, then I’d do that, but I can’t imagine parents letting their kids eat them. The fearmongers have won.
We don’t have enough kids in my neighborhood to justify buying candy
Neither do we, but I still buy it, pretend we do, then eat the bag over the night!
Like a true American. I also want to lose weight so I keep stuff like this out of the house.
Is this USD or?
American pricing be like.
IKEA has full size bars for a dollar each. I think 30 of those would be better than a bag of small candies for $30
You don’t want to get known as the full bar house unless you wanna spend $500 bucks a year on candy at minimum
Mini bags at Costco tend to run $0.25 or less a piece
