Halloween Candy Roundup

There's two approaches for buying Halloween candy. You can buy candy you don't like—I'm thinking of you Bit-O-Honey—in which case you can buy it far in advance of Halloween, or you can buy candy you like, preferably on the day of Halloween so that you don't have to buy more candy once you've eaten it all.

In addition to a variety of chocolate candies for everyone in the house, I bought a bag of Sweetarts, Nerds, and Laffy Taffy:



This year's Skulls & Bones Sweetarts consisted only of lemon, grape, and cherry flavors, my favorites. Blue punch and green apple, which I don't particularly care for, were missing.

I love Nerds of any flavor, but after breaking a crown on one I limit myself to a couple of small boxes on Halloween.

I also haven't met a flavor of Laffy Taffy that I wouldn't eat, but this year's Halloween themed caramel apple is not one of my favorites. For some reason (maybe too much heat) the wrappers and taffy were fused in the few I tried making it very difficult to eat the candy. I'll definitely be passing these on to the trick-or-treaters.

As always, the Halloween Laffy Taffy has themed jokes:

Q: What type of witch makes the best lunch?
A: A sand-witch.

Q: What kind of car does a ghost driver?
A: A Boo-ick (Buick).

Q: Why do witches fly on brooms?
A: Because vacuum cleaners are too heavy!

Q: What did the trick or treat bucket say to the candy?
A: Hello sweet thing!

Q: Why did they carve a big mouth into the pumpkin?
A: So he could scream and howl!

Q: Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
A: Because he had no guts.

Q: Who mans a ghost ship?
A: There's a skeleton crew.

Q: What do ghosts add to their morning cereal?
A: Boo-berries!

Q: What kind of music do mummies listen to?
A: Wrap!

Q: How do you fix a Jack O'Lantern?
A: With a pumpkin patch.

Q: How does a girl vampire flirt?
A: She bats her eyes.

Q: Who did Frankenstein take to the prom?
A: His ghoul friend.

Q: What is a ghoul's favorite flavor?
A: Lemon-slime.

Q: What do you call a skeleton who won't work?
A: Lazy bones.

Q: What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman?
A: Frostbite.