Trick or Treat, Daily Kos Style

The contributing editors of Daily Kos occasionally confer via email about various site matters.  Who’s going to write about X breaking news subject.  Does anyone want to do an interview with whatever media outlet.  Travel schedules and the like.  But occasionally what starts out as a fairly straightforward matter of site administration runs a bit off subject.  That happened this afternoon, on the important subject of Halloween loot.  I learned that in some boutique liberal neighborhoods in some of America’s bluest, East Coast states that children return from trick-or-treating with something called UNICEF pennies.  I think I surprised some of my fellow contributing editors with the harsher news that I occasionally dumped my Halloween loot on the table for inspection (to make sure I didn’t eat a candy bar spiked with a pin, a razor blade, or the brown acid everyone at Woodstock was warned not to drop) to discover I had been given a religious tract (and seldom the cool ones like Chick Tracts that declared my Catholic family apostates).  We even learned that Good N’ Plenty is America’s oldest branded candy.  

In an effort to use the collected knowledge and wisdom of our community, I propose three questions for the community to mull.  

First, what was your least favorite bit of Halloween loot?  Candy Corn?  Apples?  Pennies?  Skoal?  Gift certificate for a free spinal tap?

Second, what was your favorite morsel of Halloween greatness?  A full-sized Hershey bar?  My favorite, a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup?  Gift certificate to your local adult lingerie shop?  Lawn darts?

Finally, if you could give out a crappy Halloween treat to any politician, name the treat and the politician.

In a completely unfair and arbitrary contest, the best answers will be posted tomorrow on the front page a the top of an open thread.  

To get you started, here’s a hierarchy of Halloween greatness as proposed by Hunter:

Mini chocolate bars, dimensional (3 Musketeers, Snickers)
Mini chocolate bars, flat (plain: Hershey, Krackle)
Mini chocolate bars, flat (dark)
Mini chocolate bars (w/ coconut or almonds)
Pumpkin-shaped candy corn (not because it was good, but because it was pumpkin shaped)
Tootsie Pops
Other shapes of candy corn, aside from "corn" (turkey, ghost)
Hard candy, if you were allowed to take a handful from the bowl yourself
milk duds, mini pack
Tootsie Rolls
Hard candy, if you were handed it one or two pieces at a time
Quarters
Good N' Plenty
"Toys", e.g. whistles, cheap plastic things shaped like something
Candy corn, corn shaped
Nickels
Peppermints
Pennies
"Healthy" food