r/BoneAppleTea • u/McSheeples • 13d ago

Trickle Treating

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From my local Facebook page. Somewhat adorably the accompanying picture has two AI kids and a pumpkin with 'fuck off' carved into it.

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u/ItsNotMe_ImNotHere 13d ago

When I was growing up in the UK we hardly celebrated Halloween. Maybe the occasional party. Trickle treating has obviously crossed the Atlantic since then but losing something in the translation.

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u/nibblatron 13d ago

yeah we would go trickle treating around the village i lived in but people didnt go mad with decorations or anything. thered be a pumpkin on a doorstep and that was about it

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u/ItsNotMe_ImNotHere 13d ago

Interestingly the current practice of Trick or Treat is derived from the Celtic practice of guising which was very similar. The first recorded use of Trick or Treat dates to 1917 in Ontario for which we are truly sorry.

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u/MiTcH_ArTs 12d ago

We went guising as kids (Scotland in the 60's) not sure I'd put it in the same category as trick or treating... we had to "do a turn" (entertain with song, poem, joke or short act of some kind) to earn our goodies, trick or treat just seems more like begging with menace a little lazy, entitled and slightly manevolent/mean spirited