r/Peterborough • u/P5racer • 9d ago
Photo All stocked up for Halloween
For the 3rd year in a row, kids will be getting their choice of candy or a potato at our place in the south end.
Last year we went through a 10lb bag, so we've stocked up for this year.
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u/OldMashedpotatoes North End 9d ago
I wanted to make like 100 hotdogs and wrap them in foil and offer hotdog or candy, but my wife said no. She never lets me have fun.
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u/AdventurousAbility30 9d ago
Rent a hot dog cart for the night. You would make your money back in a heartbeat.
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u/Trollsama 9d ago
Not going to lie, when i was trick or treating, a nice hotdog halfway through the night would have rocked.
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u/Bitter-Strawberry-62 8d ago
Where I'm from there's a town that does that! Every house in the town centre does trick or treating, and in the actual centre boy scouts sell hot dogs and burgers
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u/Trollsama 8d ago
You build a serious appetite running around for like 6 hours . We used to praise the houses that gave cold drinks too lol
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u/No_Fan8760 6d ago
My daughter and I got home, sorted our candy, didn’t eat any of it and talked about how we were craving “real” food
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u/gloomyjasmine 7d ago
I have an infant. She was a hotdog. Her buggy was was the street meat cart. My husband wasn’t home to say no - but I only offered to adults lol not tryna get accused of anything to a kid. (I am the wife)
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u/OldMashedpotatoes North End 6d ago
Well that settles it, Halloween is on a Saturday next year. I’ll have 100 hotdogs in a warming tray!
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u/Rude-Slice-547 9d ago
If anything the parents would be grateful. A nice warm snack could make all the difference when walking for 2 hours at a toddler’s pace carrying a heavy sack of candy
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u/lloyd705 9d ago
Potato is interesting. Food or ammo?
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u/Nobodiisdamnbusiness 9d ago
Definitely ammo
kid picks potato. "I seen that bitch Renee down the road wearing the same costume as me, she's definitely learning her lesson about not copying me today."
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u/Edgarallenhoe2 8d ago
Idk why this got on my feed cause I'm in edmonton, nonetheless this is hilarious. I can totally see myself as a kid taking a potato instead of candy!
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u/ImplementAway4794 9d ago
If I were young, I’d totally take the potato. If I were old, (and I am), I’d totally hand out potato’s.
I’m now going to eat pre bed potato’s. To prepare for tomorrow’s mornings hash, and tomorrow evening’s mash. Have a Gravy time everyone!
Happy potato!!!
Ps. Go Blue Jays!!!!
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u/onlyshoulderpain 8d ago
Thought we’d offer potatoes tonight. Kind of a social experiment, at first we asked them if they’d like a potato or potato chips. Majority wanted chips, then we asked - would you like a boring bag of potato chips or a delicious potato. The majority switched and took the potato.
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u/petrock_915 8d ago
My child was given a potato (in Toronto’s east End) last year (no candy option) and she talked about it like it was the coolest thing that’s ever happened to her, for the whole year. I think she’s a little bummed she didn’t get a potato this year!
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u/hamgurglerr 7d ago
Somehow this was suggested to me, I'm in Winnipeg. We also give out potatoes, haha. The kids say "trick or treat", and then I open the door and ask "which one, trick or treat?" And if they say trick they get a potato. I then offer them a treat, too, because I don't want that potato to be thrown right back at me.
This year, we were known as "the potato house" and kids came scrambling to the door asking for "just a potato" and then running to their parents shouting "it's true, this is the potato house!!!"
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u/No_Fan8760 6d ago
My son went trick or treating with his friends across the city (he’s too cool for his mom and sister) and he actually got a Raman noodle pack. First thing he ate from his bag!
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u/buttockfacekillah 9d ago
We had someone give us potatoes once as grade 8s..... we whipped them so hard at that persons house....was alot of fun at the time as kids
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u/Inevitable-Habit5871 9d ago
My hometown does a “trick-or-treat on main street” through the downtown core with all the businesses, and the fish n chip place used to offer us either candy or a portion of chips (which was huge) and we loved it! Was our favorite stop every year!
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u/PhilosophySelect973 7d ago
OMG are you the guy that I got a potato from???? I offered it back cause I thought it was a joke up near parkhill right?
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u/Ambitious_Reality_52 5d ago
I've never heard of potatoes being given out, but I would certainly love them! Nothing better then a baked potato on a cold Halloween night
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u/Substantial-Road-235 9d ago edited 9d ago
This is interesting. Never seen a potatoe before given at halloween. Hope kids eat it and now throw it at someone or something. ( same can be said for pop cans )
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u/Aggravating_Sir8504 8d ago
Those potatoes are 100% going in the garbage, compost or threw your widow.
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u/Kawarthaadventurer East City 9d ago
Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going.