Contest: Win a limited edition Glow-in-the-Dark rayD8gig mimobot
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE A WINNER, THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.]With Halloween fast approaching, we know you folks are searching desperately for a spookily stylish way to carry around your data. Well, luckily for you, we have just the thing – a limited edition, 8 GB, glow-in-the-dark rayD8gig mimobot! (a $99 value).
Only 200 of these bad boys were made, yet the fine folks over at mimobot were nice enough to send us one to give away to our most faithful of faithful Macenstein readers.
So, what do you need to do to win it? Simple. Leave us a comment below telling us what your favorite Halloween treat was/is to get when you go trick or treating (you know, Kit-Kat, Zagnut Bar, Whatchamacallit, Raisins (it better not be raisins!)) and we’ll pick a random winner from the pool. Contest is open to the entire planet, and ends October 24th, 8AM EST. Be sure to leave us an e-mail address where we can contact you. One entry per person please.
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE A WINNER, THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.]
an APPLE!
Hands down it’s the rocky roads.
I used to love Mr. Goodbar when I was a kid and went trick or treating. No one else liked it so it was nice to be able to take theirs and have more for myself!
Since I live in Charleston, SC, my favorite treat is the Charleston Chew (a candy bar).
Andy
Candy corn!
rockets… hands down, nothing quite like pure sugar pellets…
Jesus! Apples? Popcorn? Candy Corn? Where the hell are you people from?!? Pleasantville? I haven’t heard of 1 of these candies?!?! How about something from this century people? Ever hear of chocolate?!?
-The Doc
recess peanut butter cup and those gigantic pixie sticks
I also like those lazy people that left a huge thing of candy with a sign to only take one 🙂
ppl in austria only recently started trick or treating on halloween, so i missed out on the whole fun as a kid 🙁
…does that maybe qualify me as a pity-winner? 🙂
I was crazy about Butterfinger.
Three musketeers !!!!!
But anything with chocolate on it also is always welcomed.
The best treat I ever got was three whole Hershey bars.
Growing up there was literally an old haunted Victorian mansion on my street and every year we passed it for fear. It was dirty and dark, and covered with vines. Shutters were falling off here and there. We never saw anyone go in or out of there. It just sat there taunting us. It was the kind of place where if you had to go to walk past it, you’d cross the street to get as far away as possible.
Finally one year my friend and I worked up the nerve to ring the bell. A really, really old man answered the door and invited us into the foyer. Inside was an old dentist’s chair and the entire room was literally an old dentist’s room. He chatted with us for a few, told us no one ever came to his house cause it was so unkept… but he was old and his wife had died years before so he really didn’t do anything anymore. He had retired from dentistry eons ago and he knows the house looks pretty scary. This frail old man thanked us for being brave enough to chat and gave us three Hershey bars each as a reward.
Later that year he died, so we never went to back the following Halloween, which sucked because we’re talking three whole normal sized bars of chocolate here, not those little “Halloween” sized ones. That was the best Halloween treat I ever got.
Belgian chocolate!!
Reese’s Period
From my next door neighbors, their fabulous popcorn balls. Otherwise, giant Tootsie Rolls. Love that chewy chocolate.
Six very old eggs and a rusty spoon to eat them with.
but seriously.
Snickers, always Snickers.
Candy coated Apples.
One of our neighbors always made fresh, hot donuts for Halloween. Not your normal Halloween treat, but they sure drew a crowd.
Smarties and Chocolate Tootsie Pops
Best: Reeses Cups
Worst: Hugs or Soda (weighs you down too much)
I was a big fan of those little crunch bars.
‘the greatest Halloween ever’
an essay by chris sorensen
my family didn’t have a lot of money when i was growing up. we weren’t destitute, but we were never able to splurge on things at the drop of a hat. even at an early age i was acutely aware of this, my brother, John, not so much. my parents always did without in order to provide John and me with the best that they could. So the fall of 1985 rolled around and John asked my parents if he could be Freddy Krueger for halloween. mom and dad took us shopping for costumes, but when they saw how much the Freddy mask, hat, glove, and sweater cost, they had to tell my brother that they had to come back later in the week for it. i’ll never forget the day later that week when my dad came home from work with a huge, and i mean HUGE smile on his face, a shopping bag clenched in his hand. He gave it to John, and as he opened it i saw a look of disapointment on my brothers face followed by a look of hurt on my dad’s face. dad managed to get john a freddy mask, hat, and glove- but they were a knock-off of the original. before you start to think poorly of John, he was deemed perceptually impaired according to the school system, and the most wonderful brother by me. after my parents explained to john that they spent all they could on that costume, he agreed that it would be fine. i was a hobo that year. old flanel shirt of mine: free. burned cork to draw a fake beard on: free. off we went into the neighborhood. as we made the rounds, i noticed one kid wearing a cowboy costume with an E.T. finger protruding from his hand. i asked him why he was wearing the odd finger with his costume and he told me that there was an old man on Castle Ave that was giving them out instead of candy. i RACED to that street and hit up every house until i finally struck gold. “trick or treat” turned into a cardboard backed package of a light-up e.t. finger being dropped into my bag. i lost my brother at this point. i worked the houses around that block and returned to e.t. man. i got another e.t. finger. the old guy caught on to me when i returned a third time. i darted home and quickly changed outfits. the bedsheet right off of my bed and a pair of scissors and i was a ghost. score another e.t. finger. back home. the same flannel shirt, but a bandana on my head and i was a vato. score. home again. my dad’s work clothes and i was a welder. score! i started to show off all my e.t. fingers to all the other kids who immediately started to offer all sorts of trades. i offered to trade two fingers to the kid who had the most whoppers and raisinettes in their bags. like pinata guts hitting the floor, the contents of everyone’s bags hit the lawn of the house we were in front of. when all was said and done, i was left with one e.t. finger, but a TON of whoppers and raisinettes. as i arrived at home, my brother had already retired for the night and my parents were mad at me for not sticking with John. i pulled all of my stash out of my bag, divided everything up, gave my dad the whoppers (his favorite), my mom the raisinettes (her favorite) and my last e.t. finger to my brother. if you’ve made it this far into my story, then you now know that my favorite Halloween treat is a three way tie between whoppers, raisinettes, and an e.t. finger because they allowed me to splurge on my family that Halloween.
p.s.- my mom had to sew up my sheet that i cut for the ghost costume, and i was grounded for doing that. i guess i didn’t get her enough raisinettes!
Happy Halloween all!
I gotta go with Smarties
masses of chocolate 🙂
I’ll take the Apple, too 🙂
Not Circus Peanuts. I’d have to go with a Snickers…even though my mom always collected a “chocolate tax”.
I was partial to Bit-o-honey, which means I got a lot of my friends’ share, since they were not.
My best threat ever!
When I was young, I lived in a small village with a lot of people being really poor… They had to hunt to feed their family…
Each Halloween, there was this poor family… Three young boys…
They started trick or treating at 4PM to be back at 6PM…
When they were back to home, they put all the collected candies back in a huge jar to give them back to people trick or treating to their home…
They gave away all the best, not even thinking to themself… the chocolate bar, the rockets, everything they got they give it away…
Until I was 7 year old, I went to this house to get more candies, but after that I begin to think that it is really bad to get their candies because I wouldn’t, at any cost, share my candies..
This is my best memory of Halloween because it reminds me that more you have less you share and the the really good people always have enough of everything….
I’d have to say that my favorite Trick or Treat, treat is a little pack of Bottle Caps.
Chocolate Toffee, Mmmmmm
I know most people find them disgusting, but I like Candy Corn – as long as they aren’t stale, of course. I sneak handfuls of them whenever I come across them and “grudgingly” take the bags from my kids since they don’t like them. Actually, the little candy corn pumpkins are the best. 😉
Snickers
Baby Ruth is the shit.
i really enjoyed getting krackle. I haven’t seen those in a while, i think that they were killed by the market for nestle crunch bars.
Nestle Crunch!
It would have to be those peanut butter filled taffy things in the orange and black wrappers.
Gotta be the kit-kats
Bounty, Twix and reese’s peanut butter cup
For me, it’s a candybar called “Coffee Crisp”. I’m not sure if you have them in the states, but I believe there was a marketing campaign here in Canada where they were declared “Canada’s Chocolate Bar”.
Absolutely delicious!
SMARTIES!!!! DEFINITELY THE SMARTIES!!!
I always get sick from eating way too many Smarties but now I have to steal them from the kids. They are pure sugar but there is just something about them that makes them wonderfully delicious.
The kids have learned to pretty much just hand them over by now. Not sure what I will do when they are too big to trick or treat though. Maybe I’ll just buy them for myself.
SMMMMMMMMMMARTIES!!!
Reese’s Pieces. Definitely. Of course after my Dad ran them through the x-ray machine.
Oh man…by far the best treat was Twix….then after you walked around in the cold they were extra good. Nothing beats a refrigerated Twix.
Kit-Kat Bar all the way! Give me a break~~~ Give me a Break~~~ Give me a break of that mimobot~~ 😀
Pixy Stix! Hyperbole! Yes!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
I like candy corns.
Usually, give away chocolate is Hershey’s, which tastes cheap. 🙁
Back in the day, I was all about the Nestle Crunch Bar.
M & M´s delicioso!!!
By the way here in Mexico, hallowen is a pagan tradition, day of the death is more accepted.
break me up a piece of that~ Kit~ Kat~ Bar~~
Gonna be hard on you: “Lentilky” from Czech “Orion” company (to make it more complicated, I am from Poland, so they are practically foreign delicacy for me). Think local M&Ms, but yummier.