Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
Trick or Candy mortgage!
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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Odd that products made and packaged in the US, from government subsidized corn syrup, and not the most affected by tarrifs, still jump in price. Maybe inflation will be the scariest thing this Halloween
Jesus fuck. Almost $30 for those big bags?
I am definitely going to WinCo and getting 5 pounds of peanut butter cups. They're only ~$2 or 3/pound from the bulk bins!
They're not Reese's but they are just as good.
WinCo FTW. Love that place.
Is this USD or?
That was my same thought. I feel like this is maybe disingenuous.
Learn how to bake the awesomest shortbread you can, & wrap some of that edible-gold up in wax-paper for each kid.
Flour, cornstarch, oats, butter, salt, do not add-up to the extortion-prices charged by the flavored-sugar-in-plastic-wrappers companies.
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Yeah I'm not trusting random bread from people especially during Covid season.
Plus you can stick razorblades in them real easy if you bake them yourself.
hope you dont end up like the mom in freaks and geeks. that was a sad episode :(
OK that's actually a fantastic idea. Cookies it is. If parents have a problem with unwrapped corpo-candy then their kids don't have to eat them. I can spend a day banging out ten dozen cookies and not give the monthly-sugar-holiday any more money.
Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US
I'll start: Ribeyes were over $20 each the other day.
People who have afforded to buy their neighbors candy in the past have always been awesome people.
I am not one of those people.
We’re doing no candy too. These little birth control advertisements running around leave trash around on purpose and destroy property repeatedly in my neighborhood.
Their neglectful parents can buy them candy.
Hide in a bush with a well charged hose
Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.
As a kid I yearned for the mines
The stupid shit tho is five years ago the candy would go on sale the day after and it $4 a bag. The candy is not expensive and the candy is probably somehow circulating from 5 years ago. Is all supply and demand, fucking capitalism.
Yeah that's what's so shocking about it, these bags would be $5 only a few years ago. And I remember how painfully impoverished large swaths of the country were then.
I cannot imagine how the average American in the Midwest is surviving at the moment.
I'm a house that buys Full size Candy bars. We average 50 kids in our neighborhood, so generally 1 fundraiser box covers us.
I still have my 2024 screen shots and as you can see the price went up 31% I know it's not an exact comparison, but the box I gave away last year appears to have been discontinued. On lower count packs its gone up nearly 45%.
I was planning on doing Roasted Chestnuts and Apple cider for parents as a fun gag, but now I'm considering doing that exclusively.
I got excited at this idea until I remembered that American cider isn't alcoholic. Should make some proper scrumpy!
I fully plan on making Adult Cider
We just call it cider here
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Who else handing out cups of water this year??
Don't let Nestlé know you have water
It would be fucking hilarious to be giving out bottled water and one of the trick or treaters comes as the Quick rabbit.
"Oh shit, here they come!"
Who's got cup money?!?
Just have them drink from a giant hamster tube thing hanging outside your door.
Cups, in this economy?!?
Just have them cup their hands, pour some water in, and then send them on their way. Fortunately, eggs and toilet paper are expensive as well, so you shouldn't have to worry about any repercussions.
I just bought 40 lbs (big neighborhood) at US$4.44 a lb for snack-size name-brand 'chocolate' at Costco
Nominal price for the past four years has been $5 a lb here. Given that's kirkland's packaging with mars/hersheys candy in it.
Looks like my local grocer is $24.99 for the 3.4lb bag which is over US$7 a lb so ... yikes.
Prices are fine in Canada. Happy Halloween, ‘Murica.
Considering global coffee and chocolate prices, I'm surprised. Are sizes the same as last year?
Just go for flour/sugar based snacks instead of chocolate then. Few packs of Aldi version of hobnobs, job done.
I mean.. Those look like normal Canadian prices.
However, contextually, that stuff in Canada is actually chocolate and many US versions have little to no cocoa, and oils instead of milk ingredients. So its a rip off because its not even chocolate.
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