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2012-10-19, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
Non-existent here. Our equivalent celebration would be carnival in February, but even so, the festivities are quite different from Halloween.
The Orthodox All Hallows' Eve, called Aghioi Pantes (All Saints) is June 10th.
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2012-10-19, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
Given that those are sample recipes, they're basically the same thing. The caramel apple recipe there just includes a couple of extra flavourings. I've seen loads of different recipes for toffee apples, some of which were more involved like that one, and some which were very basic like the Good Foods one.
A toffee apple is just an apple, coated with some form of sugar mixture, as is a caramel apple.GITP Blood Bowl Manager Cup
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2012-10-19, 02:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
It doesn't here. I was in a big superstore yesterday, and me and my friends went to go checkout what Halloween costumes they had for fun. They were already setting up the adjacent section section for Christmas. And us Americans actually have a decently big holiday *cough* Thanksgiving *cough* in between the two.
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2012-10-19, 04:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2009
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- Gothenburg, Sweden
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2012-10-19, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2012
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- Harrisburg PA,
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
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edit// How Is Toffee Different from Caramel?Last edited by scurv; 2012-10-19 at 04:16 PM.
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2012-10-19, 05:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-19, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-19, 08:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-19, 08:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-20, 01:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2012
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2012-10-20, 02:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
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- Hudson Valley, NY
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
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2012-10-20, 02:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Greensboro, NC
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
Around here Halloween is pretty big:
most towns have their downtown areas all decorated and you can trick-or-treat stores, most churches do similar things were members of the congregation bring candy and everyone goes from car to car to get it.
Little kids trick-or-treat from as early as you can get away with it to as late as you can get away with it, teens tend to do pranks: TPing houses, smash pumpkins, egg houses, etc. Haunted houses are also very big - I live in a small town in a rural area, and there are at least 5 or 6 professional haunted houses. Once you can't trick or treat you go to a slutty halloween party (probably the best part of the holiday )
I don't remember where I saw this (so the claim may be iffy) but I think that the only times that we can definitively say that candy caused the death of a kid, it was actually tampered with by the family of the children, rather than the person giving them out.Avatar by Lycunadari
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2012-10-20, 02:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2012
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- Brazil
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
There is not much of a halloween culture here. Kids usually have a small party at school and get to wear costumes.
Young adults throw costume parties with lots of booze.
Older people don't care.
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2012-10-20, 03:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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- The Edge of the World
Re: Halloween culture of your country?
AFAIK, the Origin of the tampered Halloween candy was the Satanic Panic of the 70's and 80's amongst certain christian groups and only after they publicised stories about satanists and pagan's poisoning and sabotaging, as well as 'cursing' the Halloween Candy did anything like that get recorded as a real incident.Necromunda Total War:IC
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2012-10-20, 04:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
In Canada I see a lot less Candy corn than in the States, despite being apparently a common Halloween treat to give away according to most media from the USA.
It might be just a British Columbia thing.Last edited by Ravens_cry; 2012-10-20 at 04:10 AM.
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2012-10-20, 04:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dinosaur Museum aw yisss.
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
I don't know what candy corn is :I Is it kernels of corn with sugar on them? Or is it like caramel popcorn? Or... I don't even know. And I'm too lazy to google it.
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2012-10-20, 04:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
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2012-10-20, 04:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
In Sweden they do not celebrate Halloween but rather All Saints Day on November 1.
What happens is that family's go into the graveyards at dusk and light candles on the graves of loved ones. My in-laws are Swedish so I went to lay candles for my grandparents-in-law (Is that a word?) In some ways it feels like Halloween, lots of people in graveyards and the smell of candles everywhere. The tone however is completely different, like comparing lighting incense at a rave or a church.
The graveyard awash with flicking candles was extremely beautiful.
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2012-10-20, 04:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
Last year some kids turned up at the door expecting lollies and my (then) Housmate gave them a bar of chocolate* and i got a earful about how she "wasn't notified that it was happening" - something i have never seen any indication that you get notified that kids are going to show up wanting lollies.
Lived in this city for 12 years now and last year was the 1st time i had ever seen anyone trick or treating.
Anyone who turns up at my door expecting me to give out free Chocolate is sorely mistaken
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2012-10-20, 04:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
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2012-10-20, 05:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
Huh, interesting,
What I do see a lot, and I love because, well, bad chocolate is still chocolate, are those little balls of chocolate (the size of a marble) wrapped in foil wrapping that looks like a jack-o-lantern.
I hate Rockets, what the US calls Smarties, but love little boxes of Smarties, basically similar to M&Ms. Pop open the box, throw down the hatch. Yum!Last edited by Ravens_cry; 2012-10-20 at 05:04 AM.
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2012-10-20, 05:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
Candy corn sounds kinda gross...
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2012-10-20, 06:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
It's sort of a sharp butterscotch flavour, or perhaps a buttery marshmallow. And the texture(I thought of a better way to describe it) is sort of like firm red bean paste.
Another autumn dish(sometimes out of season as well, if using dried pumpkin seeds) I sometimes encounter/make are fried or baked pumpkin seeds.Last edited by Togath; 2012-10-20 at 07:00 AM.
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2012-10-20, 08:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-20, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
Sometimes. When I was younger, it was common for "Mischief Night" that the next morning you woke up to alot of toilet paper thrown around trees. There was less malicious stuff like pumpkin smashing and egg tossing however, though it did happen every once in awhile. Sometimes shaving cream on doors and windows. But it seems to have faded as a tradition around here. (Or maybe its the fact that its been 15 years and those who did it are adults now) You might see a tree or two with a bit of paper on them, but thats about it.
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2012-10-20, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Switzerland
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
I think the police in Zurich tried to enforce a curfew on the 31 for people under the age of 16, or something. Because a few idiots confused "Trick or treat" with "smash windshields and break into houses".
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2012-10-20, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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- Indianapolis
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2012-10-20, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-20, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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- right behind you
Re: Halloween culture of your country?
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-10-20, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2011
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- Wisconsin, USA
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Re: Halloween culture of your country?
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