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We’ve never considered candy corn a gourmet pleasure, but a tasting from Holsten’s in Bloomfield, produced a Halloween deja vu for one candy lover:

While I was there, I ventured inside to look at the halloween candies, I purchased the candy corn. and when I got home I was transported back to 1965!! I am told it is home made and believe me when you taste it you will say the same!! TREAT yourself and go down there and buy some before its gone!!! I haven’t tasted candy corn this good in years!! Bravo Holstens!!

Tell us what you remember about past Halloweens, what you’re doing tonight, and where the ghosts are. It’s your Halloween thread…

81 replies on “Season Of The Witch”

  2. I remember in the old days when taxes used to be only $6,000 in Montclair, and we actually had to park in parking lots, not parking decks!

  3. I think I told myself I couldn’t go trick or treating past 8th grade, but every few years I find myself going. But this is the for real last year, my last year of college. Candy! FREE CANDY!

  5. Oh and hey what is everyone being? I have to make a costume so the “adults” give me free candy. Maybe one that covers my face so they don’t see that I’m 21.

  8. At our house, we’ve got a lady pirate, a mad scientist, and a skeleton going out trick-or-treating tonight.
    One of the most creative costumes I remember from Halloweens past was a friend who dressed as a baked potato: she had on a brown leotard, with brown tights and shoes. She wrapped her torso in yards of aluminum foil, and put a square yellow cardboard box on her head for the pat of butter.
    The following is off-topic for Halloween, but it’s an open thread and since there are a few U.Va. alums who post here (including the main Barista herself!): I just learned of an independent film about the Charlottesville music scene in the 70’s and 80’s called “Live from…the Hook”: https://www.livefromthehook.com
    It premiered at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville over the weekend.

  9. Candy doesn’t cause zits, who are you my grandma? When’s the last time you read something that proves this, “Mary Kay”? Also, if we hide under our desks during a nuclear attack we’ll be fine. And if you sneeze and fart at the same time you die (I made that one up).

  11. For a long time, a house in Glen Ridge (no, I am not offering up the address) had a strong rep among psychics and like-minded folk as a very haunted venue. It went through about 12 owners/tenants in about 5 years. Then a family with children who apparently made a real effort to live there bought it. The house itself, as if in reply, now looks “happy.”
    Barring that one, St. Joseph’s Church in East Rutherford and a house on Sixth Street in Carlstadt are known for assorted “things” being seen at each. Carlstadt is also known for underground running water (often key to manifestations) and a famous poltergeist case in the late 50’s, and as the home of the long filled-in “Carlstadt Cave,” an unexplained man-made complex with all manner of weird tales about it. Its last remaining remnant is used as the back storeroom for beer at the liquor store at the foot of Broad Street.
    There was much more local talk of spirits and the paranormal when Dr. Berthold Schwartz, a psychiatrist who wrote a lot about such things (and whom they tried to thus drum out of the American Psychiatric Association) practiced in Upper Montclair, 20 or so years ago.

  12. Hi Katie,
    I can’t speak for Mary Kay–I’m hardly old enough to be your Grandma; but if I indulge in too much “chocolate therapy,” I receive a reminder on my face. Lucky you!

  15. A friend of mine did the baked potato costume this year. Only instead of aluminum foil, he used a silver flame-retardant jacket from his job at a chemical plant. Also, the potato (pillow stuffing) and butter were coming out of the front of the jacket.
    Another friend made himself a cell phone costume out of cardboard, including a “call from” picture of a bikini model. The best costumes, though, were the hosts, who went as matching iPods (white regular and pink mini).

  19. Holsten’s ice cream is great, but that candy corn ain’t homemade. It’s Brachs all the way. No difference whatsoever.

  21. I went as an exhausted elementary school teacher trying her best to stay sane amidst 10 year-olds hopped up on high fructose corn syrup (dressed as her cat.)

  22. Well….I couldn’t resist any longer so I went to Holsten’s. My idea was to buy candy corn for my neighbor’s kids…..but, I was certainly going to taste it…. like crazy. The candy corn has been sold out for three days. They told me that now, however, was the time to think about ordering an “Ice Cream Turkey” for Thanksgiving. (they’re almost life-size!) It was too late for lunch so I sat at the counter and had dark chocolate cake a la mode with chocolate chip ice cream. Everything homemade and practically the most delicious thing that I ever have tasted in my entire life. Happy Halloween! (tonight, a double workout at the Y)

  31. Really now what?
    Is he wearing a costume?
    Did you make him go out and trick or treat in it?
    He doesn’t look very comfortable…

  33. are you always so nasty?
    Do you think that calling someone blind is an acceptable insult in this day and age.

  36. Katie, that candy may not break you out, but it surely doesn’t sweeten your disposition any.
    While your artistic talents may be considerable, they are offset by your crude, belligerent manner.

  37. He asked me to dress him up this way, he said “Katie, dress me up as a bat so the whiney babies with nothing better to do on Baristanet can cry about it, you know, because there is always some negative turd hanging out there.” I know, I couldn’t believe he was talking either, or that he reads Baristanet. Or that he can use the computer. And it just so happens that my mom is blind.

  42. Aw, come on, Katie is funny. Katie, please don’t get any less belligerent. I find your posts consistently entertaining. (Not that anyone would hold me up as a paragon of politeness, of course.)
    And my mom is blind AND deaf, plus she has a peg leg! But she makes really good balloon animals.

  43. to quote the Barista:
    “The biggest contributors to the site are our readers — their active participation has turned Baristanet into a true online community and the destination for breaking local news, airing opinionated views, and yes, poking fun at suburbia whenever possible.”

  44. They were raised in boring, humorless households, sleepysleek. We on the other hand, were raised by parents with peg legs.

  45. Katie, you are a tad defensive these days…
    And how do you know you don’t actually know some of these people? Anonymous postings don’t always remain anonymous. I don’t post anything under my Mauigirl name that I would be sorry for if everyone knew who I was. It is a wise policy.

  48. Katie’s the least anonymous person on here – she posted a link to her personal web page in this very thread. Give her credit, she’s not hiding behind a fake name. (I freely admit that i’d be way more polite if people knew who i was. Though my wife knows who i am, and it doesn’t seem to bother her any, but that’s why we’re a good pair.)

  50. katie = not funny
    katie = rude
    katie = belligerent
    katie = hostile
    katie = bellicose
    katie = combative
    katie = ill-tempered
    katie = peevish
    katie = surly
    katie = dyspeptic
    katie = truculent
    katie = huffy
    katie = vitriolic

  51. They are just regular readers who normally post with their names but when insulting someone they use a different one. They are the “real jerks”.

  53. No, katie, you are!
    We don’t dress our dog up and make him uncomfortable and then go out and trick or treat even though we’re adults.

  57. “Katie, your dog is cute” but once we get to know you, you are not.
    A lot of threads on Baristanet are stupid.

  60. Not only are Katie’s comments entertaining, they also add to the “active participation” and opinionated views” that make Baristanet the website that it is. I have been entertained by this website for a while now, and I don’t believe that Katie spoke any differently in other comments that she made.
    In this post specifically, Katie was provoked by “Mary Kay” and I have to admit that I, too, would be frustrated if I got criticized for torturing my dog when all that was done was a Photoshop job. So don’t worry, Katie- keep up with your comments. They make my day a little better every time I read them. And to all the derogatory posters, think of it this way. While Katie is just a young girl posting on a site about funny things that she hears or does, you are most likely a full-grown adult. Well, maybe it’s time to act like one and stop picking on someone far younger than yourself. Oh, and also, try not to be too embarrassed that you, who must exceeding wise by this time in your life, confused a Photoshopped picture for a dog in a bat suit.

  61. Not only are Katie’s comments entertaining, they also add to the “active participation” and opinionated views” that make Baristanet the website that it is. I have been entertained by this website for a while now, and I don’t believe that Katie spoke any differently in other comments that she made.
    In this post specifically, Katie was provoked by “Mary Kay” and I have to admit that I, too, would be frustrated if I got criticized for torturing my dog when all that was done was a Photoshop job. So don’t worry, Katie- keep up with your comments. They make my day a little better every time I read them. And to all the derogatory posters, think of it this way. While Katie is just a young girl posting on a site about funny things that she hears or does, you are most likely a full-grown adult. Well, maybe it’s time to act like one and stop picking on someone far younger than yourself. Oh, and also, try not to be too embarrassed that you, who must exceeding wise by this time in your life, confused a Photoshopped picture for a dog in a bat suit.

  62. Great picture, Katie. Too bad it’s just Photoshop and not real. I would love to see Mister dive bomb your critics.
    Disclaimer:
    The above statement was just hyperbole. I am totally opposed to flying Chihuahuas committing acts of violence

  63. Just went to katies website…boy, does that explain it all..everyone should check it out first, before you make any comments about her.
    wayne robbins

  65. Katie,
    I wasn’t criticizing how you posts, I was just commenting on your comment that you don’t have to worry about what you say because you’ll “never meet” any of these people. I just meant that you can’t be so sure that you won’t meet them. But if that doesn’t bother you, no problem, post what you want.
    By the way, I was depressed upon looking at your blog, to find out that it seems your mom and dad are probably a few years younger than I am!
    😉 Another by the way, I thought the dog in the bat photo shop picture was cute. I don’t personally have anything against dressing dogs up in costume anyway (my dog likes to wear things!) but it was obvious this was not a dog dressed up in a real costume so you were unfairly attacked on that front.

  69. LOL!
    My husband’s mom was only 23 when he was born too. So his parents are like 10 years younger than my mother. (My dad was even older, he just died last year at 92).

  70. 23 was considered pratically over the hill in 1940, the year my mom was married at 21. She had my brother a year later.

  71. “And if you sneeze and fart at the same time you die (I made that one up).
    Posted by: katie | October 31, 2006 2:47 PM ”
    words of wisdom or maybe words to live by.

  74. You sit down at a clean, wiped counter. You’re handed a menu. You place an order. The young man promptly serves your order, refills your coffee, pretends to find your joke funny. Presents your check, tells you to have a nice day…. YES! You tip!

  77. I’m a generous tipper, since I worked as a waitress for so many years and I know what it’s like to be gypped. “Friend to the animals”, you should keep your grudges contained to one thread.

  78. Hey! Please don’t use the disparaging ‘gypped’! Gypsies are discriminated against enough already! What did we ever do to you?

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