Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Well, as an adult you obviously don't eat sweets, and as a parent concerned for the teeth of your children, you won't be encouraging that either.

Meanwhile, are there not Irish claims to certain aspects of the Halloween tradition? I thought I even saw a claim of 'cultural appropriation' from an Irish source recently. When I was a nipper in Lisburn it was much bigger than over here at the time.
When I was younger we would go out and look to attack people, other likeminded folk and indeed other innocents, with eggs and concoctions made from foodstuffs and general rubbish. This would naturally as one grew up proceed to things like bangers which you would throw at cars, put into letter boxes and throw at people’s houses. Kind of turned into a game of cat and mouse with the RUC who would be mooching around.

Got out of hand in the end as people would invariably attack them.

I never once did the whole T+T thing that is now so common. Houses decorated on a par with the Xmas. It’s gone mad tbh.