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Conventional wisdom says you should
stop trick or treating long before you get to the age when most of your peers
have children who are old enough to start trick or treating. Then again,
conventional wisdom also says you shouldn't wear white socks with dress shoes,
so as far as I'm concerned, conventional wisdom can suck an egg. So whether
you’re an adult, a child, or stuck in one of those ghastly ages in between, my
cap is off to you if you plan on venturing out into night on Halloween to hit
up your neighbors – politely – for some free candy.
I won’t be out on the streets with
you, comrades. I’ll be indoors as the lure of a night-long pumpkin beer and
horror movie binge once again proved too great to resist. I’ll still be
dispensing candy, however, because I just so happen to love George Washington
and I refuse to allow his sacrifice to be in vain.
If you are planning to
trick-or-treat this year, it’s important to have an air tight game plan, which
I’m sure you already know and have. But I’m not just talking about picking the
right neighborhood, although that is a crucial step. Once you’re out there, you
have to make sure you’re getting the right candy as compensation for your
efforts. When faced with a giant bowl of assorted goodies, it’s easy to make a
panicked decision and next thing you know, you’re coming home with a metric ton
of gum and those weird, too-busy Take Five candy bars. Basically, you’ve wasted
your evening.
I don’t want anyone of any age to
have to experience such a thing and so, as a public service, here’s my official
Best and Worst Halloween Candy Power Rankings. Commit this list to memory so
when you’re going door-to-door, you’ll know what your primary target should be,
what you can safely fall back to, and what you need to avoid like it’s
guaranteed to be chock full o’ razor blades.
