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heyyy_oooo OP t1_iu2f5tv wrote

Someone pulls this and they’ve got an 83% chance of a potato flying through their window

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Zolo49 t1_iu2u9pj wrote

That's why you hand out french fries instead.

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AKBrewer t1_iu2huv3 wrote

Why? There's still candy there. Simply allowing a choice

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heyyy_oooo OP t1_iu3leh6 wrote

I know, for the record I think this is awesome and super wholesome, but when I first saw the title that’s what my automatic reaction was. I imagine ringing a doorbell, holding out a bag of candy expectantly, and watching this guy just drop a fucking potato in instead, and the idea made me crack up way longer than I’m willing to admit.

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AKBrewer t1_iu5rjkm wrote

Hah! He just stares you dead in the eye as you feel the heft of an Idaho spud plunk down in your candy bag. Yeah that's a guaranteed potato through the window. Allowing the choice is dope though.

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SaltyTart1050 t1_iu49u06 wrote

Idk, for me trick or treat is about the trick too. I’ll often give a kid an onion or a parsnip as a joke on Halloween. I always give them candy in the end, but it’s pretty hilarious to deadpan give a kid a potato.

Only one kid so far has gratefully and unquestioningly taken a vegetable, every other kid just gets a look of straight confusion.

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Such-Wrongdoer-2198 t1_iu4kelu wrote

That's what I was thinking too. I think giving out toilet paper is a better idea.

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Dynamo_Ham t1_iu4c6yu wrote

I got a few apples as a kid, and they definitely just ended up getting chucked at something, often the house the gave them out.

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bilateralrope t1_iu5gjy4 wrote

That might be safer for the kid than expecting whoever offered the potatoes to have prepared them in hygienic conditions.

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