Fry's chocolate cream for Halloween!

[Bob Buzzard]

My youngest son went out with his friends trick or treating this evening and someone gave him a Fry's chocolate cream! To an 11 year old boy? Who would do that? Surely it's just Haribos and such like tonight?

[ED Bird]

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[Loutwo]

Who cares about Halloween. Americanised commercialism. Bring on bonfire night.

Louisa.

[Angelina]

It wasn't originally an American festivity. It is Pagan new year and end of harvest, taken to America by immigrants from Ireland

[Bob Buzzard]

Yes, I think marking the passage from light to dark in the Autumn is an ancient festival.

[diable rouge]

Fry's Chocolate Cream points to an OAP, your son had a lucky escape as it could've easily been an invite to come in and sit on Grandad's knee and suck on a Werther's...

[nxjen]

I?m with Louisa. What?s celebrated as Halloween now has no connection with the ancient pagan festival. It?s more to do with marketing and consumerism than a spiritual connection.

[diable rouge]

You've obviously never sucked on a Werther's...

[Sue]

nxjen Wrote:

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> I?m with Louisa. What?s celebrated as Halloween

> now has no connection with the ancient pagan

> festival. It?s more to do with marketing and

> consumerism than a spiritual connection.

Much like Christmas and Easter then .....

[Spartacus]

He's lucky he got that and shouldn't be complaining, if you saw an 11 year old out on the streets begging you would call social services and get him taken away from his parents, yet as part of this commercialisation of an American tradition (trick or treating nor Halloween) you turn a blind eye to him going from door to door begging for "candy" (again an Americanism)

Epic fail Bob in the concept of your thread as you are accepting and trying to gain acceptance to your son being a beggar

How long before he is outside the station asking "any spare change guv for a cup of tea and a heroin fix" ?

1/10

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Did Mrs Buzzard enjoy a finger of Fudge Bob?

[diable rouge]

I heard she likes to keep it old school and get her chops around some Old Jamaica...

[Earl Aelfheah]

Fry's Chocolate Cream are great. Knocks Haribo out the park.

I felt that Brexit extension day was too commercialised this year. Feels like it's losing it's magic.

[dbboy]

In the good "old" days kid's would have made a Guy and asked passers on the street for"penny for the guy". You don't see that any more, in fact I've not seen it for years, shame though as another proper UK tradition fades into the abyss.

Halloween is nothing more than yet another americanised commercial money making scheme brought from the US to here, which the UK has unfortunately copied.

I wonder how many used the pumpkin for food before throwing the carcass out the next day??

Well quite frankly they can keep their so called "tradition" of asking for candy, the less we have to do with the US the better, especially when its run by a clown, who opens his mouth before engaging his brain into gear. Pretty much sums up America though.

[pk]

in their day. my kids and still today many, many kids have a lot of fun at Halloween

to me, that is a good thing (as their fun doesn't really cause any suffering for anyone else)

[Loutwo]

Since when did Brits call sweets ?candy?? That?s what I?d like to know. We?ve become such a loser, copy cat, nation of capitalist consumerism. It?s embarrassing. Modern day Halloween can be stuck where the sun doesn?t shine, along with all other cringeworthy Americanism?s we?ve adopted.

Louisa.

[Sephiroth]

" where the sun doesn?t shine"

wonder what the etymology of this phrase is. I suspect it ain't British

something it shares with that bottle of Malbec

[TheArtfulDogger]

Talking of americanisms

Why does a soft drinks brand insist on running adverts saying

"Holidays are coming"

We don't celebrate Thanks Giving so We don't have Holidays in the same way they do

Drives me absolutely bonkers every Christmas !!!

[Bob Buzzard]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> Did Mrs Buzzard enjoy a finger of Fudge Bob?

No, she had a Lotus biscuit instead.

[malumbu]

Talking about Americanisms it is now Kraft's Chocolate Cream. Although Cadbury's shut the Fry's factory before we became an outpost of Hershey. Hershey Boys, Hershey Boys, lace up boots and corduroys