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Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:04 pm
by iHaunt
The marketer of baby carrots would like you to "treat" your trick or treaters this year to Scarrots instead of candy. Scarrots are bags of baby carrots in a sealed pouch. Although this is a super cute name and a nice concept. I must stand up for the kids and say boooooo to the concept of giving out carrots instead of candy. I know we have an obesite problem in the U.S., and I know carrots, I mean Scarrots, are better for kids than candy. But must we ruin all the fun of Halloween? I'm all for moderating the intake of the candy your kids score while trick or treating, but it really takes the joy out of trick or treating when the treat turns out to be carrots.
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:54 pm
by MacPhantom
I love carrots. But not in place of candy.
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:16 pm
by SpookyBlackKat
Yeeaaaahhhh.....
Props to their marketing team but that will not fly over too well with me or my neighborhood kids.
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:02 am
by Pumpkin_Man
I agree with that, iHaunt. There is definately a place for good nutrition in a childs life, and obeasity is a problem, but it seems that every fun tradition is under attackt these days. It's like giving out tooth brushes and samples of tooth paste. It spoils the fun. Besides that, Halloween comes once a year, and yes I will grant you that people eat abusively during Thanksgiving and Christmas, too, but I seriously doubt that going Trick or Treating once a year is going to make anyone more or less obeas then they already are.
Mike
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:07 am
by Spookymufu
if people started handing out tooth brushes, apples, and other healthy foods and hygiene goods kids would stop TOT'ing and Halloween would die.....
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:12 am
by Midnite Shadow
Now that would be true horror...Eeeeeeeeeeeeek.
No way...
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:14 am
by myteemouth
iHaunt wrote:The marketer of baby carrots would like you to "treat" your trick or treaters this year to Scarrots instead of candy. Scarrots are bags of baby carrots in a sealed pouch. Although this is a super cute name and a nice concept. I must stand up for the kids and say boooooo to the concept of giving out carrots instead of candy. I know we have an obesite problem in the U.S., and I know carrots, I mean Scarrots, are better for kids than candy. But must we ruin all the fun of Halloween? I'm all for moderating the intake of the candy your kids score while trick or treating, but it really takes the joy out of trick or treating when the treat turns out to be carrots.
I totally agree Moniter the candy the rest of the year but let them have Halloween candy and Easter candy for goodness sakes
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:49 pm
by writerpatrick
This might be a fun thing to give to adults but Halloween candy isn't a major contributor to obesity in kids. It's parents who don't know how to cook and substitute high-fat foods for nutritional ones.
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:10 am
by iHaunt
Hey, how about sugar-free candies?
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:09 am
by myteemouth
iHaunt wrote:Hey, how about sugar-free candies?
Jeez just give them a tooothbrush or raisins I dont know which is worse
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:52 am
by Pumpkin_Man
Well, actualy I kind of liked Raisens. I did get a few boxes of Sun Maid raisens in my TOT bag, and I liked them. My mom also use to pack them in my school lunghes. (The school I went to didn't have hot lunches. We had to bring out own, except for two days out of each month when we had hot dogs.)
Mike
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:03 pm
by iHaunt
Fruits such apple, orange, banana are good!
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:43 pm
by iHaunt
Some TOTers will beg for a sweet treat. Unless, someone put them in a carrot cake then hand them out and they should forget about it.
Re: Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:08 am
by myteemouth
Well I give out real candy-Sour Punch Straws this year-kids seem to like that nasty sour stuff-it'll curl your face off