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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This reminds ME of a "news" factoid I heard the other day (for only one reason, I believe, and that reason is that mallomars are candy*). Apparently Americans eat 26 pounds of candy on average for Halloween. Is that unbelievable to you? It is to me, so I didn't trust my memory. I googled and found this (albeit 1999) article that says as much: http://www.cnn.com/FOOD/news/9910/22/halloween.candy/
I thought maybe I was misremembering and subbing in pounds for grams or some such thing (hey, measuring units is not my forte), but it turns out I remembered right. Egads.
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I think the article says that that's annual consumption, not just for Halloween. Either way, that's nuts.
eta: Burger, STP, etc.
L'il Ty is way, way into Halloween this year, but oddly enough he seems to be disinterested in the candy-acquisition aspects of the holiday, and we expect to once again be able to jettison most of his candy over time with his noticing.
