Once darkness falls every Oct. 31, American children dress up in costumes and go from house to house. Each time a front door opens, they call out, “Trick or treat!”
The kids are usually rewarded with small pieces of packaged candy. Decades ago, people handed out homemade treats, but today’s parents worry about such offerings since they are more easily tampered with than store-bought candy.
Halloween may have evolved from spooky origins in England, Ireland and Scotland — where the Celts believed the dead could walk among the living during the transition between the seasons — but in America, Halloween is now mostly about candy, costumes and pumpkins.
At most houses across the nation, children can expect to receive Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, a mix of chocolate and peanut butter, according to a recent survey of the
Eighty-five percent of Americans plan to celebrate Halloween, according to a survey from TopCashback. And while most kids might demand a new costume to wear on the big night, almost half of American adults surveyed say they’ll recycle old costumes rather than spend money on a new one.
Google says its