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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - ...Smell Our Feet, Give Us Something Good to Eat...
 Ah Halloween. All Hallows Eve. Day of the Dead. Dia del Muerto. Trick or treaters are out in force tonight, thanks to the warm temperatures, and the promise of over-consuming high fructose corn syrup-laden candies, leading to early onset of Type-2 Diabetes. Halloween and diabetes, what better image of an American child exists? With so much media hype being paid to schools, restaurants, and cities launching campaigns to increase healthy food options, including reducing the use of trans-fatty acids, perhaps it's time to tell the government to stop putting corn in our sweets? Some of our favorite Halloween memories include: 7 o'clock curfews on trick-or-treating, the up-scale part of town, where full-sized candy bars were handed out, Butterfingers, Charleston Chews, trading candies after returning home with a massive bag of goodies, and weeks of sugary snacks in school lunches (when sugary snacks were not allowed by parents), stories of razors in apples, and the old lady down the street who gave out pencils and raisins. Yes, pencils and raisins.
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