Dart Folk

Most individuals have a sense that the story of Halloween is not rooted in fun-sized goodies and hilarious costumes but few truly know that Halloween’s customs hold both Celtic and Christian sources dating back thousands of years. Our new cultural custom is to celebrate Halloween with fun delicacies and clever attires. Read on for Halloween’s story.

M&Ms were presented to American GIs during the war. M&Ms were primitively sold in a tube and then prepacked in their famed small brown bag in 1948. In 1950, the beginning M was imprinted in black on the candy giving the bites their signature panache.

Best-selling Goody Bars: Candy bars have topped the charts for years as the #1 Halloween candy bar. Parents’ treasured delicacies to sneak from their tykes’ trick-or-treat bags are snack-size chocolate bars (70% steal these)! Other cherished candy bars to look for are also sweet and petite.

Chocolate kisses came out in 1907 and have been on candy shelves ever since with a brief interruption from 1942 to 1949 due to the rationing out of shiny foil during WWII. A modern belief is that the delicacy got its name from the sound or movement that the machine makes while producing them. 76% percent of homes will accept bite-size cocoa candies in their Halloween actions and 26% percent will go for full-size goodies (chocolate and non-cocoa).

We have to give a call out to some other halloween treats,which will also fill the bags of the 93% of children who will go trick-or-treating this year.

Visits from the haunts of the dead could be life-threatening, of course, so the Celts and Druids assumed animal costumes for shelter. After the rise of Christianity, the nighttime before the autumn fete became celebrated as All-hallows Eve. The American celebration emerged from the combining of some other immigrant traditions.