For me Halloween is not about SamHain and the thinning of the veils between our world and the spirit world. It is not about parading around in a fishnetted sexy costume version of a typically female profession, woodland creature or comic book character. Its about Brach's candy corn . (Brach's makes the only acceptable brand. Please don't waste my time with the cellophane bagged no name variety with the stapled paper on top. )
I love seasonal candies - candy corn, peeps and the weird chewy holiday candy with the Xmas tree in the middle. I like the idea that their availability is limited and that they come in small quantities.
Having been on vacation for the better part of October, I had totally forgotten that Halloween was approaching. It took me a few minutes last Saturday to figure out that the skanky looking women on the subway car we in fact in costume and not working. In any case at 8:45 tonight all of a sudden I got a craving for candy corn. I made an announcement about it and my husband, G agreed to accompany me on a trek around Riverdale in search of the tri-colored triangular treat. We didn't have to go far; in this town with the current demographic drugstores are plentiful. There were a few bags left and they were only 99 cents. I remember them being much more expensive perhaps Brach's has fallen on hard times.
0 comments:
Post a Comment