Trick-or-Treat Postmortem: Potatoes are a Hit

This year for Halloween we did the “candy or a potato” experiment. Kids overwhelmingly chose potato.
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Giving out potatoes to trick-or-treaters may seem odd and even experimental, but it’s not exactly new. What’s new is instant evidence of its popularity on doorbell camera videos. Put yourself into the mind of a trick-or-treater. You’ve already got a bag full of candy, and a potato is funny. Even if you don’t have a choice between a potato or candy, that potato is going to stick out from all the other treats you bring home. My trick-or-treat days were a very long time ago, but I still remember that one house where an old lady invited us in to select from a table full of homemade treats ranging from caramel apples to cupcakes to cookies. That doesn’t happen anymore, but a potato is something to remember.

The potatoes were a big hit this year
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Some commenters under these videos assumed that the kids liked the potatoes because they could throw them at windows or each other for “tricks.” That really doesn’t factor in significantly, because the kids that go door-to-door in costume are overwhelmingly younger than those who use Halloween as an excuse for vandalism. Besides, it’s a lot more fun to bring your loot home than to throw it away, even if you have no moral problem with destruction.

Source: neatorama