Commercial Halloween in the UK was really in its infancy when I was a kid - Guy Fawkes' Night, with its promise of burgers, bonfires, and fireworks, was still the much more anticipated holiday. It had plenty of its own gore too, being the celebration of a narrowly averted plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, and the subsequent hanging, drawing and quartering of the conspirators.
Halloween did have one important advantage over Bonfire Night though... sweets. It had lots and lots of sweets. (Except from those old people who gave you tangerines, like they thought you were out early Christmas caroling or something.) And money sometimes! But mostly sweets.
Pictured above are Rowntree's Bursting Bugs, on the market c. 2003 - 2010 and the most perfect Halloween sweets ever made. They were gummy creepy crawlies with gooey 'guts' inside. Another total win for any Halloween haul were these gummy monster things:
They were kind of expensive though, and most people would just buy a party bag of Swizzels-Matlow and be done with it.
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How adorable is this?? Halloween here is really only about the scary and the creepy, but I quite like the US idea of kids just dressing up all cute. Especially when it's this darn cute!
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