No one wants homemade

[minoanmiss]

I am a little bit sad every year as I buy halloween candy because I know absolutely no one would let their kids take or eat my homemade candy. And then just now I was preparing for E's birthday, collecting images and getting ready to design some stickers for her, but she requested storebought.

*facepalms and laughs at myself*

Comments

[gingicat]

Oh, use favorite fan art and tell her it's storebought.

[minoanmiss]

I was going to do that but she wantss two fandoms I do not share with her or her father! (MLP and TMNT)

[gingicat]

Huh, I had no idea she likes the Ninja Turtles! I would have thought Star vs. the Forces of Evil.

I shall browse Tumblr.

[minoanmiss]

The stickers arrived, btw. Remind me to show her at an opportune moment.

[med_cat]

Well, think of it this way: their loss, our gain! :P

I think I can safely speak for everyone here when I say we all enjoy the candy and stickers you create ;)

[thnidu]

YES YES YES!!

[minoanmiss]

beam Absolutively. :D

[katarik]

NY I WILL TAKE HER SHARE

Also I came upon a chocolate recipe book the other day that included notes on candying fruits and thought of you.

[minoanmiss]

blushes and beams at you also makes a note

[amaebi]

I stopped cooking for Sheeyun and Chun Woo about a week ago because it's stupid to cook for people who don't like my cooking.

[gingicat]

That makes complete sense, especially as I seem to recall that you taught Chun Woo how to cook for himself.

[minoanmiss]

I would rather say that it's wise to not cook for people who don't appreciate your cooking, including the love in it. hugs you

[amaebi]

Yeah, it was just a waste of time, and I'm glad I quit.

[julian]

Mmmmm homemaaaaaaaaaaaaaade.

[petra]

This makes me want to make you homemade candy but I haven't the spoons, beloved.

[minoanmiss]

You have made me homemeade candy, which was awesome, and you will again. hugs you

[acelightning]

When the custom of trick-or-treating first caught on in the US, the "treats" were usually homemade things like cookies of various sorts, confections like caramel apples, or even just apples and other fruits. Ironically, when commercially made and packaged candies first became available, a lot of people felt that homemade treats were much safer than industrial products made with sinister chemicals like coal tar dyes and glucose syrup.

Although rumors of dangerously adulterated trick-or-treat goodies surface every few years, they have all turned out to be bogus in one way or another. In spite of this, people now think of wrapped and sealed candies as "safe", and homemade treats as either unsanitary or deliberately filled with poison and razor blades.

I suspect that the reason E wants store-bought stickers is because, first, yours are too familiar to her, and second, other kids only recognize the copyrighted official designs from the mass media :-(

[sabotabby]

I’ve considered making my own Halloween candy but yeah, same. It sucks.

[cellio]

She doesn't know what she's missing.

Well, more for the people who appreciate original art!

(The Halloween thing is sad. :-( )

[minoanmiss]

beams Thank you. :)

[vettecat]

It is sad that homemade treats which are healthier, tastier, and more economical are now seen with suspicion.