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The cookies and pop tarts both had later 2015 exp dates, so they could be last year's, but I'm not sure.
It's hard to tell these days, isn't it?
With the seasonal items (meaning fall and holiday items) appearing early every year, and then the extra/excess seasonal products sticking around long past the holidays and ending up in the bargain stores, it becomes a weird situation where we suddenly don't know if the products are old or new!
In fact, not only does my 99 Cents Only Store have Pumpkin Pie Pop Tarts and Candy Corn Pebbles Cereal from last year's Halloween season, it also has Edy's/Dreyer's Slow Churned Peppermint Wonderland ice cream from last year's holiday season (and no one is buying the ice cream -- even at 99 cents!!! -- because the Slow Churned Peppermint tastes like frozen toothpaste). This year's supply of Edy's/Dreyer's Halloween and Holiday Season ice cream flavors should be out in 2 months -- they hit the store shelves in September!
Hoping for everyone's opinion- We will be going up to Anaheim for 2 days, October 26-27th. I was originally planning on buying halloween party tickets for the first day and then 1-day tickets for the second day. With the Halloween party ticket price increase, it would only be around $50 more for us to buy 2-day tickets instead for our family. Would it make more sense to skip the party and just do California Adventure that day and
Disneyland the other? And just skip the Halloween party altogether? Especially knowing that we can see Paint the Night and Disneyland Forever... I just wonder if there is anything at the party that we will be super disappointed to miss. Does it make more sense to just skip the party and get 2 full days in the parks?
Side note: We'll be spending a week in Disney World next January, so I am not super concerned about riding the most rides. I just want us to get to experience the Halloween and Diamond Celebration specific festivities.
mummabear brought up a lot of great points, so I don't know if I can add much more to what she said. I just wanted to make sure I understood correctly. If you decide to do the party, does that mean you would do the party in Disneyland on one day, and then do Disneyland on the other day too? Or would you do the party on one day and then California Adventure on the other day?
I am kind of going back and forth on the issue for you. On the one hand, as you said, you will still be able to see Paint the Night and Disneyland Forever -- party or no party. You said that rides are not the primary concern. I don't know what Disneyland is going to offer for Halloween this year outside of the Halloween Party. I have to assume that the Halloween Carnival will be back. As long as the Halloween Carnival is back in the daytime, and as long as there are Halloween decorations on Main Street, you should be able to get enough of a Halloween Time experience even if you decided to skip the party. The party has Halloween Screams fireworks, though, which are really cool, as well as the foggy Rivers of America and some other cool effects around Disneyland. I don't think that MHP is 100% necessary to have a fun Halloween trip, but I think it would enhance the Halloween aspect of the trip.
I'm not sure if anything Halloween-ish is going to appear in DCA this year, though. Right now, I have to assume that it won't (unless the Halloween version of Mad T Party returns). But if you want to see World of Color - Celebrate, you'd have to go to DCA.
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I saw this about a week ago at my local walgreens (Provo,
UT) Not pictured are the bags of candy corn and candy corn mixes. Ironically it is in the seasonal isle with all of the summer stuff.
That's awesome! I love it! Pumpkin Pandemonium has begun, and will only intensify next month and in September. (Next month is actually when the Glade fall/autumn line of products should hit the shelves.) Walgreens is leading the pack this year in terms of early seasonal goodies. They must not want Target to steal their Halloween thunder. Walgreens was also the store to throw down the Halloween gauntlet and get in the first (non-craft store) Halloween item of the season -- the Three MuskeFEARS bars -- on or before June 30th!
For some reason, I am extremely amused by Pumpkin Pandemonium. I can't wait for autumn.
What is candy corn - off to google it
You know, Mommy2PrincessAbby summed it up well -- I'm not sure if you would like them. I'm not even sure if I like them. I can't decide. They are small, triangular pieces of pure sugar and they have a very distinct flavor and look -- it's not a bad flavor or a good flavor, but it is sweet. Just as candy canes are the candy most associated with Christmas, and jelly beans are associated with Easter, and conversation hearts are associated with Valentine's Day, candy corn is the main candy associated with Halloween. In its Halloween form, it should be yellow, orange and white. However, in recent years, other versions of candy corn have begun to pop up in Easter colors, Christmas colors and even in red, white and blue for 4th of July! Candy corn is not something I could ever eat a lot of. I don't necessarily dislike the taste of it, but I just couldn't eat a lot of it. A lot of candy corn-flavored products have popped up in the last couple of years (Candy Corn Oreos, for example), just in case people can't get enough of a candy corn fix with the actual candy corn itself!
What I will say is that, just in terms of decorations for fall/Halloween, candy corn looks great in a glass, bowl or even a vase. If you fill some vases, jars or any sorts of containers of different sizes (made of clear glass) with lots of candy corn and place them around a room, they pack a big punch of seasonal color and look pretty.
Multiple "what is candy corn?" posts kind of crack me up... These are an old fashioned candy, more nostalgic than anything. If you aren't from the U.S. I'm not even sure if you would like them, they are pure sugar with a hard to describe flavor... Other than "sweet".
It's a flavor that is very specific to candy corn, and yet I have a hard time even recalling what it tastes like until I eat a piece of candy corn! Right now, I am hard pressed to remember the flavor, but if I were to eat some candy corn I know I would be thinking, "Ah yes, there's that flavor I know so well."
It is hard to describe.
) then you would miss Disneyland Forever Fireworks otherwise you could skip the party do Disneyland on the Monday and DCA on the Tuesday and should be able to catch them both but miss the party/Halloscreams)
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