Big Candy Bars Have No Place on Halloween
They ruin the “fun” of the fun-size treat.
by Ian Bogost
Oct 31, 2017
2 minutes
Full-size candy bars are the holy grail of Halloween. For many trick-or-treaters, they are seen as the ultimate bounty—a proper, grown-up Snickers or Milky Way with which to mock less-fortunate peers before engorgement. For those giving out the candy, they offer a not-so-subtle way to outdo the neighbors—Halloween as potlatch. The house with the full-size bars is the best house on the block.
Though tempting, the practice
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