{"id":3010,"date":"2022-10-19T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2023-02-21T19:57:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:57:17","slug":"halloween-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=3010","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"
As you know, Halloween (Oct 31) will be here in a week and a half. \u00a0Since it falls on a Monday evening, there\u2019s no karate training that day. \u00a0Our younger members will be eagerly walking in their neighborhoods, bag in hand;, while our older members will be passing out candies from their front doors. \u00a0Anyways, the only karate gi\u2019s that might appear at Momilani Community Center that evening would be trick-or-treaters in costume. BTW, each year, PCF holds a large celebration there that is fun and safe to attend, if you\u2019re so inclined.<\/div>\n
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Events like these sometimes make me reminisce \u00a0– as fading memories of scores of past Halloweens pop up in my mind. \u00a0The earliest I can recall was around 1956 and the one thing that I can clearly remember was that the folks at one house actually gave me my first candied apple! \u00a0I mean, a\u00a0whole apple on a stick, covered in caramel, upside down on a paper plate. \u00a0<\/b>Fortunately, I was only a couple of houses away from home, so I hurried back and took two or three bites of the tasty but gooey and messy treat; washed my hands\/mouth and rushed back out to rejoin my friends. \u00a0Back then, I wondered how many scores of apples they had to prepare, for the hordes of tiny visitors haha. \u00a0Thinking about it now, I\u2019m pretty sure that they prepared just a few of these special treats, set aside for those neighborhood kids that they knew well.<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m also pretty sure that you won\u2019t be giving out nor receiving \u00a0any candied apples this Halloween, but I do wonder whatever happened to some of the other sweet treats I enjoyed back in the 1950\u2019s. \u00a0My favorites included: candied necklaces, candy buttons on paper, banana Turkish taffy, cigarette gum\/plastic guns that could shoot candy into your mouth (can you believe it?), jawbreakers (probably a choking hazard), and \u201csoda pop\u201d drinks in soft wax shaped like soda bottles. \u00a0I\u2019d often see these empty wax containers, littering the roadways, melted and flattened, sometimes with tire tracks imprinted on the soft wax. \u00a0There was one particular candy (or was it a health supplement?) that I really liked but rarely possessed \u00a0– \u00a0Horlicks Malted Milk Tablets<\/b>\u00a0(I heard that these gave you energy!). \u00a0The light tan Horlicks tablets came in small, glass flasks. \u00a0Adults might let the tablets slowly melt in their mouths, but I loved to chew them and they\u2019d really get stuck in my teeth. \u00a0We\u2019d fill the empty flasks with water and tuck one in our pocket while we played \u201ccowboy\u201d. Then we\u2019d take swigs of \u201cwhiskey\u201d from them and \u201csmoked\u201d our cigarette gum; mirroring unhealthy habits we watched at western movies. \u00a0As it turns out, the tablets weren\u2019t candies in the truest sense at all. \u00a0Apparently their origin was associated with the baby food malted milk industry. \u00a0 In fact, when they were originally sold in pharmacies and touted as health supplements. Soldiers were encouraged to carry them into the field. \u00a0By the 1960\u2019s, the Horlicks tablets had all but disappeared.<\/div>\n
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Okayl I\u2019ve meandered enough about the lost sweet treats of my childhood and Halloween, haha. \u00a0I wish all of our younger members a nice evening (hopefully good weather) of trick-or-treating and that our older members don\u2019t run out of candies to hand out to the youngsters before the night is over. \u00a0And, as a sign of the times, I\u2019m sure that parents will carefully check each goodie that their child comes back with – though I doubt that they\u2019ll find a sticky candied apple in the bag.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you know, Halloween (Oct 31) will be here in a week and a half. \u00a0Since it falls on a Monday evening, there\u2019s no karate training that day. \u00a0Our younger members will be eagerly walking in their neighborhoods, bag in hand;, while our older members will be passing out candies from their front doors. \u00a0Anyways, the only karate gi\u2019s that might appear at Momilani Community Center that evening would be trick-or-treaters in costume. BTW, each year, PCF holds a large celebration there that is fun and safe to attend, if you\u2019re so inclined. Events like these sometimes make me reminisce \u00a0– as fading memories of scores of past Halloweens pop up in my mind. \u00a0The earliest I can recall was around 1956 and the one thing that I can clearly remember was that the folks at one house actually gave me my first candied apple! \u00a0I mean, a\u00a0whole apple on a stick, covered in caramel, upside down on a paper plate. \u00a0Fortunately, I was only a couple of houses away from home, so I hurried back and took two or three bites of the tasty but gooey and messy treat; washed my hands\/mouth and rushed back out to rejoin my [...]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}