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Halloween Treats masterpost

Hey Fab Bats! You know the drill. Every day is Halloween yadda yadda Ministry-said-so etc etc Al Jourgensen-did-something-weird-again and so forth and so on. Besides drunk punks, commercial Halloween is mostly made up of three things: Michael Myers, Merchandise and Munches. Two of those only come year round of which one got it’s head chopped off by Jamie Lee Curtis. That leaves us with the yums. As Halloween food is the best food, there is no reason why you can’t eat it year round. Now let’s quit yakin’ and cut to the crunch:

Candy Corn:

Pumpkin:

Cakes and Cookies:

Candy and Snacks:

Healthy:

Drinks:

What do you think makes Halloween? Any favorite treats? Have you had a glass of water today? If not you should. It is important to stay hydrated.

Related posts: Bat Shaped Cookies masterpost, Healthy Chocolate Recipes of Doom, 13 Things to Do on Halloween.

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peachcrushedvelvet

this is what plays when you’re dying and your life is flashing before your eyes

nero-neptune

*puts this on my End Of The World playlist*

pointedahead

Ok @peachcrushedvelvet is 100% accurate but here are several other situations I feel this beautiful creation could apply to

1. End of the world type of experience as noted above by @nero-neptune i.e. meteors falling and people running, things exploding and desperately trying to survive

2. Desperately running through your house avoiding attackers (guns, projectiles, of some type)

3. You’re in a library and you accidentally knock something over which knocks over all of the shaves domino style and you’re running down the hallway with them falling in the background. 

Everybody please contribute

pyocyanin

4. You finally experience love at first sight, but they’re in the middle of a bank heist and you’re getting caught in the cross fire

5. You’re getting arrested in roller skates at the laundromat

6. Intergalactic space travel in the form of a gay cruise

ithinkimdemi-iknowimobsesed

  1. you are falling off a very tall biulding
thebraveandthebroiled

8. You’re about to swallow the last sip of pink lemonade when you look over to your wife in realization that you have in fact not shared any of the drink, you see her eyes widened at the sound of your stupid straw slurping up the last drops from the cup at that moment your traitorous mouth decides to reflexively swallow in terror and DOOM sinks into blood and etches your bones. 

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A loaf of bread made in the first century AD, which was discovered at Pompeii, preserved for centuries in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The markings visible on the top are made from a Roman bread stamp, which bakeries were required to use in order to mark the source of the loaves, and to prevent fraud. (via Ridiculously Interesting)

dduane

(sigh) I’ve seen these before, but this one’s particularly beautiful.

hungrylikethewolfie

I feel like I’m supposed to be marveling over the fact that this is a loaf of bread that’s been preserved for thousands of years, and don’t get me wrong, that’s hella cool.  But honestly, I’m mostly struck by the unexpected news that “bread fraud” was apparently once a serious concern.

ironychan

Bread Fraud was a huge thing,  Bread was provided to the Roman people by the government - bakers were given grain to make the free bread, but some of them stole the government grain to use in other baked goods and would add various substitutes, like sawdust or even worse things, to the bread instead.  So if people complained that their free bread was not proper bread, the stamp told them exactly whose bakery they ought to burn down.

dancingspirals

Bread stamps continued to be used at least until the Medieval period in Europe. Any commercially sold bread had to be stamped with an official seal to identify the baker to show that it complied with all rules and regulations about size, price, and quality. This way, rotten or undersized loaves could be traced back to the baker. Bakers could be pilloried, sent down the streets in a hurdle cart with the offending loaf tied around their neck, fined, or forbidden to engage in baking commercially ever again in that city. There are records of a baker in London being sent on a hurdle cart because he used an iron rod to increase the weight of his loaves, and another who wrapped rotten dough with fresh who was pilloried. Any baker hurdled three times had to move to a new city if they wanted to continue baking.

If you have made bread, you are probably familiar with a molding board. It’s a flat board used to shape the bread. Clever fraudsters came up with a molding board that had a little hole drilled into it that wasn’t easily noticed. A customer would buy his dough by weight, and then the baker would force some of that dough through the hole, so they could sell and underweight loaf and use the stolen dough to bake new loafs to sell. Molding boards ended up being banned in London after nine different bakers were caught doing this. There were also instances of grain sellers withholding grain to create an artificial scarcity drive up the price of that, and things like bread.

Bread, being one of the main things that literally everyone ate in many parts of the world, ended up with a plethora of rules and regulations. Bakers were probably no more likely to commit fraud than anyone else, but there were so many of them, that we ended up with lots and lots of rules and records of people being shifty.

Check out Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony by Madeleine Pelner Cosman for a whole chapter on food laws as they existed in about 1400. Plus the color plates are fantastic.

hjuliana

ALL OF THIS IS SO COOL

thisandthathistoryblog

I found something too awesome not share with you! 

I’m completely fascinated by the history of food, could I choose a similar topic for my Third Year Dissertation? Who knows, but it is very interesting all the same!

youmightbeamisogynist

Bread fraud us actually where the concept of a bakers dozen came from. Undersized rolls/loaves/whatever were added to the dozen purchased to ensure that the total weight evened out so the baker couldn’t be punished for shorting someone.

donesparce

[wants to talk about bread fraud laws and punishments]

[holds it in]

bread police

word-nerds-united

For people writing time pieces or fantasy pieces, check this stuff out! Just imagine writing about a hardened criminal who started as a baker or something.

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