Post-Halloween poll

[conuly]

Poll #26293 Street candy

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 68

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If you find intact, unopened, undamaged Halloween candy on the sidewalk, do you

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Pick it up and throw it out
22 (32.4%)

Pick it up and eat it/give it to somebody to eat/stick it in the candy jar
19 (27.9%)

Ignore it
25 (36.8%)

Other
2 (2.9%)

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

I walked past the same wrapped lollipop both ways on my commute today. Wish I could claim something different.

[melannen]

Depends on the kind of candy, the kind of wrapping, how long it's been, and how hungry I am. :P

[fayanora]

Around these parts, you pick it up and throw it out or ignore it because either way, it's gonna be all wet from the rain.

[pauamma]

That's "other" as "never happened to me".

[darkoshi]

When I initially read this survey, I wasn't sure what I'd do; it would depend on the location and the appearance of the wrapper, but probably either ignore it or throw it out. Especially as there's only certain candies I eat.

But today while raking the front yard I found one of the Halloween candies I had given out on the grass. It was one of the special vegan chocolate ones too. Even though the wrapper was undamaged and clean, it still felt somewhat tainted to me. But in the end I did open it and eat it. I definitely would not have put it back in the bag with the remaining non-tainted ones though.