The night of bad jokes

[owlfish]

My sister tells me that telling jokes to earn one's treat for Halloween is a Des Moines thing. People in the DC area don't do it. Really?

Poll What do they say on Halloween?

Comments

[gillo]

It's been a couple of years since any kids came to our door. Those who did have generally said 'Trick or Treat?', though back in our Grimsby days they had a little rhyme:

Black is black and green is green,
Spare a penny for Hallowe'en?

[tisiphone]

On a sample size of about 10, children here say "trick or treat" but don't tell jokes. No one in New England that I ever ran across told or expected jokes.

[drplokta]

The only trick-or-treater I've had in the past 15 years is next door's 19-month-old this year, and he's a bit young to be telling jokes or even managing to say "Trick or treat".

[steepholm]

Never heard of such a thing. Do the jokes have to be Halloween related?

[kekhmet]

Growing up in Michigan we certainly never told jokes!

I'm normally not home on Halloween in North London, but I think I recall the few trick or treaters I ever had over the years I've been here saying "trick or treat"... but that might just be me assuming they did and creating a memory for myself of it!

I can ask my sister what the trick or treating standard is in North Carolina where she lives