What about the jack-o’-lantern? That started with a guy named “Stingy Jack.” According to Irish folklore, Jack tricked the Devil into climbing a tree, then carved a cross on it, trapping Satan. When Jack died, neither heaven nor hell wanted him, so the Devil gave him a single ember. Jack shoved it inside a hollowed-out turnip to light his eternal walk.
What Is The True Meaning Behind Halloween at Cody Peasley blog
Turnips. People in Ireland were carving turnips. That’s like celebrating Halloween with a broccoli. It wasn’t until Irish immigrants hit America that they discovered pumpkins were bigger, softer, and far easier to mutilate. So thank a pumpkin for not making you gag over a turnip lantern this year.
The Candy Industrial Complex
Halloween didn’t become the Sugar Apocalypse until the 1970s. Candy companies realized they could sell tiny, overpriced versions of normal candy bars and call it a holiday tradition. Today, Americans spend over $3 billion on candy for Halloween. That’s enough to buy every child on earth a pet llama, or at least a lifetime supply of candy corn—which, I should warn you, is not actually food but sweetened wax shaped like a triangle of regret.
And adults spend $500 million on costumes for their dogs. Yes, your neighbor’s pug dressed as a hot dog is a $5 billion industry. We have officially reached peak weird.
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