Exercise instead of candy makes for #rageworthy Halloween

It seems like every year a bunch of adults get together to figure out how to wreck Halloween.

This week those adults came from Summerside, P.E.I. where it was suggested that instead of candy, people should hand out passes for fitness activities like skating, bowling and swimming or various other things that are not delicious,

You can't put pie in a bag.- Jann Arden

Because News panellists Jann Arden, Rebecca Kohler and Anand Rajaram weren't keen on the idea.

"Let them be fat and unfit like everybody else growing up!" said Arden, who empathized with a crummy Halloween.

A song for a slice of pie

"In Springbank, Alta. we had to walk three miles to each house," she said.

Arden said some of the houses would make them play music before giving out the treat.

"Then they'd give us a lemon meringue pie slice, so you had to eat when you were right there, because you can't put pie in a bag."

"I never went again — we were throwing up by the fifth house."

Dressing up homeless

Bad Halloween memories are somewhat of a tradition for the panel. Rajaram said his parents — who immigrated from India — never fully grasped the holiday.

"It was always a panic at the last minute so for a number of years consecutively I just wore my dad's clothes and dressed as a homeless person," he said.

"I didn't get any candy but I got lots of change and a couple cups of coffee."

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