Halloween candy bags up 71 percent in five years

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe average hundred-piece bag of Halloween candy now costs seventy-one percent more than it did five years ago, the New York Times reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeventy-one percent. That's a bag of candy that went to university and came back with ideas about itself.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'll go first. Sam's Club has a bag at twenty-nine ninety-eight, a little over eight cents a treat. I give it a six.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTasting notes: a plastic pumpkin, a porch light, and one neighbor who opens the door and sighs.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA two-pack of the new Oreo Halloween cookies is listed at ten dollars.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI'm giving it a three. Five dollars a cookie pack, and I'd guess a very orange filling and a long conversation with my bank.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA three is harsh. Dollar Tree has Reese's Pumpkins at a dollar twenty-five. That's the real Olympian here.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's a dollar twenty-five now. Give it a week.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOkay, lunch. I had a handful of fun-size bars out of the bowl we keep for children.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFriends, what's the most depressing thing you've ever eaten while pretending to work?

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMine was a cold cup of tea and half a banana. So you're the one who got a bargain.