Candy gets thrown out!

I have been part of several discussions about Halloween candy lately.
For me I remember how we rarely were allowed candy as kids. Halloween, Christmas and Easter were special times for us. Each of those occasions had different candy but to us kids it was a treat we looked forward to.
In the past three decades give or take a few years, since I stopped going trick or treating, the candy companies have had it made.
When I was a kid many treats at homes were homemade. Mrs. Marr used to make the best caramel apples for the first 100 kids! Others made popcorn balls, puffed wheat squares, etc. People also gave out apples and peanuts by the handful.
But since that time just about all treats handed out are now factory made, for fear that the little old lady next door might poison the kids.
So now the candy companies have a guaranteed market, free of grandma competing with them. So they took the market and made their treats smaller and smaller.
Way back in the homemade treat days, we also used to get regular sized candy bars. I remember Bill Matthew at Stedmans telling us kids to pick whatever candy bar or licorice we wanted right off his shelves!
On a good Halloween I would get two or three pillow cases full of candy and make it last for about a month!
So with the small candy kids get now I figured it must be all gone really quick.
I was surprised how many moms have said that they often throw candy out. It seems kids get candy so often these days that special treat times like Halloween are just another day at the candyland office.
It really is a shame that candy is getting thrown out. Times have changed. Back in our childhood we would fight amongst siblings for the last scraps of them!
–Until then, Ken