Sure, Halloween is about candy … but, apparently, it’s also about pizza. Pizza is one of the biggest food delivery items on Super Bowl Sunday, but Halloween is an even bigger holiday to order it. Grubhub says that in 2021, diners not only ordered more pizza for Halloween than the Super Bowl, but that pizza orders increased by 37.5% compared to an average day in 2021.
Hey, kids -- your parents are stealing your candy ... A WalletHub survey found that 86% of parents admit to stealing candy from their kids. And chances are, what they are stealing is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – since the survey found that was the most popular Halloween candy.
Halloween, before there was candy … Americans will spend approximately $3 billion on Halloween candy this year. That's about $3 billion more than they spent 100 years ago. It seems hard to believe, but giving out candy on Halloween really didn't become a thing until the 1920s or '30s. Before that, people handed out fruit, according to historians. Today, giving someone an apple or grapes instead of a Butterfinger or 3 Musketeers would likely result in your house getting toilet papered. Going trick-or-treating for candy really didn't become popular in America until after World War Two.