Why do some people give out full-sized candy bars for Halloween?

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Anonymous wrote:I remember getting candy cigarettes for Halloween. They had powdered sugar on them so it looked like smoke when you blew on them!

And bubble gum cigars. They were HUGE. Sometimes a cigar is just ... a full sized candy bar.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are all of you saying you only got full-sized as a kid? I’m 45 and don’t remember anything of the sort. It was all small candy for me in the 80s.

It’s less age than HHI. I grew up working class in the 80s and no one in my neighborhood could afford to give out full bars. Lots of lollipops and mini sized Tootsie Rolls.

But PPs who said that said that they got full size because the fun-size weren't yet on the market.

This says fun-sized came on the market in 1968.

https://time.com/5710428/fun-size-candy-history/

The only "fun size" we got when I was a kid were those little Hershey chocolate bars -- one plain, one "special dark," one with peanuts, one with rice krispy things, etc. Can't remember what they were called.

Hershey’s Miniatures, since 1939!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey%27s_Miniatures