The best food-related Halloween costume ever
The discussion on how best to dress up as Gluttony reminded me of the best food-related Halloween costume I ever saw. Costumes, really. I wish I had a picture.
I was sitting at my desk at work one Halloween and suddenly a group from another department appeared dressed in full costume as the California raisins. They had Martha and the Vandellas blasting out "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" on a portable cassette player, and they danced their way through the features department and then disappeared.
Top that.
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Blue Pencil
Glady's Knight and the Pips
or
Marvine Gaye
or
The Miracles
Not sure if Martha Reeves ever covered that song!!!
Here you go. EL
Posted by: Hue | October 25, 2009 12:19 PM
Wish I'd been there to see that! That takes the prize for best food-related group, with musical accompaniment, without a doubt.
All I can offer is my own personal favorite. A boy about 11 years old appeared at my door with tire tracks running diagonally across his sweatshirt. I asked him what he was supposed to be and he jerked his head to one side (showing more tire tracks) and said, "Roadkill."
Posted by: Dahlink | October 25, 2009 12:20 PM
I miss trick-or-treaters. We don't get not-a-one in the country.
Posted by: NotableM | October 25, 2009 1:01 PM
Scary thing...I did this exact thing (well, there were only two of us) at a party about 25 years ago. Wore trash bags to make us look like raisins...we used the Marvin Gaye version!
Posted by: Zevonista | October 25, 2009 3:19 PM
Senior year at college my roommate went out as a "fudge-em." If you don't recall what I'm talking about, fudge-em's were a limited offer Dominos desert. They had these funny advertisements of little brownie squares saying "fudge-ems!" and being all happy and hugging people.
So my friend dressed in all brown and then painted a box brown and wore it. Only the paint was still wet when we went out, so he would hug people and yell "fudge-ems!" and when he released the recipients of the hugs they were covered in sticky brown paint. He ruined a lot of peoples costumes, it was hilarious.
Posted by: Corey | October 26, 2009 9:34 AM
My favorite is the "Cereal Killer".
You attach a bunch of those mini single serving cereal boxes to a white shirt, cut a slit in the boxes, glue in plastic knives into the holes, and apply a little fake blood to each box.
Posted by: Donny B | October 26, 2009 10:42 AM
with Halloween this weekend, why not have posters send in food-related costume pictures to you and have a Top 10 the following Tuesday....hilarity ensues!
I'm willing, but they have to be food-related. EL
Posted by: nestee | October 26, 2009 1:27 PM