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  • FRIDAY OCTOBER 29 2010 12:05 AM

The Mischievous Vegan: Trick Or Treat? – Can I Read the Ingredients On That First?

By Malloreigh

I didn’t grow up vegan, but I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to go trick-or-treating and come home with a bag full of candy you can’t eat. Now that I’m too old to walk around the neighbourhood asking for candy, I sit at home and give it out. While vegan kids can’t eat – and vegan grown-ups don’t give out – miniature chocolate bars, there are a few types of common candy that are “accidentally vegan.”





[Rigel & Chloe in Trick Or Treat]

Here’s A List of Some Hallovegan Candy:



  • Airheads taffy

  • Blow Pops

  • Cherry Blasters

  • Dots

  • Fuzzy Peaches

  • Jolly Ranchers

  • Laffy Taffy

  • Mike and Ike

  • Regular, BBQ, and All-Dressed Lays Potato Chips

  • Smarties

  • Sour Patch Kids

  • Swedish Berries

  • Swedish Fish

  • Sweet Tarts

  • Twizzlers





You can find more at PETA’s Accidentally Vegan page.

Keep in mind that white sugar (which is the kind used in most of this candy) is refined with bone char, which actually isn’t vegan, but PETA doesn’t seem to care about that. You could give out boxes of raisins, but then your house might get egged by angry sugar-hounds – a high insult to a vegan!

 
Comments
Clidna

Clidna

Canada
January 2005

OCT 29, 2010 09:16 AM

Are there a lot of vegan kids out there? I thought it was more of an adult choice... although I suppose those adults would probably feed their kids the same way as themselves. Never mind, this was a waste of a post.

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

OCT 29, 2010 09:31 AM

Plus I'm pretty sure a vegan would want to give out vegan candy.

RumpusParable

RumpusParable

Copperas Cove, TX
April 2003

OCT 29, 2010 09:35 AM

^ Yupperdoodle.

bendingunit23

bendingunit23

Canada
April 2005

OCT 31, 2010 08:57 AM

Oreo cookies

It would be interesting to learn the history of how those foods became vegan and the ones that always were. But I can see how that wouldn't be as interesting if you were 8.

Jolly Ranchers rock

Jensen

Jensen

SUICIDEGIRL

Texas, USA

OCT 31, 2010 01:41 PM

bendingunit23 said:
Oreo cookies



I tried to eat vegan for a month, for shits and giggles. Oreos with peanut butter were a main food group.