Somehow, through fate, geography, or good taste, Texas children may escape the most regrettable tradition of Halloween.

For once, Texas is on the good side of a survey — at least that’s how I see it. A website put together a list of the candies kids are most likely to get. For instance, kids have a 67% chance of finding a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup in their treat bag. That’s a win in my book.

But we all know that things can go terribly wrong on Halloween. As a matter of fact, whose idea was it to dress kids up and send them to strangers’ houses to beg? The answer takes us way back — all the way to the ancient Celts. The practice started with poor people receiving treats called “soul cakes” in return for their service in praying for the dead. Wow. Halloween is even darker than you thought. Over the centuries, the tradition kept evolving, and sometime around World War II, the modern version of trick-or-treating became commonplace.

Halloween picked up traditions the way a rolling snowball picks up dirt, and certain things became forever linked to the holiday. When I was a kid, the highlight — and I mean the pinnacle — of Halloween decorating was someone with a paper skeleton on their door. If they added “spiderwebs” to that, we would accuse them of being an actual witch.

🎃 Texas Kids Dodge Halloween’s Worst Treat

Among all the worst parts of Halloween comes candy corn, or what I like to call “the Peeps of the season” — a treat so reviled that most kids would rather get a paperclip in their bag. Here’s the good news: the survey says that in Texas, kids are only the 32nd most likely to receive candy corn in their bag. That means the odds are in their favor — your little trick-or-treaters might not have to deal with those waxy, pumpkin-tooth-shaped bits of awfulness at all.

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All this proves is, it’s good to be a trick-or-treater in Texas.

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