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We've been talking a lot about what we're planning on cooking and eating and handing out to trick-or-treaters next week. But we haven't talked too much about what we'll be wearing. Planning out a Halloween costume is almost as fun as eating an entire bowl of candy and writing it off as a seasonal obligation, especially when that costume is food-related. So this week, we asked our team:
If you could dress up as one food for Halloween, what would it be?
Would you go all out with a hotdog costume, or plan something a little more esoteric? Tell us in the comments!
Merrill: I'd love to dress up as a big wedge of Brie. Brie is so hot right now.
Gabriella: I've done a pretty good job of keeping my costumes food-centric for the past few years -- I was Cookie Monster last year, and this year I'm being the Utz girl. As far as actual food products go, I'd probably be a burrito or a sushi roll. Or a sexy ear of corn. I just love Halloween so much.
Lindsay-Jean: I have no idea. I'm just going to wait for all clever food costume ideas to roll in so I can copy one of them and compete with my red-headed husband who will be wearing a bunch of bread loaves this Halloween. (Get it? A gingerbread man...)
Lisa: I'd go as an orange. The color is festive, and dressing as as an enormous sphere allows for maximum candy consumption without the pesky eating constraints of tight costumes.
Lauren L: I was a pineapple once but I made the costume myself and basically looked like big bird. I'd rather be a piece of ikura for my next food costume.
Amanda: I was once a bunch of grapes, but my grape balloons kept popping so I ended up being a bunch of raisins.
Merrill: We should have gone together -- grapes and Brie!
Hannah: Never going to be able to top Amanda's. Game over.
Elana: I was a Kosher Pig last year, maybe a clam this year?
Posie: Well, I wish I had a tiny chubby baby so I could dress them as this.
Allen: So I can't say I have any great ones of my own. But my cousin Emily did make an amazing popcorn costume for her son!
Maddy: I'm not much for dressing up, but my seafood-loving kitties had better get excited about wearing this. We'll have one 7-pounder and one 14-pounder.
Stephanie: My initial thought was a chocolate chip cookie. However, after thinking about it, I think I have to go pierogi. I think pierogi would be funnier -- plus they're one of my favorite foods.
Kristen: I'm going to answer my own question: it doesn't.
Marian: I'm going to dress up as Bob Loblaw eating Lablabi.
Tell us: What food-related costume would you choose? Or are you forever loyal to your sexy orthodontist getup?
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Written by: Marian Bull
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ite fabric that you use to back plackets and collars). She cut a hole and stuck her head through the middle of it, head in the middle ,and then folded the front widthwise over itself and the back
over itself, and sewed up the sides of each big 'pocket',
and stuffed them with shredded leaves. Then she painted an octagonal white card with a big red rose and hung that from a string at her neck. So what was she? A Red Rose Tea Bag!!!!! Isn't that brilliant??!!
(The Ham Costume from "To Kill a Mockingbird")
It's my go-to.
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