Candy is back on at this year’s Grand Day Parade in Anoka, following weeks of backlash over a recent decision to ban the sugary handouts in a city billed the “Halloween Capital of the World.” from the Mpls StarTribune.
You find them in the courtrooms and the offices of men,
They show up at conventions or in church to shout ‘Amen!”
Creeping from their lairs they lay waste to all good cheer --
Those do-gooders who at the sight of candy have to sneer!
Up there in Anoka Town, where Halloween is prized,
These lunatics decided that sweetmeats should be despised.
They banned the Baby Ruth bar and the pleasing M&M;
They took out all the gumballs and cut down the licorice stem.
They watched in satisfaction as the Halloween parade
Marched grudgingly about the town without a candy trade.
Little children whimpered and old men scowled in defeat,
Mourning the demise of a tradition once so sweet.
But then a mighty warrior (or maybe a plain group)
Rose up our rights to sucrose to successfully recoup!
He (or they) demanded that the goodies be restored.
They (or he) stormed City Hall with confident accord.
And so it came to pass that once again all treats and trickers
Were showered with a blessed rain of Skittles and of Snickers.
Let no one ever threaten the sweet tooth of our chaste city --
Or once again we will revive Three Musketeers banditti!
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