Lots of feedback about adults trick-or-treating, mostly about parents accompanying their kids but carrying their own bags or buckets. And I’ve never had this happen:

I don’t mind the brazen moochers as much as I do the parents who ask for extra treats for fictitious sick children at home. I can imagine getting two or three families with sick littl’uns at home, but when it’s every fifth family, I get suspicious. Free apparently isn’t good enough for these scammers – they’ve got to take extra.

I wasn’t even looking for an immigration angle, though the acquaintance in Minneapolis who prompted this said he had dozens of adult Hmong refugees asking for candy. But one reader sent this:

I don’t know about adult trick or treaters, but my brother and his wife live in Del Rio, TX (on the border). They get hundreds! of trick or treaters from South of the Border every Halloween. My brother says he thinks the only English they know is trick or treat, (that is until they get older, then they’ll learn “Viva Mexico” or something)!
BTW- they’ve lived in El Paso also, and it was the same there.

And several people made this point, making me glad I don’t live in their neighborhoods:

I have seen fathers escorting their children at Halloween extending a shot glass instead of a bag when they came to the door, but they obviously weren’t expecting candy.

OK, back to important matters like tofu.