You’ll need the protein to hit all these houses anyway. Just mix the peanuts in with the sweets and call it trail mix. Don’t stress, though there will be plenty of chocolate later. Chili-lime flavored would be ideal but you’ll probably end up with plain or salted. Peanuts are common filling in piñatas in Mexico, for example, and that’s exactly what they are here too: filling.

So, this was a head scratcher for me, but yes, some miser might actually hand out peanuts. can be found down here but there are a handful of Tico treats that kids – and their parents – can look forward to: Peanuts via Aktron / Wikimedia Commons Globalization has pretty much guaranteed that all your Snickers, etc. from the U.S. But what, you may ask, does one find in a Costa Rican trick-or-treat bag? Criollo candy corn? Snickers? Bananas? “The City of Witches” and Curridabat on the east side are both neighborhoods where trick-or-treaters can be found. Not a bad place to begin considering the large number of expats who live there and the fact that the canton’s shield HAS A WITCH ON IT. Trick-or-treating doesn’t enjoy the same cultural heft as it does in the United States, but some Ticos do take their little goblins to do a few laps around the neighborhood, show off their ghoulish garments and collect enough sweets to keep the dentist in business for next year. This weekend is All Hallows’ Eve, Halloween, la noche de brujas, and that means costumes and – of course – candy.

Tico candy