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Elvira, "Mistress of the Dark," offers halloween advice on scary candy ingredients:

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Quick—think of a word that rhymes with "gelatin."

Odds are you thought of "skeleton," which makes perfect sense, if you think about what the ghoulish concoction called "gelatin" really is—animal bones, along with hooves, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage, all bubbled together in a huge cauldron. The coagulated goo is then added to candy, marshmallows, and, of course, that wiggly, jiggly cafeteria staple, Jell-O.

Mad Cow Disease Drives Candy Lovers Crazy
Earlier this year, candy fans got a scare when it was revealed that Mamba candies were made with gelatin from Poland—a hot spot for mad cow disease. Mad cow disease sounds like something out of a B horror flick, but it’s scary for real. It’s caused by grinding up leftover bits of dead sheep and cows and feeding them to other cows, then people who eat meat and animal products infected with mad cow disease can get the deadly new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or nvCJD, which turns their brains into a sponge. Click here for more information about mad cow disease.

Mamba makers pulled a switcheroo, swapping the beef gelatin for starch. Fear of mad cow disease has caused millions to recoil in terror from steaks and burgers—but many don’t think twice about scarfing Skittles and Starburst. Maybe they should—as experts fear mad cow disease may get passed along in gelatin.

"Witch" Treats Are Fit for a-Gobblin’?
Fear not, Elvira has managed to scare up a virtual cornucopia of candy to offer the hungry hordes of ghouls and ghosts. Thanks to the following variety of gelatin-free, vegan, frightfully good goodies, you can avoid playing a nasty trick on kids and cows this Halloween.

Airheads taffy
Atkins peanut butter bars
Blow Pops
Charms lollipops
Chick-o-Sticks
Cracker Jack
Cry Babies
Dem Bones
Dots
Dum-Dums
Fireballs
Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews
Hot Tamales
Hubba Bubba bubblegum
Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)
Jujubees
Jujyfruits
Lemonheads
Mambas
Mary Janes (regular and peanut butter kisses)
Mike and Ike
Now and Later
Pez
Ring Pop lollipops
Smarties
Sour Patch Kids
Starburst (jelly beans and hard candy)
Super Bubble
Swedish Fish
Sweet Tarts
Tropical Source mini chocolate bags
Twizzlers
Zotz

Kool

...and I Jack The Pumpkin King have grown tired of the same old thing...

and yet i still love jell-o....a great way to loose weight fast is by eating jell-o three times a day and thats it......unhealthy i know but when your wisdom teeth are removed its great! i had jell-o for 3 weeks..... sad

Nice, but to be sure, you should offer them old jello. you know that nasty rubbery jello that you end up making into bouncy balls. MmmMMMmm that is tasty biggrin