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Meat hands, and other truly disgusting Halloween treats

You might want to reconsider making your guests nauseous with these food choices before serving them tons of alcohol.

By ASHLEY RIGAZIO | October 29, 2009

Remember Halloween back in simpler times, when Mom would bake bat-shaped cookies and trick you and your friends into reaching into a bag full of spaghetti “worms”? Good times.

Well today Halloween food just isn’t that simple, and some people have become absurdly over-zealous with their gross-out schemes, creating monstrous refreshments and asking unassuming guests to not only look at them, but ingest them. Click through for a list of 10 gag-inducing “treats” that will make you pine for the gentler days of naked spaghetti in a paper bag.

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