Its Monday. I hope everyone had a good Halloween. Despite it being a windy chilly night, we had a good turnout. There were a few notable costumes like a giant inflatable white chicken, Santa Claus, a toilet, and an actual dog dressed in a silver space suit. I knew I should’ve brought a few of Abby’s dog treats.

I was reminded last week that we had an anniversary. For some reason this always comes as a surprise to me. I started this website back in 1995 on October 26th and have been doing daily updates for apparently 26 years now. That feels very strange to write because it doesn’t feel like it’s been anywhere near that long. Pretty wild for something that’s just a hobby, eh?

The Bears played the 49’ers yesterday and it was another clusterfuck. There were good plays but they still managed to blow it 33 – 22.

Well, welcome to November everyone. Things start moving very quickly from here on out. Halloween becomes Thanksgiving—which becomes Christmas—which becomes New Year’s Eve—which becomes New Year’s Day. Before ya know it, it’s the middle of the damn winter. Not looking forward to that at all.

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It’s Sunday! Happy Halloween everyone. I’m heading over to my parents place tonight to hand out tasty treats to all the Trick or Treaters in their neighborhood. They live in a far more kid populated area so we’re guaranteed to get a ton of kids. And it looks like the weather is going to cooperate this year. After a couple days of persistent rain, it has finally moved out of the area. It’ll be slightly on the chilly side, but at least it’ll be dry.

So have some fun and break out the tasty treats for all the little goblins and witches tonight!

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It’s Saturday! Apparently Candy Corn Bratwurst is a thing now. Seriously. I’m a huge fan of candy corn but even I think this is a really bad combo!

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You got your candy corn. And you got your bratwursts. And if you live in Madison, Wisconsin … you can now get both of those, uh, unusual taste sensations in one “SpookTober” package.

Yep, that’s right: Two butchers in the Madison-based Jenifer Street Market have done the unthinkable, marrying the super-sugary orange-and-yellow candy corn with their bratwursts. The result? A surprisingly popular seasonal treat, rather than a goofy trick.

“It’s just your traditional brat,” Justin Strassman, who’s worked with Wil Hetzel behind the butcher’s counter at the market for six years, told TODAY Food. “But we use an Oktoberfest beer in there, so there’s that caramel sweetness. We usually make the traditional brat, and we thought to change it up with candy corn.”

Their inspiration? A trip to the grocery store. “For some reason, that’s the thing that clicked,” he added.

He reports that lots of folks are coming in to check out the new flavor, including NBC15 anchor Isabel Lawrence, who posted that “Honestly this was delicious” on Twitter.

The idea struck in early October, and it took off almost right away. According to Strassman, they’re selling twice as fast as the traditional brats. And this in a store that offers other unusual brat flavors, like a brandy Old-Fashioned and a bacon-onion-cheddar brat.

Each batch of brats churns out about 120 of the links, which includes 25 pounds of brat meat, three cans of Wisconsin’s Lake Louie Brewing Oktoberfest beer and two bags of candy corn. They go for $4.99 a pound, one dollar more than the traditional brat, and the market has called them “Slightly sweet & not scary at all” on Twitter.

Not every experimental flavor has worked, Strassman notes: They once tried a root beer float brat, which “didn’t do anything.” Nor did a “supreme pizza brat.”

Since it’s hit or miss, TODAY made sure to mention that Brach’s has a bag of Turkey Dinner-flavored candy dorn, which seemed to grab Strassman’s attention (even if the flavors did get trashed in a recent viral review).

“That could really work, if you had a turkey flavor put into the pork, or a sage and onion seasoning,” Strassman mused. “That might work really well. I’ll have to check it out.”

He promised to report back if such a mashup went into production.

So why does the candy corn-brat combo work so well? Strassman isn’t entirely sure, but he suspects the casing helps to keep the candy corn intact.

“Brats are good, but I’m more of a burger fan,” he admitted.

Does that mean he would put candy corn on a burger? “Absolutely not!”

At least there are limits.