Anyway what were your least favorite Halloween treats when you were a kid. In my town there was always a house that gave away nickles, which seemed kind of chintzy. But I have to go with the orange marshmallow that looked like a big peanut. Seinfeld had a good bit about this in his Halloween routine. I can’t remember the exact wording but it went something like this:
The orange marshmallow that looked like a big peanut. You keep that lady, we have enough doorstops already.
I was also never crazy about the candy cigarettes (do they still even make those?). It’s not that I had any strong PC objections to smoking, but I just always thought they tasted really chalky.
You mean Circus Peanuts? Yes, they are terrible - my mom always loved them, though.
I don’t really associate them with Halloween, though, I don’t remember getting them in my ToT bags. For me, the worst Halloween candy is candy corn. Flavorless, gritty, and sickly sweet little lumps of wrongness that always reminded me of pulled teeth. Ugh.
Those nasty, peanut-buttery black or orange wrapped things. Used to throw them out when I got home from trick or treating. Couldn’t even trade them in my circle of T or T’ers.
Did she let them get stale before eating them? Mine always did. She doesn’t even have a sweet tooth, I have no idea where her love of these things came from.
I love candy corns, and all their novelty-shaped cousins. Except the ones that are supposed to taste like banana. Ick.
My mother can’t stand to even look at circus peanuts, because she used to work as a secretary at the Brach’s factory, and when they made them, the smell was so overwhelming it made her ill. And that was over 50 years ago.
And flavored tootsie rolls? What the hell? THose are AWESOME! My sisters and I used to get a bag of those and fight over who got the lime and vanilla ones.
I’ve never been a big fan of Nerds, though. Or any sour candy. And, of course, circus peanuts are horrible. If I wanted those, I’ve still got some packing peanuts leftover from the move I could eat.
When I was trick-or-trreating age, my absolute least favorite Halloween candy was Pixie Stix. You know, those little paper tubes filled with sugary powder. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Pixie Stix as a candy, but those paper tubes would always rupture in my trick-or-treat bag and cover everything else with sugar and they just made big mess.
LOVE Mary Janes! Hate candy corn and all of its relatives, especially those big waxy pumpkins…they made my teeth hurt after about two of them.
I actually liked the candy cigarettes. And the gum ones, too. And the gum cigars with the owl bands.
Hated any lollipop but Blow Pop or Tootsie Pop. The plain old ones with no candy/gum center were blah, even DumDums.
Jolly Rancher…gaaaah! Nasty, sticky, sour and they lasted FOREVER! There were times, in trying to just get them down (because I was a stupid kid), that I felt like my mouth was never going to be free again…I would have that Jolly Rancher in there for the rest of my life, never dissolving down to nothing.