# Lamest/Best Halloween candy

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 31, 2000, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-best-halloween-candy/39064 "2000-10-31T07:17:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-best-halloween-candy/39064/41 "2000-11-02T03:49:32Z")

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**Bit O’ Honey** definitely sucked the proverbial left donkey ball. Of course, I _still_ ate them, since it’s against the kid ethical code not to eat all of the candy. I had no qualms about throwing out raisins though.

The best? Mini-bars are good, but **fistfulls of full sized candy bars** are better! One year I got this at the Rockefellers house in D.C. They had this butler standing outside the gates with buckets of 3 Musketeers. I really cleaned up that year.

All this candy talk is giving me a flashback to some Christmas toffees my Aunt gave me one year, by far the most vile “confection” ever created. I made my best friend try one and laughed my ass off when he spit it out. Damn I wish I could remember what those were.

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**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-best-halloween-candy/39064/42 "2000-11-02T04:14:17Z")

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Motorgirl,

Don’t be sad. ☹ If you’d lived in our neighborhood (a solidly middle-class bunch if ever there was one), your mom would’ve been all right with us. Dumdums, while not Tootsie Pops, were still perfectly acceptable fare. And the mini-paks of Sweet Tarts? Definitely popular with me and my friends. Sweet Tarts were primo candy. 😛 Yummmm!

What are “Smarties?” I don’t recall them.

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**Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-best-halloween-candy/39064/43 "2000-11-02T20:23:35Z")

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Worst: I have to concur that the Orange and Black Peanut Butter Blobs are gross. Pennies, toothbrushes, and stupid plastic toys (like spider rings) were no fun either. Gimme candy!!!

Best: Hershey’s miniature Special Dark. All chocolate candy bars.

Orca Chow: Smarties are similar to SweeTarts, but are sweeter. They come in a clear cellophane roll twisted on the ends.

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**Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-best-halloween-candy/39064/44 "2000-11-02T20:47:25Z")

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Worst: Tootsie Rolls, raisins, any fruit, anything with coconut, Necco Wafers, Whoppers, I would add Circus Peanuts, but my mom Loved the damn things (though we had to let them get stale first) and I could pawn them off on her.

Best: Reese’s peanut butter cups, Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars, and the Special Dark ones, Smarties, Sugar Daddy’s, Peanut M&Ms, Hot Tamales and Red Hots.

I just wish they See’s and Godiva chocolate available for trick or treating.

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