# Least favorite Halloween candy
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 29, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615 "2009-10-29T15:27:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 5
### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/81 "2009-10-30T21:35:32Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#):
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> I have only had one popcorn ball in my life…they were distributed at my kindergarden Halloween party. These were homemade, and they had gumdrops in them! So yummy!
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> I don’t get the hate for Necco wafers (though the sour ones are horrible). I’ve seen giant Smarties (U.S. version); those things are hideously sour! Regular-size Smarties are pretty inconsistent flavor-wise, but I like the texture.
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> Why was the article hating on root beer barrels? Some brands are better than others, but it’s a pretty inoffensive candy compared to some of the other stuff listed.
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> And yes, you can still buy rock candy; I’ve never seen it in indiviudally wrapped portions though. Personally, I like the stuff, even though it shreds your tongue.
You can make your own, we did it with my goddaughters a few years back for fun …
[directions](http://candy.about.com/od/hardcandyrecipes/r/rock_candy.htm) we made peppermint, ginger, lemon and cinnamon for using to sweeten teas and coffees. To get it on the stick you get the wooden lollipop sticks from a candy supply store. Otherwise, use the all cotton butchers twine for on string 🙂
They make great christmas presents, along with [chocolate covered spoons](http://www.allfreecrafts.com/christmas/chocolate-covered-spoons.shtml) and [various foods mixes in a jar](http://www.allfreecrafts.com/giftinajar/index.shtml)
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/82 "2009-10-30T22:48:35Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> I loathe candy corn. But it gave birth to a Lewis Black standup bit that my brothers love, so it will sort of even out if I can go the rest of my life without eating any of the stuff.
Dang, I was hoping I’d be the first to [reference](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8yuvMsvNqY) it.
Nasty crap.
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### Author:  [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/83 "2009-10-30T22:58:43Z")
Sesame candies are the best thing ever. I never ever got them trick or treating, though; I had to go to a local candy store. They are amazing.
Peanut Butter Kisses are the worst, followed by root beer flavored candy, followed by all other hard candy not made by Werther’s. Especially cinnamon and butterscotch discs. Yuck.
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### Author:  [@LadyJane84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyJane84)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/84 "2009-10-31T00:30:25Z")
I always hated getting the little bags of plain potato chips Blech! I mean I like chips OK but the only flavour I ever seemed to get was plain. Too salty and yet somehow bland.
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### Author:  [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/85 "2009-10-31T00:58:48Z")
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw…Werther’s is so processed tasting.
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> chocolate babies (which were known by a much less PC term at that time);
Bill Bryson has a funny bit about his grandmother always asking for one of those
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### Author:  [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/86 "2009-10-31T01:11:26Z")
After reading the thread, I’m a bit confused. The title asks for your least favorite Halloween candy, which for me would be candy corn…but then the OP talks about Circus Peanuts. I mean, if we’re including packaging materials as “candy”, I’m going to have to vote for that thin pressed cardboard-maché stuff that computer hardware comes boxed in; it tastes at least 10% worse than Circus Peanuts.
Otherwise, candy corn it is. Ick.
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### Author:  [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/87 "2009-10-31T02:42:59Z")
Not sure what they Are, but they are pink and brown striped and seem taffy-like. My favorite was and still is Reeses Cups.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/88 "2009-10-31T13:54:53Z")
Seven Up Bars (no relation). Vile disgusting things. There was an old couple in the tiny town we lived in when I was little that would give them out. In addition to Halloween, they’d give them out to my brother and me when we went collecting for his paper route. (Which is why I went along, but other people would give us real candy or nickels.) The demise of Seven Up Bars is nowhere mourned.
There is nothing wrong with candy corn! It’s not great, but nothing horrible compared to a bunch of other stuff.
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### Author:  [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/89 "2009-11-01T07:17:05Z")
> [@norinew](#):
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> OK, I’m going to have to take issue with those of you that say Tootsie Rolls are not good. They are long-lasting, low-fat, chocolatey heaven! Of course, I have a _special_ fondness for the other flavors of Tootsie Rolls, because when I was a kid, I had a toy called a “Toot Sweet” where you mooshed up the flavored Tootsie Roll until it was about the consistency of Play Doh, put the mass into the mold, pressed the handle down hard, let it ‘set’, and out would come a Tootsie Roll treat, shaped like a whistle, that you could actually _whistle_ through. Then you could nom it.
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> Why I remember that, Og only knows. . .
I had one of those too!!! And a fondness for, er, DIVERSE Tootsie Rolls for the same reason. Nothing beats candy you can play with first.
I completely concur on the Good 'n Plenty (such a waste of a good name, too!) - I’d practically CRY in frustration if that was all the candy available when I was a kid.
On the other hand, I found a bag of mini Mallow Cups on a panicked emergency run to Big Lots tonight (picture a line of people snaking around the store, each person clutching several bags of cheap candy…) Mmmm…mallow cups!
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### Author:  [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2009, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/90 "2009-11-01T10:59:05Z")
> [@Chicken\_Fingers](#):
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> You can have all my… Charleston Chews
Awesome! _sticks 'em all in the freezer for later_
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-favorite-halloween-candy/515615/91 "2009-11-01T12:13:22Z")
I remember Halloween candy came in these small, clear cellophane bags. They’d have maybe six jelly beans, or six candy corn, gum drops etc. As a kid it bugged me because there was so little in those bags. Then, you’d find a Snickers or other bar candy in the bag and eat that first.
I haven’t seen that candy in a long time. I kind of miss it. My mom gave out thousands of those small, clear cellophane bags of candy as I grew up.
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