He’s not talking about Mary Janes. These are Mary Janes.
What he’s referring to are, apparently, called Peanut Butter Kisses.
I agree that both are horrid.
Ohhh, I forgot about those. I usually had a bunch left of those over after I’d eaten all the good candy.
I agree with most of what’s on the list in the link I had in the OP. But I think the root beer candies are unfairly maligned. I eat those to this day.
Popcorn balls.
We didn’t even wait to get home to throw those away. We’d chuck 'em out into a field, see who could throw the farthest. Or just whip 'em at each other. (Never at somebody’s house though. My friends and I were good kids.:))
Circus Peanuts and all the incarnations of candy corn are food of the GODS. To hate them is to hate goodness.
But Bit O Honey was the last ditch, everything-else-is-gone candy.
Oh, yeah. I see. Yes, nasty stuff.
I like fresh candy corn. When it’s nice and soft. When you can almost hear the glub-glub of the corn syrup going in the vat.
Dude, it’s gotta be candy corn. Hands down…
As per the article, Sesame Crunch is nasty. If you’re going to give those out, just lock your door, turn out your porch light, and don’t bother giving away candy at all! Likewise, generic hard candy. Ugh. And don’t get me started on popcorn balls!
But candy corn (and to a lesser extent, their pumpkin-shaped counterparts), Mary Janes, Bit O’ Honey, and especially peanut butter kisses are all good!
I agree Pixie Stix are evil. The candy is not so bad, but I’ve never figured out how to eat one without either clogging the paper tube with saliva so no more candy would come out, or dumping the candy into my mouth so fast that I choke on it!
Do you mean ‘Indian corn’? That’s even better than regular candy corn! Candy corn or Indian corn, though, must be eaten properly: the tip first, then the second layer, finally the bottom. If you eat them wrong, it doesn’t count!
Oh, gotta agree with Jolly Ranchers. Those things will not frieakin’ dissolve.
Except. . .I read a thread right here on the Dope some months ago about flavoring plain vodka with Jolly Ranchers. Hmmmm. Maybe after the candy goes on sale right after Halloween, I’ll conduct a little experiment. . .
To distribute at our place this year, we have a large bag of assorted Hershey Miniatures, and two large bags of ‘dismembered’ gummy ‘parts’ (gummy ‘fingers’, gummy ‘ears’, etc.)
Bit-O-Honey, they would snap your teeth off.
I hated (and still hate) sour candies, like Smarties*, SweeTarts, etc. Sweets should be sweet, not sour.** Smarties are particularly obnoxious because they come in those bright wonderful colors but all have the same nasty sour taste.
- U.S. Smarties, completely different from European Smarties.
** Lemon drops get a special dispensation.
I agree w/ most of what’s been said here: circus peanuts, mary janes and peanut butter kisses are all nasty. And HypnoToad’s comment about eating the bit-o-honeys, but only after all your other candy’s gone, gets a “Right On!” from me too.
HOWEVER, Candy Corn is one of my favorite things in the world. I have to restrain myself from buying it every time I see it in the store. The secret is there is only one decent brand and that is Brach’s. Pretty much every other brand of candy corn I’ve ever tasted seems to be but a mockery made by the Dark Lord.
Is it possible some of you who hate it have not tried the true brand?
Also, I kind of like popcorn balls.
I love candy corn. LOVE. I steal it from my kid.
My least favorite Halloween candy was always Almond Joys, because I couldn’t eat them, and my parents never let me trade them with my sisters for good stuff. Same goes for Now N Laters.
Do they still make Chunky bars? It was always a treat when I got those in my bag.
Because one of the unwritten rules of Halloween was that you were going to eat everything, even the candies that you really didn’t like.
Brach’s is at least as nasty as any other brand of candy corn. Brach’s is the brand I see most often, actually. I’m not a huge fan of most of their other candy, either - it always tastes over-sugared.
I like fresh popcorn balls, good ones. The ones most people put in Halloween bags are old, stale, store-bought ones, though, at least in my experience.
I didn’t like anything with a taffy or marshmallow-y texture.
My favorites were Big Chunks, Almond Joys, Peanut Butter Cups*, and yes, candy corn.
*Has anyone tasted a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups lately? My gawd, they’re awful!!!
Dumb little lollipops that dissolve into a sharp sliver that cuts your tongue. The kind that you buy 100 for a dollar. Followed closely by Necco wafers. Runner up: Smartees!
Well…yeah.
Interesting. Thought there would be a lot more hate for the coconut candies in here.
My least favorites were pixie sticks, jujubees and ring-pops, although as ChordedZither already said, I gamely ate them anyway because it was obligatory to do so.
This thread is giving me good ideas for nasty candy to hand out to the sullen teenagers who show up sans costume and silently thrust pillowcases under my nose.
Halloween means candy corn to me, just as Easter means Cadbury eggs - Creme, Caramel, and Mini. There’s nothing more in the spirit of the holiday than cramming in a big ol’ mouthful of candy corn and waiting for that sugar rush.
I also like those peanut butter kisses, but probably because they reminded me a lot of Goldenrod Peanut Butter Taffy, which was usually a pain in the butt to find once summer was over.
Good ‘n’ Plenty, on the other hand… NASTY. Lures you in with that candy-coated sugary promise, then spikes you right through the tongue with that infernal peg of licorice, as thick as one of Beelzebub’s own nose hairs.
Then you’re eating them wrong! Here’s the proper way to eat a Bit O’ Honey:
unwrap carefully (if they are soft when you unwrap them, bits of wrapper may cling to the candy; this is undesirable). Put it in your mouth, so that the length of the candy most closely matches the shape of your mouth (IOW, don’t put them in ‘cross-ways’); let it rest between your tongue and the roof of your mouth until it becomes soft and pliable; chew like gum, only unlike gum, it will dissolve into tasty goodness after a few moments.
If this seems like too much trouble, just send yours to me (address upon request!)
Circus Peanuts reviewed at Bad Candy.
I have but it is not the brand you heretically claim to be “true”. The TRUE brand of candy corn is made by Goelitz (a.k.a., the Jelly Belly Company). Moreover, its hot cinnamon-flavored red Giant Corns are the modern equivalent of manna from heaven and even more rare to find.
(Actually, I’m rather indifferent about other brands of candy corn and the candy listed in the Huffington Post article. Due to my food allergies, my choices in the candy aisle are rather restricted so anything I can eat without getting sick is a plus to me.)