# Lousy Halloween Candy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727 "2007-10-31T16:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/41 "2007-10-31T21:56:24Z")
I love, love, love chocolate. I remember getting tummy aches at Halloween because I just ate EVERYTHING for 5-6 yrs running. Then it was Tootsie Rolls, all Hersey’s Brands, and apples. My husband & I are currently dieting so we are giving out mini Playdough tins in neon/bright colors-that way if we are left with anything we will not be eating it up to get rid of it. Which is what has happened more times than I can count. And anyway we have some neighbors who are fiercely allergic to nuts and chocolates. So now, we will not being accidentally killing anyone, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/42 "2007-11-01T00:03:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **ILovCoffee** > > My husband & I are currently dieting so we are giving out mini Playdough tins in neon/bright colors-that way if we are left with anything we will not be eating it up to get rid of it. Which is what has happened more times than I can count. And anyway we have some neighbors who are fiercely allergic to nuts and chocolates. So now, we will not being accidentally killing anyone, I think. Totally LAME. If I got a tin of Playdough you’d have Playdough balls all over your windows. It’s not about you, it’s about the kids. You can’t handle the candy, shut the lights and pretend you’re not home. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/43 "2007-11-01T00:08:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Orinially posted by **SouthernYankee** > > Totally LAME. If I got a tin of Playdough you’d have Playdough balls all over your windows. It’s not about you, it’s about the kids. You can’t handle the candy, shut the lights and pretend you’re not home. I apologize. That wasn’t fair. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/44 "2007-11-01T00:22:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion] Where the hell do you live? Lancaster County? [/QUOTE] Ireland, and I think it was normal to get that type of stuff, maybe some of the other Irish dopers can confirm it. Sometimes if we were lucky we’d get a bag of crisps. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/45 "2007-11-01T01:39:48Z")
[QUOTE=Delly] Ireland, and I think it was normal to get that type of stuff, maybe some of the other Irish dopers can confirm it. Sometimes if we were lucky we’d get a bag of crisps. [/QUOTE] That’s too bad. Sounds like Irish kids get hosed at Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/46 "2007-11-01T17:11:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion] My wife brought me one of those last week. I ate the orange-yellow-white candy corns and the pumpkins. But I threw away those instruments of Satan, the candy corns with the chocolate layer. :mad: [/QUOTE] Racist. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/47 "2007-11-01T17:50:05Z")
Sweet Tarts. I have always hated them, and they seem to crop up in all of the cheap Halloween candy assortments. I have to assume that someone likes those powdery little nuggets of vileness, but I can’t imagine who. I don’t give out full-size candy bars as a rule. I distribute the miniature Snickers, Kit-Kats, peanut butter cups, and chocolate bars. I just give enough to each ToTer to add up to a full-size bar. I figure they’re more likely to get some of their favorite that way, and it makes the all-important trading easier. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/48 "2007-11-01T18:16:05Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] Racist. [/QUOTE] Of course I’m not. Why, some of my favorite candies are chocolate… ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/49 "2007-11-01T19:35:48Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Dude! You get the worst Halloween stuff _ever!_ [/QUOTE] Forget the kids, think about the poor monkeys getting their nuts chopped off as Halloween loot! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/50 "2007-11-01T19:46:14Z")
I was a strange one. I think Halloween was the only time my sisters liked me, until we became adults that is. I loved all the healthy stuff. Apples, popcorn balls, peanuts - if it was healthy, I would eat it. I also liked the weird stuff. Candy corn, circus peanuts, the orange and black peanut butter things, mary janes, tootsie rolls… I hated: regular chocolate bars (all of them, snickers and the rest). It wasn’t until I was in my late teens that I could eat that stuff. I would eat the non chocolates like sweet tarts, smarties, lemon heads (still my favorite candy), now and laters, etc. But, I preferred the healthy and strange. I would give away ALL my good stuff for ALL their bad stuff. And we’d all be happy. ---
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/51 "2007-11-01T19:52:54Z")
Another vote for candy corn. Here’s Lewis Black’s take on it: > [@](#): > > The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It’s unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that’s never been advertised. And there’s a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there’s a ton of it left over. And the candy corn company sends the guys to the villages and they collect out of the dumpsters all the candy corn we’ve thrown away. They wash it!! They wash it! > > I’ll never forget the first time my mother gave me candy corn. She said, “Here - Lewis, this is candy corn. It’s corn that tastes like candy”. [high pitched sound] This tastes like crap! And every year since then, Halloween has returned and I, like an Alzhiemer’s patient, find myself in the room, and the room has a big table in it, and on the table is a bowl of candy corn. And I look at it as if I’ve never seen it before. “Candy corn”, I think. “Corn that tastes like candy. I can’t wait”. Son of a bitch!! [Lewis Black - The Daily Show](http://www.halloweenforum.com/archive/index.php/t-53751.html) ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/52 "2007-11-01T20:03:20Z")
I hate chocolate so that’s out, but I LOVE candy corn. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727/53 "2007-11-01T20:34:38Z")
[QUOTE=percypercy] I hate chocolate so that’s out, but I LOVE candy corn. [/QUOTE] You hate chocolate? But I love chocolate and hate candy corn. Let’s go trick or treating together next year. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lousy-halloween-candy/424727.md?page=2)