With ten days till Halloween, once again it’s time for the annual awful Halloween candy thread.
What candy did you get when you went out trick or treating that was awful?
You can also include anything you got. Let’s say some moron gave you a toothbrush instead of candy. Or someone gave you a pamphlet about the evils of Halloween, or six cents in moldy pennies.
What candy did you HATE to get.
I hated the peanut butter candies that were wrapped in orange and black. What was that anyway? It wasn’t good like real peanut butter. I also hated boxes of raisins. Nature’s candy my ass
And those Necco Wafers, that despite being flavoured all tasted like dust
Smarties! Sweet Tarts! Smarties or Sweet Tarts made into lollipops/rings/wafers/tablets - any form of this stuff says “I am cheap and deserve to have my windows soaped”!
Whatever did we do before the ‘fun-size’ candy bars came along? I remember back in caveman days when getting an actual candy bar was a rare, rare event. It was always a full size candy bar, too. But it was rare! The candy bar makers really got smart when they invented the little miniature ones.
No, Mary Janes are actually a somewhat upscale version of what Markxxx is talking about. There is this horrible generic peanut butter taffy, wrapped in orange and black wax paper wrappers, that’s even worse than Mary Janes (which, regardless, have a yellow & red wrapper with line drawings).
I imagine right now you’re wondering how something can be worse than Mary Janes. Trust me, “Generic Craptastic Peanut Butter Taffy” is. Imagine Mary Janes, but more hard, stale, and bland, and no no nuts inside to give you the illusion the candy tastes like something.
The ones that really bother me are the unlabeled hard candies. The ones that are wrapped to look vaguely like strawberries or some other unidentifiable…thing.
I’ve been diabetic since childhood so never really got familiar with the whole trick-or-treating experience (I went door-to-door in costume but gave all the proceeds to my brothers), and even now I have a WTF-am-I-supposed-to-do-here sensation when I stock up for the neighborhood nippers each year.
I had to laugh though when I read all the antipathy here for the orange & black wrapped stuff. About two hours ago I bought $30 of the top-shelf product (name brands I recognized at least) and then about the same amount by volume of this O&B mystery candy to serve as filler. I have no idea what’s inside those wrappers, but based on the relative price I should have known it’s crap. If only I’d read this thread before I went shopping, I could have avoided the kiddies’ wrath for another year.
Ah, well, whatever. At the end of the night they won’t remember which house it came from.
Any unwrapped candy. Those went right in the trash.
Other than that, pretty much anything was okay so long as it didn’t have coconut or nuts in it. Not allergic or anything, just hated them. Still do, other than, say, Mr. Goodbar. I know peanuts aren’t nuts, whatever.
The “couple of pennies” thing was kinda lame too. Fortunately, never wound up with anything like toothbrushes or whatever. That would’ve pissed me off enough to consider egging them. Not that I’d have actually done it, but I would’ve wanted to.
(and boo to all the haters of candy corn and circus peanuts)
I always get indignant at these threads because Bit-O-Honey will inevitably come up within the first few posts. I love those things, and they’re getting harder and harder to find in stores, so I doubt that many will show up in kids’ trick-or-treat bags.
Pennies. I don’t know why, either it was some forgotten H’Ween tradition, or people gave them out to kids when they ran out of candy. Pennies used to go a lot further. Now I keep a bag of plastic spider rings to mix in with the candy, when it gets sparse.
AUGH Circus Peanuts…nasssssssssssssty. Ick. I do know some folks whose horses are fond of them, but not any humans. Pasty, stale, flavorless, ICK.
However, I always got these miniboxes of some sort of candied beans. I don’t mean jelly beans, I mean like pinto beans. I quick Google search didn’t reveal any, so maybe they mercifully disappeared.
Black licorice just can’t be considered candy. It can’t. BLARGH.
