# The Annual "Awful Halloween Candy" Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917 "2010-10-21T19:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/41 "2010-10-22T18:20:46Z")
One of our local Seattle comedians once did a routine on Halloween in which he described candy corn perfectly. He said the only thing it’s good for is spreading on the driveway when it’s icy. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/42 "2010-10-22T18:23:00Z")
I like candy corn. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/43 "2010-10-22T18:28:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I like candy corn. _Takes 5 points off **silenus’** Coolness Rating_ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/44 "2010-10-22T18:29:03Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > _Takes 5 points off **silenus’** Coolness Rating_ ☹ What, the Hawaiian shirts didn’t already dock him 10? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/45 "2010-10-22T18:52:35Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > What, the Hawaiian shirts didn’t already dock him 10? It’s balanced out by his wearing them in public with no shame or embarrassment. His overall Coolness Rating allows that. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/46 "2010-10-22T19:03:13Z")
> [@misling](#): > > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer\_gun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun) > > this is the gun that we used to have that shoots plastic discs (also pennies, necco wafer type candies, etc) One of my favorite toys as a kid. Heck, we used to shoot each other with those things in my college dorm. I love the picture in the wiki article showing one of the plastic discs being measured with a high-precision caliper. It’s humorously incongruous. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/47 "2010-10-22T19:16:40Z")
Put me in the anti-candy corn camp. But I think I don’t like it anymore because I ate almost a whole bag of it when I was a kid, and then proceeded to throw up in bright colors all over the house. Haven’t been able to eat it ever since. I can’t stand the Now or Laters. Had one pull a filling out of my head when I pilfered one from my kids Halloween bag a few years back. My daughter considered it sweet, sweet retribution. Now they scare me. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/48 "2010-10-22T19:46:07Z")
What about the off-flavor Tootsie rolls that come in the big giant bag. It also has the regular flavor ones in long, big and long and mini. But seriously, who wants a lime tootsie roll? Nobody! There’s also orange, lemon and vanilla and they are all crimes against humanity. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/49 "2010-10-22T20:05:03Z")
Circus peanuts are like Peeps- best when nearly crunchy. Whatever happened to those crunchy marshmallow ice cream cones? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/50 "2010-10-22T20:54:08Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > When I was growing up, we had a dentist on our street who would pass out a toothbrush and a full sized candy bar. It generalled caused some brain lock in little 7-year old minds. Do we punish them for the toothbrush or love them for the full sized bar? Talk about mixed messages on so many levels. > > I still miss my next door neighbor who was a sales rep for Hershey’s. The first year they lived there my wife took my daughter out trick or treating and came back 2 mins later be cause the nieghbor had filled her candy bucket full of full sized Hershey chocolate bars, to the point that she could barely carry it. (He also kept us well supplied with Mr. Goodbars and used us as guinea pigs for candy the Hershey’s was test marketing) 😃 The dentist two doors down from our house used to give out little bags with a toothbrush, floss and travel sized toothpaste. He also gave out full sized packs of trident (and in the “good” flavors). The gum offset the tooth care package. The stuff I hated the most was anything wax, old people hard candy, anything coconut and anything like Smarties, Necco wafers and the like. Basically, the mini chocolate bars and the taffy was the first stuff eaten. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/51 "2010-10-22T21:14:05Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > What about the off-flavor Tootsie rolls that come in the big giant bag. It also has the regular flavor ones in long, big and long and mini. But seriously, who wants a lime tootsie roll? Nobody! There’s also orange, lemon and vanilla and they are all crimes against humanity. I kinda like those. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/52 "2010-10-22T21:26:09Z")
Hi, **Tangent**! Need a Hawaiian shirt? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/53 "2010-10-22T21:35:29Z")
I loved those peanut butter things in the black and orange wrappers. I also like candy corn. I liked all the candy but I guess my least favorite would be the necco wafers. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/54 "2010-10-22T22:06:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Hi, **Tangent**! > > Need a Hawaiian shirt? Do you have XXL? (I ate too many Tootsie Rolls) ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/55 "2010-10-22T22:49:14Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Circus peanuts are like Peeps- best when nearly crunchy. Whatever happened to those crunchy marshmallow ice cream cones? Ha, for both of those I always cut a hole in the package and let them sit a few days before eating them. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/56 "2010-10-22T22:55:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I like candy corn. My husband’s favorite candies include candy corn and circus peanuts (properly aged, not fresh). He also like horehound candy and those mallowcreme pumpkins. I swear he’s 33 going on 90. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/57 "2010-10-22T22:57:03Z")
On the other hand, I like Necco wafers, licorice and Smarties. There’s something wrong in this house. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/58 "2010-10-25T02:26:20Z")
> [@Daddypants](#): > > Black licorice anything > Popcorn balls > Fruit - on Halloween?! Really?! :mad: I’m always tempted to make a batch of popcorn balls for Halloween. Bet we’d “git our dadblasted windows soaped”. And want to repeat _Fruit - on Halloween?! Really?! :mad:_ In fact, ANYthing healthy on Halloween! :mad: ---
**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:** [October 25, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/59 "2010-10-25T02:50:29Z")
Fruit on Halloween is like food in the bathroom. You just don’t go there. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917/60 "2010-10-25T03:11:00Z")
For me it’s the orange- or black-wrapped peanut butter taffy things and candy corn. Every year I eat one piece of candy corn just to remind myself how nasty they are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annual-awful-halloween-candy-thread/557917.md?page=4)