Boston Baked beans. mebbe?
I will happily take any Mary Janes, Sweet Tarts, Smarties, candy corn, and candy pumpkins off your hands. My mouth will thank you even if my waistline won’t.
We will be giving out little bags with a Halloween-themed sugar cookie and a mini candy bar in each, so please feel free to send your little trick-or-treaters over to floddy’s house. One of the nice things about Halloween in these parts is that people have never heard the urban legends about needles and poison in the treats so you can give the kids unwrapped treats and know they will get to eat them.
some family decided to get real cute one year and give out caramel apples. homemade caramel apples. it didn’t turn out very well and got caramel all over my costume and candy.
as far as commercial candies go… it’s hard to find candy crappier than candy corn or marshmallow but i never cared much for atomic fireballs or any other cinnamon-y candies.
Take the candy corn and mix it with peanuts and it tastes pretty good, a lot like Payday candy bars.
I’ve used Necco wafers as ammo replacement for a toy gun I had as a kid that shot disc/frisbee projectiles. Worked pretty good, too and a hell of a lot better than eating those nasty things!
Oh, no. That house you remember. Oh yes, you remember…<thunder crash>
That’s the one I came in here to say. Those were always the last ones left in my bag after I’d eaten all the good candy. I don’t quite know what they were either, but if you mixed peanut butter and caramel and let the mixture harden, it seems like these things are what you’d end up with.
Also there was someone in my neighborhood who would stand on her porch with a bowl of nickels and hand them out to trick-or-treaters. That one always kind of flummoxed me.
Popcorn balls. Sticky popcorn balls wrapped in “Watchtower” flyers. My mom was really unhappy.
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) 
I liked getting popcorn balls. 'Course, for my first ten Halloweens, our entire town covered all of 11 blocks so anyone trying funny business with the treats they handed out would be quickly found out.
And they shattered nicely when they hit the target, too.
Raisins and the cheap taffy were always my peeves. But people who gave away Snickers and Milky Way bars were blessed among the neighborhood, and never lost their pumpkins.
Cruel people give out packets of “Thrills” gum. 
I used to really hate getting rocks. Even Brazil nuts would’ve been better. 
Ha! A real trick or treat. That dentist rocks.
Boston baked beans - ick. Root beer hard candies - ick. Sorry, wind of my soul, bit-o-honey - ick.
Wasn’t a Star Trek phaser was it? Maybe not, the Neccos would’ve been too big, I think. Wish I still had that toy. Too good a use for Neccos anyway. What are they made with, cat pee and tire dust?
My vote, as it is every year, is those candy “fruit slices” covered with sugar that every elderly person up to the mid-90s, when I quit taking kids around, seemed to give out. I hope those abominations don’t still appear (the candy, not necessarily the elderly).
Well, if you hadn’t been such a rotten little kid…
…or such a blockhead!
Among other wax confections (who came up with the idea of wax candy in the first place, for God’s sake?) was the orange pan whistle. Tastes like crap and guaranteed to drive your parents crazy.
Every Halloween I hand out mini-bars of Mounds and Almond Joy because I love Mounds and Almond Joy, dammit.
I love the peanut butter taffy and the Mary Janes and the Bit O’Honey. Takes all kinds, I guess.
Like the Smarties too.
I hated the chewing gum (it was always practically crunchy it was so stale) and the suckers. Seriously, suckers? Might as well give me a shot first so I get the entire pediatrician’s office feeling. The cool suckers like Dum Dums or those caramel apple ones or Tootsie pops, maybe. But the cheap lime green (funny how they’re ALWAYS the green ones) flat sucker wrapped in clear cellophane? Bleh.
Best ones in our neighborhood were the ones who gave away the Hostess treats, followed by the ones who gave out the 12-ounce can of pop.
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)