I thought they were called Halloween Kisses, but maybe that’s just in Canada. Those were pretty much the worst.
I’d round out the bottom three with Thrills gum (I think I got that at least once) and a “fun-sized” bag of Nutty Club unsalted sunflower seeds in the shell (I still remember those damn sunflower seeds – what a rip).
I’m with the circus peanut haters. Chewed like styrofoam and felt like licking a blackboard.
I believe I was in third grade when the town movers and shakers decided that all the little kiddies should trick or treat for UNICEF. That meant that we all got a little pint-sized milk carton and were to collect pennies for needy children overseas.
They forgot a couple of useful ways to teach children about charity.
If they’d have announced to the citizens was that it would be a good idea to include a piece of candy or two along with their pennies it would have been a good reinforcer of our efforts. Failing that they might have mentioned that some self-sacrifice is good for social development.
For a couple of years, until the grown-ups got wise, I developed a marked distaste for all those little starving children. Heh.
Huh?!? Those are awesome. Everyone seems to like them, and they’re way better than standard chocolate tootsie rolls. (The only exception being the vanilla ones, nobody likes those.)
THANK YOU!
I like the vanilla ones most of all.
I am in shock that people defend those wrong-flavored tootsie rolls. ESPECIALLY the lime ones.
After our Halloween haul, my brothers & I would spread the candy out and then begin trading. Anything coconut in my lot was given away. Those safety suckers, you know, the ones with the looped stick? I preferred purple & red and would trade away the yellow or green ones.
Those peanut buttery taffy orange and black wrapped things and candy corn just languished. For days. Until one day they got tossed.
Unfortunately, as I’ve aged and my taste palate matured, I actually like those things now. It’s only those little marshmallow pumpkin things and the hard strawberry-wrapped candy that I can’t stand.
The only candy I hand out on Halloween is the good stuff - “fun size” Snickers, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Twix. That way I can snack throughout the night and if there’s anything left over I get a treat! 
ME TOO!
Say it loud, say it proud, lol
fuck you all, I love candy corn. Give me all the candy corn!
Back off, it’s mine!
{stands up}
My name is Tangent… [SIZE=“5”]and I love vanilla Tootsie Rolls![/SIZE]
{sobs uncontrollably}
I do the same thing. And because I live in an apartment, I usually get no trick-or-treaters whatsoever. A whole bag of coconut Mounds bars for me!
Somehow I don’t think it counts as “Oops, we have ALL THIS CANDY left over!” if you don’t really expect to get any trick-or-treaters… 
GASP I love those! I haven’t seen them anywhere in a long time! Will you send me yours?
I also like candy corn, candy pumpkins, AND Necco wafers, if that tells you anything about who I am as a person.
It’s that peanut butter taffy that should be put on trial for war crimes, if you ask me. As well as Bit-O-Honey, O Henry, Squirrel Nut Zippers.
I also love the crunchy white peanut butter wafer things.
This is too funny… Wrong flavoured tootsie rolls…
I like candy corn, and those candy corn pumpkins. I don’t generally buy them, though, because I know they are bad for you. I wish I could get some really small packages of them, so I could have them without the problem of eating the whole bag.
I have some Milky Ways to give to the trick-or-treaters, of which there will probably be none. Our house is up a steep flight of steps from the street. The kids presumably go to the houses across the street that are on flatter lots. Mr. Neville’s an astronomer. We have to have Milky Ways. They don’t sell Mars Bars in the US any more.
ETA: I have no coolness points to deduct. I am the Queen of Dorks.
I love circus peanuts, candy corn (and pumpkins) and the fruity tootsie rolls. Especially the lime ones.
ALL GLORY TO THE FRUITY TOOTSIE ROLLS!
I’d totally forgotten about those barrel-shaped root beer candies until you mentioned them. Yes, ick. I actually like Boston Baked Beans, though I haven’t seen them in years.
One item not mentioned yet - the flavorless Brach’s jelly beans, though those tended to show up a lot more often at Easter. Jelly Bellies didn’t make it onto the scene until I was an adult. Who knew jelly beans didn’t have to taste like dust?
Fellow citizens, there are creatures among us. Vile creatures in human form. Imposters with inhuman hunger who feed off pure evil. Monsters with appetites for the unholy! I speak of:
Grab your torches and pitchforks! To the castle! But beware, the hypnotic toad has gorged himself on EVIL.
Oh, and I hate raisins. “Natures candy” my ass. It’s a dead grape.
Grossest candy was certainly the Halloween Kisses. Yech.
However, whoever said they didn’t like lime lollipops…I used to trade my mini chocolate bars for them (three to one, of course). I love lollipops. They last longer (both in your cupboard and in your mouth) and the refreshing lime goodness. <sigh> Most green lollys are green apple now. Eeewww!
I think the best part about Halloween was trading. There was always something someone liked (I had one who liked the halloween kisses for example) that you didn’t and you could get better candy.
Of course, now we just buy the best stuff to hand out. (So, if you don’t like lollipops, don’t come knocking on my door.)
I also liked getting raisins, sesame snaps and ‘wrong’ flavoured Tootsie rolls (though Tangent is welcome to the vanilla ones). Never actually ate any of my chocolate bars and always ended up with more stuff than everyone else.
Here’s a timely one. When I was about 10, Halloween fell on a Sunday. This did not bother my fairly relaxed family, but a friend/neighbor family who also belonged to our church was more strict about the Sabbath. The kids weren’t allowed to go trick-or-treating.* Oddly, the mom did not just turn off the porch light and refuse to give out candy. She registered her disapproval by giving out pencils. Football-team pencils, which we took with utter disdain. Mine was red and yellow.
*This was in the days before trunk-or-treats, so they were just deprived. Now my church has a giant trunk-or-treat bash planned for Saturday, so anyone with qualms about trick-or-treating on the Sabbath still gets plenty of fun.
Also, fruity Tootsie Rolls are THE BEST KIND. Especially the lime.