# Worst Halloween treat ever **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 21, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754 "2003-10-21T18:58:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DarkPrince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DarkPrince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkPrince)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/41 "2003-10-23T08:58:39Z")
Oh, and I can’t let pass a chance to link to [this](http://www.bad-candy.com/) site. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/42 "2003-10-23T12:37:59Z")
Okay, another candy that shall never pass my lips again…Bullseyes. I will not eat them at the show I will not beg them at your do’ They taste like shit. I cannot lie. If you should eat one you will die. So take your bullseyes – fling them far And hope they’re flattened by a car. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/43 "2003-10-23T12:55:28Z")
I love Circus Peanuts, I love Candy Corn, I love those beige things in the orange and black wrappers. What I hate is the shitty mixed candy my husband got at Sam’s Club this year. It’s all kinds of stuff nobody ever eats, including runts, bottle caps and laffy taffy. He got 4 bags of this shit. First he got two, then I sent him out to supplement and I am pretty sure I told him get chocolate, but, well, maybe I just THOUGHT I told him that because he didn’t. Some of this is for a pinata for 4 year olds. God Damn choking candy. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/44 "2003-10-23T13:03:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DarkPrince \* > \*\*Btw, what are these tan things in orange and black? Through either luck or divine intervention I never got them as a kid and have no clue what they are… 😕 \*\* Peanut butter taffy. They’re delicious. I can get them in sugar free from GoLightly, so I don’t have to miss any peanutty goodness. I think the worst are Bottle Caps. I hate those things. I went to CostCo last night and before I left, my husband’s words were, “Be sure to get the good candy.” He didn’t even need to tell me. I firmly believe in giving out the good candy on Halloween, because I hate that generic hard candy that a lot of people give out. For the record, I got a big bag of miniature Snickers, M&Ms, Twix and 3 Musketeers. I briefly considered a box of full-sized bars, but I was afraid I’d run out too quickly if word got around. I want to be known for giving out good candy, but not _too_ well known. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/45 "2003-10-23T13:24:40Z")
We’re going to be in a new house in a new neighborhood for Hallowe’en this year. Nowhere else I’ve lived in this town has gotten more than two or three groups of trick-or-treaters in a year. Just in case, however, I’m gonna buy a shitload of good candy – peanut butter cups and candy bars. And hey, if **burundi** and I end up having to eat it all, it’s a hard life. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/46 "2003-10-23T14:57:33Z")
In the sixteen years I’ve lived in Mr. Kalhoun’s house, we’ve never had a trick-or-treater. It really sucks. I used to love seeing all the little goblins and handing out treats. Now that I’m semi-rural, we get nuthin’. Also, we have a very scary driveway. Maybe that’s what’s keeping them away. Another hateful candy: Red hots. I hate those little nuggets of cinnamon evil. Keep them all. ---
**Author:** ![Mis\_Understood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Mis\_Understood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mis_Understood)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/47 "2003-10-23T15:40:02Z")
One year when I was 8 I went to a girl scout halloween party with my best friend. They happened to have a pinata there, that everyone had a chance to beat on. The minute that thing was busted open, we all scattered like rats in a barn for the heavenly goodness known as candy. Well we all got loads of candy (or so we thought). I got home, and went to eat what I thought was a chocolate covered cherry only to find out that it was BROWN SOAP…yes those darned old GS’s put brown soap in the flippin pinata. It’s no wonder I won’t let my daughter join! hmmmmpf. ---
**Author:** ![mrunlucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mrunlucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrunlucky)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/48 "2003-10-23T15:58:58Z")
Sugar Daddy pretend lollipops. Any kind of gum, especially stale dried-out gum, or Chicklets. Those little pink and white coated black licorice nubs that just always tasted wrong and had a texture problem. Also, yes, the orange and black paper-wrapped things with just a “hint” of flavor. I love Circus Peanuts, but it’s important that they are fresh. If you squeeze them and they are hard, then they are stale and then forget it. I like Candy Corn too. In moderation. Now if I had ever received those awful grandma candies, those impossibly hard, sticky, foul-tasting ribbon things that sit out in bowls on coffee tables until the end of time never to be touched, that would have been the worst Halloween treat. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/49 "2003-10-23T16:10:44Z")
There were Jehovahs Witnesses right around the corner from my house. I went to school with 2 of the girls, so I knew not to stop at their house. The kids that didn’t know got JW pamplets. I caught my mom giving out toothbrushes one year. Convinced her that even though she meant well, she wasn’t garnering points with potentially mischievious kids. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/50 "2003-10-23T16:24:43Z")
There should be no debate here–the orange and black wrapped candy is the worst. You think it’s salt water taffy, but it’s not. I’m not even sure what it’s supposed to be, but it’s disgusting. You couldn’t even trade it away–my sister hated it, and my mother and father wouldn’t eat it either. What’s even more disgusting is that that’s what my mother-in-law apparently likes to give out for Halloween! And, since trick-or-treating in Wisconsin does not happen on Halloween–instead, it’s in the middle of the afternoon on the weekend before, or something stupid like that–there aren’t even any repercussions for giving that crap out. **Carrichi** , I love those candies–Bottle Caps, especially. Bottle Caps…mmmmm. It can’t be all chocolate, after all. I put stuff like that in my daughter’s pinata last year (hey, it’s cheap and small), and no one complained. An old lady in our hometown would invite you into her house, where you could pick from all sorts of goodies–including apples, Campbell’s soup, and (what I usually picked) little boxes of cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754/51 "2003-10-23T18:13:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tamex \* > \*\*An old lady in our hometown would invite you into her house, where you could pick from all sorts of goodies–including apples, Campbell’s soup, and (what I usually picked) little boxes of cereal. \*\* Little boxes of cereal! I LOVED getting those! My folks never allowed sugar cereal when I was young so getting a little box of Froot Loops or Frosted Flakes was as good as candy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-halloween-treat-ever/208754.md?page=2)