What Halloween candy did you really not like?

[Archae]

Circus peanuts!

BLECH!

[LeftInTX]

1. Agree!!! Circus peanuts - BLECH!

[sakabatou]

68. Might as well call them packing peanuts

[Liberal_in_LA]

122. somethings wrong with you! Circus peanuts are the best.

[bravenak]

2. Candy corn.

Disgusting!

[Archae]

5. There's candy corn in different flavors now.

I saw bags in Shopko that were apple cinnamon and pumpkin spice.

Oh, and chocolate!

[bravenak]

11. I remember vomiting candy corn into my Jack o Lantern when I was small.

Never again will I ever eat Candy Corn.

[Atman]

17. You should be sent the Gulag!

Candy Corn is Americana! None other than Thomas Paine said "Give me Candy Corn or give me, you know, maybe a Jolly Rancher?" Candy corns rawks!

[bravenak]

19. Don't like Apple Pie much either.

Prefer Sweet Potato or Potatoe.

Trade you my candy corn for your Tootsie Rolls.

[Kurska]

35. "Potatoe"

Channeling your inner Dan Quayle tonight I see.

[bravenak]

39. I was hoping we would have someone of perception on DU tonight.

It's halloween.
I am glad you noticed. I hate when my minor witticisms are missed.

[KMOD]

23. yes, agreed! :)

[Aerows]

30. Amen.

I detest candy corn.

[bravenak]

31. There is no reason for it.

It should not exist. In any universe.

[Aerows]

33. Not this one, at least.

Yuck!

[TheKentuckian]

41. Candy corn is also damn crappy but not quite as nasty as the circus peanuts

It is the spongy but putty texture that puts them in a whole other class of gross, I find the flavors similar but that is from some old ass memories.

[bravenak]

44. My aunt used to love Circus Peanuts.

They were melt in your mouth garbage. If i ever ingested something bad and need a purge, just hand me a sack of circus peanuts or candy corn. Better than ipecac.

[TheKentuckian]

75. Got that right. Might as well be freckle juice.

[Initech]

56. Lewis Black thinks that there hasn't been any new candy corn made since the 1920's.

[bravenak]

61. I just laugh/cried through the whole thing again.

"It's corn that tastes like candy!"

[Initech]

71. I totally read that in Lewis Black's voice.

"It's corn that tastes like fucking candy. GOD DAMN SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!!"

[dem in texas]

62. I hated corn candy

Add me to corn candy haters

[bravenak]

64. I have never met many who liked it. Those that did, were strange folks in many other ways.

[ailsagirl]

133. Candy corn must be pure sugar

Can't believe it's still around

[cwydro]

72. Me too.

Ugh.

[Lars39]

83. *Fresh* candy corn made with honey is good, the rest is disgusting.

Very hard to find soft and fresh candy corn these days.

[no_hypocrisy]

86. Me too.

[Louisiana1976]

110. Candy corn is yummy. I haven't had any in years.

[bravenak]

113. You can have mine. All of it.

[northoftheborder]

3. candy corn, yuck. also any popcorn with caramel coating. double yuck.

[amandabeech]

126. Candy corn was the worst. My parents like the stuff, though,

so it never went to waste.

I like caramel, so I like the caramel popcorn balls. Not so much the all white sugar ones.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. The candy corn.

What a waste of sugar.

[hatrack]

6. Cherry Mash - NAUSEATING!

Val-O-Milk wasn't much better.

[OldHippieChick]

47. Cherry Mash is my favorite

I go to Walgreen's once a year to buy one just because I love them so much.

[hatrack]

85. Infidel!!! Blasphemer!! Burn The Witch!!!

[OldHippieChick]

94. LOL!

[Phlem]

7. They neither taste like

candy or corn.

[pipi_k]

8. Oh noooo!!!

I loved circus peanuts!!!

Oh well, more for me then


As for my most hated candy, it was Mary Janes

Barf o rama.

[drthais]

9. Those black and orange wrapped things

kind of like taffy, only gross
oh. and Mary Janes

[bravenak]

12. Like a strange peanutbutter taffy?

But sickly sweet? I hate those too.

[hatrack]

21. Saltwater taffy - even better when plucked from the grocery bag weeks later . . .

Serious toothbreaking action, that!

[RKP5637]

81. Guaranteed to suck the fillings right outta your teeth for sure! And

if that didn't get it, a broken tooth. I like fresh Saltwater taffy, like the kind they used to make on the boardwalk in Atlantic City way back.

[vanlassie]

51. LOVED THOSE! What the heck were they called?

[bravenak]

53. Gwoss.

They were peanut butter taffy.

[vanlassie]

55. ABBA ZABA!!!

Mmmmm!!

[bravenak]

59. Abba zabba was good.

But i hated charleston chews.

[vanlassie]

60. I'm with you. High Five.

[bravenak]

63. Right on!! Back atcha!

[RKP5637]

82. Those were super gross, especially when stale with the wrapper so embedded

into the taffy you could hardly get it off.

[GoCubsGo]

28. They used to be a lot better.

When i was a kid, I remember them having a lot more peanut butter than they have now. They weren't really gross back then.

[Louisiana1976]

109. Those black and orange wrapped things were the same thing I didn't like.

[sakabatou]

10. Almond Joy/Mounds

[northoftheborder]

36. Oh yeaaa! You can give me your Almond Joys and Mounds, my favorite of all candy!

I would trade candy corn, tootsie rolls, jelly worms, gum drops.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. Almond Joys are my favorites.

I bought extras this year so I'd be sure to have some to eat. But I know some people just don't like coconut.

[hifiguy]

100. They are philistines

Almond Joys and Mounds = YUM!

[ailsagirl]

134. Fresh coconut is great...

For me, dried, grated coconut has the texture of fingernails

[Freddie]

77. Trade you a Snickers for a Mounds!

When my kids were little they wouldn't eat those either so of course Mom got them.

[sakabatou]

147. DEAL!

[Atman]

13. I LOVE Circus Peanuts!

I hate Elephant Balls, though.

[bpositive]

14. I have to respectfully disagree

I truly enjoyed circus peanuts.

Sonsexperience tonight - they weren't circus ones, they were the real thing. To quote "he's handing out peanuts" yuck! He ended up giving them to his grandfather.

[zappaman]

15. Necco wafers.

[LeftInTX]

24. Taste kinda like Pepto Bismol

[zappaman]

26. More like chalk.

Nasty.

[KMOD]

65. Tum, Tum Tum Tum, Tums ;)

My husband however, loves them. Go figure.

[sakabatou]

67. Agreed

[babydollhead]

16. just thinking of them makes me queasy

they are not food. they are poison.

[shenmue]

18. Licorice

[Louisiana1976]

111. I don't like licorice either.

[JI7]

20. tootsi rolls and most of those cheap brach candies

[GoCubsGo]

22. Jolly Ranchers.

I can't stand the taste of artificial watermelon and apple flavors. I'd rather eat circus peanuts, which I don't care for, either. I'm generally not crazy about hard candy, but Jolly Ranchers are the worst!

[uppityperson]

25. Butterfingers. yuck.

[zappaman]

27. Seriously?

Not sure I ever heard of someone not liking a butterfingers!

[uppityperson]

32. Well, I love necco wafers. Maybe we should trick or treat together?

So many different flavors in a necco roll, high entertainment value too. Butterfingers? meh, dry, powdery flakes of meh.

[zappaman]

49. We would have been the perfect team!

[uppityperson]

117. Says the OC repeater. How many does this make? 34203429702582?

[sakabatou]

90. Gimme!

[TlalocW]

131. I'll second hating on Butterfingers

Bleh... How can you go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter? Butterfingers... That's how. So hard to get out of your teeth too.

TlalocW

[uppityperson]

135. pb cups, however, are great, a totally different thing.

I think it is butter fingers flakiness that I don't like.

[Aerows]

29. Candy corn.

disgusting.

[TheKentuckian]

34. I share your hatred for the circus peanuts

[Kalidurga]

37. It was a different brand, but these...

and Circus Peanuts, and Orange Slices (I like them now), and Necco Wafers, and lots of others, most candy actually. I liked most stuff with chocolate though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. I've never liked Tootsie Rolls. They're weirdly gummy and flavorless.

Or maybe their flavor is more like molasses. Anyhow I don't like them. Sometimes we'd get homemade popcorn balls. I didn't like those either.

[Archae]

73. Those popcorn balls also ruined the rest of the candy!

Got it all sticky.

[BeyondGeography]

42. The hard stuff

Gimme chocolate bars.

[Ken Burch]

43. coconut-filled chocolates...Mounds and otherwise.

Although I now like the coconut nest things.

[catbyte]

45. sweet tarts

[Wella]

48. I'm with you on that!

Blech!

[zappaman]

50. One of my favorites!

Spree too!

[Arugula Latte]

93. Send 'em to me!

[hifiguy]

101. I've loved those since I was a kid.

Why they added the blue ones I will never know.

[Retrograde]

46. Candy corn. My brain refuses to remember circus peanuts.

I can go for years without thinking of them, then you have to bring them up!

[aikoaiko]

52. Black licorice.

[Scootaloo]

66. I like REAL licorice

Like, the brown stuff from Denmark made with actual licorice. it has a lovely bittersweet, earthy flavor, almost chocolatey in a way. Black vines are the closest you'll find in most stores. I'm fortunate enough to live in a heavily Norwegian community, and thy eat the stuff like, uh, candy i guess.

But the evil black shiny crap that has 'anise flavoring" instead of licorice? Yeah, that tastes like soap.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

102. Bite your tongue! Anise is a lovely spice.

And the chief flavouring of traditional springerle, which most assuredly do not 'taste like soap'.

[Stallion]

54. Dunno-I Haven't Eaten it All Yet

isn't this the nite Jimmy Kimmel does his skit where parents tell their kids that they ate all their candy?

[Marrah_G]

57. candy corn...ewwwwwwww

[vanlassie]

58. Good and Plenty. Yuck.

[etherealtruth]

91. The worst of the worst

[RadicalGeek]

69. Mallo Cups

Of course, I'm not a big fan of marshmallow cream
(The P.B ones I can tolerate)

[Initech]

70. Gummy Venus de Milo?

After all it ruins the lives of everything in its path.

[laundry_queen]

74. I have a list

We didn't really get much candy corn here in Canada - it's not widespread but I've tried it. Ick.

Black licorice. ew. My parents LOVED that I hated it, LOL. I gave it to them.

These chewy candies - they look like they should taste like caramel but they tasted like a mix between coffee and feet. They are always wrapped in a halloween theme. You can only get them at dollar stores now. I remember at school there was *1* kid who liked them. We would give all of ours to him, lol.

Tootsie rolls. I HATE these. This was another one of those candies my parents were SO happy that I hated, LOL. My kids and my ex LOVE them and tonight, they fought over them.

Almond Joy. Last year, it was so funny. After Halloween, my SIL ended up with a load of Almond Joys (she didn't look closely when she was buying a mix of bars to hand out, and they didn't have very many kids come to the door). My SIL has a fierce sweet tooth but is not a fan of coconut (she assumed Almond Joy meant chocolate and almonds, LOL) so ate all the leftovers but Almond Joys. We had a family dinner and my SIL thought to bring them to give to the kids. My kids were all "thanks but ew, coconut". So my SIL tried to give them to me. Um, no. My mom ended up with them, LOL. She's the only one that likes them.

ETA: BTW, I have no idea what circus peanuts are. Anyone care to help me out on that one?

[Heidi]

76. Behold the wretchedness that is the circus peanut:

"Though they're orange and look like a peanut, they taste like banana. And they are chewier than a traditional marshmallow. Even those who like circus peanuts can't agree whether they're better soft and fresh or stale and hard after sitting out for a week."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2006-07-27-circus-peanut_x.htm

[seaglass]

84. They are best when they're stale and chewy :-) love them. n/t

[Heidi]

95. I have some that we bought in the US in December 2011.

They are definitely stale, and most certainly chewy. I'm not sure why they're still in the cabinet, except as--perhaps--an experiment about which I've since forgotten. When I saw this thread, I took them out and took a whiff. The aroma has not dissipated. It very much reminds me of a liquid medicine Mom gave us (1970s) for stomach ailments like intestinal flu. I will be the first to amit that the scent triggers less-than-pleasant memories.

I'm glad you enjoy them, though, and I hope I haven't put a ding in your enjoyment of circus peanut, seaglass.

[laundry_queen]

88. Ok.

Thanks, those DO look disgusting. But I'm not a big fan of flavored marshmallow products (and I hate banana flavored candy). I have never seen those around here at all. Interesting.

[Ilsa]

78. licorice, malt balls. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

123. good choices. they suck. particular black licorice... it that even candy?

[RKP5637]

79. The squishy marshmallow things that stuck between my teeth like

glue and were coated with grainy sugar. I don't know what they were called, but I had a few names for them!

[RKP5637]

80. Not much worse than stale candy corn. Actually, I sorta like fresh candy corn, but

the stuff we used to sometimes get tasted like it had been for the shelf for about 40 years!

[MineralMan]

87. Malted milk balls. Hate 'em.

Other than that, I like most candies, although I'm trying not to eat too many of my surplus treats at a time.

[vanlassie]

97. OK Now. Just a minute.

I might be able to agree with you if we're talking little stale malt balls.

But I feel I must defend the most awesome candy the UK has ever produced. (And there are several). ...The amazing MaltTeasers. OMG. Nothing like a stupid Whopper.

[sendero]

89. Only the oldsters..

... will remember "Banana Bikes".

They were my least favorite, and even as a child (a trait I retain to this day) when I have something to eat I prefer to eat the least appealing stuff first to get it out of the way and save the best for last.

So I ate a quantity of Banana Bikes. I was not in a position to waste any candy, no matter how low on the satisfaction scale.

I promptly threw them all up and never ate one again

But yes, circus peanuts and candy corn are right up there on the inedible scale

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

118. weren't they 5 tiny individually wrapped yellow squares

Wrapped in plastic?

My big hate was lik-a-made straws, and wax lips. The wax lips smelled great. But if you took a nibble, well, you were chewing wax.

[Laffy Kat]

130. Nobody liked Banana Bikes when I was growing up.

They took up valuable space in the our trick-or-treat candy bags. Yuck.

[Arugula Latte]

92. Twizzlers. Awful stuff. And candy corn. Bleah.

[Spirochete]

96. Popcorn balls

Big Hunk, Payday, Bit O Honey, candy corn, Baby Ruth, red licorice...

[Louisiana1976]

112. I love Payday bars and Baby Ruth bars. Send me yours lol.

[Spirochete]

136. They might be a bit stale by now

they were given to me 50 years ago. lol

[Contrary1]

98. Rice Krispie "treats"

Yuck. Couldn't gag them down even when my mom made them.

[hifiguy]

99. Licorice, circus peanuts

and candy corn. Ugh.

[Warpy]

103. Homemade popcorn balls

The caramel never set properly, the popcorn was soggy and stale, and it was the only thing to hit the trash as soon as I emptied the bag.

While I did appreciate the effort, the result was inedible and usually ended up with bits of bag stuck to it, warning all of its nature.

[lamp_shade]

104. Lollipops... the cheap flat ones.

[logosoco]

105. Circus peanuts! Yuck! That's not even candy. I don't know what

substance that is.

But I was thinking, I don't think I really had any candy I got trick or treating that I didn't like. It might not be a candy I would have spent my dime on at the candy store, but because I worked hard to get it, I think I enjoyed even the not so good stuff.

The thought of Milk Duds now makes my fillings vibrate. But oh, I remember playing with those tiny boxes that only held 2 or 3 Duds.

[el_bryanto]

106. Nailed it - Circus Peanuts are the worst. nt

[Louisiana1976]

107. I don't know what they were called, but they were wrapped in either black or orange waxed

paper and were beige. Also, I didn't like anything peppermint.

[Liberal_in_LA]

124. salt water taffy.

[War Horse]

108. I don't eat candy

But whenever a kid shows up on my doorstep holding out a bucket of candy I take a handful just to be polite.

[charmay]

114. Back in the 60's there must have been a big sale on candy cigarettes called "spook sticks".

Every other house handed them out. We traded with the younger kids for anything they would give us.

[boguspotus]

115. Totally with you on that one:

Candy corn and black jelly beans/dots sucked too!

[gollygee]

119. Wow, some of my favorites are other people's least liked

I don't like circus peanuts, but my favorites include black licorice, butterfinger, mounds bars, necco wafers, and much of the rest mentioned.

[elias49]

120. I think the candy-corns have it.

Awful stuff!

[Liberal_in_LA]

121. I LOVE CIRCUS PEANUTS. CVS still sells them. somethings wrong with you if you don't like

their foam like goodness.

[Phentex]

139. I love them too!

I like candy corn and licorice too. And peeps. Love peeps!

[Archae]

125. Just thought of another one, those sugary buttons on paper strips.

The paper always stuck to the candy and the candy was flavored sugar, that's all.

[SidDithers]

127. Yeah. Those tasteless chewy things in the orange and black wrapper...

Did they even have a name?

Sid

[longship]

128. Any hard candy!

I never remember candy corn or circus peanuts being a big thing on Halloween. (And I was born in the 40's!)

I hated hard candy, which seemed to always have some awful flavor like cinnamon-spinach, or broccoli-cherry. And there was all the cheap, wrapped chewy candies which just tasted like shit.

Everybody knows that the best were the real candy bars, of any sort. Butterfingers were high value. If you did not like them you could always find somebody who did for a trade. Mounds and Almond Joy were rare, so they had extraordinary value for trade. (Nobody did, especially Mounds -- yummy dark chocolate.) Snickers, Three Musketeers, and Milky Way were also good. Then there's Baby Ruth -- I called them Baby Rot. Everybody gave them out. They were utterly worthless. They tasted like shit on top of it. No wonder they always ended up at the bottom of the bag.

Hope everybody had a nice Halloween. I spent it watching end of the world movies -- always good fun. Began with Dr. Strangelove. Ended the night with On the Beach (Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire -- his first dramatic role -- and Anthony Perkins) and Miracle Mile (does anybody know where I can find a helicopter pilot?). In between, there was the live CBS dramatization of Fail-Safe, a remake of the 60's film. I threw in The Day After for good measure.

I love the smell of nuclear charred flesh in the morning, but possibly only on Halloween.

Hope everybody had a great Friday. It snowed here all day. A perfect excuse to warm ones hands with nuclear Armageddon.

[LiberalEsto]

129. It's a toss-up -- circus peanuts or Mary Janes

[ailsagirl]

132. I hate anything with shredded coconut in it

[senseandsensibility]

137. I'm so ashamed... I liked candy corn as a kid...

and even remember eating it as a twenty-something (guiltily), although by then it was sickeningly sweet to my tastebuds. I LOVE almondjoy and ate two last night. Wow. Some weird slams on this thread.

[KMOD]

138. No, please don't be ashamed. No reason. Different strokes, for different folks

I have a friend who also loves the candy corn.

They are not slams, just preferences. No biggie. Enjoy your candy corn. If I get any, I'll give you mine.

[senseandsensibility]

144. Thanks for the support!

Actually, I was trying to be funny (and obviously failing). I don't really take my candy preferences that seriously. But I will take your extra candy corn.

[KMOD]

145. oops .... flew right over my head

I'm usually pretty good at catching clever humor, but I completely missed this one.

It is funny, I was just a dingbat on this one.

[Phentex]

140. I love it.

And circus peanuts too. Look, if nobody liked these they would stop selling them!

[MerryBlooms]

143. Once a year I mix up a batch of candy corn w/ dry roasted peanuts-

my husband calls it, 'crack'. He'll eat that stuff for a week and be sad when it's gone.

[Vinca]

141. Candy corn, but those "peanuts" are a close second.

[LWolf]

142. All of it.

I didn't have any, but I hated all of the sugar my students stuffed themselves with.

[B Calm]

146. Candy Corn and Chuckles