What is the worst type of candy you ever received when trick-or-treating?

[EveHammond13]

I'm going to say dum-dum suckers. Bleh!

That or milk duds.


Edit to add:

Good N Plenty. WHAT ARE THESE THINGS

[VarryOn]

1. Those nasty jello-like orange slices covered in sugar cyrstals! Nt

[EveHammond13]

3. nasty!

[yellowdogintexas]

83. those things are awful however

there is a bundt cake recipe which uses them (cut up in bits like for fruitcake) that is outstanding

[yellowdogintexas]

84. if it isn't chocolate I do not want to even look at it

I hated all traditional Halloween candy as a kid

In my tiny village, one of the older ladies made bodacious popcorn balls. Everyone went to her house first before she ran out. They were so good. Nobody wanted to be late to her house

Another old lady made homemade candy and we always got 2 little bags. One was for us and the other was for our dads. My dad's first question when we got home was if we went to Miss Jessie's and did we get 2 bags. It turned out the Dad bag contained bourbon balls, and he knew this from his own Halloweens!

[Polybius]

94. My grandmother loved those!

They were nasty!

[VarryOn]

96. They were an old peoples' candy....

Guess they grew up on shitty candy! Lol Skittles hadnt been invented.

A close second in bad candy was circus peanuts! Those peanut-shaped, dried out marshmallow things! UGH!

[Polybius]

119. Here's the ultimate in grandma candy :)

[VarryOn]

120. Ok, I'll admit it...

I love the strawberry bon-bons!

The other two make me think of what Christmas candy in 'Little House on the Prairie' would have been.

[calguy]

128. Oh man!

You just don't know what's good!. I simply LOVE circus peanuts and orange slices both.
Full Disclosure: I'm an old person. The kid in me still loves those old folks' candies.

[Demovictory9]

100. i still buy them sometimes

[Jirel]

105. I'm a weirdo.

I LOVE those.

[VarryOn]

112. Yes,

You are a weirdo!

Just kidding!

[Codeine]

123. Orange slices are good

if you get the right ones. I’ve noticed a dramatic variance in quality from brand to brand.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I've always hated Tootsie Rolls,

and sometimes we got some pretty terrible popcorn balls.

[Phoenix61]

9. How can you hate Tootsie Rolls?

Chewy and chocolate, what could be better?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. They aren't really chocolatey and they're unpleasantly gummy.

The chocolate tastes fake.

[Polybius]

95. They taste nothing like chocolate

I second that poster's yuck.

[tonekat]

145. They changed during the 60s

I remember being a frequent consumer of Tootsie Rolls. Then one day, it no longer tasted like chocolate. Repeated experimentation supported this conclusion.

[C_U_L8R]

41. I wanted to like tootsies

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But they were always disappointing. Just waxy fake chocolate.

Gimme some sugar babies and Reese's cups.
And Charleston Chews.

[yellowdogintexas]

139. obviously you didn't live in Allensville where Miss Willie Mae

reigned supreme on Halloween night.

For some reason though she tinted them green....

[Judi Lynn]

142. That's unexpected. Maybe she thought it would make them more festive. n/t

[Zoonart]

4. Candy korn... Yuck.

[EveHammond13]

5. oh I love them! pure sugar!

[Demovictory9]

99. sugar in wax form!

[Phoenix61]

7. I used to have a co-worker who loved

Candy Corn as much as me. We called it Crack Corn.

[EveHammond13]

11. same. I could eat a ton.

[Phoenix61]

17. The good stuff is made with honey. nt

[EveHammond13]

50. ah. that explains the nice chewy mouth feel.

[Wednesdays]

56. I was cold towards candy corn myself, until

I got wind that mixing them with peanuts make them taste just like a Payday bar! Ever since, I couldn't get enough of it!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/794978001

[Phentex]

76. I wish you hadn't told me this...

I love Payday bars. But I'll allow them only on a long car ride somewhere.

[Codeine]

124. I love candy corn

but I haven’t eaten any since the 80s. Sadly they contain gelatin.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Faux peanut butter taffy in both black and orange wrappers

Seriously artificial flavors - practically medicinal.

[EveHammond13]

16. any of those Air Heads taffy products --- awful.

very dangerous to my current dental work.

[5X]

18. those were the worst

[Cirque du So-What]

22. They're even worse when stale

People have surely broken teeth trying to eat them.

[5X]

24. i don't think i ever ate one that wasn't stale,

i think they are passed around like fruitcakes.

[Cirque du So-What]

26. They've got a brief shelf life

Those generic wrappers don't provide much protection.

[JDC]

78. I agree. The worst

[The Genealogist]

80. Those were my least favorite

They are truly heinous.

[zeusdogmom]

91. They were and still are the absolute worst stuff

[hlthe2b]

110. Oh, yeah. Those were awful.

and I LOOOVE peanut butter, but that isn't what these things are.

[Shrike47]

10. Crackerjack is one of them. Hated it as a child.

Sour anything is right out. Licorice (black) is awful.

[EveHammond13]

12. agree - licorice - awful. how is this candy.

[Cartoonist]

42. Licorice is the liver of candies

I like it

[The Genealogist]

81. I'm probably a nut but...

I love black licorice. I always associate it with my grandpa, whom I practically idolized.

[Demovictory9]

86. Crackerjack.. yum.

[Phoenix61]

13. Licorice anything.

Other than that, it’s all good. I have a sweet tooth that has no shame. My motto is, “Never met a carb I didn’t like.”

[MicaelS]

14. Any type of licorice.

My mom loved it, one of the few candies she did. So she got it all.

[Marie Marie]

19. Necco Wafers.

Nothing but colored chalk.

[Cirque du So-What]

32. My buddies and I used them as poker chips

I got in trouble when my little brother ate a bunch of our 'poker chips,' which were blackened from months of handling.

[EveHammond13]

44. oh dear god. That's like giving Tums as candy.

[MFM008]

69. Exactly!

Anything to chewy.

[Demovictory9]

87. live the flavors that aren't mint or black licorice

[Submariner]

108. They were great as Communion Wafers back in the day when playing priest and nun

[yellowdogintexas]

140. I lived about 10 blocks from the Necco factory on the border of Cambridge

and Somerville. You could smell that stuff for a mile.

Disgusting

[TruckFump]

20. Flavored Dental Floss

Had a neighbor who was a DDS.

[Glorfindel]

21. Sugar Daddy sucker. Really horrible thing; caramel on a stick

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[pansypoo53219]

40. OH NO! i loved sugar daddy. bit o honey. circus peanuts should be on everybody's list.

[TEB]

103. I agree

Yuck

[tonekat]

146. Yanked a baby tooth out with one of those at school N/T

[LakeArenal]

23. Those orange peanuts like sponge.

[Grasswire2]

28. those are called "circus peanuts" and the flavor...............wait for it............

.....is BANANA!

I actually like them about once every thirty years.

[LakeArenal]

38. They sell 'em so you aren't alone..

On man’s circus peanut being another’s worst candy ever.

[Jirel]

106. Wait, WHAT?!?!?!

How do they remotely claim banana flavor on those atrocities?!?!

[Codeine]

125. Fuckin' circus peanuts.

Without doubt the absolute worst.

[Roland99]

25. Those orange or black-wrapped peanut butter (?) things

[sakabatou]

60. Reese's?

[Roland99]

68. Ha. Nope

[Niagara]

131. Are you referring to the peanut butter kisses?

[Roland99]

136. Yeah. Those. Yuck!

[Polly Hennessey]

27. There is such a thing as bad candy?

[Skittles]

34. NO

[Phentex]

72. I seem to like all of the ones listed...

[woodsprite]

29. Good-n-Plenty, Neco wafers, or Clove or Wintergreen Chicklets. Blech!!! nt

[Laffy Kat]

31. I would kill for cloves anything now that they stopped making the gum.

Loved Cloves gum and I don't even like gum.

[TexasBushwhacker]

39. You can order it online

https://www.oldtimecandy.com/collections/walk-the-candy-aisle-clove-gum

[Laffy Kat]

43. I'm not so sure anymore. Cracker Barrel used to carry it and then stopped.

When I asked about it I was told that they had finally stopped manufacturing it. I'll look into it, though. Thanks.

[woodsprite]

54. Also Cracker Barrel gift shops and the Vermont Country Store site. nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

73. You sometimes

Can get both clove gum and clove candy sticks at cracker barrel,along with all the retro candy.

[Midnight Writer]

52. Good-n-Plenty is probably the only candy I would not eat as a kid. I can't stand them.

[Laffy Kat]

30. Anything with "gummy" in the name.

Also Banana Bikes (Bites?). Do they even still make those?

[kas125]

33. Necco wafers, anything licorice, but especially Smartees. Ugh,

Smartees had an under taste that was like vomit. Horrible stuff.

[EveHammond13]

48. I'm ok with Smarties from time to time. Not my first choice by any means.

[MontanaMama]

59. Serious???

Smartees are the best! I have a whole jar of them in my office...everybody that comes in to see me gabs a roll of Smartees because they’re YUM! 😋

[Hoyt]

35. Stale candy, or over ripe apples (before razor blades).

[Doreen]

36. Candy corn...ewww......yuk.

Those Marshmello things that are the same as those chicks for easter except pumpkins.....nasty.

[Cirque du So-What]

37. Never got these trick-or-treating

but I remember ambivalence about horehound candy. It was like a cross between licorice and root beer. It seemed more medicine than candy.

[alittlelark]

45. Anything with nuts... which was most of them.

[Guilded Lilly]

46. Popcorn balls, anything licorice or marshmallows.

[EveHammond13]

49. it's true - in the 70s popcorn balls were big as Halloween candy.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. Even before that - by 20 years.

Nasty, stale-tasting things.

[Guilded Lilly]

57. We couldn't even trade them away!

[yellowdogintexas]

141. y'all just weren't in the right place, I'm telling you.

Now you have all got me craving popcorn balls. I never could make them like Miss WIllie Mae did.

[yonder]

63. Nailed it. That stops me too.

[Docreed2003]

47. Circus peanuts and orange slices

Yuck

[sakabatou]

61. I like orange slices

[Demovictory9]

88. love both of them. They sill sell circus peanuts in CVS/Walgreens

[RGinNJ]

51. Peoples loose change, very hard to chew.

[Wednesdays]

55. BlackJack gum

Really, anything licorice-flavored.

A close second: clove flavor gum. Who in their right mind thought that CLOVE flavored sweets was a good thing??

[Demovictory9]

101. yes, both awful

[sakabatou]

58. Anything with coconut and licorice, circus peanuts

[Lunabell]

62. Toothbrush and toothpaste from a dentist in my neighborhood.

The little set they give out for free at the office. We should have toilet papered his house.

[diva77]

64. artificial banana-flavored taffy

Barf me a bucket

[Phentex]

74. possibly a link here...

I love the banana taffy AND circus peanuts and Lucky Charms marshmallows which all have a banana flavor! Hmmmm

[diva77]

116. perhaps you're bananas?

[WestLosAngelesGal]

65. A very stale Now & Later, leading to...

A very stale Now & Later from one of my kids' trick-or-treat bags, leading to... the unexpected sticky removal of a childhood silver-mercury amalgam filling, the tooth breaking into pieces, a lot of pain, and emergency dental work (root canal + a crown) that cost a lot of $, even with dental insurance.

[EveHammond13]

66. those amalgam fillings..still having them replaced one by one

the dentist said they actually act as a wedge that drives your tooth apart over the years

[WestLosAngelesGal]

67. I had not heard that. Good to know.

Luckily, I only have one other filling in my mouth. So far, so good. Thank you, Dr. Burns from 1969. Not gonna mess with that workmanship, but then again, I gave up candy. =)

[Ron Obvious]

70. I bet those of you who mentioned licorice have never had the real thing

US licorice is waxy or plastic and contains no actual licorice. Try some of the Dutch or German stuff from the import shop.

[Phentex]

75. I love all licorice...

even the corn syrupy crap.

[Demovictory9]

89. I hate black licorice, real or fake, the plant that produces that flavor, seasonings

is it fennel that is like licorice? hate them all

[I_UndergroundPanther]

71. Wax lips

Or those Wax bottles with liquids in them,circus peanuts the Orange ones that have the texture of styrofoam.

[montana_hazeleyes]

129. Oh my! That reminds me...Seems it was around then that

they had candy cigarettes. In little packs and all! And we kids pretended to smoke them. Can you imagine that nowadays ?!?

[consider_this]

138. luuuved candy cigs!!

[EveHammond13]

134. that takes me back. wow.

[Phentex]

77. This thread makes ME want to go trick or treating...

I love all candy. I don't eat it much anymore but reading this thread makes me yearn for those flavors.

[Atticus]

79. "Haystacks"----haystack-shaped globs of cloyingly sweet white stuff coated with waxy "chocolate". n

[Demovictory9]

90. never heard of them.

[blueinredohio]

102. I love those you can still get them at Christmas time

I buy a bunch then.

[flibbitygiblets]

82. F**king raisins

What kind of a dick person gives raisins?

[diva77]

115. LOL!!!!

[Demovictory9]

85. anything with coconut in it. black licorice is bad too... it that even candy?

[rurallib]

121. Amen to both

I hated it when I got Almond Joy or was it Mounds?

[Demovictory9]

122. my grandfather would bring us kids a treat. Such disappointment when it was the horrific mounds

[Backseat Driver]

92. Packs of candy cigarettes n/t

[Demovictory9]

98. loved those. and the bubble gum cigars

[MrsMatt]

93. Sunmaid Raisins.

Gave them to my mom. My dad wouldn't touch them, and his favorite candies were jellied orange slices, circus peanuts and black licorice.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

97. I like raisins but not as Halloween candy.

They belong in cookies and other things but not in a Trick-or-Treat bag.

[EveHammond13]

109. usually the raisins in those little boxes are like eating a wart

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

117. True, they get all dried out and hard and stuck together.

They're no substitute for good Halloween candy.

[Jirel]

104. So many to choose from!

Any kind of black licorice.
Any kind of peanut candy (Circus Peanuts, Butterfinger, weird peanut taffy, etc.) - And I LIKE peanuts!
Candy corn.

[dawg day]

107. Candy Corn

That's what you'd save for when everything else was gone and you were craving sugar.

[Texasgal]

111. Chick-O-Stick's

BLEH!

[machoneman]

113. Old candy corn!

[Xolodno]

114. "Has Sad"

My parents were religious nuts....never went trick-or-treating.

[tonekat]

147. That makes me sad N/T

[customerserviceguy]

118. I wasn't fond

of popcorn balls. I preferred manufactured treats, unless they came out of Mom's kitchen.

[Hotler]

148. Ketchup, mustard and soy sauce packets......nt

[Codeine]

126. Circus peanuts and Three Musketeers bars.

Both vile beyond description.

[cutter_man]

130. Jolly Ranchers

Never liked them no matter the flavor

Good and plenty! used to love them....should call them Good N gassy though

[EveHammond13]

135. I hate them. Some people love them but I just don't see the appeal.

[CTyankee]

132. Any kind of licorice. Who eats that?

[Niagara]

133. Anything that wasn't chocolate

I'd eat all the fun-sized Mars candy bars and would try to unload the rest at school.

[jayfish]

137. Mary Jane's

A horrific reward from people who hate children.

[lastlib]

144. Horehound candy!

My grandmother always gave me that--it was the first shit I pitched. GAWD, it was galactically gross!

[Major Nikon]

149. Jebus literature attached to a cheap lollipop