What was the worst thing you got when you went Trick or Treating. Mine was a rotted apple. I threw it in the woods for

[debm55]

the deer. How about you?

[Nanuke]

1. A small box of raisins.

[debm55]

3. Thank you Nanuke. I agree.

[electric_blue68]

71. Ohh, "joy". When I played in the park after school - my mom would foist those things on me! 😄 😑

[debm55]

72. Thank you electric_blue68. I remember the name, but don't remember eating them. sounds like that was a good thing.

[Emile]

2. Candy corn, yuck!

[debm55]

5. Thank you Emile. Yuck . Way too sweet, even for a kid.

[ProfessorGAC]

77. That's Mine, Too

Even as a little kid, I didn't like thise.

[viva la]

4. Those orange carnival peanuts

and candy corn.
Even with my sweet tooth, I think those are about too much sugar.

[debm55]

8. Thank you viva la, Yes both are way too sweet.

[MiKenMi33]

6. A toothbrush.

My 8 year old self was so disappointed.

[debm55]

9. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA. Sorry but that is sort of funny. but as you say very disappointing.

[rsdsharp]

83. Yeah, I got 'em too. I don't need any damn obstacles when I'm trying to rot my teeth and get a sugar high!

Why not just throw in some insulin, too, killjoy?

[debm55]

84. Hahahahahhahah, funny. It is only once a year, Let the kids have fun. Thank you rsdsharp.

[electric_blue68]

73. ☹️ Hmmm, like getting socks for xmas

[Native]

7. a joint. i was too young to appreciate it.

[debm55]

10. Thank you Native. Did you smoke it or throw it away?

[Native]

14. my parents confiscated it. i was still in elementary school

I believe they enjoyed it.

[electric_blue68]

74. omg 😄

[marble falls]

11. Herpes. I was the trick she was the treat.

[debm55]

18. HAHAHHAHAHAHAH. You are funny.

[JackSabbath]

12. A little comic book,

Religious in nature, explaining that I was going to he'll for celebrating Halloween 🎃

[debm55]

19. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA. My son got one of those too. We laughed our asses off. I think they belonged to some Baptist chuch as

he also got little books on how Catholics are going to burn in hell. This was his best friend's mother. Glad they moved.

[Diamond_Dog]

25. I remember getting one of those, too.

Crazy religion pushers existed even back then…..

[debm55]

36. thank you Diamond _Dog. Robbie , the son, was not allowed to go Trick or Treating as it was the "Devil's Feast"

[marble falls]

52. The guy who did 99% of those is guy named Craig Yoe. Great artist, went hippy to Jesus to pornographer and to ...

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... an amazing art carreer after, including toy design, Jim Henson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Yoe

I went to his wedding (first marriage) with Father Fred (an Episcopal priest) in the summer of '70. Fred introduced them as Jaig and Cranet.

They had a coffee house named the the Avalon and also sponsored a Montessori primary school. On their honeymoon after what was rumored to be an acid trip (allegedly) became Jesus Freaks, and they the stage at the Avalon went from alternative and folk to Jebus. The last artist i saw there was David Allen Coe (still living in his gray hearse) who didn't know about the spiritual realignment. He played a little loaded and the language hasn't very jebus oriented. He got only some enthusiasm from our group of three, nothing but hostility from everybody else. His last song contained lyrics about taking a bat and "tenderizing her head."

They passed the hat and he got about $.38.

We were tripping on some psilocybin. And driving home after taking Connie home, Harv and I followed a semi back up Rte 18 back to Akron in the heavy snow. The truck kept slowing down. At about 20MPH on the 55MPH road, we realized the snow, the wind, the lights in the dark - we'd imagined the semi. For about 10 miles.

Good times.

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57. WOW, what a post. Thank you marble falls.

[underpants]

27. Pennies and scripture

We moved a lot but every neighborhood we lived in had one older lady who handed out Pennie’s and little booklet of Bible passages. I’ve never been able to figure out why or what it comes from.

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37. thank you underpants. We had them in my neighborhood too. I kept the money, threw the booklets away.

[Archae]

40. Those stupid Jack Chick comic books.

Slamming evolution, Catholics, anything not fundy "Christian."

[debm55]

43. thank you Archae. I got them too. and my kid got them . I remember my son's had people walking with dinosaurs.

[electric_blue68]

75. Wow, I had No Idea these were around!

[Midnight Writer]

13. A little jar of peanut butter that, when opened, revealed someone had smashed their cigarette butts into it.

[Native]

15. that's probably a thread winner.

[Niagara]

53. I don't know

I'm on my break now waiting for my next scheduled job.


While I'm waiting, I'm eating peanuts and damn near choked while laughing at post #11.


I'm definitely sending marble falls hearts for DU's 2025 Valentines Day Fundraiser.

❤️

[debm55]

22. Thank you Midnight Writer. Thank is sooooo gross.

[underpants]

35. Matches

I’d given out all the candy and turned off the porch lights. While I was taking a shower to go out that night my buddy had gotten home from work with my roommate.

He’s freaking out downstairs. I yelled down to see what was going on. THEY WON’T STOP COMING he yelled up to me. I told him to ignore them the light is off.

He’d been going through the drawers in our bachelor pad kitchen to find stuff to give to the truck or treaters. He was handing out salt and pepper packets, plastic utensils, and packs of matches.

Yeah we were the townhouse handing out packs of matches to kids.

[debm55]

38. OH. that is funny but gross too. Thank you underpants.

[mercuryblues]

54. So that's what happened to my brand new jar of

Peanut butter.

:

[debm55]

58. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. Maybe.

[electric_blue68]

76. Aw, that's so nasty!

[arlyellowdog]

16. The neighbors across the street gave Bible verses

Their kid became a troublemaker in high school. But, they were big Republicans and the guy used to come over to lecture me.

[debm55]

23. Thank you arlyellowdog. I hated getting those. Right to the trash for me.

[woodsprite]

17. Good and Plenty licorice. Yuck!

Thankfully my mom loved them! 😁

As an aside, she used to play house or restaurant with her younger brothers growing up. She would dissolve licorice jelly beans in water and make the drink “coffee”.

[debm55]

34. Thank you woodsprite. I hate black licorice. Hated Good and Plenty too. Would trade for something better in someones bag

like milk duds.

[Freddie]

56. "Choo-Choo Charlie was an engineer" 🎶

I also hated black licorice but I liked Good N’ Plenty.
Worst candy was those awful peanut butter things that look like salt water taffy. 🤮

[debm55]

61. Mary Janes, They were called Mary Janes, Thank you Freddie. but I loved Mary Janes

[sakabatou]

97. Well, there's a new Choo-Choo Charlie, but he ain't friendly

[debm55]

100. That;s scarey

[electric_blue68]

80. Oh, nooo! When I was in 1st grade we had some occasion, we were given jelly beans...

All the pretty colors, untill...

the black one which I'd never had;

instant spit out!

I remember the Good & Plenty commercial.
I have probably NOT thought about that in 60 years!!!


(otoh - I do love black clothes)

[hlthe2b]

20. if you ask most kids, they'd say toothbrush/toothpaste (always a dentist in the neighborhood)

and as memory serves me right I got some of those as well.

I'd rather talk about the best... Next thread?

[debm55]

21. thank you , will do.

[debm55]

63. Now I see why you wanted a favorite. Yummy.

[hlthe2b]

65. Yup

[mysuzuki2]

24. Long ago when I was a kid

There was a dentist who lived up the street. He gave out toothbrushes. Sick bastard…

[debm55]

28. HAHAHAHHA, thank you mysuzuki2. that is sick.

[Tribetime]

26. Candy Corn or the Nickle Candy

[debm55]

30. Thank you, Tribetime. . Both are gross.

[CanonRay]

29. Popcorn balls

[debm55]

31. CannonRay , thank you. My neighbors used to make their own --yuk. Some made the puffed rice balls--double yuk.

[CrispyQ]

33. I second this.

And the people who make them are always so proud of them.

[debm55]

39. Thank you CrispyQ. That is so true. They would wrap them in cellophane and have them on a table. Year after year. ------

Include with that the Rice Crispy bars they would make themselves.

[Lochloosa]

32. 3 pack of Peeps. They were a little stale.

[debm55]

41. HAHAHHAAHHAHHA. thank you Lochloosa. Did you eat or throw out??

[Lochloosa]

59. I was a kid. Of course I ate them.

[debm55]

62. HHAHAHAHAHAHA. thank you Lockloosa.

[LuckyCharms]

42. A pack of cigarettes.

[debm55]

44. Oh my. Thank you LuckyCharms. How disgusting.

[Ocelot II]

45. Popcorn balls. They taste stale even when they aren't.

Also Tootsie Rolls, which I've always hated.

[debm55]

46. Thank you Ocelot II. If I remember correct you made the popcorn and added Karo syrup to them Same for the Puff Rice

Balls. Could barely get your teeth in them. Tossed. No one even wanted to trade for them.

[Ocelot II]

47. Trying to eat one was like gnawing on styrofoam.

I don't know why people went to the bother of making them.

[debm55]

48. Me either, but they were very excited to give them out

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[Niagara]

49. Chicken Pox

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I had already been unknowingly exposed to the virus.

We had our Halloween party at school and later in the evening went trick or treating. Once I got home and took off my vinyl mask and costume my entire face and body were covered. Had the evidence presented itself before Halloween, I would have missed out on all the fun.


Also... I'm not quite age eligible for the Shingles vaccine yet.

[debm55]

50. Thank you Niagara. DO get the shingles shot by all means. I went on a AAA trip for Christmas in NYC. We did the tours

of NYC, --Statue of Liberty, World Towers Memorial, Macy's windows, tourist things. On the last day I woke up feeling like crap.I looked in the mirror and the whole side of my face was covered with blisters--eyes, nose. I looked like a monster. Went to the hospital and they said it was Shingles. They were so burning , much more then I was a kid. They gave me codeine to take for the ride on the AAA.
Except AAA wouldn't let me on the bus as I might spread the virus. I took a Grayhound Home. It was damn painful. I get my shots. With the new one you only have to get it once. Please get it. Love , Debbie.

[Niagara]

51. Yw, Debbie. I absolutely will get the vaccine.

The age requirement is 50 and I'm not quite there yet.


Everyday that I wake up is one step closer to 50.



Love ya!

[surrealAmerican]

55. Those pamphlets that were supposed to make you convert to Christianity.

Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?

[debm55]

60. Thank you surrealAmerican. I got them too. If you are going to give that shit out. Just keep your lights off and not

give anything out.

[Jokerman]

64. I got a rock.

Seriously. Our neighbor knew I was a Charlie Brown fan and gave me a rock. We had a good laugh and then he came forth with the candy.

[debm55]

68. HAHAHAHAHHAH. Very nice neighbor. Love your post.

[JoseBalow]

66. Popsicles from the old guy down the street

Use 'em or lose 'em, there's no saving them for later!

[debm55]

69. HAHAHHAHAH. JoseBalow that is so funny. I can't see doing that in PA as we have had snow while Treating.

[JoseBalow]

82. I'm convinced that old guy hated us kids

This was in Michigan, we also had many a freezing halloween

[HeartsCanHope]

67. A Toothbrush with a dentist's name on it! No kid wants that for a treat!

[debm55]

70. HAHAHAHAH. I guess he figured he would get new clients. Thank you HeartsCanHope

[Permanut]

78. Okay, so candy corn has been maligned here unfairly..

My favorite.

[debm55]

85. Thank you Permanut. Yes, candy corn and circus peanuts are on many posters Shit List including mine. but we are have are

own likes and dislikes. It's okay

[Permanut]

89. Well, they definitely have a point about sugar overload.

[brewens]

79. Candy corn or the fake sugary candy fruit wedges. They were the shape of an orange wedge in different flavors

covered with sugar.

[debm55]

88. Thank you , brewens, I really disliked those orange slices. and the candy corn and the circus peanuts.

[electric_blue68]

110. Oh, I think I remember those, a sort of "textured" layer of crystal (not white) sugar over the whole thing, right?

[brewens]

111. Yeah. Not that great of flavor either. n/t

[electric_blue68]

112. They were sort of okish. I have other candy I have more negative reaction to.

[electric_blue68]

81. I hope you avoided the neighbor who gave you the rotten apple the next year! I hated...

Good & Plenty, Tootsie Rolls!

[debm55]

86. No we moved. , I liked the Tootsie Rolls---the small ones. Thank you and enjoy.

[electric_blue68]

87. Welp, That's another solution!

[SCantiGOP]

90. Without a doubt, the handful of popcorn dropped into the bag

Worst thing my kids ever brought home were a few of those Chick bible tract booklets. Those came from the folks that were scared that kids wearing ghost and witch costumes might conjure up real demons.

[debm55]

92. Thank you SCantiGOP I remember getting popcorn in a bag, Remember bible tract booklets for my son.

[Ziggysmom]

91. My daughter was about 5 years old and came home with anti abortion booklets. They had

the gross, bloody fetus photos. Why do that to young kids? If I had found out where she got it, they would have had some real Halloween tricks!

[electric_blue68]

93. Woah! So sorry your daughter had such a hideous experience from horrible neighbors!

[debm55]

95. Ziggysmom, I am so sorry for you and your daughter

[Brother Buzz]

94. A horribly unripe persimmon

Whoh, talk about pucker power!

I've avoided persimmons like the plague after that nasty experience.

[sakabatou]

96. Mounds bar

[LudwigPastorius]

98. Chick Tracts

?

[Intractable]

99. Mary Janes

... so many Mary Janes.

There may have been some candy that was less appealing to a child, but nothing could beat the sheer quantity of Mary Janes.

[debm55]

101. Thank you , intractable, but I liked Mary Janes, Thems fighten words

[Intractable]

108. No need to fight. If I had known you 50 years ago, I'd have gladly given you all of my MJs.

[debm55]

109. And I would have eaten them. Thank you intractable.

[wendyb-NC]

102. My mother removed all chocolate containing candy from my bag

She believed that I was allergic to chocolate, that as causing my eczema. It was not. I told her so, and she told me not to talk back, or I'd have to sit on a chair and face the wall till bedtime.
She could come up with some funny ideas, about stuff. I was only 3, and so I had no status to argue about my mother's and father's rules,anyway.

[debm55]

104. Thank you ,wendyb-NC . I am so sorry for you.

[Elessar Zappa]

103. Circus peanuts!

I hate those things.

[debm55]

105. Elessar Zappa, -thank you. and I agree.

[parkia00]

106. More on the giving side here....

I once moved into a very large apartment complex with multiple residential tower blocks with many families. When Halloween came I duly went out to the local supermarket to buy many candy varieties and filled a bucket for the expected guests. Very early in the evening a young boy came by and I gave him a handful. The boy looked at my full bucket and commented it was much too much! He asked if he could come by later in the night for the leftovers. We agreed on a time of 10pm for the leftovers. At 10 sharp there was the knock on the door and the boy was there with a big grin on his face. As there was no other trick or treaters, he left with the full bucket of candy including many Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Cups! I never found out why there was hardly any trick or treaters at that place!

[debm55]

107. Great post, parkia00. thank you.