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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAs a kid what Halloween candy was your guilty pleasure? Mine was KitKats , What about you?
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Lochloosa
(16,834 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)OLDMDDEM
(3,323 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)catbyte
(39,427 posts)Simple yet awesome.
debm55
(62,406 posts)Grim Chieftain
(2,260 posts)Still love them.
Midnight Writer
(25,939 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)kozar
(3,394 posts)Reese Cups!!!!
Koz
debm55
(62,406 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,236 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)mgardener
(2,431 posts)Or Mounds
debm55
(62,406 posts)SheltieLover
(82,471 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)Solly Mack
(97,380 posts)My siblings loved trick or treating with me because I'd give them everything not dark chocolate in exchange for their dark chocolate. I ended up with far less candy, but I got the kind I wanted.
debm55
(62,406 posts)Zackzzzz
(408 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)303squadron
(869 posts)Who doesnt think Snickers are the best. Chocolate, caramel, nuts oh my!
debm55
(62,406 posts)lpbk2713
(43,316 posts)Esp Mr Goodbar and Nestle's Crunch.
Still do. Many years later.
debm55
(62,406 posts)LudwigPastorius
(15,201 posts)
But, there were also these, in the "what where they thinking?" category:
Chocolate cigarettes

Bubblegum cigars

debm55
(62,406 posts)pandr32
(14,307 posts)Hated candy corn.
debm55
(62,406 posts)Dulcinea
(10,417 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 29, 2025, 03:33 PM - Edit history (2)
Snickers, Reese's peanut butter cups, & peanut M&Ms. I had to keep my dad from appropriating my Halloween candy! He figured it was his fee for taking us trick or treating.
debm55
(62,406 posts)Diamond_Dog
(41,404 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)boonecreek
(1,563 posts)Both made by Holloway, now by Hershey. Haven't seen a Slo Poke in years but
they're still making Milk Duds.
pansypoo53219
(23,236 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,236 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,236 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)Ritabert
(2,783 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)Polly Hennessey
(9,033 posts)They were mine, all mine. No sharing!
debm55
(62,406 posts)get the red out
(14,081 posts)Still the superior choice in my life. Though Whoopers ranked quite high (and still do, I just bought a box).
debm55
(62,406 posts)get the red out
(14,081 posts)My neighborhood Kroger put them right in my face on the way to the checkout, I am helpless!
debm55
(62,406 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,251 posts)They still are.
debm55
(62,406 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(11,729 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(2,220 posts)I liked the full size ones.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,787 posts)zagnuts were rare.
debm55
(62,406 posts)The Madcap
(2,119 posts)Now that I am older, it's Heath Bars all the way.
debm55
(62,406 posts)leftieNanner
(16,181 posts)Used to bake fresh butter cookies every year! Back in the day when you could do that.
debm55
(62,406 posts)CommonHumanity
(364 posts)Come on y'all. Didn't anyone else LOVE these deadly, devilish, sweet, smooth, yet nonetheless crunchy treats?
elleng
(141,926 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)chowder66
(12,644 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)chowder66
(12,644 posts)An old standard favorite was Hersheys w/ Almonds.
debm55
(62,406 posts)johnp3907
(4,360 posts)Snickers!
debm55
(62,406 posts)elleng
(141,926 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)Permanut
(8,686 posts)Back when they were the size of mountains.
They should call them Molehill bars now.
debm55
(62,406 posts)ProfessorGAC
(77,567 posts)Not that I threw the other stuff away.
debm55
(62,406 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(4,874 posts)The large size Chick-o-Stick.
debm55
(62,406 posts)Aristus
(72,693 posts)I loved the dark chocolate. But I loved the coconut even more. It would get stuck in my teeth, and it would work its way out again so I could chew on it later, like a cud.
debm55
(62,406 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,728 posts)Had a couple neighbors that handed those out. Also one that gave out homemmade popcorn balls. Loved those! Kids won't get those any more.
debm55
(62,406 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,169 posts)Still love them, throw into hot chocolate.
debm55
(62,406 posts)Onthefly
(1,422 posts)Squirrel Nut Zippers, too!
debm55
(62,406 posts)Emile
(43,928 posts)debm55
(62,406 posts)electric_blue68
(27,767 posts)It may have been the first time I ever had darker chocolate!
Since I was pretty little 7 or 8 yrs old...it wasn't like I was going to the candy store, and buying like, Mounds, York Peppermint Pattie - the 2 dark chocolate candy bars I can think of.
The only other possible incidences would have been chocolate?bon bons gift packages my parents would occasionally receive- that had some dark chocolate items. But I don't know if they got them when I was that young.
And we always got more candy going to our North Jersey cousin's town, than our apt building! 😄
Tree Lady
(13,412 posts)With how hard they were.