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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
(16,804 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)OLDMDDEM
(3,281 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)catbyte
(39,309 posts)Simple yet awesome.
debm55
(61,763 posts)Grim Chieftain
(2,045 posts)Still love them.
Midnight Writer
(25,751 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)kozar
(3,375 posts)Reese Cups!!!!
Koz
debm55
(61,763 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,170 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)mgardener
(2,404 posts)Or Mounds
debm55
(61,763 posts)SheltieLover
(81,720 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)Solly Mack
(97,271 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
(61,763 posts)Zackzzzz
(397 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)303squadron
(849 posts)Who doesnt think Snickers are the best. Chocolate, caramel, nuts oh my!
debm55
(61,763 posts)lpbk2713
(43,299 posts)Esp Mr Goodbar and Nestle's Crunch.
Still do. Many years later.
debm55
(61,763 posts)LudwigPastorius
(15,006 posts)
But, there were also these, in the "what where they thinking?" category:
Chocolate cigarettes

Bubblegum cigars

debm55
(61,763 posts)pandr32
(14,307 posts)Hated candy corn.
debm55
(61,763 posts)Dulcinea
(10,313 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
(61,763 posts)Diamond_Dog
(41,053 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)boonecreek
(1,555 posts)Both made by Holloway, now by Hershey. Haven't seen a Slo Poke in years but
they're still making Milk Duds.
pansypoo53219
(23,170 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,170 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,170 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)Ritabert
(2,613 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)Polly Hennessey
(8,968 posts)They were mine, all mine. No sharing!
debm55
(61,763 posts)get the red out
(14,072 posts)Still the superior choice in my life. Though Whoopers ranked quite high (and still do, I just bought a box).
debm55
(61,763 posts)get the red out
(14,072 posts)My neighborhood Kroger put them right in my face on the way to the checkout, I am helpless!
debm55
(61,763 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,230 posts)They still are.
debm55
(61,763 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(11,553 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(2,219 posts)I liked the full size ones.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,783 posts)zagnuts were rare.
debm55
(61,763 posts)The Madcap
(2,034 posts)Now that I am older, it's Heath Bars all the way.
debm55
(61,763 posts)leftieNanner
(16,170 posts)Used to bake fresh butter cookies every year! Back in the day when you could do that.
debm55
(61,763 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
(61,763 posts)chowder66
(12,514 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)chowder66
(12,514 posts)An old standard favorite was Hersheys w/ Almonds.
debm55
(61,763 posts)johnp3907
(4,340 posts)Snickers!
debm55
(61,763 posts)elleng
(141,926 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)Permanut
(8,572 posts)Back when they were the size of mountains.
They should call them Molehill bars now.
debm55
(61,763 posts)ProfessorGAC
(77,281 posts)Not that I threw the other stuff away.
debm55
(61,763 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(4,806 posts)The large size Chick-o-Stick.
debm55
(61,763 posts)Aristus
(72,523 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
(61,763 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,624 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
(61,763 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,000 posts)Still love them, throw into hot chocolate.
debm55
(61,763 posts)Onthefly
(1,379 posts)Squirrel Nut Zippers, too!
debm55
(61,763 posts)Emile
(43,271 posts)debm55
(61,763 posts)electric_blue68
(27,323 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
(13,384 posts)With how hard they were.
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