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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
(16,857 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)OLDMDDEM
(3,347 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)catbyte
(39,509 posts)Simple yet awesome.
debm55
(62,689 posts)Grim Chieftain
(2,396 posts)Still love them.
Midnight Writer
(26,067 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)kozar
(3,394 posts)Reese Cups!!!!
Koz
debm55
(62,689 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,289 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)mgardener
(2,447 posts)Or Mounds
debm55
(62,689 posts)SheltieLover
(82,971 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)Solly Mack
(97,519 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
(62,689 posts)Zackzzzz
(425 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)303squadron
(889 posts)Who doesnt think Snickers are the best. Chocolate, caramel, nuts oh my!
debm55
(62,689 posts)lpbk2713
(43,320 posts)Esp Mr Goodbar and Nestle's Crunch.
Still do. Many years later.
debm55
(62,689 posts)LudwigPastorius
(15,325 posts)
But, there were also these, in the "what where they thinking?" category:
Chocolate cigarettes

Bubblegum cigars

debm55
(62,689 posts)pandr32
(14,307 posts)Hated candy corn.
debm55
(62,689 posts)Dulcinea
(10,526 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
(62,689 posts)Diamond_Dog
(41,595 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)boonecreek
(1,565 posts)Both made by Holloway, now by Hershey. Haven't seen a Slo Poke in years but
they're still making Milk Duds.
pansypoo53219
(23,289 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,289 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)pansypoo53219
(23,289 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)Ritabert
(2,897 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)Polly Hennessey
(9,086 posts)They were mine, all mine. No sharing!
debm55
(62,689 posts)get the red out
(14,090 posts)Still the superior choice in my life. Though Whoopers ranked quite high (and still do, I just bought a box).
debm55
(62,689 posts)get the red out
(14,090 posts)My neighborhood Kroger put them right in my face on the way to the checkout, I am helpless!
debm55
(62,689 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,256 posts)They still are.
debm55
(62,689 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(11,889 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(2,222 posts)I liked the full size ones.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,805 posts)zagnuts were rare.
debm55
(62,689 posts)The Madcap
(2,231 posts)Now that I am older, it's Heath Bars all the way.
debm55
(62,689 posts)leftieNanner
(16,184 posts)Used to bake fresh butter cookies every year! Back in the day when you could do that.
debm55
(62,689 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
(62,689 posts)chowder66
(12,739 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)chowder66
(12,739 posts)An old standard favorite was Hersheys w/ Almonds.
debm55
(62,689 posts)johnp3907
(4,389 posts)Snickers!
debm55
(62,689 posts)elleng
(141,926 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)Permanut
(8,761 posts)Back when they were the size of mountains.
They should call them Molehill bars now.
debm55
(62,689 posts)ProfessorGAC
(77,768 posts)Not that I threw the other stuff away.
debm55
(62,689 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(4,921 posts)The large size Chick-o-Stick.
debm55
(62,689 posts)Aristus
(72,802 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
(62,689 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,791 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
(62,689 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,268 posts)Still love them, throw into hot chocolate.
debm55
(62,689 posts)Onthefly
(1,450 posts)Squirrel Nut Zippers, too!
debm55
(62,689 posts)Emile
(44,290 posts)debm55
(62,689 posts)electric_blue68
(28,093 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
(13,462 posts)With how hard they were.