Bit o' Honey was the worst, followed by the black licorice candy (I can't remember what the name was, it came in little candy coated pieces, and I HATED it)
I tried some Moon Pies in Miami after seeing them on TV a lot. I should have guessed when two packets of four were a dollar. I thought I was getting a taste of America but it was a taste of disappointment and chemicals. They're like UK Wagon Wheels but with no discernible taste. I gave a packet to a homeless guy and I remember him looking disappointed but his mate sat next to him had a look on his face like I'd pooped in his hand.
My mother was very strict about our diet so I loved all of the candy. Think we were allowed to have the candy when we got home and maybe the next day after school we were given a few pieces and then poof went the candy.
Even if it was a terrible candy I’d still eat it because sugar. I hated the dark special Hershey chocolate until I ran out of Reese’s cups and started dipping them in peanut butter. Still do that today but with better dark chocolate.
@AbbyRock, Parent Candy Thievery (PCT) is real and there's a rise in cases around the holidays. I know, it happened in my house. When I found out it was a greater shock than when I realized my pet goldfish didn't actually live five years. Parents are liars who will steal your candy and replace your pets. 😂
Pencils.... But, in my early teens, yes I trick/treated in middle school, my friends and I wised up and hit all the upper class neighborhoods. Full on king sized reeses pieces yo! I'll have to dig up the photo of us all dressed as "wise guys," pin stripes, hats and eyeliner mustaches! So cute!
Chick-o-sticks ..Its not that i didnt love the shit out of them but it always took a team of dentists and six high powered pressure washings to get it out of my teeth
I am rather floored at the popcorn ball hate. My brothers and I would plan our whole evening around the old neighborhood ladies that gave them out. We would go to their houses first and hit all the other houses in between. We kept it reeled in between Ave D and E but hit both sides of four streets. Ah the good old days. Nary a dark house, everyone was happy to throw something into your bag. Good candy for three days, the crap for the rest of the week. Good times.
Tootsie rolls and Tootsie pops. NASTY. Milky Way and Three Musketeers, also the ones with the peanuts, is it Baby Ruth? I think there’s two of them like that. Bit O Honey and those weird types of old candy too. And anything with raisins, fuck raisins, they’re the devil’s own food. I love the candy corn pumpkins though, candy corn is ok but the pumpkins are where it’s at. I never eat candy now but I bought a bag of them today at Five Below 🎃 Delicious!
@Brayson87, my dad might have eaten candy but not my Mom. We had doctors as our side and backyard neighbors. My Mom used to get 365 diet pills at a time from each of them.
me too!! i brought them into work and only a few PB fans ate them. don't care for chocolates covered Marshmallow, peeps, soft center chocolate or rum cherry chocolates 🤮🤮
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ReplyDeleteThe door slammed in our faces.
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ReplyDeletePopcorn balls
ReplyDeleteRaisins or razor blades, one of the two.
ReplyDeleteNecco wafers. EWWW.
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ReplyDelete+1 on Pennies or a Jesus pamphlet.
ReplyDeleteFor candy the orange and black wrapped candy or loose candy corn. Didn’t mix well with the pennies ☹️
😆 I forgot about those Jesus pamphlets! How cruel.
Deleteanything licorice flavored...gumdrops
ReplyDeleteFavorite: Candy/bubble gum cigarettes :)
ReplyDeleteAnything homemade. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteApples.
ReplyDeleteThose darned things get heavy after a few houses, they end up bruised, and then get tossed out just before the sugar orgy begins.
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ReplyDeleteorange and black wrapped peanut butter chews
ReplyDeleteThe only good thing about the orange and black wrapped candy was each piece lasted forever.
DeleteThose brown Halloween candy, yuckie
ReplyDelete@., Those be throwing apples!
ReplyDeleteApples. I grew up in an apple orchard and am a fourth generation farmer. They weren't a treat for me.
ReplyDeleteBit o' Honey was the worst, followed by the black licorice candy (I can't remember what the name was, it came in little candy coated pieces, and I HATED it)
ReplyDeleteTootsie Rolls 👿
ReplyDeleteMallow cups, like peanut butter cups but with marshmallow, yuck :p Only ever saw them at halloween
ReplyDeleteCircus Peanuts
ReplyDeleteTootsie rolls or Tootsie pops and anything that was like that chewy taffy stuff.
ReplyDeleteBeing called wankers by a group of pissed up, partying teenagers.
ReplyDeleteI could take it but my two young children were pretty shaken up.
I tried some Moon Pies in Miami after seeing them on TV a lot.
ReplyDeleteI should have guessed when two packets of four were a dollar.
I thought I was getting a taste of America but it was a taste of disappointment and chemicals.
They're like UK Wagon Wheels but with no discernible taste.
I gave a packet to a homeless guy and I remember him looking disappointed but his mate sat next to him had a look on his face like I'd pooped in his hand.
Raisins from the guy at the end of the street who owned the rabbit farm.
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ReplyDeleteHe probably would have looked that way at anything that wasn't money.
He did very quickly ask for a dollar.
DeleteI genuinely replied:
"I've just spent my last one on this shit"
I didn't really sell them..
black licorice candy is called Good-N-Plenty
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ReplyDeleteDum Dum suckers were they too freaking poor to at least buy Tootsie pops?
ReplyDeleteCold weather. My mother would make me wear either jeans under my costume or a coat. It ruined my look!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Brayson87.
ReplyDeleteRaisins sucked the big one!
My mother was very strict about our diet so I loved all of the candy. Think we were allowed to have the candy when we got home and maybe the next day after school we were given a few pieces and then poof went the candy.
ReplyDeleteAn apple
ReplyDeleteEven if it was a terrible candy I’d still eat it because sugar. I hated the dark special Hershey chocolate until I ran out of Reese’s cups and started dipping them in peanut butter. Still do that today but with better dark chocolate.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the popcorn balls!
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor used to give out little tubes of toothpaste and toothbrushes. Right into the trash it went.
ReplyDeleteWeirdo.
One year some do-gooder gave my kid dark chocolate covered cranberries! What kind of sick freak....
ReplyDeleteI'm the only one who likes popcorn balls? Those hard taffy black and orange things are bad. Taffy should be soft.
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ReplyDeleteGood n Plenty
ReplyDelete@AbbyRock, Parent Candy Thievery (PCT) is real and there's a rise in cases around the holidays. I know, it happened in my house. When I found out it was a greater shock than when I realized my pet goldfish didn't actually live five years. Parents are liars who will steal your candy and replace your pets. 😂
ReplyDeleteYeah...like when they told me I'd caught them 'wrestling'
DeleteYeah maybe 1 Night in Chyna wrestling...
Raisins..."nature's candy"
ReplyDeletePencils.... But, in my early teens, yes I trick/treated in middle school, my friends and I wised up and hit all the upper class neighborhoods. Full on king sized reeses pieces yo! I'll have to dig up the photo of us all dressed as "wise guys," pin stripes, hats and eyeliner mustaches! So cute!
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ReplyDeleteLol Bolt. I buy truffles straight off of Lindt.com. A huge bowl and they get two handfuls.
ReplyDeleteApples, or anything with peanuts because I'm allergic.
ReplyDeleteHerpes.
ReplyDeleteEven worse? Popcorn balls.
Good n Plenty. 😝 Gross!
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ReplyDeleteHandful of goo.
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ReplyDeleteChick-o-sticks ..Its not that i didnt love the shit out of them but it always took a team of dentists and six high powered pressure washings to get it out of my teeth
ReplyDeleteI am rather floored at the popcorn ball hate. My brothers and I would plan our whole evening around the old neighborhood ladies that gave them out. We would go to their houses first and hit all the other houses in between. We kept it reeled in between Ave D and E but hit both sides of four streets. Ah the good old days. Nary a dark house, everyone was happy to throw something into your bag. Good candy for three days, the crap for the rest of the week. Good times.
ReplyDeleteSame! I remember making them back in the day too!
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ReplyDelete☹Licorice & Pretzels☹
ReplyDeletelive in new orleans and this woman gave out a mardi gras bead.. singular lol so weird to do for halloween
ReplyDeleteTootsie rolls and Tootsie pops. NASTY. Milky Way and Three Musketeers, also the ones with the peanuts, is it Baby Ruth? I think there’s two of them like that. Bit O Honey and those weird types of old candy too. And anything with raisins, fuck raisins, they’re the devil’s own food. I love the candy corn pumpkins though, candy corn is ok but the pumpkins are where it’s at. I never eat candy now but I bought a bag of them today at Five Below 🎃 Delicious!
ReplyDeleteLemonheads. The most insipid "candy" ever.
ReplyDeleteA nickel, same house every year.
ReplyDeleteRaisins
ReplyDeleteThose decades old, dry ass hell, hard as rocks, pieces of double bube. Blech
ReplyDeleteone tootsie roll
ReplyDeleteFucking apples....
ReplyDelete@Brayson87, my dad might have eaten candy but not my Mom. We had doctors as our side and backyard neighbors. My Mom used to get 365 diet pills at a time from each of them.
ReplyDeleteAPPLES.
ReplyDeleteChewing gum; or anything with peanut butter or nuts.
ReplyDeletecoconut candy..necco wafers and raisins. everything else...ok
ReplyDeleteAnything non-chocolate
ReplyDeleteAll the hate for the black and orange peanut butter taffy makes me sad. I freakin love those. Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses are the best version.
ReplyDeleteme too!! i brought them into work and only a few PB fans ate them. don't care for chocolates covered Marshmallow, peeps, soft center chocolate or rum cherry chocolates 🤮🤮
DeleteButterfingers. I would bring them to trade at lunchtime. It was the only time I was ever popular.
ReplyDeleteOld lady candy it always tasted like moth balls, probably were moth balls.
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