An SJ.com tradition: Favorite Halloween candy

I love Dots, especially the tropical flavor.

Sucks that there are only about 8-10 kids in my apartment building -- they all come at once. My daughter will be trick or treating for the first time as Cinderella. We're giving away M&Ms. Packages -- not individual candies.

 

Big fan of Smarties, myself. The wife bought this year, and went with M+Ms and 3Musketeers bars.

I keep a candy jar on my desk here, and switch up between chocolate and more sugary things like Smarties. As you could imagine, the females at our office are always good-naturedly bitching when the chocolate runs out.

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When they're getting them in the public schools anyway?
No chance, pal.
(BTW, is that guy Sali, whom all the Republicans called an idiot, actually going to win?)

 

Whatever happened to that candy bar tournament someone was hosting at DyePack's site?

 

Going back to the olden days, a couple favorites that I don't think you see anymore (maybe one still can catch one) were wax chewing candy and Pixie Stix.

The wax candy (I don't know of a better way to describe it than a cross between gum and candle wax in some creative shapes). Might be shaped like a pair of lips that you could wear and when done chew it up. The best was this little whistle/harmonica that you could actually play until you, again, decided to chew it up. Sounds gross, and I guess maybe it was. Probably was coated with asbestos....

Pixie stix were the child's equivalent to cocaine. Let's just put a bunch of sugar powder in a little straw like tube and let the kids just rip the top off and slug it down. Immediate sugar high.

Now, in my adult days, my Halloween favorite is peppermint.

As in schapps. As in the flask in my jacket as I traverse the neighborhood. Cheers.

 

I actually liked the chewy wax bottles that had the sub-KoolAid juice in them.

 

Holy crap, I didn't realize Kirk and Fenian were that old.

Pixie sticks and those wax juice bottles roooled!

 

Spinited and I attended the very first North American Halloween trick or treatin'.

We liked the popcorn balls and candy apples.

(Seriously, old enough to remember when lots of people handed out home-made goodies. But as far as factory produced stuff goes, I was always partial to the Halloween candy kisses. Kinda like salt water taffy, particularly the orange ones.
I think it may have been a Canadian thing.)

This year I'm giving out Noah's Ark Gummie Animals:

 

God help me for shilling my part time house of horrors (Crack Barrel), but they do sell an awful lot of candies that you forgot about. We have the wax candy lips (not sure about the bottles, but we might), neopolitan coconuts, Skybars, gross ass horehound candies, and a few others I forget.

100 Grand > you

 

Fried eggs and beer.

My wife and I are from France.

Yeah that's it.

 

I got a rock