What favourite/worst Hallowe'en candy?

[Cansportschick]

I see a thread about costumes but, this morning a coworker bought me a whole gallon of Hallowe'en candy. (I can't function at work without candy)

It begs me to pose the following question:

What as a kid were you always wanting in your Hallowe'en trick or treat bag (or pillowcase for some)?

What did you detest/or hate?

Anything cool?

When I used to go out for trick or treating, I would love getting chocolate and lots of it. I also thought it was so cool when I would get cans of pop or special trinkets in my bag like spider rings, pencils, pens. Neighbours on my road used to give me Laura Secord goody bags (they are not cheap).

I always hated getting a gazillion kisses. Those things were disgusting. While one packet of Rockets are enough for me, I used to get dozens of them.

 

[Chi City 81]

Favorite: Caramel apples
Least favorite: Tie between candy corn and Mary Janes.

 

[bigpern23]

Candy Corn sucks horse dong.

I always liked getting Snickers. And if you got a full-sized bar it was like winning the lottery.

 

[boots]

Candy Corn sucks horse dong.

I always liked getting Snickers. And if you got a full-sized bar it was like winning the lottery.

Getting that full-sized bar can be difficult at halloween.

 

[Platyrhynchos]

I second caramel apples as favorite and candy corn as sucking horse dong.

 

[kingcreole]

Favorite: Butterfinger or Kit Kat (chocolate) and Smarties or Skittles

Least: Almond Joy/Mounds or those little peanut butter chews in the black or orange wraps.

 

[Mayfly]

Whatever that dark house down the street gave out was rather nice. Unfortunately he always had us come inside to get it. Blow Pops have never tasted the same.

 

[Chi City 81]

Least: those little peanut butter chews in the black or orange wraps.

Those are Mary Janes.

 

[Cansportschick]

Favorite: Caramel apples
Least favorite: Tie between candy corn and Mary Janes.

I always had to throw out the Caramel Apples because my mother was always convinced their were needles planted in the apples (you know, safety concerns, checking your candy out before you eat them).

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Whatever that dark house down the street gave out was rather nice. Unfortunately he always had us come inside to get it. Blow Pops have never tasted the same.

"Mayfly, get your fat ass back here."

;D

 

[rallen13]

The little boxes with 4-5 Milk Duds in them, the small Tootsie Rolls, and (I am ashamed to admit) Candy Corn. One reason for the candy corn was that I was an Army Air Corps brat (late 1940's), and candy corn was one of the few things we and the people who lived around us on military bases could get or afford. That and the fact that you always got a lot of them so they lasted a long time and didn't go bad.

 

[rallen13]

Another thing about candy corn was that you had three colors to eat. You could make them last a lot longer if you ate the white tips, then the yellow ends, and then the big orange middle. When you had limited supplies of candy, you did wierd things to make it last.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I got a rock ...

 

[Gomer]

Rockets (think powdery flavoured sugar but hard, about 1/3 the size of a Life Saver). Back in the day I could eat 10 of those mini-packs of 'em in one sitting. Then, it was the best of times, then the worst of times. But oh the memories.

 

[Huggy]

A guy here in the office always brings in a load of full-sized Aero bars that his parents have left over after Hallowe'en. Major, major score there.

 

[Cansportschick]

Another thing about candy corn was that you had three colors to eat. You could make them last a lot longer if you ate the white tips, then the yellow ends, and then the big orange middle. When you had limited supplies of candy, you did wierd things to make it last.

I hate those creamy pumpkins too that taste like the candy corn.

And the fake mouth/jaw looking candy. Gross. Those hamburger candies too suck.

 

[Platyrhynchos]

I also liked the wax lips and things of that nature. And, I liked the peanut butter chews.

On a side note, does anyone remember "Zotz," the hard candy with fizzy powder inside? Are Zotz still available?

 

[Huggy]

Do they still make Bottle Caps? The root beer ones were awesome.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Bottle Caps, Butterfinger, Snickers, Milky Way.

And who here uses the guise of buying Halloween candy 'for the kids' but winds up eating two-thirds of the bag him/herself? Besides me, that is.

 

[sportschick]

I used to love homemade popcorn balls, but those are sadly a thing of the past thanks to the crazies out there. I also adore those little bite-sized snickers . . .yummie!

As far as what I don't really like, anything without chocolate, dammit!