Halloween Candy... your favorite and least as a kid

[prberk]

OK, as an adult I have learned the trick of buying Halloween candy: Buy what I like, for the leftovers!!

This lesson comes from growing up with a bag full of goodies: some I liked, and some made me wonder why anyone would ever buy this. So, my question is: what was your favorite... and LEAST favorite... Halloween candy as a kid?

I grew up in the seventies, right around the time of the "razor in the apple" scare, but I actually liked the fact that our next door neighbor would give us oranges.

That said, I liked getting anything from the Hershey miniatures... except that gross "Semi-Sweet" chocolate bar! I always wondered why they even made that. Yuck!!

A also hated the taste of licorice and root-beer flavored suckers. Yuck again.

But now, those Goetze's caramels were great. And any real chocolate.

 

[Master Yoda]

Name brand chocolate is king. Taffy, Jolly Ranchers, etc are passable. Peppermints and butterscotch will get the evil scowl. Heaven help you if you are that house that passes out toothbrushes.

 

[jw24]

As a kid, I loved Skittles (This was before they changed Lime to Green Apple!), Tootsie Roll Pops and Dum Dums (Butterscotch, Cream Soda and Green Apple were my favorites.). I still had my favorite chocolates, don't get me wrong. But Skittles was always my childhood candy I enjoyed eating. The ones I disliked: Almond Joy and Mounds. It really tasted funny as a kid and I still dislike them to this day.

btw, while on the subject of candy, feel free to post your favorites here: http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/favorite-candies.875270/

 

[prberk]

Name brand chocolate is king. Taffy, Jolly Ranchers, etc are passable. Peppermints and butterscotch will get the evil scowl. Heaven help you if you are that house that passes out toothbrushes.

Did you see that news story on the Today show today about the one lady who seriously planned to put a letter into the bags of overweight youngsters asking their parents to consider their health and not to let them eat so much candy? (Thin young goblins would receive candy as usual.) She was doing it sincerely to help alert the parents to childhood obesity. Good motives, but Matt Lauer said that she had better get the paper towels and spray cleaner out for the eggs on her windows and doors the next day...

 

[Master Yoda]

Did you see that news story on the Today show today about the one lady who seriously planned to put a letter into the bags of overweight youngsters asking their parents to consider their health and not to let them eat so much candy? (Thin young goblins would receive candy as usual.) She was doing it sincerely to help alert the parents to childhood obesity. Good motives, but Matt Lauer said that she had better get the paper towels and spray cleaner out for the eggs on her windows and doors the next day...

I have said pretty much the same thing. There is a time and a place to deal with certain issues. This is neither the time or place to do this. If she plans of shaming kids she views as fat, she better be prepared for the wrath of those kids and parents.

 

[acishere]

Twix was and still is my favorite. My least favorite was anything with raisins. Also milk duds just because the caramel is rock hard in them.

Also a bad idea is giving out pennies. We got my dad to give out candy while my mom went out and I was trick r treating. He couldn't find the backup bag of candy so he started giving away pennies... The house was egged shortly after he started giving them out. All because he missed checking in one cabinet.

 

[kfergdisney]

I loved Trick or Treating but I was the kid that could never eat a vast percentage of my candy. I get sick of it after eating 2 things. The one candy I disliked was the things that are wrapped up in the orange and black wrappers. I don't know if they were taffy or chewy but those were nasty! I do love smarties. I would take all of those and eat those before anything else. I would take the Sweet Tarts, Milky Ways, Baby Ruths, Milk Duds, and Tootsie Rolls to school and give those away.
We lived in a neighborhood that no matter how many bags of candy we bought (we always bought them at Sams), we would run out. We would start out giving out 2 things and quickly realized that we needed to only give out one each. We had a great street to Trick or Treat on.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Favorite--Zagnut bars and Caramel Creams

Least favorite--candy corn

 

[Sans Souci]

Favorite--Zagnut bars and Caramel Creams

Least favorite--candy corn

Candy corn is the worst. So nasty.

I love Sweetarts, bubble gum, Almond Joy, Blow Pops, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Jolly Ranchers, Twix and Snickers.

 

[prberk]

Name brand chocolate is king. Taffy, Jolly Ranchers, etc are passable. Peppermints and butterscotch will get the evil scowl. Heaven help you if you are that house that passes out toothbrushes.

I thought you were just joking about toothbrushes, but I asked the kids from my youth group (which I teach at church) last night about that, and 90% of them raised their hands that they had gotten a toothbrush in their bags before. Amazing.

I wonder how that lady from the news who is handing out letters to the fat kids (asking their mother to curb their candy consumption for their health) is going to make out today...

 

[Master Yoda]

I thought you were just joking about toothbrushes, but I asked the kids from my youth group (which I teach at church) last night about that, and 90% of them raised their hands that they had gotten a toothbrush in their bags before. Amazing.

I wonder how that lady from the news who is handing out letters to the fat kids (asking their mother to curb their candy consumption for their health) is going to make out today...

Dead serious. There was a dental hygienist down the street from me that did this every year. I also had a coworker whose wife did the same thing. While I do get the practicality of the gesture, it is just at the wrong place and time. Tape the sucker to a full size Snickers bar and you have a deal.

 

[luv]

Reese's PB cups and Starbursts.

Didn't like the cheap stuff or the pennies.

Name brand chocolate is king. Taffy, Jolly Ranchers, etc are passable. Peppermints and butterscotch will get the evil scowl. Heaven help you if you are that house that passes out toothbrushes.

Jimmy Kimmel had the Kids Choir on to sing Halloween tips. It was so cute.

"Save the toothbrush for yourself.
Put the apples back on the shelf.
Don't even bother with mixed nuts.
And you can shove those pennies up your butt."

They were adorable.

film: http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...loween-20131031,0,3220001.story#axzz2jKKnYKVq

 

[luv]

Favorite--Zagnut bars and Caramel Creams

Least favorite--candy corn

Candy corn is the worst. So nasty.

I love Sweetarts, bubble gum, Almond Joy, Blow Pops, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Jolly Ranchers, Twix and Snickers.

I loved (and still like) the Brach's candy corn. The rest is not as good. The only place around here that has it is Wal-Mart, but not in little Trick-or-Treat bags.

 

[GeoDonJac34]

I absolutely love anything chocolate. Really don't like candy corn, gum, smarties, or skittles.

 

[Gabe1]

Out of the candy I was ALLOWED to keep and eat I loved Nestles Crunch Bars. I craved lolly pops and gum though. I was not allowed the hard candy or gum that was pure sugar in my Dads eyes.

When I came home, he'd spill the candy on the table take away all the gum, hard candy, pixie sticks, you get the idea and only left the chocolate types. He then put all the 'good stuff' in my eyes in a bowl and had ME hand out my sugar candy to trick or treaters that came to our door by the handfuls till all the 'garbage' was gone. Always torture and a sad ending to a fun day.

 

[Gabe1]

Reese's PB cups and Starbursts.

Didn't like the cheap stuff or the pennies.
Jimmy Kimmel had the Kids Choir on to sing Halloween tips. It was so cute.

"Save the toothbrush for yourself.
Put the apples back on the shelf.
Don't even bother with mixed nuts.
And you can shove those pennies up your butt."

They were adorable.

film: http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...loween-20131031,0,3220001.story#axzz2jKKnYKVq

Thanks for sharing. Love it!

 

[Gabe1]

Jimmy Kimmel's costume.

 

[luv]

I posted about Jimmy Kimmel, lol. Him, the band, Guillermo - they were all Disney Princesses.

 

[sweetpee_1993]

Chocolate. Candy bars were king for us, too. Least favorite was the non-descript taffies, butterscotch (although I love those now), tootsie rolls, and candy corn. When we got home from trick-or-treating we'd all sit down in the living room, sort & set out all our candy out carefully, and the wheelin' 'n dealin' began. My former step-sister and I always pooled our spoils together. My older brother (@obrienIII) would swap us many pieces off less-desirable candies (smarties, blow pops, etc.) for candy bars. We'd be allowed to eat some of our candy on Halloween night but not much. My former step-dad would take our loot bags from us at the end of the night and lock them away. Each day he'd come home from work and if we had our chores done he'd bring out the candy and allow us 2 or 3 pieces each. As a kid it totally sucked that we didn't get to gorge like all our friends but then our friends would have all their candy gone within a few days while we made ours last until Thanksgiving or beyond. By Christmas the candy was well gone whether completely eaten or thrown away for the fresh spoils of stocking candy.