Happy Halloween, Persephoneers! (For those of you who celebrate it. For everyone who doesn’t – Happy Monday!) We’ve got a really exciting week of stuff planned for you this week, let’s kick it off with a tasty LTP.
Remembering back to your trick-or-treating days, or what you dig out of your children’s take, what’s the best Halloween candy? What’s the worst?
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I never went trick-or-treating, but I do like vanilla tootsie rolls. :)
My favorites are Baby Ruths and Butterfingers. I don’t care for Kit-Kats or Krackle, really, so I’d trade those ones for my preferred things. I’d also trade away solid milk chocolate in favor of darker chocolate or stuff with more nuts/fake peanutbutter weird stuff in it.
Mini O’Henry bars are the best. THE. BEST.
One year my neighbors made caramel corn balls but instead of just rolling them into balls, they pressed them into frisbees and wrapped them with cellophane (we have a small neighborhood). It was the COOLEST treat an 8 yr old could get. – also, the popcorn was delicious.
The worst? Some of the neighbors NEVER gave out candy. They turned off their lights and went elsewhere (or hid, as I imagined them doing when I was little). All candy is wonderful (or tradeable) so getting no candy is the worst.
This is the first year I get to give out candy (my first home, in a real, kidfilled, neighborhood!) so I stocked up on Ring Pops and Candy Corn. :D I’m probably more excited than the kids…
I had a lot of neighbors who didn’t celebrate (mostly immigrant families or ones without kids, in my particular neighborhood, not actual jerks) but our neighbors let their kid trick or treat with us and then didn’t give out candy, which I feel like is definitely cheating.
Well, my parents not only wouldn’t let my brother and I trick-or-treat (It’s “Satan’s birthday” or something awful, they assured us) we had to hide with the lights off til well after dark. BOO. We hid until my mother discovered we could hand out Jesus tracts instead of candy. We were the worst house to visit ever.
I now dress up as a witch and shower children who come to our door in as much candy as they can carry.
Best: Specific–Reeses Cups and Yorks. General–anything with peanut butter, real chocolate, or mint.
Worst: Candy corn and all related sugar-paste monstrosities. Also, gum.
My favorite have always been Kit Kats, but after all this talk about Coffeecrisps, I may have to see if the internet will mail me some.
Best:Â Sixlets- tiny candy coated chocolate-ish spheres. Like m&m minis, but the chocolate was sweeter.
Worst: Bazooka bubble gum. That stuff can do some serious dental damage.
It’s sad how much I agree with you on Bazooka. They used to give us that shit in Sunday School as well, because the Israeli version had Hebrew ‘comics’ on the inside.
I’m not sure what the best would be, but the worst by far are those weird toffee things with the cartoon wrapper and no brand that taste like blech and stick to your teeth like mad. Â So gross!
My dad used to swipe all the good stuff from me – Snickers, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers. Boo! My brother and I definitely did some trading when we got home.
The best, though, was the years that the Italian restaurant up at the corner gave out breadsticks!
BREADSTICKS! This sounds incredible. I’d be a customer for life if I were there. :)
I think I used to save the Reese Peanut Butter Cups, Butterfingers, and Twix for last so those were probably my favorites (I had a whole candy-eating hierarchy where I would eat the things I didn’t like as much first).
The worst was anything gummy, I just could never stomach those things and gave them all to my little brother instead.
Best: Anything chocolate. Specifically a Hershey bar or a Twix. Butterfingers and Reese’s can come too. And M&Ms
Worst: Jujubes or Dots. Even the red ones taste like crap. I hate them. Or pennies. Did anyone else ever get pennies at Halloween? I would rather have raisins. At least raisins are tasty.
DOTS ARE SO DISGUSTING.
Best Halloween Candy: Mini Coffeecrisp bars (what can I say? I started liking coffee at a young age!)
Worst Halloween Candy: Rockets (aka smarties if you are American) as  well as anything with peanuts, because I am allergic.
I maintain that other countries have the best candy. Mini Coffeecrisp bars?! That sounds amazing. I’m jealous!
Coffee Crisp bars are possibly my favorite candy. I had one for the first time when I was about seven or eight and visiting relatives in Canada, and then I was like “What do you mean we can’t get these at home?!”.
Oh, I too like my coffee, crisp.
It’s a nice, light snack! ;)