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What is the Worst Halloween Candy to receive?
Posted by F4wrdthnkndad • 10/01/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: children, family, halloween candy, holidays, Parents
To me, the worst thing you can do to a child on Halloween is give them a mini tootsie roll. It's only good if you are a prisoner of war or held captive by another country, and you've been given slop morning, noon, and night....and then as a treat, you are given a tootsie roll. That's Ok. And I follow the golden rule on this one. Do unto others as you would have them do to you-so as a rule, I never give out the tootsies. What do you think is the worst halloween candy to get?
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mentos lol-
No way, Mentos are awesome. I think this year I'm going to give out Mentos and mini bottles of diet coke. I'll tell the kids, you got to try this out, eat mentos and drink the soda at the same time, it's the best!
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An apple -
pennies
When in doubt, skittles are to hand out.
Or reeses-
Ah reeses.. they are one of the common-sense defying "successes".. or are they? -
They are more like recess
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pennies enshrouded in tootsie roll
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I am going to have to agree with DB on this one and say pennies.
Though candy corn is a close second, but then again, Raisins were horrific as well.
We always gave away mini-candy bars. The houses that gave away Reese's peanut butter cups and mini-Snickers were the best houses. -
Chocolate coated Brussel sprouts or those lemony toilet blocks cut into sweet shapes and wrapped in toilet tissue to imitate the genuine article. -
I mini bible. someone once told us we were all with satan and we should listen to this scripture...
...we gladly declined and re-asked for the candy.
put up or shut up-
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You should've spoken in a really low voice:
"WE'RE HERE TO EAT YOUR SOUL!!!!"
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Aged Milk Duds from the year before.
Do you know what happens to the a Milk Dud after a year of sitting around in Granny's kitchen?
It looks like something out of the bottom of a rabbit cage.
They are called Duds for a reason.
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those homemade cookies and those dime store toys they like to give in my mom's neighbor hood-
What? You don't like homemade cookies? I used to love when ladies would open the door with a plate full of fresh chocolate chip cookies. If Halloween was all about cookies and pastries... I would have been an obese child.
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Popcorn ball.
aka completely tasteless styrofoam-
you havent had the homemade kind have you. I love them with m&m's and real butter.
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I'm talking storebought. My boys got them last year, and trust me... they were icky.
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They are, those storebought ones. They promise yumminess and then don't follow-through. I always fell for it as a kid.
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The mother of one of my friends made real popcorn balls and handed them out at Halloween when I was a kid. They were really good, but I agree that the store bought, individually wrapped kind are horrible. -
Ah, MM, you are right! Those popcorn balls are like eating crushed styrofoam coffee cups. Don't ask how I know that.
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Anything that has a suspicious hole in it - lol -
apples or boxes of raisins. then again, almond joys are pretty bad too.-
Yeah, raisins suck, and so do apples. But one thing I've always wondered is, how do those little bags of apple wedges stay preserved?
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I wish I could say candycorn, but once I get started I can't stop. It's like the high fructose corn syrup just feels right.
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Not to threadjack, but candycorn plus peanuts equals yummy.
(A Halloween math lesson.)
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I like tootsie rolls! For me, the worst were butterscotch candies, yikes!-
Brach's butterscotch candies, yum yum!
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I'm going with Deray on this one ... those little butterscotch squares .. They rather took an hour to chew or they'd rip out a tooth ... :/ ugh -
cheap gum. -
I never could stomach those chewy molasses-type candies that were wrapped in waxy black and orange paper. As others have mentioned, candy corn is a close second, followed by raisins. I also didn't care for those individually wrapped gumballs because they were always rock hard.
Peanut butter cups were always the first things I finished, then Kit Kats, followed by Twizzlers... I loooved those!-
I think those are Mary Janes. I never cared for them much myself.
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Ohhhh, so that's what they were called!
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You beat me to it...That was always my least favorite candy. I didn't know what they were called either.
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The ones from my dentist... -
No those orange and brown rapped carmel chew things -
the exact candy i got the previous year...bought the previous year
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Well I love candied apples...yummy
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Just asking, has anyone ever received vegetables in their trick or treat bag? or a rolled up sock?
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Are you saying you did?
Poor thing, what kind of neighbors did you have? Or did you dress as Charlie Brown? -
You're planning to give out your mismatched socks... aren't you?!
Shame, dad... shame!
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A rolled up sock??? That can't be a good thing lol ... o_0
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Tootsie rolls. I hate tootsie rolls too. Is it even real chocolate? D;-
Don't hate on tootsie rolls. They are great! The flavored ones, not so much
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Whoa, the flavored ones are even better.
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Peppermint! I like peppermint, but not on Halloween. -
Tootsie rolls are definitely the WORST. I'd rather get a pencil. -
ohhh i LOVE tootsie rolls.... i absolutely hate getting those hard peanut-butter flavored candies... i can't even remember what they're called, but they're supposed to be peanut-butter but really just taste weird, and are rectangle shaped. hate those with a PASSION.
also i lived next to a dentist as a child and he would pass out things like cap erasers and mini crayons...-
How are you supposed to eat a crayon? I would have given him a piece of my mind.
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I always hated the really old pieces of Double-Bubble or Bazooka. My jaws always hurt when I tried chewing them and I am amazed that I never chipped a tooth on a piece.
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If I do give a rolled up sock, it will include jawbreakers, lemonheads, and red hots!!
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I've always had a special hatred for candy corn....-
I love candy corn.
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Individual pieces of candy corn. It's like they are too cheap to give a little bag of candy corn so they take the little bag and give each kid one piece. Horrible!
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Don't know we didn't celebrate it where I grew up and when we moved back to this country we lived in a place that no one trick or treated. I never really did it but I imagine that kids prefer candy to apples. -
Ok this isn't actually candy but it sure was funnyAND i;m sure the trickters who got it would put it on this post that it was the WORST treat they ever got - There were some 18 year olds "trick or treating" and they kept coming back to our door, so my husband finally took leftover meatloaf, rolled it in kitty litter (DIRTY kitty litter) then wrapped it in cellophane and called it home made brownies...
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Peppermint candies used for sore throats. (Was just thinking of Fishermen's friends now.lol) -
I'm surprised I haven't heard anyone mention the hard plasticky candy such as: Dots, Juju.., and does anyone give out GoodnPlenty anymore?
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Any hard candy. Only chocolate is the way to go! -
Necco Wafers. Hard, chalky, break your teeth candy. Like Rolaids, but much harder.
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Do they still make those sheets of candy with little colorful dots you could peel off. Oh yeah, I'm also ready to ban "smarty's."
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Tootsie rolls! I hated getting those as a kid haha -
gummy worms and those long things that twist that come in red or black. -
Poisoned candy really sucks. -
A rock. -
Never a big fan of rock candy in the bag.
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I think kids tend to say 'Trick or treat?' now, but here in Ireland we used to use the rather unglamourous 'Any apples or nuts?' If you were lucky, you got sweets! -
Oh dear, that just brought to mind Shamwow Vince and his infamous "you'll love my nuts!" line in his infomercial for the Slap Chop.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUbWjIKxrrs
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a pencil or a religious tract. -
I would have to say whoppers, tootsie roll or mary jane. That's usually the worst you find by me. People take Halloween pretty seriously here and typically have good stuff. I always get Kit Kat, Reeses PB Cups, and Snickers to hand out. Sometimes Milky Way's too. Though there are barely any kids still out when I get back with my kids but I gotta have something just in case. -
those random candys from makers no one knows about. they usually come with super cheap packaging.
i got an apple once, it was from an older woman though, pfft. s my d. -
I like mini-tootsies.
Jolly Ranchers have to be the worse. I've never understood the appeal of those things. -
I think the most humiliating type of candy to put into a child's bag would be a small white box about the size of a small raisin packet with generic stenciled large letters that simply said C A N D Y.
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Halloween condoms... yulk!
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You're not supposed to eat those.
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Ill say it again till i'm dead - CANDY CORN SUX ....
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me too.
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candy corn and now and laters -
Hemlock meltaways
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I gave out moldy meatloaf rolled in catpoo (packaged festively of course) to a couple of annoying teenage trick or treaters that wouldn't leave our porch...(i guess that would be worse than candy corn.unless i would have thought to add THAT in)
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Reese's all the way. What do they expect me to do, choke in it?
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When I was a kid, I used to hate to see jolly ranchers and dum dums. Those were the cheapest kind of candy to buy an ALL the kids knew it! Why bother? I suppose beggers can't be choosers but come on - it's Halloween. Be generous or don't open the door! Kids are hoping for GREAT stuff! -
My daughter says the Seneca Truly Fruit candy and the brick hard caramel candy sucker.
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