Favorite Holloween Candy or

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Things escalated pretty fast in my old neighborhood back in the day on Halloween. I had a homemade costume. I was a crayon. We are talking 80's here.

Side topic: best costumes. Back in the day (early/mid 70s) when creating and making your own costume was still the thing, 2 costume winners in a few years at the local church’s post-candy collection contest:

1. 35mm cardboard box Camera made with functional flash and lens.
2. paper mache newspaper with recent front page and ads on back.

Best all-time costumes?

 

[superjohn]

Things escalated pretty fast in my old neighborhood back in the day on Halloween. I was hardly the tough guy. While many were going out as pirates and emulating characters in the movie Warriors... I had a homemade costume. I was a crayon. We are talking 80's here.

None of us were really tough but it was fun to pretend we were tough, it was all pretty harmless fun. I don't understand what kids do for fun anymore. There weren'r even any trick or treaters on my street tonight.

 

[CL82]

I did that last year toward the end as I was tired of getting up. A kid just dumped the whole bowl in his bag.

I usually make a deal with some of the older kids and tell them to come back at nine and I’ll give them whatever candy I have left.

 

[storrsroars]

We usually get close to 50, this year only 30. Rain stopped at 5:30 and temps dropped a good 15-20 degrees with wind chill during the 6-8pm designated time. But we managed to get rid of everything. Toward the end, my deal was, "how much can you fit in one hand?"

 

[David 76]

Best: Snickers and $100,000 candy bar ( which when I was a kid was worth a lot more)

Worst freaking Smarties

 

[joober jones]

Favorite: Zagnut, Clark, Skittles, Dots, Twizzlers, Nerds

Least Favorite: Hershey Bars/Kisses. I've never liked plain chocolate on its own.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Best:

1) Reese’s
2) Reese’s Pieces
3) Reese’s Minis

Honorable Mention: Reese’s Fast Break

Worst: If they don’t have Reese’s

 

[Get a Job]

Favorites: nerds, three musketeers, sweet tarts, laffy taffy
Worst: good 'n plenty, necco wafers

 

[joober jones]

The only really bad Necco Wafers are the clove flavored ones. The rest aren't so bad.

 

[Devland]

The only really bad Necco Wafers are the clove flavored ones. The rest aren't so bad.

Necco (New England Confectionary Company) went defunct last year.

 

[dennismenace]

Why are good and plenty two different colors? They're the same flavor.

And they are one of the few candies still sold at theaters in GIANT boxes.

 

[dennismenace]

Do you ever have commercial flashbacks from your childhood?
(sung to a conga like rhythm)
Try a Necco Sky Bar
It's the 4 in 1 bar
English toffee
Fudge parfait
Honey nugget
Peanut whip

These kind of scare me when they come in the morning just as I am having my coffee

 

[RichZ]

Bear in mind, my memories of trick or treating are 65 years old. A lot of the stuff that I know I would have liked wasn't even invented yet.

Loved...
Zero Bars
Reese's
Crunch/Krackle Both the same, one Nestle the other Hershey.
Boston Baked Beans (the candy, not the beans)
Necco Wafers. Just the black ones and the brown ones. Yes, I know I'm the only person in the world who ever liked these things.

Tolerated...
Plain Chocolate bars
Snickers
Milky Way
Candy Corn
Circus Peanuts
Tootsie Rolls
M&Ms
Peppermint Patties

Swapped with my next door neighbor...
3 Musketeers
Sky Bar
Chunky
M&M Peanuts (suddenly started appearing late in my trick or treat years)

Hated and couldn't pawn off on neighbor...
Almond Joy
Mounds
Anything else with Coconut

 

[RichZ]

Do you ever have commercial flashbacks from your childhood?
.....
These kind of scare me when they come in the morning just as I am having my coffee

The box is yellow and the pops are too
Shot with sugar, through and through
Kel-lo-o-o-o-gs Sugar Corn Pops
Sugar Pops are Tops!

The scary thing is, I hated that cereal. But the stupid jingle haunts me.

 

[Steelerone]

When I was a kid anything with coconut. Now -Reese's peanut butter cups or Payday.

 

[TheChamps990411]

Favorite: Peanut butter cups
least favorite: Penis shaped lollipop. Yeah, it happened.

 

[RichZ]

The only really bad Necco Wafers are the clove flavored ones. The rest aren't so bad.

I loved close lifesavers. Aparently, no one else did, because they were discontinued a long time ago.

 

[storrsroars]

Bear in mind, my memories of trick or treating are 65 years old. A lot of the stuff that I know I would have liked wasn't even invented yet.

Loved...
Zero Bars
Reese's
Crunch/Krackle Both the same, one Nestle the other Hershey.
Boston Baked Beans (the candy, not the beans)
Necco Wafers. Just the black ones and the brown ones. Yes, I know I'm the only person in the world who ever liked these things.

Tolerated...
Plain Chocolate bars
Snickers
Milky Way
Candy Corn
Circus Peanuts
Tootsie Rolls
M&Ms
Peppermint Patties

Swapped with my next door neighbor...
3 Musketeers
Sky Bar
Chunky
M&M Peanuts (suddenly started appearing late in my trick or treat years)

Hated and couldn't pawn off on neighbor...
Almond Joy
Mounds
Anything else with Coconut

So you're old enough to remember those little Mary Jane candies that stuck in every crevice in your teeth, right up there with Charleston Chews and Sugar Daddies. And of course the ultimate jaw exercise, Turkish Taffy. No wonder we had so many cavities back then.

I recall getting plenty of that stuff in the mid-60s. Also, candy bags filled with some mix of individual Fireballs, Bazooka, Bull's Eyes, jawbreakers, chocolate coins and Dum-Dums.

The one thing for me that I wouldn't ever let touch anything else in the bag were Raisinettes. I usually just dumped those on the porch or in the garden, cursing under my breath. And I'd get excited about getting the rare Chunky, unless that had raisins, which just ticked me off to no end. Why ruin a perfect block of chocolate like that? I hate raisins to this day.

And yes, you can still buy candy cigs.

 

[8893]

So you're old enough to remember those little Mary Jane candies that stuck in every crevice in your teeth, right up there with Charleston Chews and Sugar Daddies. And of course the ultimate jaw exercise, Turkish Taffy. No wonder we had so many cavities back then.

I recall getting plenty of that stuff in the mid-60s. Also, candy bags filled with some mix of individual Fireballs, Bazooka, Bull's Eyes, jawbreakers, chocolate coins and Dum-Dums.

The one thing for me that I wouldn't ever let touch anything else in the bag were Raisinettes. I usually just dumped those on the porch or in the garden, cursing under my breath. And I'd get excited about getting the rare Chunky, unless that had raisins, which just ticked me off to no end. Why ruin a perfect block of chocolate like that? I hate raisins to this day.

And yes, you can still buy candy cigs.

Agree with all except the raisin hate. I was an insanely picky eater as a kid but always was good with raisins. Raisinettes and Chunky with raisins all the better.

Have you ever had meatballs or braciole with raisins, like they make them in certain parts of Italy? They cook right in so you don't even know they are there texturally, but they add a very nice sweetness that complements the savory flavors and the acid in the tomato sauce.

 

[dennismenace]

The box is yellow and the pops are too
Shot with sugar, through and through
Kel-lo-o-o-o-gs Sugar Corn Pops
Sugar Pops are Tops!

The scary thing is, I hated that cereal. But the stupid jingle haunts me.

"If you like peanuts
and chocolate too
Then snick snick snickers is the bar for you"

 

[sledog]

Chocolate ex-lax is always provides a big boom.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

So I am a big time Skittles dude but damn these “zombie skittles” they hid in their little bags this year will wreck your whole day.

 

[storrsroars]

So when I went to vote today, every table had a bowl of leftover candy corn.

 

[8893]

So when I went to vote today, every table had a bowl of leftover candy corn.

I hope you reported it. That’s straight voter suppression.