Welcome to a two-part F@%k It Friday edition. Part 1 is this week’s topic:
- What is the worst Halloween candy?
I love Kit Kats and 100 Grand Bars, but I don’t care for anything with black licorice. Here’s an important fact: if you give me Good & Plenty, you will regret it.
What about you? What do you like? What’s gross? Give me your list.
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Two words: Candy corn. Shudder!
If it’s not chocolate, I’m not interested. Just don’t pass me a Clark bar.
It begins and ends with Circus Peanuts.
Favorites: Clark Bar and Zagnut. The worst: Bubble gum that is so hard I suspect it was left over from last year.
I’ll fight ya for the Kit Kats!
Those nasty Mary Jane things that are old chewy peanut butter “Flavored” Ughhhhh. And I am with you Laurie, 1000 Grand bars are the bomb!
I cannot stand Twizzlers! And ditto on the black licorice. Meh. Gimme Three Musketeers and Milky Ways and everyone walks away happy.
I hate any kind of licorice and butterscotch. Yuk!
I love reese cups and m&m’s
I also hate those peanut butter things HR Underling mentioned, along with malted milk balls and Tootsie Rolls.
I hate the mini sized on any candy bar. Listen folks if I spent weeks planning my costume (well I guess as I remember it wasn’t so much a plan as an internal struggle between being Darth Vader or a werewolf), and time to get my costume just right, you better spend on some full sized candy bars, ’cause I’m worth it. But none of ‘em better have any coconut that is the foulest of textures, and nothing that isn’t main stream to include: circus peanuts, Bit o’honey, slow pokes, dum-dums (really, next time just punch me in the face and call me Sally, instead of troubling my life with one of those), and bullseyes and milkduds that are so old they have become petrified.
I personally don’t get the whole sour candy craze. I mean why would I want to have my jaw lock up and make the ugly face just to enjoy some candy?! I also don’t believe lemon drops count as candy. If it could be used as an alternative to a cough drop, then it is in the medicine group, not the candy group (and therefore has no calories in my rule book).
I will take everyone’s black licorice
Every tootsie roll I ever got in my Halloween bucket was stale…I still can’t eat tootsie rolls, ugh!
Stop hating on good & plenty. Candy Corn and Circus Peanuts are clearly the worst…
I always hated the bags of potato chips as a kid. No idea why. And those weird no-name toffees wrapped in the halloween-themed paper that were either painfully stale or painfully chewy. I’m pretty sure I lost more than one baby tooth to those things.
Kit Kats, Reece’s Peanut Butter cups, caramel candy corn, and M&M’s are always a good bet. Anything sour or nutritious and I will cut you. For me, Halloween candy is all about chocolate.
Oh and Puf, I’ll take those miniature versions you get. I feel less guilty about eating several of those as opposed to several full size candy bars.
Butterfingers. Who eats those?!?
Also, do some people still try to get away with giving out those little boxes of raisins? Those people might as well hand out small satchels of poop. It’s just as aggressive an anti-Halloween move.
Wax lips. ’nuff said.
@Robert LaGow I didn’t even know you could eat those until I was in my 20s. I just thought you were supposed to play with them. But then they’d fall apart so fast – I thought they were the stupidest toy ever.
Not a big fan of dark chocolates, bubble gum, and miniatures.
Pencils – wth?
So I guess I’m not going to be able to ply you with ouzo over a romantic greek meal
Rice Krispy treats are the best (especially home made).
I hate anything fruit flavored – except banana Laffy Taffy, which I inexplicably love even though it is completely fake-tasting and oddly greasy.
Speaking of inexplicable likes, I actually adore those lumps of peanut butter taffy that come wrapped in black and orange waxed paper. (Please tell me they still sell those and I’m not sounding like I’m 100 years old.)
I hate Smarties.
Even worse is being the kid whose mom gave out nickels (I think that’s up there with dentist giving away toothbrushes). After begging her to stop, my mom moved on to packs of Juicy Fruit, which might have been more embarrassing. I don’t think there are enough nickels to cover the therapy for that.
Boxes of raisins, dum-dums, gum and smarties are lame.
Love snickers, peanut butter cups and baby ruth.
Hate anything coconut.
I’m with you on the black licorice. And Bit O’ Honeys – YUCK!
I raid the kids’ candy buckets for the peanut butter cups, the snickers and the milky ways.
I do NOT appreciate people that hand out unwrapped, gooey cupcakes that must be eaten immediately during trick-or-treating, leaving sticky frosting-covered hands (I am speaking to YOU neighbors who live 3 doors down!)
Candy corn, Sugar Daddy, and Peeps are made of nasty. Naturally, my husband LOVES them.
But the thing I really hated when I was kid: pennies & raisins! The neighborhood do-gooders would ALWAYS throw like 3 pennies & a box of raisins in your pillowcase. LAME.
Faves were always M&M’s and McDonald’s coupons. My parents hardly ever took us to McDonald’s, but they had no choice when we scored coupons. I wonder if McD’s still sells those little booklets for Halloween.
I believe it was Chris Rock who asked, “Why is the Black jelly bean the worst tasting candy on the face of the earth?!?”
it’s funny because it’s true.
Anything that’s not candy- raisins, popcorn balls, apples, etc.
Ditto on the wax lips!!!! ugh! Nasty
Just break out the chocolate already. That’s what I really want!
I hate licorice with the intensity of a meganova. I wouldn’t even feed it to zombies.
Oddly, I love, love, love candy corn and circus peanuts. But only or the first handful or so. Any more than that and they make me gag.
Seriously, I NEED a small yearly fix.
i hate turkish taffy and sen sens and almost anything that glues your teeth together and tastes like shit. Reese’s rock and kitKats too…
Pennies!!
It was a huge childhood disappointment, and is to blame for my own small change phobia. I’m not kidding. (Of course, unemployment has helped me get over that one real quick!)
Why, why, why would you give me a handful of stinky, worthless pennies when you could have cashed them all in and bought a sack of candy to give out instead??!
LOVE BLACK LICORICE!!! And anything that had black licorice in it!! And I only ate the Black jelly beans, too!! There, I said it– Loved seeing my mouth all purple and black as a kid– and I’d tease my sister who was the froo-froo Red Vines fan— Red Vines?? ewww…. fruit flavored wax—
Favs: Junior Mints, 100 Grand (my brother and I had mexican stand-offs for those), 3 Musk, Butterfingers, Mounds & Almond Joys, LOVE Candy Corn (I think I ate a thousand of them in one sitting once)… well… pretty much almost everything— Me and my brother were fat little kids, for sure.
UnFav: Caramel. It’s burnt sugar people!!!
Oh– I grew up around alot of hippy types— I got a bag of vegetables once– I think it was the first time I used the expression: WTF????
My sister used to make me eat Circus Peanuts because she thought it was funny that I immedaitely barfed orange and fluffy. She also made me eat dog food. To this day, I would prefer a handful of kibble to a circus peanut.
The other Evil Candy is black licorice. Unless it’s salted, in which case it is fabulous. But I think of my little Dutch grandma and I want to cover everything in sight with lacy doilies. So maybe that’s still evil.
But when I’m not reliving childhood traumas, I love a Twix or anything Reese’s (cups, pieces, bars, or wierd embelished pretzel thingies).
Back when my kids were younger, we had a box full of duplicate Happy Meal toys that we’d give out at Halloween. My favorite these days are the neighbors who set up a table dispensing Carmel Apple Martini’s to the parents as they go by.
Take 5 trumps all. *Though this season, I was able to eat one whole bag in a single sitting. I am pretty sure I’ve ruined them for me, for life.
Worst “treat”: popcorn balls
Just give me chocolate biznatches! Keep the lame-O gum balls and candy corn…don’t even think about a “good for you” treat.
Necco Wafers. Worst. Candy. Ever.
Know why Halloween is becoming an adult holiday? Because you can drink, you don’t have to see your stoopit relatives and you can wear a costume broadcasting a bizarre psychological self-image.
Whenever I think of candy, this song pops in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX6Q0bML-gI
@Liz Candy Corn is disgusting. Ken (the husband) loves it. Nuts.
@Kelly I’ve never hard a clark bar. Yuck.
@akabruno Circus peanuts? I DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT KIND OF CRAZY.
@HRMark I’m giving away that bubble gum, this year.
@BobSerrone I will bite off your arm for a KITKAT!
@HRU What’s a Mary Jane? I have to google that.
@BZTAT Oh no! I love Twizzlers. I’ll take yours.
@Teresa Butterscotch is all wrong.
@Tim Whoppers and Milk Duds are sickkkkkkkk.
@Puf I wish I had been a fly on the wall during your existential Halloween costume crisis.
@Breanne Lemondrops are a monstrous disgusting thing that have wreaked havoc on the earth.
@HRUnderling You can have it.
@InkedHR I love stale tootsie rolls. No lie.
@Matt I worked at a good & plenty factory. My first HR job. No kidding.
@Ian I don’t want a baby bag of chips. I want the big bags!
@adowling I cannot do sour. Hurts my face!
@Ask.a.manager I think raisins are poop, too. Rabbit poop. Great minds think alike.
@Robert Waxed lips should be illegal.
@TracyTran I’m giving out hard bubble gum, this year, just to kick it old school.
@Salescomp Pencils, erasers, stickers. All lame.
@OldMan Ouzo = gross. Sorry. Maybe I have no class or anything, but I won’t touch it.
@Average.Jane Hahahahah, you are 101 years old with your waxy, gross candy.
@Allison Juicy Fruit is the grossest gum in the history of mankind. FACT.
@Michelle Hate fake coconut, too. Yuck.
@Jen Bit o’ honey = bit o’ crap.
@H.Aria Hate hate hate Sugar Daddy. Sick. Gross.
@Glen “It’s funny because it’s true” is like my favorite saying.
@DavidT Those little boxes of raisins are from the devil.
@George Circus peanuts? Yuck.
@MVDT Turkish taffy? I’ve never had it. Sounds g r o s s.
@Alex Pennies? What a bunch of cheapskates.
@MattyMat Veggies? No way.
@JustVikki Salted black licorice? I just gagged.
@Robert Boy leftover happy meal toys? That sucks. I do like the martini idea, though.
@Ida Popcorn balls are for communists.
@Melissa I hate health food advocates who want to ruin Halloween.
@Eric I had to google Necco Wafers. Forgot all about them. PS — Yes, this is what we’ll be discussing next week.
WTF on the lady who gave out toothbrushes and toothpaste. She was a Communist or something. And +1 to anyone who mentioned candy corn (!) and circus peanuts. Also, those little wax bottles with weird juice in the middle. Also, my husband is dutch and sometimes he brings home these hard black licorice with table salt covering the outside and more table salt on the inside. Ummm…tasty?
@Stacey: Hard black licorice with table salt??? Does it get any better than that??
Actually, my absolute worst trick-or-treating experience was when the Jehovah Witnesses would answer the door and talk to you about how they didn’t celebrate Halloween.
I am all for religious freedom. Absolutely.
But my point is that when you’re 8 years old, and they answer the door with NO candy and lecture? EPIC WET BLANKET Why did they even answer? They knew it was candy beggars.
@Eric. OMG I think I’m your sista from another mista. Necco Wafers are lower than popcorn balls, boxes of raisins or pennies. In fact, they are lower than brussel sprouts dipped in Vegemite.
The priests/nuns in the rectory down the street used to give us Neccos and we were convinced that they were trying to poison us because we weren’t Catholic. Dan Brown probably got Necco Wafers from the priests in his neighborhood.
On the other hand, Candy Corn is manna from the Great Pumpkin and I would pay a very handsome sum for a full roll of orange Smarties.
One thing that nobody’s mentioned. Sixlets – The poor man’s M&M’s. I would get so disappointed with those things, cuz it’s cheap chocolate. Bummer.
Those peanut butter bar things that were striped and tasted kind of like Butterfingers without the chocolate coating. Bit ‘o Honey too. Yuck.
My favorite candy was always Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
i agree with vandervoort, turkish “delight” = turkish disappointment. yuck.