What do you think is the worst candy?

I guess I am dating myself. But, Halloween treats in my location were often homemade items. Fresh oranges and apples were often given out. Sometimes homemade cookies of various kinds.

However, my least favorite were popcorn balls. They were balls of popped popcorn held together with some sort of sticky syrupy liquid that hardened. They were often salted. And, of course, cold rather than warm. I suppose warmed they probably tasted o.k. But, I remember them as cold, dry, and somewhat stale. They were often wrapped in colored paper that stuck to them and had to be peeled off.

Mom often went through our bags of goodies when we got home and discarded lots of questionable goodies first, unless we ate them before we went home. I can remember occasionally getting sick the next day and had to stay home from school for a day or two. That was Halloween in my day and location.
 
The worst candy I've been given at Halloween was nearly 1 year old Christmas candy. Our elderly neighbor lady, the widowed Mrs. Reinking, gave it out every Halloween, and it was always those red, green and white striped Christmas ribbon candies and the little cylindrical ones with a tiny image of a flower or something in the center.

Some were really hard and others weren't as hard as they're supposed to be. And they were kind of sticky, like they sat out in an open candy dish all through the previous 3 months of summer.

But our parents taught us to smile and politely thank Mrs. Reinking, and wish her a "Happy Halloween" as we left. And she would pretend to be scared of us when she answered her door and then she'd say "Well if it isn't the Murr children! You sure had me fooled."

She was a very sweet lady.
 
Robb.hisself said:
I guess I am dating myself. But, Halloween treats in my location were often homemade items. Fresh oranges and apples were often given out. Sometimes homemade cookies of various kinds.

However, my least favorite were popcorn balls. They were balls of popped popcorn held together with some sort of sticky syrupy liquid that hardened. They were often salted. And, of course, cold rather than warm. I suppose warmed they probably tasted o.k. But, I remember them as cold, dry, and somewhat stale. They were often wrapped in colored paper that stuck to them and had to be peeled off.

Mom often went through our bags of goodies when we got home and discarded lots of questionable goodies first, unless we ate them before we went home. I can remember occasionally getting sick the next day and had to stay home from school for a day or two. That was Halloween in my day and location.
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I agree with the stale popcorn balls. And those red candied apples. I didn't care for that stuff.
 
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