What do you think is the worst candy?

Last Halloween was my first in my new house. The doorbell only rang once. I just didn't answer. This year I'll put a sign, "NO TREATS HERE". I don't give out treats, then I can't be blamed if a kid gets injured or poisoned.
 

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The WORST candy..... As a kid, my mother used to take me visiting the elderly relatives when we went to Virginia. The old Aunties and Times-Removed-Cousins ALWAYS had a crystal dish of hard candy sitting on their coffee tables. It was always some kind of red hard candy that had probably been there since FDR was in office. It was dusty and was welded together by humidity into one sticky, hairy ball (hair provided by their grouchy wheezing elderly lap dog, of course, who had probably licked the candy more than once).

The old ladies would say, "Take a piece of candy, dear!" and I'd try, to be polite, but it would take a jackhammer to separate a chunk of that candy from the rest.

Nobody ever had a Hershey Bar or a bowl of Kisses or some M&M's. Not even any Raisinettes. Phooey.
 
jujube said:
The WORST candy..... As a kid, my mother used to take me visiting the elderly relatives when we went to Virginia. The old Aunties and Times-Removed-Cousins ALWAYS had a crystal dish of hard candy sitting on their coffee tables. It was always some kind of red hard candy that had probably been there since FDR was in office. It was dusty and was welded together by humidity into one sticky, hairy ball (hair provided by their grouchy wheezing elderly lap dog, of course, who had probably licked the candy more than once).

Nobody ever had a Hershey Bar or a bowl of Kisses or some M&M's. Not even any Raisinettes. Phooey.
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When I visited my paternal grandma, she always had a Hershey bar for me. 🙂
 

I guess we had different grandmas. One of mine was pretty notorious for doling out Circus Peanuts. Worse though were her "corn cookies." No idea whether they had corn in them, but that's what we called them. My sister swore she found toenail clippings in hers.

My other grandma was a bit more strictly "farm girl." Her idea of a snack for a kid was bread with apple butter and a cup of coffee loaded up with PET milk close to 50-50.
 
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When candy cigarettes were found in my treat bag they would be confiscated! My sister said to hide them. They were hard like chalk and just a dopey thing to make.

But, really, anything with Raisins was very unwelcome and I'd give them away. Chunky Bar, Raisinets, anything with raisins. Yucky to me.

To this day, I don't like or eat coconut. It's like trying to eat cat's whiskers. And very dry. Chocolate covered coconut can't even tempt me to eat it.

Fun thread.

This site has some of the candy already mentioned. Old Fashioned and Retro Candy - Home of Candy you ate as a kid®

There was an older couple who used Halloween to proselytize and recruit for their religion. I never wanted to go into the house, yes, we had to go into the house.

They knew kids wanted to get the treat and move on, but, oh, no, they had to question and preach. Their candy was full size bars of Mr. Goodbar (not that great to me) or some other type of similar bar. Plus, get an apple and a religious pamphlet. My mother always took the apples away, even if no razor blades were found.
 
The worst candy is..................toffee. Why? Because I love it so much, and it pulls the filings out of your teeth. So now I don't have it. But I still love it. It calls me, and if I see some my mouth waters. I could eat a bag full RIGHT NOW.
 
I used to leave the wax paper wrapped peanut butter taffy things to last. Some even have actual peanut butter centers, some are waxier than the paper wrapping.

These days I ration candy to such a minimum that even those can sound good.
 
Years ago, one of our well-meaning neighbors, wanting to give healthy treats, gave out bananas. If that's not bad enough, she wanted to encourage the kids to eat them right away, so she peeled them half-way down then wrapped the open end in tin foil. If she hadn't wrapped them, the kids would have just dropped then in their bags and taken them home for lunch the next day. But naturally, the foil came off and started gooping up their good candy, so the bananas ended up on the street. The next day, all the neighbors had to clean up layers of smashed brown banana.
 
Some years we lived out in the sticks, so for Halloween we went out with some cousins (I have tons of cousins) in their neighborhoods. One Halloween one house was giving out unwrapped plain cake donuts. We weren't fans, and tossed them onto their roof. When we got back out to the sidewalk we turned and saw their roof covered in donuts.
 
I just read an article that Circus Peanuts are "the bane of trick-or-treaters' Halloween candy bags for time immemorial."

When I was a kid, I ate everything (including Circus Peanuts) except the fruit and black licorice. Oh--and I hated the taste of copper pennies. Never try to eat the pennies! LOL
 
BlueVilla said:
I just read an article that Circus Peanuts are "the bane of trick-or-treaters' Halloween candy bags for time immemorial."

When I was a kid, I ate everything (including Circus Peanuts) except the fruit and black licorice. Oh--and I hated the taste of copper pennies. Never try to eat the pennies! LOL
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This reminds me. I was in an airport in Denmark, and I was waiting for a flight. I visited a store, and they had lots of licorice. I bought a bunch of it, because I love the stuff.

I got home and finally got to try it, and that was when I learned that some licorice has salt in it, as opposed to sugar. The Denmark version was salt. It was awful. The whole lot went in the garbage.
 
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VaughanJB said:
This reminds me. I was in an airport in Denmark, and I was waiting for a flight. I visited a store, and they had lots of licorice. I bought a lot of it, because I love the stuff.

I got home and finally got to try it, and that was when I learned that some licorice has salt in it, as opposed to sugar. The Denmark version was salt. It was awful. The whole lot went in the garbage.
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Salt? Double YUCK.
 
I'm pretty sure it has ammonium chloride, not salt. But well, that is a "salt" and one that tastes salty.

I only enjoyed that as a kid, and then only when it came in small packages where the candy was very small, thin, flat diamond shapes. And only as a novelty.

I remember those weird cheap suckers on a loop of white string in cellophane wrapping. Safe-T-Pops or something. The "lime" ones were awful.
 

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