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Best and worst Halloween Candy?
Nushnushganay
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Anyone have memories of sifting through their stash, looking for another one of their favorites, or slowly working through (or giving away, or tossing out) their least favorites?
What were the best and worst Halloween candies, in your opinion?
What were the best and worst Halloween candies, in your opinion?
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Another thing I want to say about those type of suckers is that I h a t e that tiny bit of the wrapper that would stick to the candy so you'd either have to A) Dig your nail into it to get the piece off, or B) Throw the sucker away. >:(
There were occasionally some rare, vintage sorts of candies, like Mary Janes (I'm being serious!) and Squirrel Nut Zippers.
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The worst candies in my opinion were pixie sticks oh and those giant packs of wanna be smarties that ended up tasting like chaulky tumbs. Those were gross. xD
Every Halloween, I try to eat candy corn, especially the variety pack with the pumpkins in them. I love those things.
You must be talking about Necco Wafers. Too bad New England Candy Co. is no more, but I have to say, I never much liked Necco wafers or the iconic Valentine's Conversation hearts that tasted just like them (and were also a NECCO product) much, so I don't miss them.
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The absolute WORST thing to me is that orange colored marshmallow in the shape of a giant peanut! The instant one lands in the bag - Halloween ruined! Keep those nasty doorstops!
Oh yes, the dreaded "circus peanuts" that don't taste like peanut, or quite like marshmallow but just enough to keep you weirded out...I remember those. They don't taste like anything in particular, and nothing about them aligns with being orange, or shaped like a peanut. They just make no sense. And I agree they are a terrible candy. They remind me of those nasty Easter "eggs" that were a thick layer of colorful candy on the outside, and this gooey white sticky not-quite-marshmallow, not-quite-fondant on the inside.
Someone somewhere must love those things because they keep getting manufactured.
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If they're cheap enough though, people will buy them to give out, but it doesn't mean that people are actually eating them either. Haha
I also like the candy corns. Everything else you can get almost any other time of year so this time of year feels special to me for those. I hated the sticky any kinds of candies, if you couldn't get the wrapper off nicely, yuck!
They are like those NECCO Peach Blossoms, which are actually peanut-butter-filled satin pillow tube candies, with nothing peach about them. They are just peanut butter candy. Which is weird because circus peanuts, despite the name and shape, aren't peanut flavored. HA.
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Reese cups, aero, tootsie rolls, and dots were the best. I still buy boxes with Reese and aero every year in my version of trick or treating (discount candy day on Nov 1) but the other 2 were left behind in childhood but I LOVED them then (I don't know if dots even still exist tbh I'd try them again).
Yeah. I couldn't remember what the product's name was. We had there here in the USA around the 80's and late 90's. They were still gross. I found some still being sold at the gas station a few blocks from me. Apparently they bought the boxes from Marsh before they went out of business here.
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The candies I hated the most as a kid were probably the strawberry candies that came in those strawberry printed wrappers (they taste like cough drops) and the cheap butterscotch candies in the yellow cellophane. I was never given circus peanuts that I remember, but they seem pretty gross too.
In the great candy corn debate, I am pro candy corn and creme pumpkins.
I also like Peanut Butter M&Ms, we don’t have them here (I hear they’re making salted caramel M&M’s here, I’d like to taste them),
Nerds, Jolly Ranchers.....
Dislikes : Twizzlers,
Now for the candy we have here in France : Kinders, especially Kinder buenos, Dragibus, Coca Cola bottles candy, nougat....
Kinders..you mean KinderEggs? What a strange history they have here in the US. Would love to see a pic of a Dragibus, whatever that is. And good nougat is amazing. Can get it at specialty shops here, but regular cheap candy nougat here is basically just white taffy.
Glad you opened your mind to the combination of peanut and chocolate.
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You can still get Dots in New England, along with a bunch of other "old-school" candies usually only still found in movie theaters. Like dum-dums, sugar babies, lemonheads, good-n-plenty, and nonpareils, and until NECCO went belly-up in recent times, NECCO wafers.
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Traditional kinder eggs though? I have huge nostalgia for them as a child and they were the treat I was looking forward to the most during the time I spent in France. Kinda strange that the US banned them for choking hazard reasons, usually I think Europe would be the more stingy one when it comes to regulation lol. Still, the ones we have in the US would never be quite like the traditional Kinder eggs, I still wish they sold the chocolate egg by itself at the very least. If I could eat them without sensitivity problems that is.
Here are Dragibus :
Here are the kinder I meant, though I like the eggs too. We have a lot of different kinder here. These are filled with Hazelnut cream.
I haven't tried chocolate and mint, I know it's very popular in the USA, but it sounds odd to me, though maybe it's very good.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/the-us-is-finally-lifting-its-ban-on-kinder-eggs-a3691696.html
We still get dumdums and good-n-plenty but that's all I've seen recently. Of course even pre-covid I still seldom went to the movies and even more rarely their own concession (we have a theater here that has a couple fast food franchises inside it so I go there since they allow those foods in the theater and they're cheaper). So they could very well exist here still just not where I'd really notice.
Though you know I was realizing the other day in scouting out what I want to keep my eye out for when the candy discounts start... the store I usually go to does NOT have good selection (I mean I can still find more candy than I need just that pretty sure there's way more choice out there). I'm trying to recall if it was this bad in years prior or if it's pandemic related. I think maybe it wasn't as bad as this year but they still lacked so maybe I just need to find other stores and see what they have. I know dots are basically jubejubes which exist all over in some way but there's just that nostalgia of those little yellow boxes.
Worst: Religious pamphlets without any candy to go with.
Any candy is good candy though. Beggars can't be choosers.
Are you having a hard time finding Dots? They have them in Dollar Tree, here. Are they hard to come by where you live?
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