As a child, which Halloween treats did you love, and which did you hate?

[jpgray]

I loved these:



And hated these:

[Meatwad]

1. I hated the candy that came in either a black wrapper...

or an orange wrapper. It tasted like peanut butter, but not the good stuff.

Man, that shit was nasty! :puke:

My favorite has to be the Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Mmmmmmm...

[LaraMN]

4. Oh yeah, that stuff SUCKED!

It was always elderly people that gave it out around here. They also gave out sticks of Wrigley's gum every year, too.

[southlandshari]

9. Yes!

That stuff was ick on a stick, to borrow a phrase from one of my favorite people in the whole world!

Blech! :puke:

[AlienGirl]

16. Me too

I also hated SweetTarts. I don't want candy to be sour; that's what salad dressing is for. I also didn't care for popcorn balls or anything Gummi.

I loved, and still love, chocolate. Peanut butter cups are a big favorite, also M&Ms.

Tucker

[sakabatou]

2. Hated fruit and whoppers

But I loved it when my neighbor gave out hotwheels.

[AlienGirl]

20. Hotwheels!! Lucky!!

:o I didn't know anyone who gave out Hotwheels, but sometimes I got marbles in my trick-or-treating, and I always liked that.

Tucker

[sakabatou]

59. Heh!

[LaraMN]

3. Oh yummy!

I loved these:



and hated these, because I puked one in my driveway once, and it ruined me on them for life:

[marzipanni]

39. Oh yeah, I can relate to that

In 1960, when I was in 5th grade, a kid in my class went to Hawaii (from Massachusetts), and that was a pretty big deal. He brought a coconut to our class and we each got a piece to try. Later the teacher had a little spelling bee and the winner would receive the rest of the coconut to take home. I won...I nibbled...I felt sick (if I barfed I put it out of my memory!) It took years to get over that yucky feeling about coconut.

[Floogeldy]

5. I hated fucking fruit and pennies.

BTW, Whoppers are delicious!

:)

[jpgray]

6. I had to read that subject a few times (nt)

[sundog]

7. anything but circus peanuts

[DanCa]

8. I hated bit of honey, I love and still love payday.

[samplegirl]

10. i hated those too

and the black jacks i think thats what they were
called.

I really liked popcorn balls and candy apples
and remember one lady who made those every year.
Her house was a special treat.

I always make up special bags for my immediate
neighbor kids.
I give them some candy....but i always buy them
a few halloween books or sticker books dollar store
items ect.
Now im the lady who's house is a special treat
every year. I love doing this for them...they
are always asking me what if there getting books
for halloween in advance.
The little ones are great.

[DanCa]

11. Popcorn balls were sweet.

Do people still pass out mcdonalds gift cerficicates?

[AlienGirl]

17. I didn't like popcorn balls

The texture always felt like styrofoam. McDonalds gift certificates were about useless, because my family almost never ate at restaurants.

Tucker

[driver8]

14. Oh yeah! Popcorn balls and Rice Krispy treats were awesome. n/t

[Tallison]

66. Popcorn balls....OMG, it's been two decades

since I thought of those. Homemade treats are the yummiest, (provided they're still full of fat and sugar).

[Tallison]

67. Self-delete

posted in wrong spot

[philosophie_en_rose]

54. Love: Peanut Butter Cups & Reese's pieces; Hated: Whoppers; Candy Corn

I ate, but wasn't really excited to get jolly ranchers because they were so plentiful. I looked forward to peanut butter and chocolate.

[driver8]

12. I love whoppers!

Also liked Three Musketeers, Milky Way, Hershey bars, and Reeses Peanut Butter cups.

Almost forgot -- I liked the rootbeer hard candy and the butterscotch hard candy.

Not too fond of Sugar Daddys.

[jpgray]

13. You can have my whole whopper haul.

Assonance and all. :P

If you dislike AlmondJoys or Nerds, we could perhaps come to some arrangement...

[driver8]

15. My wife loves Almond Joys -- she gets those. What the heck

are Nerds?

[jpgray]

19. These things:

Sort of tiny solid sugar clusters indifferently fruit-flavored.

[AlienGirl]

22. You can have all the Nerds I get

Fruit-flavored candy isn't my thing.

Tucker

[driver8]

28. You can have mine, too. Those things look like they would

really stick to the teeth.

[AlienGirl]

30. They're crunchy

They abrade the inside of your mouth like Fruity Pebbles.

Tucker

[jpgray]

18. dupe

[amerikat]

21. Candy Apples the red ones. (pic)

[enigmatic]

23. Peanut butter cups

And I despised those candy corn things; ugh..

[AlienGirl]

24. Ick, candy corn

Candy corn is just too sweet, and not in a good way.

Tucker

[jpgray]

25. I love candy corn. It's terrible but I love it

You, driver8 and I would make a perfectly suitable trick-or-treat barter economy.

[enigmatic]

31. hahaha

I remember one year whewn I was 10 or so I went down a street trick or treating and I swear, just about every house was giving away candy corn! They must have bought it in bulk or something; I was pissed...

[jpgray]

32. It may be youngest sibling syndrome

Learning to love the castoffs, and all that. :P

[u4ic]

26. LOVED (and still do) rockets

and hated those wretched molasses candies...I think they were called kisses. :puke:

[jpgray]

27. Yes! Rockets and Smarties kicked my ass with goodness

:thumbsup:

[AlienGirl]

29. Smarties are great for a sugar rush

I generally don't like sugar-based candy without chocolate in it, but a few rolls of Smarties are good for a fast sugar buzz. So are those candy necklaces, which are also an interesting fashion accessory.

Tucker

[jpgray]

33. Note this is all based on my childhood memories

Maybe I would have more refined tastes these days. But almost all candy doesn't taste as good to me anymore. :(

[u4ic]

35. That's funny

here, these are Smarties:


Smarties are WAY better than M&M's!

When you eat your smarties
do you eat the red ones last
do you suck them very slowly
or crunch them very fast
eat that candy coated chocolate
but tell me when I ask....

when you eat your smarties, do you eat the red ones last?

CRUNCH!

Canucks must remember that little ditty. :D

[jpgray]

36. The smarties I remember looked like this:

Is this a Canada-only deal? Like Anne Murray? :P Though what I've seen does intrigue me....

[u4ic]

38. Yeppers, only in Canada

Rockets (CAN) = Smarties (US)
Smarties (CAN) = REALLY, REALLY good chocolate M&M's (US & CAN)

I can't help but think the softwood lumber dispute would have been resolved already if we had sent you Smarties instead of Celine Dion...

[jpgray]

40. I want some

And say "hi" to Screaming Lord Byron from all his fans at DU for us if you see him on babble, will you? :hi:

[u4ic]

70. Will do, m'friend!

:-)

[Qanisqineq]

43. oops

nevermind, misunderstood!

[Rhiannon12866]

34. I actually loved both of those! But I worked, for a few months, in a candy

store, and now, just the thought of chocolate makes my throat close. I think it's the smell... sorry.:puke:

I still like jelly beans and gumdrops...:D

[Pithlet]

63. My parents owned a candy store, once.

And I'd work there sometimes. I still can't eat certain kinds of candy because I made myself sick.

[Rhiannon12866]

72. That must have been a lot of fun! Every kid's dream, LOL! :D

But it does sound like you overdid it, though not surprising...:-)

I was never really tempted, maybe because the smell of chocolate was so strong. But when I came back from my break, there were usually wrappers all over the place and numerous voided cash register slips... The woman who covered for me more than overdid it, and in only 30 minutes, LOL! There was only one kind of candy that I liked and still do. Did you ever have Ice Cubes? They are very high quality light chocolate mixed with crushed hazel nuts, and they really do seem to be cold! Out of this world...:9

[phusion]

37. I like them all

:shrug:

Those black or orange peanut butter things kick ass too.

[Qanisqineq]

41. Smarties... ugh!

I loved pretty much everything else, especially Snickers. Mmmm!

[Seabiscuit]

42. Loved candy corn, anything chocolate, and hated those gooey imitation

peanuts.

Oh, yeah.

I hated pennies.

Usually dirty.

At least too dirty to eat.

Come to think of it, that was good training. They're still worthless.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

44. Didn't care for the liverwurst or Caesar salads

but I did like the flaming crepe suzette, although they were hard to carry home in a bag.

[Heidi]

45. There's a special place in hell

for adults who give kids healthy stuff like Fruit-Rollups, rolls of pennies and other fare for Halloween. Just sayin'.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

46. When I was a kid in the Fifties

we got full sized candy bars. The little ones hadn't been invented yet. Some folks would give us apples. We pegged their houses with eggs.

Then one year some idiot decided that instead of candy we should go around and get pennies for UNICEF. Poor kids. WTF?

It didn't catch on.

[Lavender Brown]

47. In the 80s people used to give out McDonalds coupons

good for a free burger, fries, or milkshake. I hated them, because my parents never let us redeem the ones we got.

My favorites were the mini Three Musketeers bars.

[jmm]

48. I get nauseous just thinking about Good & Plenty

but I didn't even get mad at the people who gave them out. The only people who pissed me off were the rude ones.

I loved pretty much anything with chocolate and/or peanut butter in it.

[Broken_Hero]

49. I loved

the almond joys/mounds bars. I hated the peppermint candies. I have always hated peppermint candy...well, to make it a little more clear, the peppermint candys taht are mostly white, with little red stripes...yuck, like those candies some restaurants and fast food give you for your breath....

[DS1]

50. Anything with peanut butter in it was shit to me

I hate peanut butter

[henslee]

51. maryjanes

[youthere]

52. I hated Circus Peanuts and anything Candy Corn-like.

[philosophie_en_rose]

53. Circus Peanuts: are they even edible?

If it weren't sticky, I'd consider using them for packing purposes.

[youthere]

61. I've heard..

They can be shoved in foundation cracks to seal out drafts. LOL.

[skygazer]

55. I hated getting apples

They'd get all banged up in my bag and besides, my mother would never let me eat them because they might have a razor blade in them. Never mind that I got it at my Aunt Louise's house. ~sigh~

I loved anything chocolate.

[johnnie]

57. I remember getting an apple once and throwing it away

Right after I got it. I felt so bad because it was a little old lady that gave it to me. That was 35 years ago or so and I still feel guilty about it.

[jpgray]

58. Ha! I had the exact same experience

Worse, I once took more than one from a "take one" bag, and felt horribly guilty for days afterward.

[rustydog]

56. caramel apples and popcorn balls

[yellowdogintexas]

60. candy corn, anything orange and black, taffy, or containing

marshmallow cream.

I am not much of a candy eater, besides I'm old enough that we got homemade brownies, cookies, popcorn balls, fudge etc quite often.

I could tolerate Hershey bars, Kisses, M & M's and Mars products.

Now it would be strictly Hershey miniatures...Dark only.

[Guy Fawkes]

62. Love reeses, hate:

CANDYCORN!



Give me reeses anyday

[sbj405]

64. My neighbor used to make homemade popcorn balls. Yummmy

Where we lived the houses were far apart and the driveways long. I think everyone gave extra good treats b/c of that.

I'm with you on the whoppers.

[Pithlet]

65. Loved miniature candy bars. Hated anything toffee.

I especially liked mini Snickers, peanut butter cups or M&Ms. That's what I usually get to hand out, now.

[Tallison]

68. I HATED Mary Janes, Dum-Dums, and SunMaid raisons

You can tell the adults that hate kids based on these and similar offerings. x(

[Ladyhawk]

69. Dammit, you're making my blood glucose rise just by looking.

Shame on you! :P

[bearfan454]

71. Candy corn sucked nt

[BlueWolf]

73. 3 Musketeers

Anything chocolate really.

[shanti]

74. anything chocolate was eaten first

raisins, licorice, mints, suckers (except for tootsie pops) and pennies were very unwelcome, lol. i also liked pixie stix and wax bottles, now and laters, the chewy fruity things.

argggh! my teeth ache just thinking about it!