10 Most Disappointing Treats for Halloween...

[MsKandice01]

I found this earlier today and thought it was pretty funny.

The 10 Most Disappointing Treats for Trick-or-Treaters
Posted Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 10:39 am PDT

On Halloween night, some houses struggle with the idea of candy. There are good houses, and there are bad houses. The best trick-or-treaters know to avoid the latter. At the food site Serious Eats, we all love Halloween, but wish certain homes would just stop handing out the classically bad "treats." They weren't good last year, the year before that, or now. Our own Erin Zimmer put together this list of our top 10 Halloween treats that nobody wants...

Toothbrushes
Dentists and orthodontists should not be allowed to celebrate Halloween if they're going to get all tooth doctory on us. Do not bring your work home with you, folks! We all have a personal responsibility to brush, and maybe some of us will forget, but your complimentary bristles on a stick (instead of a Snickers) will not help us remember. It will make us despise you and your trade.

Raisins
Little boxes of stuck-together shriveled globs are not what little kids schlep around the neighborhood for all night. When they say trick-or-treat, they want candy that will rot their teeth, not wrinkled grapes. (Using an empty box as a kazoo-like instrument, though, is kinda fun.)

Candy Corn
The most polarizing candy of all. The fruitcake of Halloween; it just never goes away. If you love them, fine. But don't subject the rest of us haters to the sickeningly sweet triangle that tastes like neither candy nor corn.

More here:
http://food.yahoo.com/blog/edlevineeats/13401/the-10-most-disappointing-treats-for-trick-or-treaters

Gotta disagree with the candy corn though...I love candy corn.

[MrCoffee]

1. Ed Levine doesn't know what he's blathering on about

Tootsie Rolls? Dum Dums? NECCO WAFERS, for the love of Pete?

What a sick, sad life he must lead.

[AwakeAtLast]

13. The one rule at our house on Halloween: WMUette gets all the tootsie rolls

We get the rest. Works for us. :shrug:

Gotta agree w/ ya, Mr. Coffee. :hi:

[rug]

2. Gum

[DS1]

3. I wouldn't feed Candy Corn to terrorists

[Red State Rebel]

23. Mix Candy Corn and Spanish Peanuts - Payday Candy Bar Mix!!

[AlCzervik]

4. Miscellaneous, Wrapped Hard Candies go right in the trash.

[Richardo]

6. ...and the unwrapped ones?

Regifted? :think:

[AlCzervik]

8. usually stuck to the inside of the pillow case and run through the wash.

my daughter still uses a pillow case for trick or treat, well she did but she's not going out this year.

[Burma Jones]

5. Lewis Black on Candy Corn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KpkvmBOnuw

it's at 2:20

[Richardo]

7. Circus Peanuts. Candied Orange Slices. Yes, raisins. Fruit.

[pengillian101]

26. Circus Peanuts. Candied Orange Slices.

What awful candies - what were they thinking? Although, I think I actually liked them as a five-year old, lol. :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. I hand out cans of potatoes and creamed corn - where do they fit on the scale?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. You leave the creamed corn in the can?

I just open the can and dump the stuff right in their bags.

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. I leave it in the can, but the cans are open.

That's why I give them away - they're so old they've blown their tops.

I'm not gonna be givin' out fresh stuff!

[KamaAina]

22. Bad House

A) Trick-or-treaters are not after cans. Hallowe'en is all about instant gratification, thereby making it perhaps the most American of holidays.

B) Creamed corn is an abomination in the eyes of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. When you die and go to Hell, you will be suspended upside down in a vat of the stuff for all eternity. :evilgrin:

[PfcHammer]

10. Laxatives, throat lozenges, cough drops, basically

any expired meds in the cabinet. Also,
I like to gather the stuff that winds up under the
fridge and wrap it up and pass it off as candy. In
the dark you can't tell :rofl:

[LiberalEsto]

11. Mary Jane candies

I remember them from childhood. Sort of a nasty peanut butter taste.

[MichiganVote]

12. apples. I mean come on...evil/halloween/ and apples?

[HEyHEY]

14. A copy of John McCain's platform

[Chan790]

15. I used to get Airheads.

I loathe them like no other nauseatingly sweet fruit flavored pseudo taffy with the grip to pull fillings from my teeth.

Now I hand them out because they're cheap. $5 for a box of 100. 2 boxes and I'm good for Halloween.

[Fleshdancer]

16. religious comic strip telling the child that Halloween celebrates satan

Seriously. To that guy down the street: If you don't like the holiday, then don't answer the damn door. Telling kids they're celebrating the devil just because they dress up and ask you for candy once a year makes you an asshole.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Rocks

[trof]

18. 'Turkish Delight'

EVERY Christmas (OK, this is a Halloween thread, but anyway...)
My son-in-law's weird uncle comes by on Christmas day and ALWAYS brings two boxes of Turkish Delights.

As far as candy/sweets goes, it's like kissing your sister.

"Turkish Delight, lokum, or loukoum is a confection made from starch and sugar. It is often flavored with rosewater and lemon, the former giving it a characteristic pale pink color. It has a soft, jelly-like and sometimes sticky consistency, and is often packaged and eaten in small cubes that are dusted with icing sugar or copra to prevent sticking."


ROSEWATER?
It's gross.

[MsKandice01]

20. That doesn't look remotely appetizing...

And the description doesn't help either.

[trof]

21. Believe me, it isn't.

Every year we thank them and then toss it as soon as they leave.
Even the dog won't eat it.
Once I put some out in the yard for the squirrels (they'll eat ANYTHING) or the birds.
It went untouched.

[pengillian101]

24. To be a good Trick or Treat house...

Only buy full-sized candy bars and present them in a candy-bar rack where they can each pick their own treat The candy rack is reusable forever but it makes such an impression!

Tried and true winner with kids. Your home will be famous for the best treats in the whole neighborhood.

Booooooooooo!

[Taverner]

27. Jack Chick Tracts

I got at least one every 'ween.

Fuck you, Jack Chick!

[Canuckistanian]

28. Rockets

Damned Rockets


They're ubiquitous. They congregate in large, unholy clusters.

They're the LAST candies that get eaten.

Nobody likes them. But they return. Year after Year after Year. You CAN'T get away from them.

They watch you when you aren't looking.

[edbermac]

29. Crunchy frog.

Right up there with Cockroach Cluster.

[Phentex]

30. Long live Laffy Taffy!

We fight over those! There are never enough banana flavored ones to go around.

[nytemare]

31. Those chewy things in the orange and black wrappers

That unknown peanut-like gooey, teeth sticky things.

[sniffa]

32. Popcorn balls and apples

They didn't even have razor blades in them. :eyes:

[baldguy]

33. Candy corn is my favorite!

But then I like the Xmas fruit cake too.

[davsand]

34. Little miniature bags of potato chips.

Material Girl brought one of those home a couple of years ago and we all sat and laughed when we found them. They were pretty much in a flat package by the time they rode around in a Treat Bag for the night.

We kept those chips for a few months, in fact, and if anybody got to be too much of a smartass we threatened them with those chips. Finally the bag sprang a leak from too much abuse and we had to toss it to avoid further mess.



Laura

PS, I gave away glow sticks and chocolate candy last year and we had some kids who came round more than once. My rule of thumb is NEVER buy Halloween Candy that you refuse to eat because sure as hell you WILL get stuck with it and end up throwing it out.

[mainegreen]

35. My wife would disagree on the Necco wafers. She likes them.

Or so she says. I think she just says that to be a cantankerous, disagreeable New Englander.

[Lyric]

36. He missed those awful Mary Jane candies, as well as

Good and Plentys
Black Twizzlers
Popcorn balls (popcorn that tastes like pancake syrup? No thanks...!)
Boston Baked Beans (the candy.) It's horrible.
And for me, personally, anything flavored with horrid green apple or banana "flavor." I like *real* green apples and bananas, but the candy flavorings are just freaking gross.

Trick or Treat! :P