Favorite and worst Halloween candy you got as a kid?

[Yoda-Stevie]

Favorite for me had to be Milky Ways. Ironically, worst was Three Musketeers. I surmise the caramel makes all the difference to my palette.

Today, I love smarties.

[Salty]

Does anyone remember this awful gum that tasted like soap? It was Canadian and most of my Canadian pals might be too young to remember it apparently they still make it for nostalgic memories

[Chiron]

Best: Almond Joy / Mounds.
Worst: Circus Peanuts.

My candy tastes have changed over the years, but as kid I definitely leaned into the coconut candy.

I never got black licorice for Halloween. Very sad. I was the kid that would pick out all the black jelly beans during Easter for myself. I learned as I got older that it wasn’t necessary because no one else wanted them and would just give them to me if I asked.

[Jasty2]

Luckily I don’t remember that making it over to the states.

I remember these stale, chalky little gumballs from the machines in our corner stores. Awful

[Jasty2]

Yeah Mary Janes. Molasses candy. Love them too.

[Jasty2]

I forgot about the bottle caps. Awful

[Salty]

Ughhh those molasses last ones… I think every house gave them out, and they’d be stale from the year before. We’d eat them when we were out of everything else they’d almost pull your teeth out!
But the softer, creamier squares were yum

[Salty]

I remember mum used to give out juice bags similar to these in the 80s/90s. We had a giant cabinet record player stereo and we’d put a Sesame Street record on super slow with speakers in window and it sounded creepy. Good times

[Chiron]

@Salty

I think every house gave them out, and they’d be stale from the year before.

Yup this I thought I buried this memory so deep that it could never be recovered, but I was wrong.

But the fresh ones were definitely yum.

[Yoda-Stevie]

@Salty

awful gum that tasted like soap?

Was it used by parents as a punishment for foul language?

Here’s some of the of the terrible gum we had back in the 70’s and early 80s, and we did receive for Halloween

Razzels gum: might have been going for gum, but they missed the mark. Totally disintegrated on first bite, and never quite coalesced into a chewable wad. Like chewing sweetened play-dough.

Sugar Loaf: one of the first soft chew gums, competing against Bubbleyum. It’s claim was It’s sweeter and it achieved this by mixing chunks of raw sugar into the gum. Like chewing a sweet cherry stone clam, sand and all at first but OK after the crunch went away.

GatorGum: Hook was “thirst quenching gum”. Tasted just like original lemon-lime Gatorade. Thirst quenching? Not in the least. Exact opposite. Guess they figured we’d chew the gum, get thirsty, and then get a Gatorade drink.

[Salty]

@Yoda-Stevie

Was it used by parents as a punishment for foul language?

Ha! We got actual soap for that (Zest or Dial). And if we sassed or lied, Tabasco sauce we had to hold in our mouth until told we could spit out… probably why I don’t do spicy foods much

[Salty]

Another favourite was cheesies or cheese sticks (which we still called cheesies)

[Salty]

But wasn’t a fan of these. Rockets. I think Americans call them smarties. Chalky

[Jasty2]

We called these cheesies too. My sister used to dip these in grape juice and sit there and eat them. I shudder just thinking about that.

[Tragicfarinelli]

These are called refreshers here in the UK and aren’t that bad. Kind of sherbet fruit chalk.

[DanaM56]

[Salty]

Lots of folks love them here. So they happily accept my leftovers

[Jasty2]

Nobody seems to like candy corn. I wouldn’t go searching for it, but if it fell into my lap I’d eat it.

[Salty]

I’ve never had it!!

[RosaCanDo]

Somehow I love these things!