What kind of Halloween candy do you like?

Tootsie Fruit Chews and the vanilla ones (not the original)

Tootsie Pops (the orange is my favorite)

Candy corn & Pumpkins (yes, I'm one of those that actually likes these)

Lemon Heads, Sweet Tarts & other sour candy

Red Vines minis

Kit Kat minis

All of it.

Except candy corn.

Smarties… I still love them

Taffy?

Snickers and Reeses peanut butter cups.

When you realize tootsie rolls were invented to replace chocolate in military mess kits, their popularity in the south makes sense

Reeses peanut butter cups, Snickers and candy corn.

Candy cigarettes

r4 Yea, I live in Florida. We got a lot of this stuff for halloween. Still terrific, today.

One second thought, everything with chocolate.

Smarties, Reese's, Nerds, Peppermint Patties, 3 Musketeers in a pinch. Candy Corn are not that bad. Good N Plenty, never!

Another for Smarties. I can eat a whole bag.

I love candy corn.

Anything chewy and fruity!

I have to get my yearly fix of candy corn. I nibble on them...bite the top portion, then eat the bottom. Ok, I'm weird.

I like the yellow layer of candy corn best.

All the phallic-shaped confections.

I bought packets of M&Ms for the kids this year. I love all chocolate.

What about the very Halloweeny stuff?

YES: popcorn balls - preferably caramel, candy apples, candy corn, wax bottle soda, wax lips, Mary Janes (have to be fresh though), blow pops, candy necklaces, Cracker Jack

NO: Sweettarts, Goobers, lollipops with no pizazz,

pixie stix 🤮🤮

Sweet Tarts are so good

junior mints 👍. peppermint patties 👎. I think the mints are better because of the small piece size

I really don't get trick or treaters...if I get one or two, maybe. I buy candy and end up eating it. I'm debating if I should even bother anymore. There are kids around, but they don't seem to show up.

"YES: popcorn balls - preferably caramel, candy apples, candy corn, wax bottle soda, wax lips, Mary Janes (have to be fresh though), blow pops, candy necklaces, Cracker Jack"

Are you from the past R19?

We were told, when I was a kid, to never eat apples given on Halloween...it could contain a razor blade.

R24 yes I am from the past but aren't we all. It is a pity the age of home prepared halloween treats is a distant memory. As kids we liked all the prewrapped crap but we also had people in the neighborhood who prepared things we did enjoy - such aa really good candy apples - CRUNCHY - or M&M peanut butter cookies, or brownies, A really good Halloween haul needed to have weird stuff in the pillow case mixed in with all the conventional crap.

If it was someone we knew we could take and eat anything. We knew at least a hundred neighbors in the neighborhood.

I like blue.

Wow I've never heard that before, R25. Why have you been keeping that a secret all these years? Seems like information other people should know.

Do "drug dealers give out drugs to kids on Halloween" next.

Kids either do trunk-or-treat (don't hit me; I didn't invent the name) at a public place, or they drive over to the richer neighborhoods and mob the manse for some full-bar action.

Saltwater taffy

Fentanyl is being disguised as colorful candies. It's been on the news. The razor blade in the apple has actually happened...years ago. Now everyone go out and enjoy trick or treating!

The razor blades in apples was debunked bullshit. Although, back in the day our local hospital would xray candy the few days after Halloween for free.

Fentanyl is disguised as candy to get across the border.

DRUG DEALERS ARE NOT GIVING FREE DRUGS TO CHILDREN!

Fentanyl in candy is Fox News / Russian Troll Farm chaos talking points.

Nyet.. just say nyet.^^

I have six boxes of full size candy bars. I'm going to Costco today and buying two more boxes. I will return any unopened boxes. I love Halloween!

You can return CANDY? Who knew.

Good idea. Have the candy on hand, just in case. Then return unopened. Keep the receipt.

Costco does allow you to return food items, though they can’t resell it & have to throw it away. I learned this when my coworker tried to return yogurt because she wasn’t crazy about the taste.

R40 Which contributes greatly to food waste.

Would make more sense to just keep the uneaten candy, and polish it off yourself.

Those new 'Sweet Tarts' I got at school...Zzzzzz

Does anybody come by and do [italic] Trick or Treat !!, [/italic] anymore?

Twix (caramel) and Reese's peanut butter cups.

I'll second fruity sour things: Lemonheads, Warheads, Smarties, Nerds, Sweetarts, Skittles, Starbursts, Charms lollipops.

Chocolatey things: Junior Mints, Peppermint Patties & Tootsie Rolls (chocolate & fruit flavors...no vanilla). I love Kraft Caramels too. Way too much.

Hot cinnamon: Atomic Fireballs & Hot Tamales

And I loved getting homemade popcorn balls as a kid (only from people we knew personally), but they didn't taste as good if they weren't wrapped in black or orange wax paper! I don't even think they make that wax paper anymore.

[quote] "Good N Plenty, never!"

R11 I love licorice (actual black licorice, the red stuff isn't licorice), but I DETEST Good 'n Plenty. The flavoring is almost as disgusting as the chalky coating.

Tootsie Pops

Mini Snicker Bars

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (can consume an entire bag of the miniature version).

I buy alot of candy for halloween, then i turn off all my lights and enjoy every bite.

Sixlets!

Malted Milk Balls, Chicklets, Life Savers, Dots, Jaw Breakers, Rasinettes and money.

Stapler, paper clips, gardening tools, cans of pumpkin meat.

Circus peanuts, Mary Janes, Black Jack chewing gum, Necco wafers.

I’ve discovered a late-in-life taste for malted milk balls, which made me gag as a child.

[quote]Costco does allow you to return food items, though they can’t resell it & have to throw it away. I learned this when my coworker tried to return yogurt because she wasn’t crazy about the taste.

I just came back from Costco. I asked an employee if they could resell candy if I over bought it and returned it. He said yes, they don't resell refrigerated and frozen items but otherwise they can resell. I bought two more boxes.

Cock

That's good to know. I bought a really large double pack of wet wipes for my runny ass when I was sick last year, and only needed one pack. I kept them attached. I used 1 whole pack which lasted several times a day for a number of days. So I'll return the unused pack.

R51 is psychotic.

I was a kid in the 70s, and you would sometimes get really awful Depression-era candy like Necco wafer rolls, Pearson's Salted Nut Rolls, Boston Baked Beans, and the most dreaded of all, Mary Janes.

Twix, Snickers, Milky Way, Reeces Cups. So, chocolate.

Salted Nut Rolls aren’t as bad as circus peanuts.

I liked squirrel nut zippers, which I never saw at any other time. I also used to love Ice Cube chocolates.

Baby Ruth, Heath Bars, Rollos, Hersheys With Almonds, Butterfingers, Zagnut, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Snickers, Mars/Mars Almond…these are all pretty cheap, nasty chocolate, but I ate them all as a kid.

Now, Ho-hum, I stay away from sugars and corn syrup. But as a kid and in school, these were big treats.

I get the candy I know I won't eat. Stuff I would have gotten as a kid, Nerds, BlowPops, Skittles, that taffy in black and orange wax paper. I wait to buy the chocolate candies I know I would woof down like paydays, almond joys, York peppermint patties, and snickers.

R51 is also over 80

RIP Squirrel Nut Zippers. Didn't hold the interest of Necco Wafers (such variety!) but were tasty. We put them in the toaster oven on graham crackers.

I throw a big Halloween bash every year for neighbors and friends. Candy for the kids and booze foe the adults under five 10x10 tents. Two of the tents are for props. This is arriving on Friday.

The kind that goes deep inside our no no place. Nutty flavored!

none, never liked candy

I like Easter candy.

[quote] I throw a big Halloween bash every year for neighbors and friends. Candy for the kids and booze foe the adults under five 10x10 tents. Two of the tents are for props.

Why? Is this for business or pleasure?

Pleasure, r69. It's the only holiday I am enthused about. My friends, neighbors and the trick or treaters seem to enjoy it.

R1 is my soulmate.

Are you a top or a bottom? Asking, because we may marry.

Or fuck.

r70 Do you have rides, haunted houses, etc. Two tents for props! I bet you are beloved by your friends and neighbors.

r72, no rides or haunted houses, just 2 tents for props. Some friends and neighbors stay for hours drinking and having fun, some stop by to chat and the trick or treaters and their parents usually grab candy and a drink. Some of the kids go through the tents multiple times.

I remember we got boxed candies, Good n Plenty, Junior Mints, and also (dating myself here) good sized bags of plain M&M’s. We also got little concave sugar discs in a cellophane sleeve, Smarties. And a lot of Tootsie Rolls and Bit-o-Honey, but these were larger than they are today. We carried our candy in pillow cases and traded with each other after we got home.

R74, what dates you about m&ms? They're still a very popular candy, unlike Mary Janes, etc.

Necco Wafers

When I do eat candy, I like Mallo Cups, Mounds Bar, Sweet Tarts, Reese's Cups. I paid $16.00, for a bag of candy bars the other day. Ridiculous.

Loosies and Bic lighters.

None, costs too much!

Almond Joy and Mounds

Harvest corn candy

The best candy is Peanut M&Ms. No contest.

Wrong, R82. It's Reese's peanut butter cups. Peanut M&Ms are in my top 3 though.

Peanut and chocolate flavors are each great but I loathe them together.

I hand out silver dollars instead of candy. I only have maybe 30-40 trick or treaters, so it's fun to do.

M&Ms, Milky Way, Sour Patch Kids, Nerds🎃

That's pretty cool, R35. We get about 500 kids so not feasible for everyone.

I'm a total fun size fan, not as big a Nestlé fan as I am Hersheys. I had a house on our trick or treating route 1000 years ago who gave out handmade candy and caramel apples. Hell would freeze over before that'd happen today.

Kids get to 'trunk or treat ' (because walking around a neighborhood is apparently too much stress for most parents). I can remember neighborhood dads who would jump out of hiding places and chase you with the cheesy full head masks, scared the piss out of me, my friends, other neighborhood kids, but it was so much more fun.

My asshole tastes just like candy.

I’m a candy ass

The mini sweet tarts are sooo good. I also love dots. I’m very particular about chocolate…I like Kit Kats but only the European version that I buy at world market. The little bitch assed neighborhood kids aren’t getting $6 European chocolate. I actually pulled off a crown while eating a dot once. I also cracked a tooth chewing on a valentine heart.

R1- Amazon sells bags of just orange tootsie pops. I love them too.

These days, a dollar won't even buy a candy bar.

That’s right r93 so roll it up real tight and CRAM IT UP YOUR ASS!

American "candy" is crap.

Get some Haribo down ya.

🎶Mary Jayyyynes🎶

Agree that it's too expensive. I saw at Walmart a variety bag with Snickers, Twix, etc. for around $20.

Snickers taste better in Europe. I kid you not.

R63 - you would know this...how?

R96---I'm in love with Mary Jane, I'm not the only one!

R75 I meant that I predate the “fun sized” options. In the 1970’s we were given the M&M’s in a bag that was the size of one that would come from a vending machine. I remember, even earlier, that the candy wrappers for Baby Ruth bars were made of crinkly wax paper, not the fiberless plastic sleeves they came in later. I think they were 35 cents.

If you eat a bunch of fun size candy bars you won’t have a fun size ass.

The razor blades in apples thing was debunked but there was a father who killed his son with poisoned pixie stix years ago (1980s?) after taking out a large life insurance policy on him. The effed up thing was, he put poison in other pixie stix to kill more kids in the neighborhood to make it look like a deranged killer was on the loose. Fortunately no other kids died.

I liked all the fun-size candy bars. I don't like nuts so I would trade with my sister, my Snickers for her 3 Musketeers or Milky Way, my peanut m&m's for her plain, etc. I also liked the little round hard candies wrapped individually in clear plastic. Cherry, lime, lemon, orange.

R82 have you tried M&Ms pretzel? They are pretty good. Also, a while back M&M test marketed? some M&M jalapeño....I got my hands on some of those and they were fantastic, but the powers that be went with M&M brownie fudge which were meh. Mary Janes can do a number on your dental work.

I do not like pretzels 🥨 with chocolate

I vote for Laffy Taffy.

Oh, and cigar-sizes Tootsie Rolls.

{quote}I can remember neighborhood dads who would jump out of hiding places and chase you with the cheesy full head masks, scared the piss out of me, my friends, other neighborhood kids, but it was so much more fun.

Being scared was the best part of Halloween. But then I had parents who made me feel safe.

Krackle and Mr. Goodbar were always my jam.

I like Harvest corn (or Indian corn). It's the candy corn with the chocolate bottom instead of yellow. I get one bag every year and only eat the chocolate part. I used to love Chocolate Babies as a kid but I assume they don't make those any more.