What is the Worst Halloween Candy?

[RealAlHazred]

I give out the nameless hard candies they put in the bowls in the bank. They can't stop you from taking them! It's a free country! I'm a Sovereign Citizen, I don't recognize the bank's communist rules!

 

[payn]

I just had to change my vote to "Other." Because I just remembered the worst Halloween candy of all time--and I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned it at all yet: candy wax.

WAX IS NOT FOOD, PEOPLE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

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I just assumed this garbage was an attempt to make candy corn appealing.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Fun fact: artificial banana flavor is based on a variety of banana called the gros Michel that nearly went extinct in the 50s. Prior to that, it was the top banana (sorry!) but is now practically unheard-of.

And as I understand it, that artificial flavor was considered pretty damn close to the actual thing for the food technology level at the time...

For me, personally, I don't like coconut (technically allergic to it), so Mounds and Almond Joy are both out.
I also don't like the Peanut Butter Nasties, lol - I think we've just officially rebranded them, lol... Give me Bit o' Honey any day, but those generic peanut butter things are horrible.
Malted milk balls aren't particularly great, either, and I've never really been a fan of candy corn or mellowcreme pumpkins.

Those wax bottles with the colored sugar water inside were also terrible, but very young me actually liked them.

I give out the nameless hard candies they put in the bowls in the bank. They can't stop you from taking them! It's a free country! I'm a Sovereign Citizen, I don't recognize the bank's communist rules!

I actually knew someone who did that - every time he'd eat at a restaurant, he'd take a handful of mints from the bowl at the register, or take a couple lollipops from the bank... And he'd bring them home and put them in a drawer until Halloween. I kid you not.

 

[CleverNickName]

I just assumed this garbage was an attempt to make candy corn appealing.

Eh, I don't mind candy corn. I'm not particularly bothered by black licorice either.

But I draw the line at eating crayons and candles.

 

[payn]

But I draw the line at eating crayons and candles.

That describes candy corn perfectly.

 

[Arilyn]

Halloween kisses. Don't know if they're still around. Super hard, chewy brown disgusting candies wrapped in Halloween wrappers. They'd sit in the bottom of my Halloween stash, never getting eaten until I'd finally throw them out around February.

 

[Haplo781]

My parents bought several large bags of them on clearance after Halloween one year when I was in early elementary school. Every year they would pass out those peanut butter nasties, stored from the same black garbage bag. We were the laughing stock of the neighborhood. When my siblings and I returned to school on Nov 1, we hung our heads.
That garbage bag - no joke - lasted until I was in high school. The nasties got so stale you'd have to microwave them to soften them up. Ants got into them - they still passed them out (telling kids that the ants were "sesame seeds.")
Then, two years ago, my dad told me that due to his health (having had strokes, etc.) that he was going to stop passing out candy for Halloween. He wanted to give me all the candy he had left from the previous year. And I am kidding you not: he had peanut butter nasties.

Your parents are kind of awful huh

 

[CleverNickName]

Halloween kisses. Don't know if they're still around. Super hard, chewy brown disgusting candies wrapped in Halloween wrappers. They'd sit in the bottom of my Halloween stash, never getting eaten until I'd finally throw them out around February.

You mean these abominations?

They're called "Peanut Butter Kisses." And apparently they've been banned in at least one city because "nobody likes them."

 

[Undrave]

American candy across the board tends to be disgusting, in the list provided the only thing I would eat is Werthers Original.

Seriously a lot of these sound awful.

But I don't know most of these either... no Kerr's Molasses Kisses on the list for me to downvote. Went for Mary Janes as that seem the closest.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I just had to change my vote to "Other" because I just remembered the worst Halloween candy of all time--and I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned it at all yet: candy wax.

WAX IS NOT FOOD, PEOPLE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

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At least apples are edible.

I actually liked the wax candies as a kid (don't think you were meant to each the bottles just chew on them)