Best: Full size Snickers, Reese’s Halloween editions
Worst: Candy Corn and Circus Peanuts
I got eerily angry complaints from parents one Halloween after I gave out cotton candy “because it filled up too much space in their bags for something that would dissolve in their mouth all at once anyways as well as make them hyper as it’s just sugar”. Makes me wonder how they spent their evenings.
oh man pixie sticks are like summoning a demon
Man those parents don’t know shit - you were a Hallowe’en hero
Best: drugs
Worst: also drugs
I remember rediscovering Hallowe’en as an adult. Totally different vibe except definitely still hedonistic af
Best: Good candy corn
Worst: Bad candy corn
There are tiers of candy corn?
I think it just boils down to softness?
The cheap dollar store stuff is basically just sugar wax. The better kind actually has flavor, isn’t chewy etc
Best: full size Snickers bars
Worst: full size Snickers bars but you have peanut allergy
Best: twix, 100grand, candy corn, sweet tarts
Worst: bottle caps, heath, unnamed hard candies, tootsie rolls
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Best: Reese’s, starbursts, Skittles
Worst: Those peanut butter chews wrapped in orange or black that have a weird soft but chunky feel that reminds me of something half digested. Anything healthy. Anything not candy (stickers, pencils, etc).
I think they are actually molasses flavoured toffee if it’s the ones I’m thinking of. Always left to the very last, only to be consumed in the more dire of candy draughts
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When I was a kid my father handed out cans of soup.
My MIL used to work for a dentist. One year he encouraged? required? the employees to hand out toothbrushes on Halloween. My hubby begged his mom not to do it, to just fib and tell her boss she had. But… she went through with it. They got egged that night & their pumpkin was smashed. She fucked around and found out.
Classic
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Worst is Necco wafers.
Best is Whoppers, then Sixlets.
Ha, I would take Necco over whoppers and sixlets any day. We should have been friends as kids; best candy trade partner ever.
The dentist’s house handed out toothbrushes. Which actually was really thoughtful and appreciated by the poorer parents
imagine the ruckus if he’d handed out something with fluoride in it
Like toothpaste?
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Best: Butterfinger Worst: candy corn, circus peanuts
Best: Subjective.
Worst: religous pamphlets proletizing the youth because the religous must target those without fully functioning brains lest their numbers dwindle.
I see no one has mentioned Swedish fish yet. Always felt they were so freaking waxy they tasted like nothing. Probably not the worst though.
If the reaction of the kids who come to my door is any indication the best is ring pops. You can sometimes hear kids shouting to other ones down the street “hey, this place has ring pops!”
Worst: those molasses toffees with the orange/white/black wrapper
Trick or treating isn’t so much of a thing in Australia, even though the idea of Halloween and dressing up has become more popular.
Anyway, no one has ever done it in our neighbourhood, but just in case I buy a bag of chupa chups in October in case anyone knocks on the door.
