- dan1101 ( @dan1101@lemm.ee ) 14•20 days ago
Best: Full size Snickers, Reese’s Halloween editions
Worst: Candy Corn and Circus Peanuts
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English12•20 days ago
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
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 3•19 days ago
Man those parents don’t know shit - you were a Hallowe’en hero
- Tiefling IRL ( @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 9•19 days ago
Best: drugs
Worst: also drugs
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 1•19 days ago
I remember rediscovering Hallowe’en as an adult. Totally different vibe except definitely still hedonistic af
- terminhell ( @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•19 days ago
Best: Good candy corn
Worst: Bad candy corn
- frank ( @frank@sopuli.xyz ) 4•19 days ago
There are tiers of candy corn?
I think it just boils down to softness?
- terminhell ( @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•19 days ago
The cheap dollar store stuff is basically just sugar wax. The better kind actually has flavor, isn’t chewy etc
- Vanth ( @Vanth@reddthat.com ) English6•19 days ago
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).
- Squibbles ( @Squibbles@lemmy.ca ) 1•19 days ago
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
- BlueLineBae ( @BlueLineBae@midwest.social ) English6•20 days ago
Best: twix, 100grand, candy corn, sweet tarts
Worst: bottle caps, heath, unnamed hard candies, tootsie rolls
- sentientity ( @sentientity@lemm.ee ) English2•19 days ago
I blocked out the existence of bottle caps
- rautapekoni ( @rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz ) 6•19 days ago
Best: full size Snickers bars
Worst: full size Snickers bars but you have peanut allergy
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 6•20 days ago
I once gave a single banana to a group of kids and told them to be sure to split it between them.
That was a massive improvement over the year before, where I had nothing at all.
It was extra sad because their parents only allowed them to go through the building they lived in, and it didn’t have many people.
Thing is, halloween isn’t really a thing there, plus I am absolutely terrible with dates.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 4•19 days ago
When I was a kid my father handed out cans of soup.
- KittenBiscuits ( @KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee ) English4•19 days ago
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.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 3•19 days ago
Classic
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 1•19 days ago
Could have handed out banana but that’s just me
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 2•19 days ago
Your birthdays must have been memorable
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@slrpnk.net ) 5•20 days ago
Worst is Necco wafers.
Best is Whoppers, then Sixlets.
- Vanth ( @Vanth@reddthat.com ) English7•20 days ago
Ha, I would take Necco over whoppers and sixlets any day. We should have been friends as kids; best candy trade partner ever.
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 5•19 days ago
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
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 1•18 days ago
Like toothpaste?
- UltraGiGaGigantic ( @UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ) English4•19 days ago
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.
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.earth ) 4•19 days ago
Best: Butterfinger Worst: candy corn, circus peanuts
- Squibbles ( @Squibbles@lemmy.ca ) 3•19 days ago
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
- BlueSquid0741 ( @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•19 days ago
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.
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English2•19 days ago
Worst: any kind of hard candy, yuck! Especially smarties, or those peppermint things. Oh and Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie pops.
Best: Any kind of chocolate