• @[email protected]
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    310 months ago

    Best: Reese’s peanut butter cups

    Worst: Tootsie Rolls, they’re just wax with a slightly sweet flavor

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      110 months ago

      I remember rediscovering Hallowe’en as an adult. Totally different vibe except definitely still hedonistic af

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    2210 months 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.

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    Worst: Candycorn aka Satan’s earwax.

    Best: Mexican candy, Pulparindo for the win!

  • @[email protected]
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    710 months ago

    The dentist’s house handed out toothbrushes. Which actually was really thoughtful and appreciated by the poorer parents

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      Worst: anything with coconut.

      We don’t take kindly to folks like you in this here town. Coconut is awesome.

      • Mayor Poopington
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        410 months ago

        I love coconut water, always keep a case on hand. But whatever they put in candy is gross to me. You can have my almond joys.

  • Vanth
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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).

    • @[email protected]
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      Came here to post unnamed peanut butter bullshit.

      Like, our parents were supposed to look at our candy to make sure it wasn’t tampered with (urban legend), yet everybody looked at the unlabeled wrap job on those pieces of shit and was like “yeah, this def doesn’t contain a razor blade.”

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months 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

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Glow bracelets go super fast in my neighborhood. They even take them off my skeletons. Of course we do candy too.

    • Vanth
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      710 months ago

      Ha, I would take Necco over whoppers and sixlets any day. We should have been friends as kids; best candy trade partner ever.

    • Ellia PlisskenOP
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      110 months ago

      I don’t but a close friend does. he would trade away coconut for it

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        That gave me the idea to toss in a coconut or two into bags this year. I’ll reserve those for the “kids” that are obviously too old for this stuff.

        • Ellia PlisskenOP
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          110 months ago

          loll remind them they can send it through the mail with no packaging

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          I do full size candy bars, but I’ll also drop a handful of loose candy corn instead into the bag of someone who’s clearly too old.

  • @[email protected]
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    210 months ago

    What I don’t understand about those garbage molasses candies is who buys them and why? At this point they’ve been the most hated candy for decades.

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    510 months 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

  • Maeve
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    Best: Butterfinger Worst: candy corn, circus peanuts