Originally Posted By jdub This is just one of those stupid Yahoo front page articles, but a lot of it made me laugh... just the list & some of the points reproduced in my post, here's the full link: <a href="http://food.yahoo.com/blog/edlevineeats/13401/the-10-most-disappointing-treats-for-trick-or-treater" target="_blank">http://food.yahoo.com/blog/edl...-treater</a> ***The 10 Most Disappointing Treats for Trick-or-Treaters*** 1. Toothbrushes Dentists and orthodontists should not be allowed to celebrate Halloween 2. Raisins 3. Candy Corn The most polarizing candy of all. The fruitcake of Halloween; it just never goes away. If you love them, fine. But don't subject the rest of us haters to the sickeningly sweet triangle that tastes like neither candy nor corn. 4. Smarties and Necco Wafers These chalky candies are supposedly "fruit-flavored," but no fruit I know tastes like dust -- and makes everything eaten after taste like dust, too. 5. Dum Dum Lollipops 6. Apples 7. Tootsie Rolls 8. Miscellaneous, Wrapped Hard Candies Halloween is supposed to be a holiday for young people, not senior citizens who suck on hard candies all day. 9. Laffy Taffy 10. Anything Fun-Sized Who started calling it this? Since when is one bite fun?! Give us the rich houses with the sprawling driveways and full-sized candy bars any day. Portion control doesn't need to start this young.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Necco Wafers<< Available in five washed out colors and 2 fun flavors: Chalk and Aspirin.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Packaged candy -- I remember being a kid and getting the homemade cookies, popcorn balls, and carmel apples... then one year someone put razors in stuff -- that was the end of the homemade treats and everything was store bought from then on...
Originally Posted By mapleservo Mmmm. Popcorn Balls! Pennies have got to be near the top of the list for bad treats. And then there were those foam peanut things... Do they still make those? The size of Fun seems to be getting smaller and smaller and smaller. BTW, Canada's Smarties (which are closer to M&Ms) kick butt!!!!
Originally Posted By jdub Yes, Smarties are lovely! And why IS it British chocotreats are so much better than those here? Cadbury Flake, Nestle Aero...and on and on... I guess it's a good thing they're somewhat difficult to find here, or else I may well be JabbaSized.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Ohh I had a cadbury flake - it was good... I got mine from a kind lper. I did however see many of english candy at the world market... While they were good - the ones sent seemed a bit fresher and better.
Originally Posted By markymouse After my son brought a bag of candy home from a birthday party's pinata, I've helped my self to a couple of Walthers taffee things. On Halloween and in the days after, I've been know to help the boys avoid the dark chocolate. I'm glad people stick in this stuff for the parents. Now those foam peanuts on the other hand, are nasty.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie But... but... but... I like candy corn, tootsie rolls and laffy taffy.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt I like candy corn too!!...I like to bite it off in sections!!YUMMY!!!
Originally Posted By magnet Disney is giving out just about every candy you mentioned in the original post at the not-so-scary parties this year. If you can find a CM on your way out, you might get a small bar of Ghirardelli chocolate (which you would likely pay $10 for at DTD). I was somewhat disappointed by the candy offerings. Let me add a few more disappointments I found in my Disney bag: Mary Janes Chick-o-Stick Bottle caps sweet tarts
Originally Posted By mele <<I like candy corn too!!...I like to bite it off in sections!!YUMMY!!!>> Is there any other way?
Originally Posted By jdub >> I've been know to help the boys avoid the dark chocolate. << Oh, yez--I've always got my eye open for whatever chocolate should pass through the kid's treat bucket! >>Mary Janes Chick-o-Stick Bottle caps sweet tarts<< Great list of horrors (though I don't even know what the first item be)--I used to kinda like chick-o-stick -- I mean, who WOULDN'T like chicken-flavored candy, yah? But like its cousin Butterfinger, its insistence on sticking to the teeth has lost it this consumer. >>political pamphlets... Yeah, its happened!<< YES! And religious tracts!
Originally Posted By DlandDug We had one dear elderly lady in our neighborhood who collected chestnuts from her yard and put those in Halloween bags. My parents always tactfully explained that while she was poor, she still entered into the spirit of the holiday. >>And then there were those foam peanut things... Do they still make those?<< Oh yes. The trade name is "Circus Peanuts." They do kind of taste like something the circus left behind after their last tour a couple of years ago.
Originally Posted By mele Blech! The only house in our neighborhood to give whole candy bars wrapped up a coupon for a free judo lesson at their business. I thought that was clever and my son was thrilled with the whole candy bar.
Originally Posted By jdub I was at Target last night, & saw they were selling multipacks of full-sized bars that worked out to about 25 cents each, a real cool retro price.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains We usually hand out full size - Not to the teens - we give them dum dums!! Sorry if you are shavin anything you shouldn't be trick or treatin! Costco usually has a coupon in their books at this time of year for a couple $$'s off the boxes there.
Originally Posted By markymouse ">>Mary Janes Chick-o-Stick Bottle caps sweet tarts<< Great list of horrors (though I don't even know what the first item be)" I love Mary Janes. But, yeah, I know better than to pass them out to the uninitiated. I mean, the divinity of molasses and peanut butter is not meant for the masses. And I too love the concept of Chick-o-stix. But to be honest, the flavor is peanut butter, not chicken. That's just the name.
