Worst Halloween Candy (As A Kid)

With Halloween fast upon us, it's hard not to reflect back to simpler times. 

Back when you would roam the streets with a pillow case full of candy.
 (Yes... we used pillow cases back then.)

You would return home after a long day of trick-or-treating, dump your booty onto the table, and examine your spoils. Some Snickers, Kit-Kat, Swedish Fish, and maybe even a Reeses Peanut-Butter Cup or two... if you're lucky.

It's a trap!

During this ritualistic process, you would break the candy into two piles... 

The Good candy and the Bad candy. 

You know what I'm talking about. 
  


Now, as an adult, I would totally eat most of what I used to consider 'bad' candy. But back then, there was definitely two distinct piles.

Here's a few of the candies I hated getting on Halloween.

Candy Peanuts:

Listen, maybe they are good, I just wouldn't know because you dumped them into my bag unwrapped. No way I'm eating that.

Dum-Dum Pops:

I love lollipops, but Dum-Dums were meh at best. Get me a Tootsie Roll pop or even better - a Blow Pop! Dum Dums were small, no treat sat at the center, and always half unwrapped for some reason.

This Bubble Gum:

First off, it was always rock hard... teeth shattering hard. Second, it was the same flavor as the gum that came in packs of baseball cards - and nobody ate that!

Mary Jane Candy:

These are one of those candies I hated as a kid, but enjoy now. They used to creep me out. Bent up, half-opened candy that looked like it was around when Lincoln was President.

 

Raisins:

Do I even have to explain?

Necco Wafers:

I would eat the yellow and orange ones, then toss the rest.

Popcorn:

Small plastic bags of  home popped popcorn... seems sinister to any child. I just assumed it was poisoned.

This Mint Candy:

I could get these anytime I wanted... at my great-grandmas house, which also fits the description of who usually handed these out.

Good & Plenty's:

No. Not now... not ever.

Sugar Daddy's:

Another one of those candies I would have no problem eating now, but for some reason hated as a kid. To me it was basically a Mary-Jane on a stick.

 
Pennies:

I didn't mind getting money, I would add it to my Garbage Pail Kid fund, but I didn't want something I could easily find digging through my couch.

Obviously this post is tongue-in-cheek. Free candy is free candy, It was just fun to reflect back to a time when things like crummy candy was such a big deal.

Simpler times....