• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    2 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.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
    211·
    2 months ago

    Best: Full size Snickers, Reese’s Halloween editions

    Worst: Candy Corn and Circus Peanuts

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    16·
    2 months 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).

    • Today@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

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

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.”

    • Squibbles@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 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

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      1·
      2 months ago

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

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 months 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.

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m sorry but propaganda does not technically count as candy.

      To be fair I once got 5 dimes wrapped in a little black mesh thing. It was lame as hell, but they did make an effort so I didn’t complain. But even back in the late 80s/early 90s, 50¢ wasn’t really useful, even for a kid.

  • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz
    111·
    2 months ago

    Best: full size Snickers bars

    Worst: full size Snickers bars but you have peanut allergy

      • remotelove@lemmy.ca
        31·
        2 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.

        • Red_October@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 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.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 months ago

    Best: kit-kats, twix, heath bar, and the wee chocolates dark/light/crunch mix assortment.

    Worst: banana laffy taffy, smarties

    Also I freaking love black licorice and my kids do too but would never, ever dare hand it out, absolutely a trick not a treat for most kids.

  • BlueLineBae@midwest.socialEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    Best: twix, 100grand, candy corn, sweet tarts

    Worst: bottle caps, heath, unnamed hard candies, tootsie rolls

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    71·
    2 months ago

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

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 months 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.

      • KittenBiscuits@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 months 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.