Worst Halloween Candy - Black Licorice vs Candy Corn

[AnOminous]

We had a lady on our block growing up who handed out Necco wafers. Needless to say her house got the shit egged out of it.

My favorite part of Halloween was always the purely malicious things we got to do as kids and get away with it all.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

They suck, you fucking know they suck, and it's long past time we stop pretending they don't suck.
Black licorice and candy corn is fine, I can handle circus peanuts, but fuck smarties. They are chalk that someone is trying to tell us is candy.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

They suck, you fucking know they suck, and it's long past time we stop pretending they don't suck.
Black licorice and candy corn is fine, I can handle circus peanuts, but fuck smarties. They are chalk that someone is trying to tell us is candy.

It's actually pediatric cocaine.

Shit high tho. Even worse comedown.

 

[Prince Jello]

They suck, you fucking know they suck, and it's long past time we stop pretending they don't suck.
Black licorice and candy corn is fine, I can handle circus peanuts, but fuck smarties. They are chalk that someone is trying to tell us is candy.

Aw, those are among my favorite candy, my friends would give them all to me in exchange for a few chocolate bars.
However I can't stand these :

They lose their flavor after ten minutes at best, and by that time my jaw starts hurting because they're so hard to chew.

 

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But I like black licorice.
And candy corn.
And Necco wafers.
And Tootsie Rolls
And Diversity Tootsie Rolls.
And Smartees
And Old Granny Peppermints and Butterscotch candies
...okay Bit O Honey's and Brand X peanut butter things are barely tolerable.

Y'know what. Y'all suck. Gimme your Halloween candy. Time to ride the diabeetus train.

 

[Cake Farts]

Aw, those are among my favorite candy, my friends would give them all to me in exchange for a few chocolate bars.
However I can't stand these :

They lose their flavor after ten minutes at best, and by that time my jaw starts hurting because they're so hard to chew.

Ten minutes? More like ten seconds.

I'll chew on them of I gwt the urge to snack or eat something but otherwise this is trash bubblegum flavored plastic.

 

[GodWarrior]

Bad candy is what we use to call "Dad candy". Meaning, no matter how awful it is, your dad will chow down on it with no complaints.

 

[Dysnomia]

I am a black licorice loving heathen. But candy corn is right up there with circus peanuts when it comes to mos unnecessary disgusting candy.

Candy corn is like extra candle wax they didn't know what to do with. So they added sugar and made t vaguely corn shaped because some kids are dumb and will eat anything that contains sugar.

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

I don't know why people hate candy corn. It's just honey and sugar

 

[Dysnomia]

I don't know why people hate candy corn. It's just honey and sugar

But it's like some kind of weird wax. It's so nasty.

What's with the Necco hate? I love them. Always have. Tootsie Rolls are garbage though. Black Cow is superior in every way but too hard to find a store that carries it.

 

[Armchair Psychologist]

personally i prefer candy corn because black licorice tastes like shit

Real black licorice is great. You gotta get the danish stuff tho. The saltier the better.

 

[AnOminous]

Are you familiar with the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919?

Necco lied; people died.

Necco sucks but what did they actually have to do with that? Wasn't that a totally different operation?

Real black licorice is great. You gotta get the danish stuff tho. The saltier the better.

Almost nothing is real black licorice though. It's all anise.

No kid is ever going to get it at some random stranger's house.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Even as a Texan who is proud of Whataburger, I'm not proud of this shit:

 

[sasazuka]

Not only do I like black licorice, I've always preferred it to red licorice.

That's with the caveat that I've never tried licorice in the United States. I don't know if Canadian licorice is identical to American licorice, or whether it's closer to the Danish stuff other people mentioned. (I went to Denmark once but didn't know to try the licorice.)

A lot of kids in Canada hated those Kerr's Molasses Kisses, although my brother loves them. I like Mackintosh toffees but I always thought the Kerr's ones tasted a bit too much like peanut butter even though they're a peanut-free candy. (Have they changed the wrapper since I was a kid? The colour scheme is the same but I swear I remember art featuring two kids in masks.)

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

I certainly hope no child ever got this for Halloween

 

[Bassomatic]

You niggers have never suffered a Zero bar.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

I love black licorice, especially Panda brand, and Reeses are the Holy Grail of trick-or-treat candy. But Smartees on the other hand, or Rockets as the Canucks call em are basically trash. I would throw these out along with dum dums, tootsie rolls of all flavors, red hots, and hard candies by around Christmas time each year.

I remember back in the old days posting on forums without embedded images, and Americans would always say that Smarties were their most hated Halloween candy. As a Canadian, I was confused as our Smarties are pretty great, basically a better tasting and flatter plain M&M:

But yes, Rockets are vile trash and only worth using as chalk. Same with those candy necklaces which are basically just Rockets on floss.

But I'm surprised no one has posted the one thing that everyone hated getting during Halloween:

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You know when you saw these red boxes of death pop out of that nice old lady's shriveled claw that you wasted your time.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Spoiler

You know when you saw these red boxes of death pop out of that nice old lady's shriveled claw that you wasted your time.

that person's house deserves a good egging

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

that person's house deserves a good egging

People.

There were at least five houses in my neighborhood that gave them out. I avoided them after a few years.

 

[AnOminous]

The best thing about Halloween other than indulging in a sugar orgy was always the part after where you and your friends would swap candies and negotiate and try to get the ones you liked in return for the ones you hated.

Everyone hated those fucking popcorn balls, though.