Trick or Treat! Worst Halloween Candies!

Hey everyone! So today I'm gonna give a simply review list. And since it's the Halloween month, let's make a list I'm sure everyone has made since they were kids. A list of the worst treats to get on Halloween. What's the worst thing you found in your bag/bucket? We all have our preference of taste so there are variants of what's the worst candy out there. This is only my opinion. If any of the treats I list is your favorite, that's ok. I'm only recollecting my childhood taste in candy. lol Let's begin the list!:

10. Jolly Ranchers

*Yeah these candies were horrible. They came in different flavors and I did remember the apple flavor was good but god, were these candies rough to the mouth. I mean by the time you finish one, (which would be about 2-3 hours) your tongue felt sore, your gums felt rough, and your teeth hated you for a very long time, why? because these candies would stick to teeth so badly it felt as if the candy was trying to fuse with the tooth.  I always hated it when the majority of the neighborhood would hand out Jolly Ranchers. I would have a whole bag of jolly ranchers and wouldn't bother to touch them. Halloween wasted.  

9. Licorice

*Whether it's red or black, licorice was horrible! Now honestly the red was barely better than the black, I remember I could tolerate one strip of the red licorice, however, I had no tolerance for the black. And honestly, most people never knew how to pass them out. Some people were smart and put two or three strips in baggies, but the majority would take out individual strips, using only tissue paper to grab them, and then drop them into my bag. I never got into the taste and no matter what brand  it was, licorice was a childhood distaste for me.

8. Tootsie Rolls

*No matter what neighborhood you're in, no matter how long you would go out for treating on Halloween, once you get back home, there would always, ALWAYS, be some tootsie rolls in your bag. Small size, tall size or the brick size, these must have been the easiest candies to purchase and give out on Halloween. I remember a few houses that actually just gave out tootsie rolls. For me this was a strange candy, it had the color and slight taste of chocolate but the taste always reminded me that it wasn't chocolate. It got to the point when as a child I thought these were fake chocolate and eating one made me think i was actually eating something non-edible.

7. Laffy Taffy

*This was a sticky messy and tasteless candy. I used to like these candies but as I got older, it was no longer a treat to eat one. And it didn't matter if the Laffy Taffy brand or a different brand altogether, for me Taffy was too much trouble and too little taste for the effort. Banana flavor was the worst. Like Jolly Ranchers, this stuff stuck to the roof of your mouth forever. The Laffy Taffy brand even tries to make their candies stick out by printing riddles and jokes on the wrappers. Ex:  What do you get if you cross a stereo and a refrigerator? Very cool music!  Haha NOT!!

6. Candy Necklace/Watches

*Now you would think this would be a good candy to get. After all, it's candy JEWELRY for christ sake! Just put it on and eat as you go. And when I was a kid I did exactly that. But I also remember the messiness of it all. When you bite into one candy bead, half of it would fall off and onto the floor because the only thing holding it was the string. Also wearing stretchy strings were VERY uncomfortable. And sometimes they did leave marks if left on too long. It would also take forever to eat one of these things. Sometimes I would forget I was wearing one until the sugar attracted a bug and sent me freaking out. And now that I remember, the taste wasn't amazing either.

5. Amound Joys/Mounds

*As a kid, it boggled my mind how there's a candy out there which has two of my least favorite foods. Coconut and almonds. Sure there was chocolate but you know there was only a thin coating. Everything else was coconut and almonds. As I got older I grew some fondness for coconut. However, I realize I prefer fresh coconut compared to stale old coconut you will find in candies like these.

4. Cheap Plastic Toys/ Trinkets

*Oh great a plastic whistle, a small yo-yo that broke easily or how about Halloween stickers? Cheap toys may work for birthday parties as novelty favors but this is HALLOWEEN fools!!!! Kids want candy! Chocolate, gum, cookies, lollipops, popcorn! Stuff that tastes good! Kids don't want stickers! Kids can't eat rubber spiders! And you know these plastic toys will break very easily. Oh and god forbid if someone gave out toothbrushes. Giving out toothbrushes on Halloween is an invitation to toilet paper pranks. 

3. Dots

*Gumdrops have never been delicious. They get stuck in your teeth and you had to use your pinky to take bits of gumdrop out. And the favors were vaguely anything like they propose. Dots was the rich version of the gumdrop and despite that it still tasted nasty. I remember there was barely any fruit flavor and it took forever to go thru the entire box. I always gave my Dots to my cousins, trading for something much tastier.

2. Orange/Other Fruit Slices

* This is the kind of candy my grandmother would like. The problem with some fruit slices is that they are so artificially favored that they have a more chemical flavor than actual fruit flavor. If anything fruit slices are just gumdrop (aka Dots) but in the shape of fruit slices like oranges, apples, limes, and lemons. Despite the shapes, these fruit slices suck bad for me. Especially the orange slices. Somehow the artificial orange flavor was always disgusting for me. It had this nasty medicine taste and even with the sugar coating, I wasn't pleased to see orange slices in my bucket.

1.  Raisins

* Fruit has always been called "nature's candy" and that's pretty true. As a kid, I love apples, bananas, and cherries. Grapes were also a fruit favorite. But whoever was the jerk bag who decided to dehydrate grapes and make raisins......May all the forces of evil come upon you!!! Nature's Candy My Ass! Raisins are nasty, they tasted nasty and no amount of peanut butter could save them. Getting a box of raisins would result in a death glare from me. I can't understand why anyone would love raisins. Kids who ate raisins were weird to me. They didn't taste sweet and if anything, they tasted old and stale. So for this, I considered raisins as the worst treat to get on Halloween!