What was your favorite Halloween treat?
Today is October 16th, and that means that Halloween is only 15 days away. I have childhood memories where after battling the goblins and the ghouls to get my treats, I would return home with a pillowcase full of candy. I would then sit on the floor with my dad to sort out and inspect my Halloween candy to make sure it was safe, and to see what sweets I had collected. I was always excited when I got a lot of chocolate. It was my favorite candy then, and it still is today.
So GrubGrade readers, we would like to know: What was your favorite Halloween candy when you were a kid?
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Anything chewy and fruity, like Starburst, Skittles, taffy, etc.
I loooooooove Butterfinger, and Reese’s and 100 Grand are also some of my favorites. Twix and Milky Way are pretty good, Tootsie Rolls, Hersheys bars, Crunch, and M&Ms are ok, and all the other fruit flavored ones I can live without!
Reese’s. Yup. God, I could eat my weight in those.
And I was a fat kid, so a lot of them. Or anything king-sized.
Peppermint Patties, Snickers, Bazooka. Kit Kats, Twix, M&Ms, Sunbursts.
All cool with me!
I just loved candy, I wasn’t that picky.
Weirdly, though, I hated Butterfingers and Skittles and Jolly Ranchers.
Gotta be the Reese’s peanut butter cups. They are aweome. Honorable mention to the Twix bar…
What was? When did Halloween die? Gotta say KIT KAT for the chocolate stuff and Air Heads for the sugary stuff.
Reese’s cups FTW!
Yes, anything chocolate were my faves. Then things like Sweet Tarts, Necco wafers, etc…Hard candies and fruit were given to my parents. Yuck!
@RossS: Necco wafers are a curse on the candy world forged in the lowest depths of Hell. True story.
Butterfinger, Payday, Better made potato chips and those Almond joys
Gimme some Reeses and some Starbust and and and…..some Schnicker’s (with the “ch” in there).
Without a doubt, Snickers.
I would sort my candy out by types as follows:
-Crap (smarties, apples, etc.)
-Not good, but good enough to eat (sweet tarts, fruit tootsie rolls, etc.)
-Decent (real tootsie rolls, jawbreakers, gum, etc.)
-Good (Pretty much any chocolate candy bar)
-The best (Snickers)
I would give away or throw away the crap, then go through the not good/decent first, supplementing with some of the good for a taste of what was to come.
Then I would work on the rest of the good, supplementing with an occasional Snickers until…
I was left with about 10 or so Snickers. I would eat these while simultaneously enjoying every bite but also dealing with the fact that my candy stash was gone.
Snickers weren’t even really my favorite non-Halloween candy bar, but something about the chocolate to filling ratio of a fun size Snickers is absolutely amazing…
Gotta be Reese’s, followed closely by Milky Way and the elusive 100 Grand. And it’s a good thing Take 5 wasn’t around when I was little, or I’d surely have Type II diabetes.
Reese’s. Not many people gave them away back in the jurassic period.
For some reason I always loved when houses gave out “goody bags” which usually consisted of 1 good candy and then filled to the brim with crappy stuff I didn’t like. Just knowing they gave a large volume of candy always pleased me.
I did love when I got KitKats and Reeses! Yum. The best non-candy: popcorn balls!
I always remember that one house in the neighborhood that would give me a full size or King size Snickers bar. I also remember the one house that we’d avoid because they would hand out toothbrushes. There was even the occasional house that would hand out spare change. 🙂
Call me crazy, but I also love Candy Corn!
butterfingers. always has been & always will be.
also really liked the weird religious tracts with grotesque cartoons about people going to hell. thought they were hilarious.
This old school candy called BB Bats. You can only find them at speciality candy websites now. There was still a lot of generic candy when I was a kid plus you would still get homemade things.
Reeses peanut butter cups, plain Hershey’s bars and Mounds bars were (and still are) my favorites but anything chocolate would have made me happy – everything else except bubble gum would get recycled into the candy bags we gave out at our house when we ran low.
small aero and coffee crisp bars
100 Grand for sure