Horrible Halloween Candy

[mmouse37]

Sorry....Necco Wafers are some of my favorite candy!!! It is my mom's as well.!!! Good N' Plenty is another of my favorites. Hate cow tails, Now & Laters or anything banana flavored.

I also love 100,000 bars...yum

MJ

 

[Ephany]

The little kids love DumDums here, I always make sure to grab mix bag that includes them. The last few years I've picked up individual popcorn bags to pop at home. You could find a big box in the Halloween section. Kids LOVE them and they always run out before the chocolate. So weird, but this year I can't find the halloween boxes anywhere so I'm hoping publix has them BOGO in the regular popcorn section before Halloween.

 

[MrJT]

I'm sure I will be in the minority here but I will say butterfingers, but I will admit my first thought was candy corn

My first thought was also candy corn, but I would put Almond Joy and Mounds far above that.

 

[BrianL]

I love candy corn. But not to get trick or treating because we have to throw it out.

I also love candy corn! I am curious though as to why you have to throw it out?

I also like circus peanuts, probably because my Grandfather liked them. My Grandfather also went through our Haloween candy and we had to pay the "coconut tax" because he was going to get some of the Mounds or Almond Joys, ha ha!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I also love candy corn! I am curious though as to why you have to throw it out?

I also like circus peanuts, probably because my Grandfather liked them. My Grandfather also went through our Haloween candy and we had to pay the "coconut tax" because he was going to get some of the Mounds or Almond Joys, ha ha!

You should always throw out anything you get loose trick or treating or in baggies unless it is from a verified and very trusted neighbor. And when I went trick or treating, they didn't have candy corn in any packaging of size to hand out to trick or treaters. And today I wouldn't hand it even if it did because a ton of people don't like it. It appears near the top of most hate lists. And I do think the hate jokes about it are funny at times.

 

[BrianL]

You should always throw out anything you get loose trick or treating or in baggies. And when I went trick or treating, they didn't have candy corn in any packaging of size to hand out to trick or treaters. And even though I love it, I can understand and laugh at the jokes of those that hate it.

Oh, like loose candy corn? Okay. That would be weird. I envisioned it in little bags of like 8 to 10 pieces that they sell for trick-or-treating. I have a bag full of those packs in my desk right now.

This year Brach's has the Apple candy corn with Green Apple, Caramel Apple, and Apple Pie flavors. I usually like the traditional flavor the best, but I must admit that those were really good (especially Apple Pie)!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Peanut Butter Kisses... I have always hated them.

I also do not like Tootsie Rolls.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Oh, like loose candy corn? Okay. That would be weird. I envisioned it in little bags of like 8 to 10 pieces that they sell for trick-or-treating. I have a bag full of those packs in my desk right now.

This year Brach's has the Apple candy corn with Green Apple, Caramel Apple, and Apple Pie flavors. I usually like the traditional flavor the best, but I must admit that those were really good (especially Apple Pie)!

Dadgummit. Now I'm going to have to go to Target.

 

[Happyinwonerland]

If it isn't chocolate, it isn't worth the calories!

 

[BrianL]

Dadgummit. Now I'm going to have to go to Target.

Yup. That's where I got it.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

Because I do not consume dairy, I bought only candy with dairy in it. It's the only thing that will stop me fro eating it. We get over 400 kids so I've been squirreling away the candy. I let them choose two things. Sometimes they little ones choose more. What can you do?

 

[disneychrista]

Sometimes they little ones choose more. What can you do?

Slap their hand and tell them "I said choose TWO"

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Necco is the oldest only if you count all the way back to the origins of the companies that merged to create it.

Thank you for this post. Why? Well, kind of a long story, but today I had a long day of medical appointments with my mother, who is 92 years old, born in 1925. She grew up in Cambridge, MA, during the Depression and WWII. Your post caused me to do some quick research on the history of candy in the Boston area (which I didn't actually realize was so huge!), and turns out my mother and I were able to have quite a conversation about her memories about it, including about "Confectioner's Row", which was a large area made up of candy stores along Main St. in Cambridge. And boy, did she have a lot of candy memories! Well, we already knew about the story where she and her older sister took their little sister out in her stroller and older sister went into the store came out with candy in her bloomers! That is family lore already, lol. (And it was fun watching Mom and that sister giggle about it several years back before sister passed away.) But she also talked about how her and her sisters often got paid a nickel for doing errands for a neighbor (whose name she totally remembered), then they'd then go to the candy store and fill up a whole bag with all kinds of goodies, which she named! I asked her about NECCO Wafers and she said, yes, she loved those, she used to buy a "big roll", along with lots of other local candies. My mother at one time actually worked at the Schrafft's Candy Company when she was young, as well. So I thought I'd share that here. After the reading I've done and taking to my mother, I'm convinced that NECCO candies continue to be popular in this area because of its long history here. (And I'm very thankful that I still have this time with her for these types of discussions - there are only two left in her generation on both sides of my family.)

http://cambridgehistory.org/candy/overview.html

I thought I'd add this, too, that Cambridge was always a city largely made up of immigrants. And NECCO was a company friendly to immigrants, as told here:

https://www.eater.com/2015/10/30/9630790/necco-wafers-sweethearts-mary-janes

"By the middle of the 20th century, most of Boston's candy companies had left town. Many merged or folded. Some went to Pennsylvania to take advantage of the better tax rates. Today, Necco is the biggest candy company left in Boston, but candy's deep history in the city can still be traced back generations. "Everybody in my family got into the candy industry by accident," says Necco's Saveriano, noting "the candy industry has a history of giving opportunities to immigrants and helping them out." According to Saveriano, when his grandfather immigrated from Italy, "he didn't speak English. He was discriminated against." Grandfather Saveriano couldn't find work as a cobbler, but Schrafft's was willing to let him work in its plant. He was hired as a nut roaster and worked there for 51 years.

"The candy industry has a history of giving opportunities to immigrants and helping them out."

Saveriano's father was a carpenter by trade. He finished high school during the Great Depression and couldn't find work; construction had all but ceased after the stock market crashed. But candy has always been a low-cost luxury. During the Great Depression, penny candies became the norm, and Schrafft's was one of the companies that supplied penny candy stores with their wares. When Steve Saveriano's father couldn't find work in carpentry, his father found him a job at Schrafft's. He worked there for 45 years. He met his wife there, too, and as the story goes, Steve was the result of a little mischief the elder Saveriano and his new bride got into. "Twenty years later, when I started working there, everyone used to tease me that I was conceived in the hard candy room at coffee break." (And here you thought stealng candy in bloomers was bad! )

Though he studied education, the third Saveriano couldn't find full-time, permanent work doing what he wanted to do: teach high school students. "Schrafft's offered me a job as a planner. I took it as a very young man. That's how I got into the candy industry, and I've been in it for over 30 years."

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I almost forgot about this - something else NECCO Wafers are good for... DH reminded me he's used them on gingerbread houses before. (Not his pictured here.)

 

[Marchand63]

Anything not Reese's.

 

[Marchand63]

I almost forgot about this - something else NECCO Wafers are good for... DH reminded me he's used them on gingerbread houses before. (Not his pictured here.)

Drive by Necco at least once a week.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Is there such thing as bad candy ?

YES!!! Many people gave examples. Mary Janes, Bit-o-Honey, and peanut butter kisses went straight into the trash can.

And almost all low quality chocolate is abysmal. Especially the so-called "chocolatey" or "chocolate flavored" items made by Palmer, Farley, and Frankfort. Even when those brands boast "real chocolate," it just barely meets the legal definition of chocolate.

Crap like this.

 

[leebee]

Any of the chocolate-like-confection made by Palmer, Farley, etc. HAS to go. Don't even open it.

DH's favorite candies are necco wafers, good-n-plenty, Mike 'n Ike's, junior mints, Dots, York Peppermint Patties,Twizzlers (but NOT Red Vines). I am a huge fan of the orange/black wrapped taffy, licorice of any sort, circus peanuts, banana laffy taffy, squirrel nuts, mary janes, and candy corn. We both enjoy many of the brand name chocolate bars (KitKat, Crunch bars, Butterfingers, Mr. Goodbar, Mounds/Almond Joy, etc).

Halloween treats we could live without: Raisinettes, chocolate-like-confections, anything sour, plain hershey's bars, white chocolate bars (of any kind), gum, lollipops.

 

[Hikergirl]

Necco wafers are the worst.

I love Mary Janes

 

[billlaurie]

Root Beer barrels.

I agree. I hate anything root beer flavored though. And black licorice flavored. And those Necco wafers, yuk. I gave all the Mary Janes to my mother because she loved them. I also hate nerds. My kids made such a mess with them but the dogs loved them!