I disagree - I always liked hard candies. But, the worst thing ever has to be religious pamphlets, cause either you already adhere to that religion and have no use for them, or you don’t and you aren’t interested. However, I don’t mind as long as they’re given out along with candy, not instead of them. The best thing was senior year, some friends and I were out, and the guy ran out of candy so he gave us handfuls of spare change, and not just pennies, but everything. Oh, I love rich neighborhoods...
As a side note, my mom gave out those fun-sized bags of doritos and cheese puffs and stuff for a few years, and the kids LOVED them. Now, we moved, and we get a few hundred trick-or-treaters at our house every year, so we just buy the cheapest candy we can find, but since the houses are all either very close together or give out full-sized candy and bubbles and other fun loot, nobody feels slighted.
When we were kids in Glendale, CA, we'd always try to get across town to Casey Stengel's house.....he gave silver dollars!