If Pat is talking about Necco Wafers, then he is spot on. Necco Wafers are truly Halloween candy from Hell.
Here is the list of the TOP TEN MOST HATED HALLOWEEN TREATS.
1. Raisins
Little boxes of stuck-together shriveled globs are not what little kids schlep around the neighborhood for all night. When they say trick-or-treat, they want candy that will rot their teeth, not wrinkled grapes. (Using an empty box as a kazoo-like instrument, though, is kinda fun.)
2. Candy Corn
The most polarizing candy of all. The fruitcake of Halloween; it just never goes away. If you love them, fine. But don’t subject the rest of us haters to the sickeningly sweet triangle that tastes like neither candy nor corn.
3. Necco Wafers
These chalky candies are supposedly “fruit-flavored,” but no fruit I know tastes like dust — and makes everything eaten after taste like dust, too.
4. Dum Dum Lollipops
Usually, foods on a stick are yummy (corn dogs, ice pops), but Dum Dums just can’t be included on that list. Not even if they were breaded and deep-fried and served at a fair.
5. Apples
Long before “poisoned candy” scares, evil people were handing out apples instead of candy on Halloween. This disappointing “treat” is the main reason to avoid unwrapped food while trick-or-treating.
6. Toothbrushes
Dentists and orthodontists should not be allowed to celebrate Halloween if they’re going to get all tooth doctory on us. Do not bring your work home with you, folks! We all have a personal responsibility to brush, and maybe some of us will forget, but your complimentary bristles on a stick (instead of a Snickers) will not help us remember. It will make us despise you and your trade.
7. Tootsie Rolls
It looks like chocolate and sort of smells like chocolate, but the mini brown tubes are not real chocolate. They taste like watered-down chocolate, and have a chewy texture that will strip the fillings right off your molars.
8. Laffy Taffy
I do not laffy when I get these. I sobby. I get depressedy. Because it gets all stucky to my teethy and doesn’t even taste that goody.
9. Miscellaneous, Wrapped Hard Candies
Halloween is supposed to be a holiday for young people, not senior citizens who suck on hard candies all day. Something about the strawberry-shaped strawberries, gold-wrapped butterscotch, and peppermint way past the expiration date. (These usually get set aside for Granny.)
10. Anything Fun-Sized
Who started calling it this? Since when is one bite fun?! Give us the rich houses with the sprawling driveways and full-sized candy bars any day. Portion control doesn’t need to start this young.
You crack me up!
I LOVE Necco wafers. Carry them around all the time. I remember my mother buying them for me when I was a tiny little tot, and the really cool thing is they haven’t changed at all in the intervening 40+ years. Even the wrapper — they did “update” the font style, but other than that, it’s still the same old unsealed wax paper wrapper. Pretty rare nowadays.
LOL! The raisins at No. 1! Hubby is still complaining about the raisins he used to get 50 years ago. Seriesly, he just mentioned it yesterday.
Any candy bar containing anything other than pure chocolate is the work of the devil. God created chocolate, but the devil sneaks evil tasting nuts, globs of goo, or crispy crap inside.
Two kinds of people give out apples.
Apples are the treat of choice for cheapskates because they know that once the word gets around, kids will skip the apple houses. It’s a friendlier version of turning off all the lights.
Liberal do-gooders like apples too. That’s reason enough to avoid them.
“Give us the rich houses with the sprawling driveways and full-sized candy bars any day. Portion control doesn’t need to start this young.”
We took our daughter trick or treating a couple of years ago to a more upscale neighborhood. Hardly got any candy. Ever since, back in our middle-middle-class neighborhood. There, at one house, they commented on how full her plastic pumpkin was, and gave her a plastic shopping bag so we could dump out the pumpkin and keep going. Everybody is so generous there, that we still have Halloween candy left at Christmas!!!
LOL!!!
HEY! You leave my candy corn and tootsie roll out of this!
Just stole that list!