Favorite Halloween Candy: When you were a kid

[nobbie48]

Who remembers these?
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Pumpkin candy

I knew a girl who was babysitting an infant just after Halloween and saw the baby with what appeared to be one of the pumpkin candy treats in her mouth.

She took it away and popped it into her own mouth and then realized it wasn’t pumpkin candy. Ewww

 

[bitzz]

Rockets.

Do you mean Smarties?

 

[Sunday Rider]

What was the flavour of a tootsie roll anyways?
If someone asked me to describe it -
I’m not sure I could. Kind of like
Chocolate, but not…

Do you mean Smarties?

That's just wrong. I think those must be American. The REAL Smarties don't exist south of the border (M&Ms don't come close). My brother in law asks me to bring as much as I can when I visit in the US, he is a convert.

 

[nobbie48]

That's just wrong. I think those must be American. The REAL Smarties don't exist south of the border (M&Ms don't come close). My brother in law asks me to bring as much as I can when I visit in the US, he is a convert.

If you buy Smarties at a British store they taste different. I’m not sure if it’s the recipe (Europeans don’t like as much sugar) or the milk. British grass etc.

 

[nobbie48]

Is there any chocolate halloween candy anymore? It all seems to be chocolatey candy bars.

Chocolatey as in chocolate flavored wax?

 

[Evoex]

Candy corn

There is only one answer and this is it.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Kerr's

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[timtune]

Hard to pick a favorite. Back THEN we used a pillow case to hold our loot. Some nights we had to go back home to drop off one and get a second pillowcase.

 

[LBV]

I knew a girl who was babysitting an infant just after Halloween and saw the baby with what appeared to be one of the pumpkin candy treats in her mouth.

She took it away and popped it into her own mouth and then realized it wasn’t pumpkin candy. Ewww

Similar story ... we knock on a door and can see into the living room through the front window. There's a grandma looking after a child with a half-eaten cookie in its mouth. Grandma grabs the half-eaten cookie and promptly throws it in my bag.

 

[Baggsy]

Cone of chips from the local fish & chip shop.

 

[TwistedKestrel]

Cone of chips from the local fish & chip shop.

For real?!?!

 

[Mad Mike]

Do you mean Smarties?

Rockets in Canada, Smarties in the USA.

Same candy, can't be sold as Smarties in Canada because Nestlie owns Smarties trademark for their candy coated chocolate.

 

[mimico_polak]

Well that was a good 15lb haul…

 

[bitzz]

There used to b a house in Oakville that every year gave out stock certificates for one share of Canadian Tire stock. Went on for years... till there was a news article in the paper. The next year there was a line up the block of cute little kids... and parked parents cars EVERYWHERE from people driving from who knows where.
... and that was the last year they gave out stuff at halloween at that house.

 

[mimico_polak]

There used to b a house in Oakville that every year gave out stock certificates for one share of Canadian Tire stock. Went on for years... till there was a news article in the paper. The next year there was a line up the block of cute little kids... and parked parents cars EVERYWHERE from people driving from who knows where.
... and that was the last year they gave out stuff at halloween at that house.

A house on our street gave our ‘Freezees’…like wtf…

 

[just-me]

Candy corn

+100

 

[just-me]

 

[nobbie48]

There used to b a house in Oakville that every year gave out stock certificates for one share of Canadian Tire stock. Went on for years... till there was a news article in the paper. The next year there was a line up the block of cute little kids... and parked parents cars EVERYWHERE from people driving from who knows where.
... and that was the last year they gave out stuff at halloween at that house.

Ages ago one of the banks had "Kids on Bay" day where the parents could buy a mini portfolio of five shares of five different pre-selected stocks. About $800 IIRC. We signed our daughter up but they never repeated the offer.

It could have been ok if it had worked. Start them at 5 YO and by the time they're out of high school they've got 250 shares plus dividends, enough to buy a beater car or pay some tuition.

They offered to buy the shares back with no commissions but my daughter kept hers. She gets all the proxy mailings and reports. It probably costs them $5 to mail her a $0.25 dividend check.

She sometimes likes to pull the wings off of flies.

 

[bitzz]

I'm old enough that when I tricked and treated as a lad we'd get home made cookies, home made caramel apples... one time my neighbour gave me a rubbermaid container of her frozen home made spaghetti sauce (it was the BEST. I used to shovel her driveway for spaghetti sauce, I had another neighbour I used to do stuff for and got paid in perogies)
I don't know if all that would fly in today's world....

 

[DownUnder]

Not to derail the thread since we all know Mars bars are the best in that list, but I'd like to say a big FU to all the people driving their cars house to house while their kids trick or treat. Making it dangerous for the hundreds of other kids trick or treating and causing a ton of traffic jams on small side streets everywhere.