There was a time when the contents in your Halloween bag meant the world to you. There were good years and bad years — who can forget the neighbor who only let you pick one small Tootsie Roll or the house that had king-size candies up for grabs? Halloween candy is a serious business (personally, we had specific routes we took in our neighborhoods each year to hit all the best houses), and some sweet treats are definitely better than others. We're revisiting the best and the worst of our yearly candy stash, starting with the candies that still make your taste buds recoil.
What's a Tootsie Roll? Err, some sort of chocolate, squishy candy. We never asked too many questions when quickly unrolling the candy out of the wax paper.
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Ugh, you'd seen candy corn all season long, so it was hardly special or exciting when it landed in your Halloween stash.
As a youngin', you might have popped the powdery discs in your mouth without thinking twice. But later in life, you realized these just aren't and never were worth eating.
While getting a Butterfinger wasn't the worst thing in the world, as far as it goes on the chocolate spectrum, we're reaching for a Reese's or Milky Way first.
Again, don't think we've ever heard of anyone saying, "Oh, wow! 3 Musketeers are my favorite!" You'd eat that fluffy chocolate, because sugar, not for any other reason.
Yeah, you risked breaking your jaw when biting into the rock-hard piece of Dubble Bubble, but once you powered through the pain, your taste buds experienced pure sugary glory (for approximately five seconds).
There was always that one house that dared to hand out regular-size candy bars (who cares what it was!). And if you were really lucky, there was also a house that would hand out king-size bars. The DREAM.