Someone decided to save us all some unpleasant moments and compile a list of what not to try.
Reddit user EmmaClark43244 asked:
“What is the worst candy of all time?"
Thank you EmmaClark43244, you're doing the Lord's work.
Palmer "Chocolate"
"Palmer brand 'chocolate.' The cheapest most garbage chocolate you can buy a lot of around easter and halloween"
Palmer brand"chocolate"vegetable oil
"FTFY"
"Oh, it's not the cheapest. Have you ever had gelt?"
"It's worse, by a lot. The brand does not matter, apparently, because every one I've ever had has been revolting."
"Edit: so I think the gelt coins I've only ever had were actually Palmer. You win this round."
GiphyThese Should Be Considered Medicine
"Haribo sugar free gummies."
"This is the 'liquid-sh*t-in-an-hour' one, right?"
"The most fun snack to just pour into a random bowl at a house party. 😉"
"Calm down satan."
Salty...Licorice?
"Dubbelzoute drop. From the Netherlands. It's just anise (black licorice flavor) and tons of salt, with no sugar."
"My former boss was Dutch and loved them, made me eat them from time to time to be polite... It's not something you can ever love, unless you grew up thinking it was normal."
They Mean Every Flavor
"Those Harry Potter jelly beans that actually taste like the flavors they have like earwax, dirt, puke. Yeah. Not a good experience."
"They're expensive and you have to spit out half the bag because they taste bad."
"Because every child needs to know the betrayal of chewing on a lovely lime or apple colored jellybean and discovering it's actually grass."
GiphySo Bad You Won't Even See Them At The Circus
"Circus peanuts"
"Absolutely agree. And technically I think they are banana flavored which makes the whole situation even worse"
Well, There Will Always Be Plenty But I Don't Know About Good
"Good & plenty"
"I think I was 10 or so the first time I tried one of these after getting it in my pillowcase on Halloween."
"I was so f'king pissed because we were only allowed to choose one piece each night and I ended up with several of those bullsh*t boxes in my sack."
"I'm still mad about it."
"It's like the worst catfishing in candy form."
GiphyWell, It'll Give You A Thrill
"Thrills gum. 'still tastes like soap' is actually part of their marketing lol"
"Thrills is oddly good, especially once you realize the flavour is rose water, then it suddenly isn't so bad"
Doesn't Everyone Eat Paper?
"The candy dots on strips of paper"
"How dare you? They were delicious in spite of the large amount of paper you had to eat to enjoy them."
GiphyNo To Necco
"Necco wafers"
"I've never felt more betrayed by the candy category than when I tried those chalky medicinal pucks of sh*t"
"It's like the communion wafer factory had overstock and sold it to a candy company."
That's...That's Not A Good Combo
"Sen-sen."
"Most of you probably don't know what it is, but it's a European candy that's like little bits of hard, salty, black licorice."
"I love black licorice, but sen sen tastes like a cross between a burnt tire and the devil's a**hole."
GiphyThese are just some candies that almost everyone seems to hate.
They keep getting made, though.
Enough people must like them for candy companies to make a profit.
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stewie GIFThe Dead Bringer....
I'm going to dress up in my renaissance clothes and pull a wagon around the neighborhood shouting, "Bring out your dead!"
I've spent the last two weeks trying to gauge how inappropriately appropriate it would be to dress as a plague doctor this year.
I've run the idea by a few people I know, concerned that it might be a little insensitive. Some think it would be. But I'm afraid my love for the idea might overcome my sense of propriety.
Seeing Red
make up laugh GIF by maskworld.comGiphyGet some red contacts and go to work as if nothing's wrong.
Trick or Treat
Put treats in individual snack baggies on a table on my front lawn. I will replenish in between groups.
I am encouraging my neighbors to do this too. Baggies of candy on the lawn, lining the sidewalk. Homeowners 6 feet away at their homes/front doors.
Also, we will have a costume parade for the young kiddies at a set time, all groups staying 6 feet apart, just walking a set path in a circuit around the neighborhood.
Small Party
tom cruise vampires GIFGiphySame as every year, Virgin sacrifice followed by vampire orgy.
What is wrong with you? You cant possible ensure social distancing at an orgy.
Darkness....
Shutting off all the lights, ignoring the doorbell and watching a movie.
Same. I was considering giving out candy, but nah. It seems like most people aren't planning on taking their kids out anyway in my area.
Sounds like a typical Halloween to me!
Tradition.
jason voorhees horror GIFGiphyLike me n the boys always do: play horror games together on Discord. Gotta keep up the tradition, worldwide pandemic or not!
Who Knows....
Hopefully by being scary/weird for the poor kids on our street who have been cooped up for 6 months and deprived of a social life. I don't know if we're handing out candy because Covid, etc. but we're going to try to make it special for the little folk somehow.
Wholesome Moon
Trick Or Treat Party GIF by Fleischer StudiosGiphyThis is the first time in a long time that it'll actually be cool on Halloween in my area. Plus we're going to have a full moon.
So. Roasting marshmallows over a fire pit. A movie screen & projector setup outside in the edge of the woods, with a marathon of Paranormal Activity movies playing. Homemade hot cocoa kept warm in a crock pot.
My fiancee & I curled up under a blanket, snuggling while watching the movies.
Thinking Ahead
A guy decorated a length of PVC pipe and attached it to the handrails along his front steps, angled down toward the sidewalk. He can shoot candy down the tube and kids can put their buckets under the pipe and catch it, hands-free. I can't wait!
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A good weapon can determine the winner and loser in a fight. But not everyone carries a weapon, and for those who aren't so good with their fists, the nearest object will have to do. Some people get a little creative...
Redditor u/ThatLocalPessimist learned some new ways to defend themselves when they asked, "What was the most innocent thing you've seen being used as a weapon?"
10. Trick or... beat down?
"My friends and I were walking around trick or treating and two of them got into a little bit of a argument so he swung his bag of candy and gave him a nose bleed"
9. Sounds like one heck of a row.
"A knitting needle got stabbed through my sisters hand by me"
"So its safe to say that up until then you didn't have a tight-knit relationship."
8. The sweetest prison shank.
"I'm a Correction Officer of several years... So to answer your question the most innocent thing I've ever seen used as a weapon was cake and toothpaste. A inmate in one of our SHU cells stocked up several pieces of cake and several tubes of toothpaste. He dried out the cake and rolled it into a spike which he then took the toothpaste and applied several layers over the course of a couple days thus hardening it enough to use as a weapon."
6. Laundry can save lives.
"Ironing board. The sound was glorious, but then I ran for my life."
5. I thought this only worked in movies?
Giphy"A magnifying glass was used by a kid to "burn" bugs in the sunlight.
He'd hold it above the bug, with the magnified sun rays scorching the victim."
4. Toys are dangerous.
"My brother threw a toy Mator (as in, the tow truck from Cars) at me and it knocked out a tooth"
3. Milk Duds are too hard to chew anyway...
"We put Milk Duds in a paintball gun when I was a kid and shot at our friends. Left some massive welts, but they're incredibly inaccurate."
1. Words are the greatest weapon of all.
"While my aunt is getting changed into a bathing suit years ago.
5 year old cousin: "mom I want to be like you when I grow up I just don't want your body."
