Worst Halloween Candy or trick or treat item

[Smiling JOe]

Did anyone ever get those sticky, home made balls of popcorn wrapped in a piece of cellophane? Maybe this was an Alabama thing.

I have never seen them until this year. I am calling them Bat Balls - a play on baseball words. :funn:

 

[Landlocked]

I have never seen them until this year. I am calling them Bat Balls - a play on baseball words. :funn:

I don't know why anyone in their right mind would let their kid eat something that a stranger mashed into a ball with their hands.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I don't know why anyone in their right mind would let their kid eat something that a stranger mashed into a ball with their hands.

The ones I saw were packaged from a company and had halloween themed wrapping with bats on the front.

 

[Mermaid]

I dunno. Halloween is one of the saddest days of the year for me because I'd love to partcipate, but I can't. :'(

We built a huge home years ago, and for our first Halloween we decorated elaborately and served really nice treats. We got a bunch of trick-or-treaters who rudely grabbed excessive amounts of candy without any thanks and stole most of our decorations. And BTW the parents off-roaded their cars through our lawn, damaging the grass and breaking multiple sprinkler heads. The next year we displayed no decorations that were easily pilfered, and we had a bunch of people who peeked in the doorway, seemed very interested in the contents of our house, and grabbed enough candy to make it appear that it was their only meal for the day. Their parents also drove their cars through our lawn, damaging the grass and breaking sprinkler heads. Decorations were stolen.

From then on, we have turned the lights off, not accepted any trick-or-treaters, and have kept a gun by the door in case someone tried a home invasion. We've had one home invasion, so we are always prepared. A home invasion is not fun - my husband was in Japan and my daughter who was 8 at the time and I were alone when it happened. The invaders cut the phone line so we couldn't call for help. Now we have alarms all over our property to signal any movement, and we have an alarm system designed so that *nothing* could prevent a call from going to the monitoring service if someone were to try to break in. And I keep a gun close by because if someone were to invade, by the time the cops got here, we'd be dead.

Really a sad way to live. If we didn't have so much of our love for New Orleans and our architect invested in this big house, we'd "simplify," as SJ would say. But everything in our house has a story behind it, from the design by a famous NOLA architect, to the stair rail from a New Orleans bar, to the chandelier from an old NOLA home, to the pine floors from an old textile mill,to the house colors researched by the architect by scraping down to the wood and mortar at Oak Alley in Louisiana, etc.

My personal most hated Halloween candy is hard Double-Bubble and candy corn.

BR, that is the most pathetic non-Halloween horror true story I've ever heard! You shouldn't have to live the way you are living, as in living in luxury and living a life that is not comfortable to you anymore. MOVE! What you are describing as loving are things. New Orleans, even after Katrina, is still stuffed with antiques. You can find another stair rail and another chandelier. Your architect can design another house. You can replace your things. What is not so easily replaceable is your peace of mind should another incident occur.

It's not like I don't know what you are talking about. My brother and sister-in-law used to live in an adorable bungalow in Buckhead. They were right in the middle of all the action and their house was gorgeous! They were also robbed and vandalized--penalty for in-city living I suppose--and after that, nothing was really the same for them in regard to the house and neighborhood. They moved out of Fulton into the DeKalb part of Altanta and they've been amazingly happy and stress-free. The quality of their lives increased when they didn't have to worry about their security all the time.

SJ is right on the money when he talks about simplifying.

Now back to candy! Off the cuff, I can't think of any Halloween candy I really like...looks like I'll have to do some research on this one. Will report back on Monday night, late...

 

[Rita]

I dunno. Halloween is one of the saddest days of the year for me because I'd love to partcipate, but I can't. :'(

BR

 

[Beach Runner]

BR, that is the most pathetic non-Halloween horror true story I've ever heard!

The only time I get bummed out is at Halloween because I love seeing the sweet little trick-or-treaters. But some people who come to the door are big, scary-looking people who look like they'd rather get our possessions than candy. I don't want to have to shoot an intruder. So we just keep our lights off.

Thanks for caring.

Back to candy, Reese's is the worst for me. Once when I was a kid, I ate too many. Now just looking at it makes me

 

[Ocean Lover]

Back to candy, Reese's is the worst for me. Once when I was a kid, I ate too many. Now just looking at it makes me

That's me and twizzlers.


BR, I wish you could come up here for trick or treat. We get a lot of little guys and not too many big scary ones.

 

[katie blue]

mmm..Reese's. That's a primo Halloween score, in my book, right after the mack daddy of them all, Hershey's minis. Mary Janes were the ones that ended up in the bottom of my sack..stupid things pulled out your fillings. Any apples found in my sack would never be eaten (because, dont you remember, as kids we were convinced that there were probably razor blades hidden inside, put there by evil kid-hating grown-ups). The next day, we'd take the unfortunate apples and put them in front of the back wheel of the school bus before we got onboard, then rush to the back window to see them all get squished by the wheels. Never tired of that one, either. mhmmm, goodtimes...

 

[Jdarg]

Milk Duds and Sugar Daddies!!!!

( I have a thing for caramel more than chocolate)

 

[iwishiwasthere]

Oh yes, they are so good. I dislike anything "gummy".