Soy sauce packets from the Chinese restaurant

As an child and even as an adult taking my DD trick or treating, the full size candy bars are the best. Jackpot!!!!

Anonymous wrote:I loved Nerds. The pink and purple were the best.

Same here

Anonymous wrote:No idea - we really don't put that much thought into these things.

I know you don't put much thought into anything; you completely missed the point of the thread.

Definitely the full-size candy bars and cans of pop. My parents only bought pop at Christmas, Thanksgiving and birthdays, so it was always such a treat to be given any.

My kids would absolutely appreciate the homemade toy like PP's elderly neighbor did.

chocolate.

Anonymous wrote:Full sized anything (but esp, Reeses cups) and a couple houses had little bags stuffed with goodies (i.e., candy corn, gum, stickers, and mini bars). That was THE house to hit.

We do bags. Word must get around because every year the number of kids coming to our home has doubled. We live far out from the city, almost rural.

I liked getting quarters, full size anything and Halloween pencils. My MIL used to get mobbed for her popcorn balls. Kind of weird seeing store bought ones. I have to say I think my MIL made THE best popcorn balls. They tasted like cracker jacks only fresher and big softball sized. My husband would call her up and tell her to set aside 4 for him.

I miss those days.

Thinking about last year and how many bags we gave out and the cost of candy, I could very well give a dollar this year to every kid and come out about even. 45 bags last year, candy cost $47.

We don't have to buy that much candy but what's the point being stingy ? All the kids say WOW, they have bags ! It's so cute.

Bubble Yum. For me, that got eaten while we were sorting the candy. In the days of contaminated Tylenol and rumors of razor blades in apples, homemade stuff was thrown out at our house.

Fun size candies were next, the last left overs for us were cinnamon hard candies and tootsie rolls. BORING!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely full size candy bars. The guy who gave them out in our childhood neighborhood was a dentist.

The way it was explained to me (by a mom who adopted 2 girls from China... one with horrible teeth and one with "decent" teeth), their dentist recommends chocolate as their candy. The chocolate doesn't stick to the teeth the same way that things like Laffy Taffy, candy corn, and gummies do. So chocolate is "better" for your teeth!

It's true, anything hard candy that sticks to your teeth, so much worse than anything else sugary.

Grey Poupon.

I always got really excited when someone handed out those candy necklaces. I thought they were so much fun to eat! I also loved Nerds and Rolos.

Halloween treats ranked:

- Cash
- Full sized "good" chocolate (Snickers, Hershey Bars, Reese's, M&Ms, etc)
- snack sized "good" chocolate
- good non-chocolate candy (twizzlers, starbursts, skittles, etc)
- half dollars or quarters
- "ok" non-chocolate candy (blow pops, dumdum lollipops, smarties, tootsie rolls)
- weird or generic chocolate
- non-candy snacks (cheez-its, etc)
- gross hard candy. those weird balls wrapped in cellphane, stuff that looks like it was in a jar by the register at a restaurant
- plastic spider and pumpkin rings
- giving out stuff because you want to be preachy - "find jesus" bracelets/quotes/coins/verses/etc, toothbrushes,

Anonymous wrote:Definitely full size candy bars. The guy who gave them out in our childhood neighborhood was a dentist.

The way it was explained to me (by a mom who adopted 2 girls from China... one with horrible teeth and one with "decent" teeth), their dentist recommends chocolate as their candy. The chocolate doesn't stick to the teeth the same way that things like Laffy Taffy, candy corn, and gummies do. So chocolate is "better" for your teeth!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely full size candy bars. The guy who gave them out in our childhood neighborhood was a dentist.

LOL, smart man. Building up business.

Hilarious! My dentist father made sure toothbrushes were given alongside the candy.

Reeces PB cups are my fav - but chocolate anything was pretty good. The houses that gave tootsie rolls and charleston chews were disappointing. For us - it was more about volume than anything else. How much could you collect by the end of the night, how many houses could you hit.

Anonymous wrote:I love candy. My faves were reeses pb cups (esp the minis), mounds, candy necklaces and rings, "dots" (the colored candy dots stuck on a strip of paper), and, drum roll please ... those little wax bottles with super sweet liquid inside!

YYASSSSSS! I'm pretty sure that if someone gave one of those to me today, I'd say, "Wtf is this? Make with the Skittles, sweetheart." ...but back then they were OMFG wonderful.

Anonymous wrote:I liked those little packs of fake cigarettes. The only time of the year I got anything like that so it was the novelty of them more than the taste. But I loved those dumb things.

I remember those! I liked the ones with fake smoke. Each cigarette had a paper wrap around it. If you blew into the end, a puff of powdered sugar came out the other side.