Boo! Ha ha. Did I scare you?
My treat to you this Halloween day is the 2018 edition of 5 Best and 5 Worst Halloween Candies. What will be in your bag tonight oh kiddies and costumed ones? Without further ghastly delays, the lists please.
Oh and I almost forgot to mention, my only constraint is not to repeat treats or tricks from last year’s list. You can check out the 2017 Edition here: 5 Best and 5 Lousy Halloween Treats
5 Worst Halloween Candies
5. Circus Peanuts – This candy is orange-colored peanut-shaped marshmallows that taste like bananas. Somehow they make me think of LSD.
4. BeanBoozled (Flip-Top-Box size) – Beanboozled is a jelly belly mix of good flavors like tutti frutti, juicy pear, coconut, and berry blue. But mixed in are identical jelly beans of gross flavors like barf, booger, rotten egg, and spoiled milk, all disguised as good flavors. I guess this is the ultimate trick not treat. Except you won’t be at the kid’s house to watch their reaction. So that alone makes it sort of creepy.
3. Smarties – They don’t taste particularly good. Their texture is off. And there always seems to be one or two that fall out of the roll only to be found under a couch three weeks later no matter how hard you look when they are dropped.
2. PayDay Candy Bar – This is the candy bar that really needs some chocolate on it. Its as if it was pulled from production line one step too early.
1. Jesus Harvest Seeds – Yes this is real. But friends of all faiths, Jesus’s seeds are simply candy corn in religious packaging. You can buy these on Amazon if you feel the calling.
Best Halloween Candy
5. Haribo Gold Bears – The original and still the best.
4. Heath Bars – These are perfection – toffee with small pieces of almonds in it wrapped in a thin layer of milk chocolate. Heath’s are the most underrated candy bar out there.
3. Goetze’s Caramel Creams – I love these. You can eat them whole, or eat the caramel then white confection, or eat the white confection then caramel. And a shout out to their cousin Cowtails.
2. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – “You’ve got peanut butter in my chocolate.” “You’ve got chocolate in my peanut butter.” Who remembers this series of commercials?
Vintage Reese’s Commercial – Fun to watch!
1. Ghirardelli Chocolate Squares – A hometown favorite, and the caramel and chocolate squares are my favorite!
Happy Halloween and may your goody bag be full of your favorites? What are your most liked and most disliked Halloween candies? Let me know in comments.
Paul Sees the World 
Happy Halloween! Fun post. Back in the day, there were a couple of houses that gave out full size chocolate bars, a big hit of course. I also liked getting chips. I despised tootsie rolls and the likes. The Smarties you show (yuck!) are not the Smarties I know here in Canada. The ones we have are chocolate coated and quite yummy.
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Thank you. I know one family that still gives out full size Hershey’s. They are very popular (and generous). Canadian smarties sound much tastier than US smarties. That was smart of them to put chocolate on them.
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I love this topic on the best and worst , it brings back memories. I think another my worst was snow caps😿. I cracked up seeing circus peanuts lol 👏👏
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Ha snow caps – they weren’t so bad. They weren’t so great either.
“Circus Peanut” would make a good nickname for someone.
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We still give out full size bars or bags. Strangely, kids today prefer Skittles and Starbursts over M&M’s, or Snickers. My personal favorites are Ghiradelli Mint or Sea Salt Caramel. Both dark chocolate, of course!
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Wow full size bars and bags! If I had known I would have put my farmer hat on and a candy cigarette in my mouth and come to your house ha ha ha. (Though count me in for chocolate over candy any day). You have very good taste in Ghiradelli. They now have Dark Chocolate Bourbon Caramel squares. I am excited to try these.
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We have a different type of Smarties from you. Made by Nestle, I think, they are like slightly bigger M&Ms in eight colours. The orange coloured ones are flavoured with orange oil, so they are the nicest.
Your Smarties look like a pressed sugar powder sweet we have in the UK called Fizzers. They have sherbet in, so are quite good, though.
Heath bars look like delicious Daim bars (used to be Dime). Are they crunchy?
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