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Best: Reese’s

Worst: Circus Peanuts

I got eerily angry complaints from parents one Halloween after I gave out cotton candy "because it filled up too much space in their bags for something that would dissolve in their mouth all at once anyways as well as make them hyper as it's just sugar". Makes me wonder how they spent their evenings.

Best: Full size Snickers, Reese's Halloween editions

Worst: Candy Corn and Circus Peanuts

Best: Reese's, starbursts, Skittles

Worst: Those peanut butter chews wrapped in orange or black that have a weird soft but chunky feel that reminds me of something half digested. Anything healthy. Anything not candy (stickers, pencils, etc).

Best: drugs

Worst: also drugs

Best: Subjective.

Worst: religous pamphlets proletizing the youth because the religous must target those without fully functioning brains lest their numbers dwindle.

I see no one has mentioned Swedish fish yet. Always felt they were so freaking waxy they tasted like nothing. Probably not the worst though.

Best: Good candy corn

Worst: Bad candy corn

Best: full size Snickers bars

Worst: full size Snickers bars but you have peanut allergy

Best: kit-kats, twix, heath bar, and the wee chocolates dark/light/crunch mix assortment.

Worst: banana laffy taffy, smarties

Also I freaking love black licorice and my kids do too but would never, ever dare hand it out, absolutely a trick not a treat for most kids.

Best: Butterfinger Worst: candy corn, circus peanuts

Best: twix, 100grand, candy corn, sweet tarts

Worst: bottle caps, heath, unnamed hard candies, tootsie rolls

Trick or treating isn’t so much of a thing in Australia, even though the idea of Halloween and dressing up has become more popular.

Anyway, no one has ever done it in our neighbourhood, but just in case I buy a bag of chupa chups in October in case anyone knocks on the door.

I once gave a single banana to a group of kids and told them to be sure to split it between them.

That was a massive improvement over the year before, where I had nothing at all.

It was extra sad because their parents only allowed them to go through the building they lived in, and it didn't have many people.

Thing is, halloween isn't really a thing there, plus I am absolutely terrible with dates.

Worst is Necco wafers.

Best is Whoppers, then Sixlets.

The dentist's house handed out toothbrushes. Which actually was really thoughtful and appreciated by the poorer parents

The best is almost always full size candy bars, though everyone's personal favorites are different.

As for the worst, people might rag on the orange and black peanut butter things, candy corn, or circus peanuts. I personally like them all and I feel most of the hate is memetic.

The real bad candy? Peppermints. Even worse and strange? Peppermint candy canes.

Sure, I like them in December, but seeing those mixed in with other candy is an insult and reminds you of Christmas creep. It's a breath mint. There might be one freakish kid who likes those hard minty disks of Christmas flavor around Halloween, but really, no one is excited about these restaurant give aways. Even hating on the candy you don't like is part of the Halloween experience, but peppermint just feels wrong in a trick or treat bag.

If the reaction of the kids who come to my door is any indication the best is ring pops. You can sometimes hear kids shouting to other ones down the street "hey, this place has ring pops!"

Worst: those molasses toffees with the orange/white/black wrapper

Best: chocolate Worst: raisins

Best: Reese's peanut butter cups

Worst: Tootsie Rolls, they're just wax with a slightly sweet flavor

Worst->Best

At least on the scale of what I'm handing out.

Had to scale it back this year only 43 lbs, probably only last about half the night.

Best: Twix

Worst: peanut butter kisses

Worst: any kind of hard candy, yuck! Especially smarties, or those peppermint things. Oh and Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie pops.

Best: Any kind of chocolate

Best: full size candy bars Worst: US Smarties.

MaryJanes. Should be outlawed by international convention.

Best: King size candy bars

Worst: Those little rock-hard peanut butter taffy things in the black and orange wrappers.