5 Worst Halloween Treats

Sometimes a treat just isn't worth it?

Today I will share my thoughts on what you do not want to get in your plastic pumpkin this Halloween. Join me for the Top 5 Worst Halloween Treats.

5. DUM-DUM LOLLIPOPS

Let me start with the two good things about Dum-dums. Their name, Dum-dum is an awesome name, and it looks great on a t-shirt. Secondly, the flavor is great and they have lots of different types. I mean, who else makes pineapple suckers? But could they spare a little sugar to increase the size of these? You need a bouquet of these things to make a decent treat. I am pretty sure everyone who gives these out for Halloween bought a bag with a thousand of them back in 1981, and they have been rationing them out ever since.

4. NECCO WAFERS

As an adult I have come to enjoy them ,but when I saw Necco Wafers as a kid, I thought they were like candy poker chips, with half the taste. Although I never saw who gave them to me, Necco Wafers always managed to show up in my plastic pumpkin bucket. I could never figure that out.

If you haven’t had Neccos they are a chalky candy and kind of taste like the lik-em aid stick, but with a hard texture that can break apart into razor-sharp shards that can tear your mouth open. They were probably a great Trick or Treat candy back in 1642 when the first batch was made. Oddly enough, the Necco Company also makes the Clark bar, of which I am very fond.

3. POPCORN BALL

Amish children are offended when you try to pawn these off on them. I would get a bunch of these every year and due to fear poisoning fears, my Mom would never let me eat them. Of course, curiosity got the better of me one year and I ate one in mid Trick or Treat and guess what? It tasted like popcorn. Not even salted popcorn. Plain popcorn. What held that thing together?

The only way I might like popcorn balls is if they were held together by caramel, dunked in chocolate, and dipped in Jolly Ranchers.

2. APPLE

Nothing like spending a cold autumn day wearing a heavy costume and risking life and limb by approaching strangers and begging for candy only to be rewarded with an apple. My what an exotic treat. No way my family would ever let me eat this at home. Perhaps I could trade you some of my Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for a pear? Apples make poor treats. All fruit is bad on October 31st. That is why children wear costumes, to scare away the fruit that was harvested that autumn.

1. CHANGE

Change! Change! It might be acceptable if you got quarters, but it’s always pennies. I would always hit a few houses that would tape together 5 pennies and drop ‘em in my bag. They would put so much tape on, it was often a struggle to just get the tape off. What were they thinking? Surely that was a household begging to be egged.

Well that’s it. What are your least favorite treats? Post them below.