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What is the most disappointing Halloween candy?

by YPB Team

Some of these are handed out by people who mean well. The rest get traded away, buried at the bottom of the bag, or quietly binned.

  1. Candy corn — ranked #11
    Candy corn
    The tri-colored sugar kernel that owns Halloween imagery and still ends up at the bottom of the bag.
    1000pts
  2. Necco Wafers — ranked #22
    Necco Wafers
    Chalky pastel discs that taste, by wide agreement, like flavored antacid tablets.
    963pts
  3. Raisins — ranked #33
    Raisins
    The small red box handed out by the one neighbor who treats Halloween as a nutrition lesson.
    933pts
  4. Black licorice — ranked #44
    Black licorice
    An aniseed flavor with no middle ground, handed out by adults who forgot children exist.
    933pts
  5. Peanut Butter Kisses — ranked #55
    Peanut Butter Kisses
    The taffy in orange and black wax paper that appears in every bowl and is claimed by nobody.
    769pts
  6. Circus Peanuts — ranked #66
    Circus Peanuts
    Orange marshmallow lumps with a banana flavor that matches nothing else on the table.
    755pts
  7. Laffy Taffy — ranked #77
    Laffy Taffy
    A stiff fruit taffy whose printed jokes are widely considered the better half of the product.
    755pts
  8. Toothbrush — ranked #88
    Toothbrush
    The dentist's house special, technically a treat and universally received as a trick.
    666pts
  9. Whoppers — ranked #99
    Whoppers
    Malted milk balls that crumble into dust and stick to the roof of your mouth.
    564pts
  10. Wax bottles — ranked #1010
    Wax bottles
    Little wax containers holding a mouthful of syrup, after which you are chewing wax.
    564pts
  11. Good & Plenty — ranked #1111
    Good & Plenty
    Pink and white capsules hiding black licorice, the most effective disguise in candy history.
    444pts
  12. Tootsie Rolls — ranked #1212
    Tootsie Rolls
    A chewy cocoa log that promises chocolate and delivers something closer to sweetened wax.
    444pts
  13. Candy buttons — ranked #1313
    Candy buttons
    Sugar dots glued to paper strips, delivering roughly equal amounts of candy and paper.
    444pts
  14. Smarties — ranked #1414
    Smarties
    Chalky tablets in a crinkly wrapper that dissolve fast and leave almost nothing behind.
    303pts
  15. Dum Dums — ranked #1515
    Dum Dums
    Tiny lollipops in mystery flavors, the standard filler from any office reception desk.
    303pts
  16. Bit-O-Honey — ranked #1616
    Bit-O-Honey
    A honey-almond taffy hard enough to threaten fillings and slow enough to end a candy run.
    303pts

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