Here's a kindred spirit hyperbole-heavy blogger I can relate to - The Top 5 Worst Halloween Candies.
I do have some bones to pick with the author, however. Get it? Bones...halloween ...hardy har.
5. Butterscotch discs - yes, these are gross. But, he considers butterscotch a suitable flavor for puddings and such, to which I still say barf-a-rama.
4. Wax bottles - I don't have much experience with these, but I seem to recall chewing on waxy lips or something as a kid and finding it strangely satisfying.
3. Candy corn/pumpkins - not altogether loathsome. Not somethin' to hand out to trick-or-treaters, but I think they're acceptable as a once-a-year candy dish item. He says to hand out jawbreakers instead, even the cheap ones. No.
2. Tootsie Rolls - mostly agree. Real chocolate doesn't masquerade as taffy. The fruity ones are good though.
1. Peanut Butter Taffy - yeah, I didn't like getting those. But they're not straight from hades or anything.
Some dentists give kids a buck a pound if they surrender their candy to them. This is horrible, and not just 'cause it's a ripoff. Let kids have one day to OD on candy for pete's sake. Besides, it's like saying 'Here, you poor child/military person/homeless man, you get cavities.'
2 comments:
Don't forget about bit-o-honey, or those weird orange things shaped like peanuts.
Yeah, bit-o-honeys are bad too. Here is my bad list:
5. Candy corn/pumpkins
4. Cinnamon Disks (guilty of giving a few out myself this year as part of a mixed bag of hard candy we had)
3. Bit-o-honey
2. Almond Joy/Mounds
1. Kind of cheating here but any non-candy / non-toy handout like toothbrushes or pamphlets that ask if I know if I'm going to heaven.
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