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I'm just saying, I would be at least 3x as miffed as a kid getting black licorice, or raisins, or some other bullshit in my candy pail than candy corn.
When you're an adult, it's different, you can have whatever kind of candy whenever you want, regardless of the time of year -- when you're a kid, you'll take candy corn every day of the week over a lot of other subpar halloween hand-outs. And even as an adult, sure, I wouldn't willingly buy a bag of it to eat for myself, but if I were given the choice between eating a handful of candy corn or a handful of Good and Plentys, yeah, I'm taking the candy corn.
Raisins rock, especially those yogurt covered ones, and my kids agree. Oh, and they also hate candy corn (love peeps though...). And black liquorice is good if you get high quality black liquorice, but you're not getting that on Halloween.
As a kid, you'll take sugar if offered. If you give a random kid a bucket of assorted candy, you can bet candy corn will be among the last eaten. Here's a list of much better candies, all commonly handed out at Halloween:
Some of those many kids don't like (some kids don't like peanuts or peanut butter, some don't like chocolate, etc), but most kids will like most of those more than candy corn. I could also list a bunch more that fit that bill.
I'm not saying candy corn is dead last, I'm saying it's really low on the tier list. There are worse candies, yes, but there are tons of better candies.