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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

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:

  • Skittles
  • Air heads
  • Laffy Taffy
  • Snickers
  • Milky Way
  • 3 Musketereers
  • Tootsie Rolls
  • Lolipops/Suckers
  • Caramels
  • Butterscotch hard candy
  • Jolly Ranchers
  • Starburst
  • Milk Duds
  • Dots
  • Sour Patch Kids
  • Warheads
  • M&Ms
  • Reese's Pieces/Cups
  • Butterfinger

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.