Around this time of year, children rejoice to open up their candy bags or pillowcases after a long, arduous evening of trick-or-treating. Some may expect to find delights like Swedish Fish, Twix, and king size Cookies and Cream Hershey Bars, but there will be many whining households after the realization that one has grabbed a dud. Not Milk Duds, Hershey’s lovely, unique candy, but the most overrated Halloween candies in America. Fear their cliched, irritating, and boring tastes.
First up on this disgraced list, Smarties. Composed of chalky, jarringly flavored blocky disks of candy in a crinkly wrapper, Smarties deserve to be taken down a few notches. A so-called classic, Smarties remain timeless in the same way as dusty gramophones. A close relative, Bottle Caps also encapsulate the unsatisfying, mouth drying feel children get after consuming a package. Many a face has fallen, after seeing that not one, not two, but ten Smarties reside in their colorful, pumpkin Halloween pail.
The world’s best selling candy bar, more like the candy so boring, Snickers, makes scars of regret appear. The candy includes caramel, peanut, nougat, and too sweet milk chocolate that leaves an overwhelming, unpleasant mouth feel, especially in the throat. This candy reminds one of an acquaintance who tries too hard and deserves to have more people snicker degradingly. Also present in this candy would be discrimination. One of the few “popular” candies that contain peanuts, even those who enjoy other ingredients can’t eat them due to possible anaphylactic shock. A candy for the common man, Mars manufactures 400 million each year, but those more sophisticated know to look down upon them and relatives like Baby Ruth as well.
The author only holds minor non-positive feelings towards this candy, but one can’t deny that when eating Skittles, a semi-conscious moment appears with an almost mechanical moment of tossing the circular candy to the mouth without even stopping to recognize the flavors. Sadly, this candy creates another situation where something played or touted so long becomes old and dull. To parents specifically, your toddler can choke on these and the once fun tradition of dressing up and eating massive amounts of candy turns into not so fond memories of the emergency room. This candy also excludes those deadly allergic to food color. Interestingly enough, the same creator created both Snickers and Skittles. We’re looking at you
Although it may be physically painful to bash, Twizzlers have become so commonplace that it no longer holds the status of a low calorie, satisfying, lowkey candy. To be fair, overrated doesn’t equal bad, and this candy stands far above the others on the list. Of course, the fact still remains that people who voluntarily enjoy black licorice Twizzlers deserve to be shamed. Some complain about the waxy feeling the Twizzlers give, and complain about toughness and blandness, which can be seen as completely subjective.
Halloween provides the opportunity to eat a variety of sour, decadent, chewy treats, but there will always be those that fall short of the mark. This Halloween, students can choose their own candy to consume, but should be warned that choices of the ones above will lead to judgement. If not by other students, then by this author.
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