Bad candy! BAD candy

We had candy as kids..we had all kinds of candy. We'd buy it ourselves and people would always give a kid candy. I never could figure out why grown ups wouldn't pat you on the head and give you a fucking sandwich, but, I took what I could get. I loved candy back then. At home we got bad candy. You know the kind that your mother liked or thought was pretty, but, kids gagged at. We eventually ate it anyway.

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The one I really thought tasted awful was Horehounds. Gawd! Bitter and nasty, it was more like a punishment than a treat. My Grandma loved it. It's herbal, that's all I know.

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The worst candy of all was hard shelled marshmallow eggs at Easter time. These were stuffed abundantly into that plastic grass mess by a company that did the cheap pre-wrapped basket. We never got real Easter baskets, we didn't even know people did that. They had a cheap toy that broke when you touched it and a thin coloring book of ducks or some shit and a package of 6 cheap wax crayons that wouldn't color...and a ton of these hard awful eggs that were probably 50 years old. You had to shove the things in the back of your mouth, holding on with both hands and try and bite them with your back teeth. My brother broke a tooth on them once, but, he ate them all anyway, crying the whole time. Happy Easter. This year, Mom was looking for them again and she moaned that they don't make them now and I said "That's because kids hate them, they're fucking gross!" And she said "Oh, you kids, you never knew what was good." I have never ever bought a pre-wrapped Easter (Ostara) basket for my kids or Lissa. Ever.

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Candy cigarettes were plentiful and good, just not the smartest idea. They were soft and minty and the good ones had a paper wrapped around the candy stuffed with powdered sugar. When you blew into it, it puffed sugar smoke.
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Christmas was the worst with those nasty hard striped pillow candies and those yuky ribbon candies..they'd last until July when we were starved for a sugar buzz. I made Kool Aid with them once out of desperation. Minty crunchy Kool Aid. It wasn't a big hit. We always got a Lifesaver book as a present. That was a family joke, because when I was five I thought they bought me a book and I was overjoyed. Then I opened it and found out it was just candy shaped like a book. It cracked them up. I never fell for that again, but, they kept it up every year. Lifesavers were good though. You could make dinner out of a roll of hidden Butterscotch. I never could make mine last more than a week. I still like them, but, never buy them..too many memories.

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Add your candy memories to the list. This should be fun.