Necco Wafers.

Candy corn.

Wax lips, but only because circus peanuts are already taken.

(About 10 or 12 years ago, when I was living with like 4 other guys in a crappy rental house, we decided to be dicks on Halloween and bought several bags of circus peanuts at the 99-cent store. We figured we wouldn't get any trick or treaters anyway, since our crappy rental house was on a slightly sketchy industrial block sandwiched between a towing yard and a warehouse, but we wanted to be "prepared" anyway. So we emptied the bags of circus peanuts into a bowl by the door to distribute to any unlucky trick-or-treaters who managed to find their way to our door. Well, none did, so that bowl of circus peanuts sat there for days. Which turned into weeks. Which turned into months. Shortly after New Years, we had a party-- as 4 20-something guys living in a crappy rental house on an industrial block are wont to do-- and my roommate's friend, drunk and / or under the influence of a variety of other substances, ate the entire bowl of petrified, months-old circus peanuts. There were at least several dozen of them in there, and he gnawed his way through every last one of them. Thank god he didn't live in the house, because sharing one bathroom with 4 other guys is bad enough without one of them having eaten several dozen months-old circus peanuts while in a drunken haze. That guy is now a district attorney somewhere I think, by the way.)

Tootsie Rolls. (Blasphemy, I know.)

Licorice, in the form of black jelly beans or anything else.

dersins, that is an awesome story. Thank you.

You know, I think I would eat a circus peanut. One. Just to remember.

What I will never do again is a shot of A-1 steat sauce, but that's another story.

BoPo, they have licorice Necco Wafers, which are the worst! Bleah! Bleah!

I also don't understand Boston Baked Beans (the candy).

Another vote for candy corn.

anything that is not peanut butter cups

I've heard that candy corn and peanuts are good together. A bastardized trail mix. I won't be testing it out, but there may be something to it.

I don't know why I'm an advocate for the waxy, chewey, and orange this afternoon.

I love circus peanuts.

I hate reeces peanut butter cups.

Yeah. I know.

White Rabbit (now with Malamine!).

In grad school, I worked maintenance at grad school housing. We were often pressed into service helping someone move. On one notable occasion, we moved a piano from a second-floor apartment into another unit, for a poor family from China. They wanted to compensate us in some way, but had no money for beer or pizza (the usual payment for such services). So they handed out White Rabbit. Now, this was in Atlanta in August, so a creamy milk-and-butter based candy isn't exactly what we wanted, but we were all polite and took some. Oh, god, it was nasty. I swallowed mine whole, and feigned enjoyment, which, of course, prompted the family to give me more, which led to more swallowing and feigned enjoyment, which led to...ugh, vicious cyle.

Nik-L-Nips. I wonder what's in those things because the liquid always makes me cough.

This list is good to read when you're hungry and want to not be.
All of the things you mentioned (save peanut butter cups and candy corn) make me gag gag gag.

I also submit:
Gummy coke bottles
Smarties (the sour roll of pills kind, not the chocolate m&m type which are great)
Bit O' Honey (which I think only grandmas eat)

Mary Jane.

Gross.

Also, candy corn.

Bit O' Honey, hands-down.

Those little pieces of rocks that masquerade as bubble gum and wind up in those generic miscellaneous mixes people seemed to buy in my neighborhood.

(I didn't buy much candy this year, just two bags. Then again, there's a grand total of 2 children in my condo complex and I haven't seen any others running around the other neighboring complexes.)

Those strawberry-tasting things wrapped up in the strawberry paper. Plus, they shatter and cut your mouth all up.

Oh yeah, those strawberry things are the worst. They used to throw lots of those into Hickory Farm cheese and salami gift baskets.

And apparently they still do.

You can send all your Smarties and Bit-O-Honey candy to my house. I love 'em both.

Those candy buttons are pretty awful, if only because it's a challenge to eat 'em without also eating the paper.

I will take all you guyses candy thank you very much!

Circus Peanuts for sure. I don't think I can even imagine something worse.

Though every time nasty candy comes up I can't help but think of that hilarious bit in Gravity's Rainbow where the landlady of a girl Slothrop is pursuing forces increasingly horrific candies on him. Doing a quick search, looks like someone has typed it up: The Disgusting English Candy Drill.

This. The first result when I Google "+molasses +halloween +candy". KEEEristallfrigginmighty you'd go out in the fog and rain on a St. John's Hallowe'en and come back with half a pillowcase full of these, plus those godawful cellophane-sleeved two-bucks-for-a-long-ton candy suckers. Lucky if you got half a dozen Kraft caramels for the evening (rarer still were the chocolate caramels, never mind actual chocolate).

Yeah, I know, ungrateful entitled old bastard. So these days I always give out those Cadbury mini-bars, two or three different ones per kid (depending on how busy the night is). At least they can trade the ones they don't like (or their parents will enjoy them). And I get the leftovers.

Oh gowd, I'd forgotten about wax lips - and I used to buy the wax soda bottles that were absolutely gross and had some sort of sweet liquid in them; but for some reason I used to be enthralled by them....

And what was that tube with some sort of sour/sweet powder in it? Was it a prelude to coke????

Marsha, me too on the smarties and bit-o-honey. Except it pulled off a cap one year. Dentist not well pleased. b

Why do people get those huge bags of cheapass crappy candy? Yah, I know, they're cheap bastids. I put those strawberry-wrapper candies in a jar in the car, in case I get stranded in a blizzard and need calories.

Candy corn, it's evil. I don't like it, but I will eat it if it's available.

I have a bowl of reese's cups to give out, and to scarf down if there's no trick-r-treaters, which there won't be.

I'm going out on a limb and saying the cheap, no-brand waxy chocolate with no chocolate flavor, because that's just a waste. Especially the ones with fake Rice Krispies in 'em.

I must be weird, though. Because I actively like the strawberry candy (it used to come nestled in the paper grass of Hickory Farms assortments, and it has a pleasant tangy fizz when you break through to the center); Mary Janes; Bit o'Honey, and Smartees. I can tolerate Circus Peanuts and candy corn on a seasonal basis, though I'd never go looking for them. Not a big fan of Necco wafers, but they're traditional. B-B-Bats, same.

What I hate are: Boston Baked Beans in the little cardboard box (What is that stuff?) and anything sour or gummy.

BoPo, they have licorice Necco Wafers, which are the worst! Bleah! Bleah!

They were, but I have to admit I liked the rest of the Necco wafers. I don't know why. They were like flavored chalk, or like candy medicine.

Now the people hating on Bit-O-Honeys, they are freaks. Because that shit was delicious and just weird enough that I'd probably eat one today if you gave it to me, which I can't say about a lot of childhood candies.

Am I the only one here old enough to remember candy cigarettes, which had powdered sugar in the wrapper so you could "puff" smoke? The cigs themselves were either sugar sticks or chewing gum. LOVED those, especially the sugar stick kind. (And never became a smoker, BTW.)

Since someone already said Mary Janes, I'll vote Pez. They're sweet tarts without the zing.

I love candy corn and Necco wafers.

What's that crap that looks like a flattened oval of soft caramel with the nasty chalky white stuff in the middle? I hate that stuff.

I can eat one circus peanut. More than that I feel like there is a ton of lead in my guts.

I like Bit-o-Honey, but I am not a grandma.

Candy corn are okay, but you have to eat the white tips first. (The pumpkin-shaped candy corn is an abomination.) It is also mandatory that you have to stuff a couple under your upper lip and pretend you are a vampire.

I also like sour and chewy things: I can eat Sour Patch Kids till the cows come home.

Bad: those little boxes of Good'n'Plenty.

Marsha, me too on the smarties and bit-o-honey. Except it pulled off a cap one year. Dentist not well pleased.

Yea, I can't eat any candy like Bit-o-honey. There's nothing worse than realizing that your chewy candy is now crunchy with your silver filling that it pulled out.

But if smarties are wrong, I don't want to be right, love those things.

Oh, and the worst 'candy' that anyone has given out are the religious pamphlets that my neighbors in the '90s used hand out.

And what was that tube with some sort of sour/sweet powder in it? Was it a prelude to coke????

I believe you are talking about Pixie Stix, which I still see quite often in NYC.

Specklet, I'm with you on the sour patch kids, but that goes for pretty much anything sour and/or gummy. Seriously, this year at Dylan's Candy Bar they were selling gummy chicken's feet. (Much like gummy worms there aren't actually chicken feet involved.)They are very tasty and I'm using them as garnish in a specialty Halloween martini I'm making for a party tonight.

And I'm with you on that good'n'plenty. Although, I think the ABSOLUTE worst Halloween candy is apples, which were popular to hand out in my hood as a "healthy" snack even though our parents would not let us eat them for fear of a hidden razor blade.

I believe I need to chime in with a second vote, as a box of Halloween Peeps just landed on my desk. And damned if I'm not tempted to eat one of the disgusting things. Something about that shade of orange lures me, even though I know I will hate myself if I do it.

My vote is for whatever those things are that come in the plain black or orange wrappers. They're often in the generic Halloween mix bags. I think they're a lot like what hangashore mentioned.

What's that crap that looks like a flattened oval of soft caramel with the nasty chalky white stuff in the middle?

Yeah, what are those? I actually kind of like them, though.

What are those chewy fake-banana flavored things wrapped in wax paper? Those are nasty.

Those oval caramels as "caramel creams" also known in my town as "cow's eyes." ≡ Click to see image ≡If you like them, there are now "cow's tails", which are the actual name of the candy. They are a REALLY LONG caramel cream.

chewy fake-banana flavored things wrapped in wax paper?

That sounds a little like saltwater taffy.