The Worst Halloween Candies Ranked

Candy corn isn't the worst tasting candy on this list, but it is the most Halloweeny-y, and is therefore ubiquitous at this time of year. And yet, it's never around at any other time of year. Doesn't that tell you something? There's a reason no-one wants Easter candy corn or Christmas candy corn. If candy corn Valentines were a thing, though, it would probably take some of the sting out of being single on the holiday, so at least there's that. So why does everyone hate candy corn so much? We can explain it in just three words: It's too sweet. Way, way, too sweet. Sweeter than Peeps, even, and a lot less cute.

While this isn't quite a dual entry like the one for Neccos and Smarties, we'd like to extend just a bit of our seasonal vitriol to those candy pumpkins that are basically big, fat candy corn. Mashable conflated the two on its list of Halloween candies that need to be retired, stat, considering them to be more or less the same thing, while SparkNotes considers the pumpkins to be even more abhorrent than candy corn itself. They're sufficiently rare in trick-or-treat hauls that they don't rate a listing of their own, but we concur with those who insist that candy corn in any way, shape, or form needs to be banished forever to the candy hall of shame.