I was born in 1966 so I would think that  most of my Halloween memories would be based out of the 70's and 80's. This was a different time when, almost all kids dressed up for school, Halloween dances were a big thing in both junior and senior high, and trick or treating wasn't done in a shopping mall or a parking lot (like today's trunk or treat events).

I always thought the longest supper ever was on Halloween night. My Mom would make us eat before we could go out trick or treating. It seemed like I had to sit at the table forever waiting for everyone in my family to be done.

After dinner we would get our costumes back on, (probably covered by a snow suit or winter coat anyways) and then meet up with our friends to run around the neighborhood.

The candy grabbing weapon of choice was an old pillowcase. You could put a lot into one of those and not have to return home to dump out your loot!!!.

The ulitmate prize was a house that would give out full sized chocolate bars!! I can even remember to this day hearing through the grapevine that "Mrs. Peck is giving out full chocolate bars!!!" Kids would flock to these houses.

On the other side of things there were the houses that gave out the, shall we say, less desirable treats. Here are my top (or bottom) five worst treats.

5. Suckers. I don't mean the good ones like a chupa chups or something like that. I mean the ones where you buy about 500 for a dollar

4. Apples. I always heard the urban legend of someone putting razorblades in apples, so I would never eat them. How could you enjoy something healthy when there is a pillowcase full of sugary goodness all around it??

3. A toothbrush. Yeah I get it, my teeth are going to rot out with all this sugar, but do you really think a 7 year old kid is going to be happy with this??

2. A box of raisins. Do you remember the red box of Sun Maid  raisins that you would get in your Halloween loot? They were the second last thing I would eat every year.

1. Shelled peanuts. I don't recall any of my kids getting these recently, so maybe it was a 70's thing. I hated getting a handful of peanuts in my Halloween pillowcase. They would sit for months in the bottom of my bag until I was so desperate for some kind of treat to eat, that I would give in and finally munch down on them.

And judging by your respone, honourable mention goes to the Halloween mollases candies and homemade anything!

The next month or so would be spent going through the different degrees of what candy to eat first while watching Saturday morning cartoons.