If you were anything like me, or basically every other child in this country, Halloween was your favorite day of the year. Why, you may ask yourself? FREE CANDY OF COURSE! Dressing up as your favorite princess, superhero, animal, or movie character for the night with friends, getting free candy, and having an insane sugar rush from your surplus of candy for a few days after. Nothing can be bad about that, right?

Wrong.

Here are 12 candies you surely got in your pumpkin baskets as a small child that put a bit of a damper on festivities.

1. Candy Buttons

Every time I've gotten a sheet of these and tried to eat them, I end up ingesting more paper stuck to the candy than I do the colored dots. The candies don't even taste good anyway!

2. Atomic Fireballs

The only bad kind of Fireball, this little candy will instantly set your mouth on fire. Who wants to be tearing up from the heat of a hard ball of candy in their mouth while walking around the neighborhood? (You're already overheating in your Batman suit, that should be enough.)

3. Good & Plenty

Licorice of any type is not welcome in my trick-or-treating bucket. (Except Twizzlers. Those are always a win.)

4. Mints

Seriously? Did you just pull these out of the bottom of your purse? Did you raid your grandmother's stash that she keeps near her front door? How dare you call this Halloween candy!

5. DOTS

You would think that a fruity-gummy candy would be perfect for Halloween, right? WRONG. These little things are EVIL. Good luck opening your mouth or getting your teeth unstuck after eating just ONE of these pieces.

6. Runts

These little suckers could probably break a tooth if you crunch down on too many at a time. Not to mention you could easily choke on those little pieces! They may taste sweet at first but not after...

7. Tootsie Rolls

Like with DOTS, if you enjoy not being able to open your mouth due to these chocolate candies gluing your teeth together, then Tootsie Rolls aren't on your list of worst candies. Also, what a tease! If you intend on passing out chocolate candy, at least give me more than a small little nugget of it.

*Disclaimer: I will accept those fruit flavored Tootsie Rolls, those are delicious for some reason.

8. Bertie Botts

This shouldn't need an explanation. No one wants to eat jelly beans flavored with or names like dirt, grass, or vomit. I mean if you do, that's cool I guess. I, for one, just prefer my jelly beans to taste like (and be labeled as) cherries or bubblegum.

9. Double Bubble

This is the best gum ever...until it loses its flavor three seconds after you start chewing it. I don't know about you, but I don't want to waste my time on this and spend the rest of the night chewing on tasteless rubber.

10. Pretzels/popcorn balls/other snacks

No explanation needed for this one; NONE OF THESE ARE EVEN CANDY! Who gives out SNACKS instead of CANDY?!

11. Smarties

I don't want to spend my precious time wandering my neighborhood, just for you to give me small circles of chalk to choke down later. Not exactly a smart choice for candy to distribute.

12. Wax Lips / Any type of wax candy

First of all, this isn't candy either. Sure, the little bottles have juice in them, but I can't eat any of this wax stuff! What kind of cruel joke is it to give children these things on a day dedicated to free candy?!