I Don't Want Candy

When I was growing up, one of the best things I liked most about Halloween was being to get all the candy that I could never get at home.  As I have mentioned before, I had a very overprotective mother.  So much so, that she only let me trick-or-treat at the homes of relatives.  She wouldn't even let me go to most of our neighbors.  What she really didn't like was for me to eat hard candies.  She was afraid I would choke on them, even up to when I was seven or so.  Unfortunately for me, that was the type of candy that I liked best.  It was mostly because they were fruit flavored, as opposed to chocolate, which took me years to really get used to.  Don't get me wrong, I liked chocolate back then, only when it was a plain bar with no extras.  Especially not nuts, really hate them.  Anyway, I preferred fruit flavors.  At best, my mother would allow the occasional lollipop, but only because of the stick.  Halloween would be the only time I could get other favorites.  The only other type of candy I really liked back then were Jelly Belly jelly beans, which really weren't a Halloween type of candy.  Whenever I would go out, I would try to get a bag, especially when I could get to choose my own mix of flavors.  After I got too old for trick-or-treating, whole new types of candy became available. I remember when Skittles first came out.  I could enjoy them everyday, almost.  Then came the late '80s Gummi Bear craze.  I really got into that for a few years.  As I got older, though, my tastes began to change and I slowly stopped liking candy so much.  Part of it was being stuck with almost a full bag of Halloween candy, year after year, when fewer kids showed up.  Another was my push into exercise.  I had to watch out for extra calories, you know.  Even at my current address, which gets a lot more kids, I still have a little extra candy leftover each Halloween.  This is because I try to save a least a few pieces back of my few favorites.  Nowadays, it is mostly bubblegum.  For the rest of the year, I barely even look at candy.  I must admit, there was one type of candy I could eat by the box, or two.  However, it wasn't for Halloween; it was for Easter.  There was this one brand of chocolate covered marshmallow egg that I literally couldn't get enough of.  I think it was called Luden's, but it has been decades since I have seen it anywhere, so I might be mistaken.  For some reason, I just loved the stuff.  It was only carried by one or two stores locally, and both went out of business decades ago.  It had only been a few years since I have tried looking for it again, but to no avail.  No other marshmallow egg  has ever compared to it.  I just wish I knew what became of it.  Still, there was no better candy.