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Tricks, Not Treats: 16 of the Weirdest Candies on the Market

Check out these 17 weird candies that will make the perfect "tricks" for Halloween given their odd flavors, appearances, and names.
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Top picks for trick-or-treat candy tend to repeat year after year thanks to the popular brands that make special miniature-sized treats just for the occasion. But if you're looking for spooky Halloween candy that will freak out your friends and family, we suggest getting some sweets of a much more peculiar variety. Check out these 17 weird candies that will make the perfect "tricks" for Halloween given their odd flavors, appearances, and names. Looking for more candy fun? Try to guess different Halloween candies just by their ingredients.
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Bean Boozled

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These jelly beans may look like the typical, brightly-hued, sweet variety, but beware! Jelly Belly has taken a page out of the Harry Potter series and created special candies similar to Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, which means there are some less than appetizing flavors hidden in the box. You might think you’re eating a peach, chocolate pudding, or buttered popcorn jelly bean when in fact those same color combinations could taste like barf, canned dog food, or rotten egg.

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Bacon Beans

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Unlike Bean Boozled, these candies are not trying to hide their identity. While they might look like cinnamon or cherry jelly beans, each bright red candy is bacon-flavored — without containing any actual animal products.

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Wasabi Kit Kats

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While U.S. Kit Kat bars are typically sold in just chocolate flavors, Japan has a whole slew of fun varieties, including apple, blueberry cheesecake, edamame soybean, and even wasabi. These spicy chocolate bars are sure to catch unaware eaters off guard.

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Meatball Bubble Gum

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"Hearty Italian style" might be a mouthwatering description for a real meatball, but do you want that flavor profile in a gumball? With these weird looking pieces of bubble gum, one thing is for certain: chewing on a candy meatball will not leave your breath minty fresh.

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Crime Scene Candy

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The idea behind these treats, rather than the flavor, is what's off-putting. Crime Scene Candy provides one vial each of candy blood, candy saliva, and candy urine, although they are meant to taste like typical sugary sweet treats.

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Insect Candy

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If you really want to spook someone with candy, perhaps the best "trick" is an edible insect lollipop. Hotlix makes a bunch of different insect candy varieties using crickets, worms, ants, and scorpions, like the Real Scorpion Sucker in blueberry (pictured).

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Candy Blood Bags

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The upside to using Candy Blood Bags instead of fake costume blood is that this gooey red liquid is edible and cherry-flavored!

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Pickle Candy Canes

These green candy canes may look like they are spearmint-flavored, but they actually taste like dill pickles.
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These green candy canes may look like they are mint-flavored, but they actually taste like dill pickles.

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Funky Fizz

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Funky Fizz colors look innocently normal, but this is not your typical candy. The flavored powders come in bacon, cola, wasabi, and banana.

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Hairball Bubble Gum

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Perhaps the grossest candy of the bunch, these bubble gum hairballs give us the shivers! Luckily the gumballs themselves are bubble gum-flavored, but it's still tough to get past the disgusting-looking exterior and the image of a cat coughing up a fur ball on the packaging.

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Cadbury Screme Egg

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Cadbury Eggs are known for making their big debut around Easter, but this special version is all dressed up for Halloween. This chocolate egg may taste the same as its springtime counterpart, but it contains a creepy looking, "ghoulishly green fondant center."

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Butter Sucker

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This Butter Sucker is exactly what it sounds like — a butter-flavored lollipop shaped like your typical dairy pat. Apparently, "You'll wish you had some candy toast to eat with it."

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Blue Cheese Lollipop

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An after dinner cheese course is pretty much the only connection between savory cheeses and dessert that should be made, but that didn't stop Lollyphile from creating a blue cheese lollipop. Apparently the pops started as a joke, but were added to the slew of crazy flavors (they make absinthe, breast milk, and Sriracha varieties, to name a few) at Lollyphile. We're not sure which is more frightening: the blue cheese candy itself or the model's (pictured) makeup and grill.

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Bloody Mouth Candy

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Like the packaging says, this Bloody Mouth Candy is a "mouth full." Upon sucking on these prank hard candies, the eater's mouth will automatically fill with fake blood. The folks behind the tricky red treats suggest eating the candies yourself to scare others as well as giving them out so friends snap when their own mouths fill with "blood."

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Toxic Waste

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If you're a fan of sour candy, Toxic Waste might just become your new favorite brand. The "hazardously sour candy" features an outer sour layer, a sweet middle, and then an extra dose of sour at the end.

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Thanksgiving Gumballs

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These gumballs are prepared for the next major food holiday after Halloween — Thanksgiving. While pumpkin pie and cranberry balls are an odd choice for chewing gum, it's the turkey gumballs that makes this tin of candy fall under the weird category. Chew them all at once and you can experience an entire Thanksgiving feast without the cooking or cleanup.

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