Your Favorite Halloween Candy That's Been Discontinued

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Ahh, Halloween. What's not to love about a nationally recognized day during which it's socially acceptable to wear a costume in public and perfectly fine to knock on the doors of strangers and demand treats? But there are certain Halloween candies that, sadly, aren't going to drop into your little plastic pumpkin again anytime soon because the powers that be decided those confections no longer need to exist.

Admittedly, some folks probably wish still-surviving — albeit controversial — candies would go the way of the dodo (looking at you, candy cigarettes). Other actually canceled candies, though, we're legitimately sad about losing and dearly wish the sugar gods would bring back. Maybe your go-to was an old-school sweet from the '90s. Or perhaps your fave was a bit more retro — a '70s treat that deserves a do-over. Whatever decade your discontinued delight hailed from, join us on this saccharine retrospective as we explore a flavor graveyard of bygone confectioneries. Did your favorite ghost of candies past make the list?

While Butterfinger bars are alive and well (and, incidentally, numbered among foods that don't taste as good as they used to, thanks to ownership and recipe changes), they had a younger sibling known as Butterfinger BB's that fans the internet over greatly wish would make a comeback. BB's were essentially Butterfingers miniaturized into little bite-sized, chocolate-covered balls. Despite their compact munchability and extensive promotion by some famous animated spokespeople from "The Simpsons," they now live on only in sweet memory. As one Redditor put it, "Bart Simpson gave us the world[,] and we squandered it."

Shock Tarts earned their name by being one of the most startlingly sour candies on the shelf, reportedly giving some eaters mouth sores if they ate too many of the taste bud-zapping treats in one sitting — but that was a small price to pay for one of the most intense flavor trips in candy land. The product's sharp, long-lasting blast of sourness was thanks to the inclusion of malic acid among its ingredients, and it was an eye-popping taste sensation fans have dearly missed since the candies vanished from stores. Shock Tarts were rebranded and reformulated after the original ceased to be, but the subsequent versions arguably never achieved that perfectly satisfying formula that admirers loved to pucker up with.

When the subject of fallen soldiers on the candy battlefield comes up, one that gets mentioned again and again is the Seven Up chocolate bar, which delivered the epitome of snacking variety with seven different compartments containing seven different fillings — it was essentially a sampler box of chocolates contained in one bar. The creamy, gooey, and chewy centers included flavors like mint, caramel, buttercream, and more. Some sources report the candy maker phased out this bar because, with so many filled chambers, it was a nightmare to manufacture, while others allege it boiled down to a trademark infringement lawsuit involving the 7UP soda brand.

Though they were rather short-lived, Twizzlers Twerpz gained a fierce fan following during their fruity lifetime, and multiple online petitions were launched by consumers after they were discontinued in the vain hope of bringing them back. Twerpz were born into the marketplace in 2004 but were only with us until 2009, at which point they disappeared from shelves, never to be seen, heard of, or gobbled up again. Offered in strawberry and orange flavors, they were bite-sized, with a tangy, foam-like fruit center that admirers couldn't get enough of and still longingly dream about.

Another nostalgic sweet from childhood has also vanished: Fruit Stripe gum, those small, striped sticks of chewiness that came in fruity flavors and featured a (very colorful) zebra mascot. The treat, which debuted in the late 1960s, was nixed by Ferrara Candy Company in 2024, never again to work our jaw muscles for a few precious moments of sweetness. Each pack contained little planks of gum in a flavor assortment that included Wet n' Wild Melon, Cherry, Lemon, Orange, and Peach, along with temporary tattoos of candy mascot Yipes the Zebra, which formerly decorated the limbs of countless chewers everywhere.

They were only around for three years, but Hershey's Swoops amassed an adoring fan base while they were here. The chocolate treats were shaped exactly like Pringles snack chips but without the salty potato element — nothing to see here but chocolate, folks — and they came in various famous Hershey flavors, including Reese's, York Peppermint Pattie, and Almond Joy. Swoops were with us from 2003 to 2006 and then, lamentably, reached the end of their flavor journey when Hershey's decided to pull the chocolatey plug.

Shark Bites were a popular gummy candy that bit the dust after recipe changes reportedly transformed them from the opaque, almost toy-like treats fans knew and loved into just another translucent, sticky gummy. After that, the market for these deep-sea treats quickly dried up. While they were with us, though, the frighteningly tasty candies included creepily realistic shark shapes that really made it feel like you were hefting a tiny fish up to your lips, along with gummy shark teeth and a fan-favorite Great White Shark Bite gummy figure. A White Mystery flavor was popular in the packages, too.

Another gone-but-not-forgotten candy is PB Max, a milk chocolate-covered confection featuring whole-grain cookie layers and gobs of peanut butter. Despite healthy sales and a devoted following, Mars elected to ax the snack — reportedly because members of the company's ruling family had a personal distaste for peanut butter, though others allege that manufacturing difficulties were to blame. Whatever the reason for PB Max's demise, people still clamor for the treat today, despite the fact that it's been gone since the 1990s.

Interestingly, Mars also did away with Peanut Butter Twix — another canceled goodie that fans have been mourning ever since it was snatched away (peanut butter and chocolate are divine together, after all). After having been previously booted from the Twix lineup and then resurrected in 2017, the treat once again vanished around 2020 and has yet to return. As of October 2026, online candy shops list the bar as discontinued.

From 1991 to 1998, Betty Crocker manufactured a beloved brand of gummies called Soda-Licious, with chewy, flavorful pieces shaped like soda pop bottles and drinking mugs, offered in beverage-inspired flavors like Root Beer, Cherry Cola, 7UP, Red Punch, Grape, and Lemon-Lime. The treats also featured a special sugar coating that created a tingly sensation in the mouth, imitating carbonation. Though the candies have been gone for many years now, fans still fondly reminisce about them and have even launched online petitions to demand the treat's return.

Kudos were well-liked, chocolate-covered granola bars popularized in the 1980s that Mars tried to market as healthy snacks. The hype worked for quite a while, until consumers started getting a little savvier and realized that Kudos were, in reality, candy bars. Mars attempted to retool the treats a few different times, including eliminating the full-body chocolate coating to make them look more like regular granola bars, before finally throwing in the proverbial towel and pulling Kudos from the product line around 2017.

Hailed by fans as the best gummy bears to ever hit the market, Amazin' Fruit Gummy Bears were touted as being made with real fruit juice, and the treats came in traditional bear shapes as well as special promotional figures from franchises like the Muppets and "Jurassic Park." Though many fans loved them, Amazin' Fruit Gummy Bears, unfortunately, went extinct. We now must turn to other gummy bear brands to satisfy our fruity, chewy wildlife cravings.

Hershey's answer to rival candy brand M&M's was a Hershey's Kisses spinoff called Kissables, which featured tiny Kisses (essentially chocolate chips, for all intents and purposes) that had a candy shell coating instead of an aluminum wrapper. Fans still miss the treats, which debuted in 2005 but were discontinued just a few short years later, in 2009. Recipe changes made early in the product's life helped spell its demise, as they altered the taste of the treats in all the wrong ways, and consumers noticed.

Fruit String Thing was an interactive, shoelace-type fruit chew candy that came in different, fun shapes attached to small paper surfaces for kids to peel off and eat, as well as play with. When you opened the package, you might find your String Thing artfully twisted into a pair of sunglasses, a rocket ship, a bicycle, a racetrack, or various other designs, and the sticky strings could also be re-formed into new images on the included paper, as well as braided, knotted, twisted, and otherwise playfully manipulated. The treat was with us from 1994 until the early to mid-2000s, at which point it disappeared entirely from store shelves.

Life Savers candies have been a household name for well over a century, but a spinoff treat launched in 1990 didn't fare so well. Life Savers Holes were meant to resemble the holes punched out of the middle of the original candies, giving them their ring-like shape, but the tiny treats were pulled from stores in 1991, shortly after their launch, due to a potential choking hazard related to the packaging. The candies were revived in new, safer packages not long after, but the damage was done, and Life Savers Holes were subsequently discontinued, having failed to regain any footing in the marketplace.