Boo! It's time for Halloween!
What's your favorite candy to get?
What's your least favorite candy to get?
Boo! It's time for Halloween!
What's your favorite candy to get?
What's your least favorite candy to get?
When making sales calls I open the package and stack these up and reward myself after each call with a specific amount. Then I got called out with high sugar levels and had to stop.
J.A. Ackley said:
What's your favorite candy to get?
An open one. 
There aren't really any candies I outright dislike, but I don't think I'd enjoy my Halloween if my bag was mostly Mounds bars, candy corn, Hot Tamales and/or Circus Peanuts. (Though I have been known to dabble in Cicuis Peanuts on occasion.)
One of my recent favorites that I feel like I can't get enough of? Caramel Creams/Cow Tales. It just scratches an itch.
Reeses peanut butter cups. /thread.
In reply to Colin Wood :
The same company makes the Bullseyes and Cow Tails. We're not allowed to bring these into our house as a bag will clog up your colon. (JK)
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Oh yeah, I discovered that they are made by the same company recently.
I have a 5-pound bag of Caramel Creams on my Amazon wishlist.
Favorites are mostly chocolate. We usually give out Reese's Cups and Snickers. This year I think we have Butterfingers and Take 5s instead.
Least favorite is Necco Wafers or candy corn. But I could eat candy corn if I had to.
Like: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. The grand champion of Halloween candies. Honorable mentions go to Snickers, Twix, and Kit-Kats. They are all solid.
Dislike: Necco Wafers. Literally the "Trick" in Trick or Treat. They shouldn't be classified as food. They may look like candy, but taste like 1950's wallpaper paste mixed with asbestos, chalk dust, and mold.
The first Twizzler from a "fresh" bag is amazing. The 2nd or 3rd are ok. The rest taste like plastic but it doesn't even slow me down.
Individually wrapped Twizzlers have an odd texture and are much more sticky.
That said, regarding Halloween Candy, what I am looking to steal is:
Gold tier:
3 Musketeers
Milky Way Midnight
Crunch
Silver tier:
Rolos
Snickers
Twix
Bronze but I'll still eat it:
Baby Ruth
Butterfinger
Individual Twizzlers / small 2 pack (see above)
Pass unless I'm desparate:
Most other non-chocolate items
And regarding Reeses: The dark chocolate PB cups from Trader Joes are 100x better.
We give out Hershey's Miniatures.
I'd rather have the Smarties pictured above.
100 grand bars are the new gold standard in our house.
Reeses can't be denied.
Skittles are fine as a non-chocolate option.
Starburst are very risky. Is it gonna be two red ones? Or a pink and a yellow?
Cadbury mini eggs -- except we're about 6 months away from them being available in stores. Grr. :)
I got a bad of Kinder Bueno last year. Those things were great. I hope the kids appreciated them.
For American mainstream: Almond Joy, York Peppermint Patties
Unpopular opinion - Reese's PB cups are mid-tier at BEST.
the peanut butter is grainy and overly sweet, the chocolate is almost actively bad, and I don't remember the last time I was able to peel one clean.
There have been some offshoots that have been good. The Reese's with the potato chips in were great. The salt cut the sweet on sweet that made my teeth hurt. The Elvis ones they made like 15 years ago were INSANE. any time dark chocolate gets involved, they're a lot better. I am cautiously optimistic about the PBJ ones due out q1 2025.
That all being said, the single best peanut butter cup ever made is/was the now discontinued butterfinger peanut butter cup. I will die on that hill.
Yea, Reese's peanut butter is gross. Boyer peanut butter cups, on the other hand, are what Reese's wish they could grow up to be.
Otherwise, I'm in the Twix and peanut m&m camp. I want to still like almond joys, but the last several I've gotten, from various places, have tasted really old upon opening.
We kind of spoiled ourselves last Xmas buying European Advent calendars after the holidays were over and American chocolate products are pretty gross tasting now.
How licorice hasn't been mentioned as awful throw it in the trash yet?
Not a candy eater.
But candy corn is nasty. I bought the big bag at one of the wholesale stores as a joke for a coworker who welcomed us to bring in candy, and I must work with heathens. They gobbled that crap up like it was candy...I thought they'd call me an shiny happy person and it would sit around until it got stale and they threw it out. Apparently, the joke was on me.
I used to be a traditionalist, leaning mostly chocolate of some sort (Twix, Snickers, RP Cups, etc.) but I have added sours to the mix. Try some Nerd clusters. Pretty addictive.
For dislike? Any licorice, ESPECIALY if it is from Iceland!
Wait, wait, wait....
Not liking candy is a thing??? Huh, guess I never got that memo.
Oh, also:
As a lot of you know, I'm into health and nutrition. When I have my "cheat meal", candy is always a part.
Previously mentioned, Twizzlers. I don't care if it's the first one or the last one in the bag. Yes please. Ditto for Swedish Fish. Pretty much any gummy fruit candy has a place in my stomach.
Chocolates I'm pretty mixed on. Reeses, M&Ms, 3 Muskateers, et al...100% yes. York Peppermint Patties, chocolates filled with cherry goo, etc... hell to the no.
codrus (Forum Supporter) said:Oh, also:
There's a Ferrara Pan outlet store in Forest Park, Illinois - deadly place - I'd buy jawbreakers by the 5# bag......
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Did you know they make Mega Smarties? I just bought some Sunday at the Dollar Tree by my house.
They didn't last all but 15 minutes lol
We've been giving out KitKats lately. I really like Reese's Cups myself, but I figure there's enough kids out there with allergies that if I'm giving out full size bars, might as well not have peanuts in it.
I try to snag Jujyfruits from my neighbors who get the cheap assortment bags. Wouldn't want them year round, but I'll deal with getting them stuck in my teeth for one night.
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