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We are divided in my household. My wife finds plain M&Ms to be worthwhile, and I prefer candy that is good. Every Costco candy bag is like half ballast in my estimation. Give me cash with some depth of personality: Snickers, Butterfinger, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, and the like. I hate plain chocolate bars, plain M&Ms, sweet tarts and Three Musketeers.

How do you prefer your toothrot?

Halloween specifically?

Not complete without candy corn. Especially if you can find the good stuff.

Best: Sixlets

Worst: Candy Corn

Hersheys anything is the worst.


I've yet to try any US candy that would qualify as "good", though.

Candy corn, pretzels, M&Ms, peanuts.
Mix in a bowl.
Profit.

If you're going to mix things in a bowl, surely you just mix plain M&Ms and Skittles - and don't tell people.

I'm going to have to say the small boxes of Milk Duds are the worst. I base this on the fact that while eating one last night it pulled out my dental bridge.

Damn it!

Candy Corn Pumpkins are my go-to Halloween candy if I am going traditional. Everything else is just common everyday stuff, just on Halloween.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I hate plain chocolate bars, plain M&Ms, sweet tarts and Three Musketeers.

Blasphemy!!! I might prefer peanut M&Ms, but I'll take anything chocolate.

My kids, on the other hand, want all the Nerds / Air Heads / fruity flavored things. I almost feel I could eat half their candy without them minding so need to watch out for that lol!

Candy corn is pretty good, but to me it's not so much a Halloween thing but a fall thing. Honestly I'll eat just about any candy, though.

I enjoy candy corn up until about the sixth one I eat.


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 RiTides wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I hate plain chocolate bars, plain M&Ms, sweet tarts and Three Musketeers.

Blasphemy!!! I might prefer peanut M&Ms, but I'll take anything chocolate.

My kids, on the other hand, want all the Nerds / Air Heads / fruity flavored things. I almost feel I could eat half their candy without them minding so need to watch out for that lol!

I’m at the age and weight where I just can’t indulge in anything just because it’s chocolate. Plain M&Ms are like the half-heated foreplay of the candy world, when all I really want is the (candy) kink.

Maoam's of any description are best, for me.

They are legal crack, especially the pinballs.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
Maoam's of any description are best, for me.
They are legal crack, especially the pinballs.

Oh gods, yes. I'm so glad Haribo saw fit to bring them over here, they've been around in Germany for so much longer.
Not sure if you can get them in the US, or if they're known by a different name...? I get the feeling you guys'd love 'em too.

Up at the top are, I think, peanut butter cups. I think butterfingers are a strong contender. I also like M&Ms. I love gummi bears but I don't think I've really seen them in Halloween candy.

In the absolute bottom would have to be candy corn. I am down to eat 2 or 3 but that is enough for literally a whole year. Same thing with circus peanuts - nauseatingly sweet.

Milk Duds and Raisinettes are in a class of candy I won't eat for free, so I'm not sure if they can compete with even the very worst of the above candies.


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 CptJake wrote:
I'm going to have to say the small boxes of Milk Duds are the worst. I base this on the fact that while eating one last night it pulled out my dental bridge.

Damn it!

I broke a tooth on a Sara Lee brownie with some kind of candy bs on top. I've never eaten a Sara Lee anything since.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I’m at the age and weight where I just can’t indulge in anything just because it’s chocolate.

Same, sadly! Which is why I have to pick my spots but if I'm going to try something, table stakes are that it has to be chocolate-something.

I forgot to mention TimTams, since they're not really Halloween candy around here, but are my favorite whenever I can get them "imported"

Fruitella

imo, Candy Corn is just a step below Peeps in bad holiday candy.

Peeps are only good for the microwave.


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Do you guys segregate your candy by activity or purpose? For example, my movie theater candies are skittles, Reese’s pieces and Red Vines. I don’t tend to eat them outside the theater experience, and Butterfingers or PB cups don’t work in the theater.

I segregate my candy according to 3 broad categories:

- yet to be purchased
- within reach
- already gone

Naturally, the jump from steps 1 to 2 takes a lot longer than 2 to 3...

I like peeps but... only when they are stale. They get a nice crunch to them.

I do segregate my candy by experience, and also my beverages (!). I'd never eat a Kit-Kat outside of a theater, but won't really mess with anything else within one. Same for root beer, also, but a little less rigidly. I will sometimes drink root beer outside of a theater, but... man - I once got a cherry coke in the theater because they were out of root beer, and the entire movie, I'd take a sip and go bleh what, oh yeah. Did that for 2 hours.

I'm weird I guess.

Ohh, that reminds me. Anyone even remotely interested in Kit-Kats - go take a look at which Japanese flavours you can get on import. The variety is absolutely nuts over there. Only setback is that you have to watch the sizes, a lot are sold as the smaller fun-size kind (spoiler alert, corpos: there is NOTHING fun about smaller candy!!).

I can personally vouch for the awesomeness of the following flavours:
Lemon
Red Apple
Apple Pie
Banana
Raspberry
Blueberry
Strawberry Cheesecake
Wasabi
White Peach
Melon
Rum & Raisin
Sakura Mochi

You left out Green Tea but accidentally included melon. That melon flavor was nasty.


Speaking of weird, mostly nasty candy, on some religious occasions we have halvah* or cookies with carob instead of chocolate.


*Halvah’s slogan should be, “Bet you can’t eat one.”

Candy Corn is one of the few Halloween specific candies I can think of and it is an abomination.

Personally I detest the Nestle variety box that has kitkat, coffee crunch, smarties, and aero. All bland milk chocolate that is overly abundant in hand-outs for trick or treating.

Cinnamon hearts, candy corn and the crappy gummies that are shaped like teeth or lips are all at the bottom of the barrel for me.

I find M and M's to be fine, though personally I prefer the dark chocolate and mint version if I can choose a variant.

My guilty pleasure for Halloween is tootsie rolls as well as airheads. If there's any cookies and creme candy bars they disappear immediately alongside Twix and Mars bars. For some reason dots candy is something I really like during Halloween as well.

Tootsie Rolls are the kind of candy no one buys on purpose. They’re always part of a big bag of candy, which makes them Halloween specific candy by accident rather than design.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Tootsie Rolls are the kind of candy no one buys on purpose. They’re always part of a big bag of candy, which makes them Halloween specific candy by accident rather than design.

I do. I'll get the urge to go looking for a little bag of the normal ones and another of the flavored ones.
Just... not this year.

I have not had a halvah since I left NYC. I remember them being best in... very small doses.

@ Voss, the fruit flavored ones are pretty good, but I don’t understand the appeal of OG tootsie rolls. They make Hershey’s milk chocolate taste like real chocolate.

 Ouze wrote:
I have not had a halvah since I left NYC. I remember them being best in... very small doses.

“best”

I’ve heard from my aunt that sugar-free halvah will go through a person like Haribo gummy bears through a goose.

I surely never ate enough of one to test that out

Eating a full-sized halvah should only be done as a trial of endurance.


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 Super Ready wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
Maoam's of any description are best, for me.
They are legal crack, especially the pinballs.

Oh gods, yes. I'm so glad Haribo saw fit to bring them over here, they've been around in Germany for so much longer.
Not sure if you can get them in the US, or if they're known by a different name...? I get the feeling you guys'd love 'em too.

Hi-Chew? Those are pretty great.


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 Super Ready wrote:
I segregate my candy according to 3 broad categories:

- yet to be purchased
- within reach
- already gone

Naturally, the jump from steps 1 to 2 takes a lot longer than 2 to 3...

Within reach is a dangerous place to store candy.