Stories About Your Favorite Halloween Candy

The top 10 candies weren’t surprising, but the breakdown of the favorites by state offered some interesting results. For instance, Ohio’s favorite Halloween candy is Blow Pops. In Montana, it’s Dubble Bubble Gum; Georgia’s fav is Swedish Fish and Lemonheads for Louisiana. But none of these four candies made the top 10 for the nation. Here are those list toppers in order of popularity, least first, with morsels of their sweet—and not-so-sweet —origins mixed in.

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[mikea]

Everybody knows that Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were invented when a chocolate truck and a peanut butter truck collided with each other. Let's honour the memory of those brave first responders.

[skippermatt]

Wilbur is still around and well known to the people of Pennsylvania. The individually labeled Wilbur Chocolate candies are really just for promotional purposes, the real focus of the company is bulk orders of ingredient products for Cargill. BUT Wilbur Buds are still produced using the old recipe and remain far superior to Hershey Kisses (the dark chocolate ones are amazing)
Source: I used to work for the company in Lititz PA

[JC-ksyk]

The star on the wrapper getting you a free Tootsie Roll may not have been a real thing but a local corner store would honor it when kids came in and asked as he knew that we'd then proceed to lay out some "allowance" for other treats as well. This was back when Tootsie Rolls cost a few pennies or a nickel for two, BTW.

[IamSnowbird]

Wilbur Buds are still being made in Lititz, PA. They were a special treat when I was a kid. They are so much better than Kisses.

[flow]

Narrator is just fine, no disrespect, i just like that narrator guy. he makes half the fun of these greatly produced videos for me. anways, nothing but love for this channel <3

[maenad]

Thank you for actually acknowledging that candy corn truly is a “favorite” candy among enough people to justify its inclusion in this video

[gorewings-]

That owl gets more licks outta the Tootsie Pop than me.

[pasqualinamichelaconsiglio]

Timestamp:

Candy Corn: 0:35
Tootsie Pop: 1:38
Snickers: 3:57
Hershey's Kisses 5:04
Sour Patch Kids: 7:07
Hot Tamales: 8:43
M&M's: 10:14
Skittles: 12:01
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: 13:04

Favourite line: "M&M's, melts in your mouth. Not in your hands." "While that slogan may sound cute and somewhat, dirty... "

[sgvincent]

I visited the Hershey’s factory in Oakdale CA with my mother in law decades ago. The tour guide said the employees are free to eat as much chocolate as they like while on shift. Apparently after about two weeks, they stop.

[lilhoneydip]

You should do weird history on the flavor of blue raspberry

[greywater]

Candy corn with salted peanuts is the bee’s knees!

I can’t believe other people know about this!

[talanigreywolf]

Back in the 60's, we were able to turn in the wrapper with the star for another Tootsie pop.

[btetschner]

A+ video!
It is interesting how bulletproof these candies are, no one really wants to get rid of M&Ms or Snickers.

[frenchhens]

You can still find Wilbur Buds. The Vermont Country Store sells them. Until this video I didn't know what the heck they were.

[kandipiatkowski]

I used to take the starred tootsie pop wrappers in to the convenience store and got a free least for a while. I think I was still able to do this after I was an adult (I graduated high school in 1988), I just don't remember what year the promotion stopped.

[mrs.g.]

Halloween candy sold in stores today seems a lot less varied today than in the 1960's. I remember peanut butter taffy wrapped in black and orange wax paper, and (gone forever) those black and orange pea-sized balls in square cellophane packets. The black ones were licorice, and the orange ones were orange-flavored.
I also liked Red-Hots and Boston Baked Beans, and people actually used to hand out boxes of them and full-sized candy bars, too. I hated BB Bats, and knew a boy who loved them. We gladly traded my BB Bats for his chocolate candy.
My seasonal candy of choice (from what little the stores offer today) is Snickers, Baby Ruths, Pay Days, peanut butter cups, or just plain Hershey bars. Even when I was little, I found candy corn and Harvest Mello-cremes pretty to look at - but too damned sweet!

[PAAP_]

The narrator does a great job but the previous one made it more engaging. Could we get him back please? Love the channel!

[deadpoet]

Une summer when I was a kid and reeeeally bored, I counted the licks. It took 376 to reach the tootsie roll. Too remove the rest of he hard candy shell would have taken many more, so I believe the 2000 lick figure was based on complete removal. Once I reached the roll, I considered my job complete, crunched the rest, and moved on with the rest of my summer. 😉

[markriffey]

I love hot tamales and sour patch kids, but Reese’s and Twix really put me in the holiday spirit.

[JonahIronstone]

Three Musketeers bars were my favourite as a kid. Just between you, me, and the internet, however, I have a soft spot for those rock-hard molasses toffees in Generic Halloween Paper wrappers. They're terrible, but somehow taste like nostalgia.

Picking a favourite candy is a bit like trying to pick a favourite book-- you've got to narrow that down by genre. Favourite hard candy? Favourite gummies? Favourite chocolate?