GTKY 10/30 - Halloween Candy

jennifer_louise

In the great Halloween candy bowl of life, what's your top pick for type of candy? What kind do you avoid? 

gingermama29

Give me all the Reese's pumpkins

inthewoods23

I can't go wrong with Tootsie Rolls or Milky Way. For a sugar candy I love the little boxes of Nerds.

You can have all my Butterfingers. I hate those!

millpe

I go straight for the reese's and the kit kats.  I leave the smarties. 

emeraldduchess

Reese's for life! I also love Twizzlers and Midnight Milky Ways. Nope to the Smarties and Mike and Ikes/Good and Plenty/anything black licorice. 

jennifer_louise

@gingermama29 @emeraldduchess @millpe I'm all about the Reese's too, in any form. Small cups, big cups, pumpkins, I'll take em all!

When I was a kid I hated getting tootsie rolls but now as an adult I sort of like them. 

kmalls

In order of importance: Snickers, Peanut Butter Cup, Kit Kat, Almond Joy. 

This is the only correct answer. 

 

meri-mac

I love the Swedish Berries, Fuzzy Peaches and Wunderbars!

Keep the candy corn and tootsie pops (do they still make them?) away from me!

bows22

M&Ms forever! Last year we gave out kit kats and m&ms and I was appalled that every single kid went straight for the kit kats. Oh well, more for me!

agree with @meri-mac on tootsie pops. And yes they do still make them. Lollipops, yes. Tootsie rolls, yes. Combine them, no thanks. Yuck. 

feather_heather

@inthewoods23 - I'll take all of your butterfingers!!

kpearse99

Butterfingers, Snickers and Reese's pumpkins (I'll take the regular Reese's too but I only eat the centers of those... the chocolate to peanut butter ratio is SO MUCH better in the pumpkins!).  I'm also big on sour patch kids, Swedish fish and nerds!

I avoid the lollipops, tootsie rolls, and what I'll call "fake" gummy or chewy candies (you know, the kind that the old folks pass out)

emeraldduchess

How did I forget Twix??

inthewoods23

@emeraldduchess left twix or right twix? Haha

rachelredhead

Crunch bars are my world. Kit Kat would be a close second. And Swedish Fish for a balanced assortment of sugar forms. 

sojosono888

Anything chocolate! Snickers, milky way, 3 musketeers, Butterfingers, reeses.  The Snickers crisper is probably my current favorite! If you haven't tried it yet you need to!
I'm Not a big fan of anything not Choclate lol.  Gummy candys and stuff like that don't really do it for me!

rachelredhead

Side note, DH and I are doing Whole30 right now and this thread is killing me. 

jennifer_louise

@rachelredhead I probably should have put a TW on this thread for those avoiding sugar 😂

kiki047

Coffee Crisp would be my #1, and I'd have to fight MH for them too. Peanut M&Ms would be 2nd, followed by Kit Kat 3rd. I'm not a sweets/candy kinda person tho, and I gave it up even more once I was diagnosed with PCOS. My weakness are soft squishy gummies but I haven't seen fun-sized packs of gummy bears in a long time. Swedish berries or sour patch kids are too chewy.

ziggymama06

@kpearse99 I'm not a huge fan of Reese's but MH is so we have them.... I'll eat the center first to save the outside for last because that's where most of the chocolate is... I'll give you my centers of them 🤣 

AFM Twix, butterfinger, kit kat, crunch bars, take 5, mounds/almond joy, starbursts, and I'll take all of your lollipops!!!  Prefer the blopops but tootsie pops will do 😁

Avoid smarties and babe ruth bars... I basically like most candy 🥰 

ETA damn autocorrect

kpearse99

@ziggymama06 we are a match made in chocolate-peanut butter heaven!!! I'll give you all of the outsides 

emeraldduchess

@inthewoods23 LOL. Both! And peanut butter Twix over original ones. 

inthewoods23

@emeraldduchess i don't remember if I've had the peanut butter ones.

Also give me all the Reese's cups with Reese's pieces on the inside!!!

babyodo

I like pretty much anything (even those peanut butter taffies that come in the orange or black waxed wrappers, yum) except: Smarties, Dots, or 3 Musketeers. 

bluetickgal

I love anything chocolate, but my all-time faves are Milky Way and 3 Musketeers! I really do not discriminate...but @inthewoods23 @jennifer_louise you can have all the Tootsie Rolls!! 

emeraldduchess

@bluetickgal have you tried the birthday cake 3 Musketeers? So good! I miss the mint ones, though. 

KNB1027

I recently had to give up dairy so I am having to stare longingly at the Reese's and Milky Way we are handing out tomorrow. But for non-dairy candy I am a big fan of Skittles

@emeraldduchess - I completely agree on peanut butter Twix!

@gingermama29 _ Definitely the Reese's pumpkins or once Christmas comes around, the trees! I could eat my weight in those!!

charmedlifex3

I love those flavored tootsie rolls! And reeses. Whoppers are gross. 

bluetickgal

@emeraldduchess what?! I didn’t know such a thing existed!! I will be searching for them the next time I go to the store for sure!! Thanks for the heads up!  

inthewoods23

@KNB1027 yes!! Skittles!! I also love Starbursts for my non-chocolate candy. Fruity goodness 🙂

emeraldduchess

@bluetickgal I have only seen the birthday cake ones as rhe bite-sized 3 Musketeers, but they might make them in regular size. 

ramzlau

Milky Way, snickers, 3 musketeers for chocolates 

Twizzlers and Starbursts for fruity

Dots for nostalgia 

We has so many Whoppers left last year. 

faith_2911

For chocolate I like Twix, Reese's + Reese's Pieces, Dove dark chocolates, Cookies and Cream Hershey's, those cookie dough chocolate-covered bites, cookies and cream hugs, and Andes chocolate mints

For non-chocolate I like sour patch kids, sour gummy worms, Nerds, and those soft caramel chews (which makes me feel at least 80 years old ).

Despite my long list, I actually don't enjoy most other candies and actively dislike Laffy Taffy, Tootsie Rolls, chocolate with nuts in it, Twizzlers, Pixy Stix, candy hearts, most hard candies, Sour Punch Straws, Dots, and licorice. I agree with @meri-mac on the candy corn: noooo thanks!

I don't eat candy very often (more of an ice cream gal), but if I'm craving it, it's almost always the dark chocolate. 

Reading through this post made me hungry! 

ziggymama06

@faith_2911 I love the soft caramel chews too!  They get addicting and I cannot stop eating them though until I give myself a stomachache, so I no longer buy them!!  I'll save them until I'm 80   

b_1029

Late to this but I always go straight for Reese’s, Twix, and Kit Kats. I don’t hate anything fruity (like starburst, skittles etc) but usually skip over them in favor of chocolate. I will say I don’t like butterfingers or licorice 🤢

meri-mac

@faith_2911 & @ziggymama06 My boss brought in a large back of soft caramel for us and the clients. It is on my desk and it is calling to me