Halloween Candy - What's your fav?

[noisyturtle]

Even if you don't go Trick or Treating, it's hard to avoid candy this time of year. Every office and break room has a bowl, and you know you're sneaking a few from the bags you bought for Halloween. What's your favorite? Caveat is they got to be available in Mini/Fun Size

For fruity, I love Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish, if they could put the SPK coating on SF it would go so crazy!
Chocolate, it's gotta be Twix. Snickers is close, and they no longer make Peanut Butter Twix(which is just a braindead move)

[tp4tissue]

It's not so much that candy is all that bad,  it's that it changes people, in the same way that alcohol changes a person. It drastically impacts one's expectations and perspective on life.


If Tp4 never got hooked on the damn Oreos, he wouldn't be so unhleathy.

[fohat.digs]

A stupid thing that I carry from childhood is candy corn. It is an absurd confection and I only eat it around Halloween, but it brings back memories.

[smarmar]

Anything chocolate-based is my jam: Hershey's, 3 Musketeers (love that nougat ), M&Ms.

I've spent my entire life trying to like candy corn, but it never worked. I haven't eaten one in years. I gave up, and I'm better for it.

I've always been drawn more to Easter candy than Halloween, probably because everything is chocolate. And the Cadbury's Cream Eggs! Best candy ever made.

[Sniping]

i've always enjoyed eating reeses cups. as an adult, I find it harder to enjoy since they seem so sweet every time I eat them now, but as a kid I feel like you don't have the same perception about sugary foods. i've had a lot of those healthier alternatives where they put in unsweetened nut butters and use dark chocolate (can't say that's much healthier honestly..), but I'll always go back and have a reeses cup once in a while.

[smarmar]

i've always enjoyed eating reeses cups. as an adult, I find it harder to enjoy since they seem so sweet every time I eat them now, but as a kid I feel like you don't have the same perception about sugary foods. i've had a lot of those healthier alternatives where they put in unsweetened nut butters and use dark chocolate (can't say that's much healthier honestly..), but I'll always go back and have a reeses cup once in a while.

I'm not sure if Reese's changed/cheapened their recipe, but those cups aren't as satisfying as they used to be. They seem more oily and sickeningly sweet. Maybe my tastes have changed.

[Sniping]

with all the ridicule junk food and candy conglomerates get these days, I think it’d be unlikely they’re making things more sugary than they already were. maybe? it’s gotta just be that we get more sensitive to sugary things with age.

[noisyturtle]

I remember reading a long time ago(2016/17) that they changed the chocolate for reese's cups to a cheaper, more waxy one.
But I agree the filling tastes significantly worse now as well. Cloyingly sweet, and too crumbly/dry.

[smarmar]

I remember reading a long time ago(2016/17) that they changed the chocolate for reese's cups to a cheaper, more waxy one.
But I agree the filling tastes significantly worse now as well. Cloyingly sweet, and too crumbly/dry.

Waxy! That's a more fitting description than oily. Also, yes, they seem drier now. Also, Hershey's milk choco bars are almost elastic now. Not sure if they'd always been that way, but when they're warm you can actually stretch the bars if you handle it just right. Probably all the gums and wax they shove in there nowadays.

[Sniping]

yeah, that's totally possible. changing up the ingredient sourcing and composition without affecting the nutrition facts or ingredients list.