Most uniquely popular Halloween candies in the US

Dum Dums so fitting for Florida

Ah, the old folks home of America is finally getting hip for the youngsters by putting their hard candy on sticks.

Look at that bougie shit down in Texas.

And HI!
- What's up?
Ten y'all's say that's just because of people scrambling to find candy when they get trick or treaters knocking at their door and they forgot it was Halloween, and all they have is these things, leftover from last Christmas.

Op, you should add “uniquely” to the post title. That word in the title on the infographic is important. This is not showing the most popular Halloween candy, it’s showing candy that is much more popular there than the national average.

As an example, let’s say tootsie rolls are the 30th most popular candy in the us. But in the state of Stateland, it’s the 10th most popular, which makes it Stateland’s biggest deviation from the national popularity. This makes it Stateland’s most uniquely popular candy because it is much more popular there relative to the overall us. Snickers is actually the most popular in Stateland, but tootsie rolls show up on the chart as the state’s most uniquely popular Halloween candy.

That’s a very good point. I was being lazy with the title.
- Thanks!

Wtf is Texas secretly bougie or something?

That stood out to me as well haha.
- That's actually a pretty cheap brand if you don't buy them in convenience aisles, but there's also no way it's accurate.

Why Florida gotta do themselves like that?

They were confused by the survey and just self identified.

Now, I do like candy corn, but if that's the favorite candy in your whole state, there's something wrong with your state

This survey is based on candy bought, not favorite candy. MatPat made a video on why the reason candy corn is a favorite is because it is cheap in terms of per pound basis. If the task for people is buy 1 pound of candy, the answer is hot tamales and candy corn. Cheap candy.
- Just supports the idea that something's wrong down there. Candy's not free, but it ain't expensive, either. If all your entire state can afford is candy corn...?

A while back, I looked at a list of the most-widely-sold candy bars in the US, and it blew my mind how old they were.

Like, yes, they've seen formulas revised, and they aren't quite the same thing, but I'd have thought that the advent of technology would let people come up with new and interesting bars. Very few consumer products are as elderly as a lot of these and still selling widely.

I did a table with a list a while back -- the majority of popular bars are at least 70 years old. I don't want to do up a whole table right now, but let me pick a random one: Snickers.

Now, I've got nothing against Snickers. I like it. But Snickers hit the market in 1930. It's 93 years old. That means that in 93 years, we haven't been able to come up with anything sufficiently-better to displace it. That amazes me. In that period, we've seen radical changes to our diet and to technology. The refrigerator became widely deployed in the US, the freezer, the microwave. Automats came and went. Vending machines showed up. Year-round availability of many foods became the norm in grocery stores as transportation and storage capability improved. But the candy bar has remained surprisingly unchanging.

That's kind of how evolution works. Once you get something dialed in, it just kind of sticks around forever. Happens in other instances as well, like the fashion industry and Blue Jeans. Or Radio. When something works well, we just keep it as is.
- Snickers: the crocodilian of snacks.
Also amazed, also content if Snickers survived for as long as possible.
Don't fix it if it ain't broke ¯(ツ)/¯
I wonder how much Snickers have changed since 1930, if at all
- I'm guessing they used sugar then and corn syrup now.

I once found Twizzlers in a german supermarket for a lot of money. I bought it out of curiosity.

Do you really like that stuff? I found it disgusting and threw it away.

Densely populated areas buy the cheapest candy.
The size/price ratio probably beats most other candies.
- Wait, this data isn't per capita?
Never buy stuff from the american section. Shit is expensive as hell and not for human consumption.
- It's our easily shipped, shelf stable, garbage tier stuff.
I actually ordered some because I was curious and was sorely disappointed. And why is there mineral oil in the ingredients?
- They probably use it on the candy molds as a food safe lubricant.
Whereas I'm in the U.S. and I love European salty licorice (especially Dutch dubbel zout licorice). Almost no one here can stand licorice. When I tell them I like the salty kind, they stare at me in horror. When I tell them it's salted with ammonia salts, they look like they want to scream.
Twizzlers; let's take the good things about red vines and make them all bad.
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- Are Twizzlers and Red Vines not the same thing?? They look exactly the same but they don't sell Red Vines in my part of the world so I legit always thought they were the same.
My local supermarket has flaming hot cheetos, but they are 8.50€. They can't be that good.
When I was in California I had some Reese's pieces. They're were bloody awful.
Even if American chocolate actually tasted any good they would still be awful because the idea of peanut butter plus chocolate just doesn't work. It's not a peanut bar it's salty peanut butter in, theoretically, milky chocolate.
- Nah, peanut butter and chocolate is dope
- Most of the mass produced big name candy in America sucks. But man, peanut butter and chocolate is the bee's knees
- I mean, everyone has their own preferences, and some people don't like peanut butter. If you're one of those people, you're not going to enjoy peanut butter and chocolate and that's OK because everyone is entitled to an opinion, even very stupid opinions.

There's no way this is accurate.

I've lived in GA my entire life and literally nobody has ever handed out trolli gummies.
They all just go for those mixed bags that Hershey's puts out that end up in the Halloween sections of every grocery store.
The key word in this post is uniquely popular. This is most likely cherry picked data.

I grew up trick or treating in Texas. Never once did I get Fererro Rocher shit in my pillow sack.

I did get home made beef jerky on occasion. Spicy was always a disappointment, because my stomach can't handle much capsacin. I don't mean I don't like spicy stuff, I mean too much capsacin leads to ulceration and vomiting blood.

gotta be something in the water down in FL

Water, air, soil....
It's definitely full of dum dums

Georgia is my wife's fault for singlehandedly skewing the average.

Ferrero Rocher are candies? These are chocolate. It's a weird definition of candy to include them.

Anyway, the best candies for Halloween are Brussels sprouts.

Surely the same is true for m&ms or Reeses cups?
I thought candy was just generic term for all sweets/chocolatey items in the US to be honest. Is it not?
- It is. Especially in the context of Halloween candy.
Pretty soon, the kids won't have to worry about eating Brussels sprouts, because the Brussels sprouts will be eating them!

Oh wow, look at Texas getting all bougie.

God dammit oklahoma, why you always gotta make me ashamed to live here? We really are just the worst at everything.

California here. Would trade in a heartbeat.

Man. I. Tired. I kept reading it as Halloween candles and got so confused.

I mean this very sincerely and not as a joke. Just a friendly suggestion. You may want to get your eyes checked.
- Lol. Yeah I actually am going to an optometrist soon.

I'm surprised people actually like candy corn

I'd prefer it to licorice, which is on there in the form of Twizzlers and Red Vines.
- Red Twizzlers isn't licorice. It's just licorice like. The black is supposedly real licorice, but I've only seen it a couple times. And I never had a chance to try it.
I like candy corn. I wouldn't want to eat a bowlful of it, but a handful is fine.

Florida is Dum-Dums?! I love it.

So Alaska gives out Hi-Chews? As in the ones you find at convenience stores in Japan? (ハイチュウ)

Yeah, same thing! Hi-Chews are like Starbursts if Starbursts were good. We used to have them in the school store in high school in Colorado.

Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi: are you ok?

(it's a rhetorical question, I know you're not)

To be fair, candy corn gets a bad rap. If you try more brands you'll find some are actually quite good.
The worst brands? Popular ones like Jelly Belly. Jelly Belly candy corns taste like flavorless wax.
As a north carolinian native, I feel obligated to say that I left the state and only after I left did I get the bright idea to buy a heat gun and make a candy corn cob.
I don't even particularly like candy corn.

What the fuck is wrong with Maine, New York, California, and Nevada?

Dude I fucking love Red vines. I'll eat an entire tub by myself

From Texas, never heard of Ferrero Rocher, but after looking up the company and seeing images of their candies, yeah. Yeah, I've seen a ton of those. My grandparents always have a box of them.

They're pretty good, though I don't know if I'd have considered them durable enough for trick-and-treating.

Twizzlers are fucking disgusting

Fuck you, too!

Wtf is this East Coast West coast Twizzlers v Red Vines?

West Coast best coast once again.

I don't see 100 Grand bars anywhere on this map and I am calling Bullshit

You don't just give away 100 Grand.

They sell red vines in smaller sizes than "bucket" or is Halloween getting better

As someone who grew up in New Jersey, I just have to say: bullshit. Almost nobody liked twizzlers.

It's not rating the type that people like the most, just what sells the most (and that in relative terms).
I'm pretty sure that Tootsie Rolls are at the top of nobody's favorites list, but I remember getting an awful lot of them as a kid.
They're the cheapest snacks you can use to fill up buckets. When was the last time you saw Twizzlers that weren't given out for free? Nobody pays money to actually eat Twizzlers.

The Hawaiians are the only people who know what's up. Why is everyone else got bullshit and the Hawaiians are out there giving kids posh dinner party chocolate balls

Texas?
- Sneaky cowboys! They're right there, hiding in plain sight.
  I didn't see them initially either

And The Onion version

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As someone from NM: what the hell are tootsie pops?

A hard round lollipop with a tootsie roll center.
Good question

Hi-chew? If Alaska wasn't already detached I'd make a petition. Who the fuck likes hi-chew?

Who the fuck doesn't like hi-chew's?
- What the fuck is hi-chew?
- Sir we have Starbursts. We are civilized.

No way people in Mississippi eat candy corn. It might be where all the candy corn from the rest of the country gets dumped, but no way anyone eats it.

Some people love candy corn, the pumpkins are even better
It's the only time they eat any vegetables, so they have to fill up.