Halloween is finally upon us! My favorite holiday and the day that my soul is the happiest.
Halloween season doesn't just bring on awesome movies, costume parties, and fake spiderwebs. It also brings lots and lots of candy. Bad for people on a diet, but great for kids going out trick-or-treating.
There's candy in the stores all the time, sure, but Halloween is a holiday where you can chow down on the candy that you don't really get to eat the rest of the year. I've picked up a Hershey's bar at CVS in July when I want to satisfy my craving for chocolate but I've never walked out of a store with a bag of Whoopers or a Butterfinger in my hand. That's because some candy is just special to Halloween. Kind of like how a Cadberry Cream Egg is specific to Easter and candy canes for Christmas.
I mean, candy corn is the candy people think of the most with Halloween, whether you love it or hate it, but no one receives candy corn in their bag while trick-or-treating. You get the really good stuff like Snickers and Twix.
Of course, there's always houses that give out other more "unique" things and I don't really know why people get creative like that because kids just want the classic stuff like Pixy Stick and chocolate bars.
My favorites have changed over the years as I've gotten older but if someone was to ask me my favorite Halloween candy right now I would have to say KitKat. Such a classic. It's satisfying to eat because you can break it off in neat proportions and if you accidentally eat too much you don't tend to get too sick (which you shouldn't do by the way). I love the white and orange ones too! On the more sugary, sweet side my favorite candy is Swedish fish but getting that on Halloween when I was younger was like striking gold. So because it wasn't as common, Starburst moved to the top of my list.
So as a friend and I were filing candy bags (full of Milky Way, 3 Musketeer, Snickers, Starburst, Twix, and Skittles) for Halloween night at my house, we were discussing our favorite candy and what we like to eat at Halloween now that we're in our 20s.
This prompted me to take a little poll through text and Facebook, pulling from family and friends, and I just asked them what their number one, all-time, favorite Halloween candy is.
Here are my results: coming in last place were candy bars like Payday (although this one is highly underrated), Crunch, and peanut M&Ms. Rounding out the middle was Milky Way and Snickers. Second place was given to KitKat and coming in with a landslide at first place was Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Now, I didn't ask anyone of trick-or-treating age this question, but I don't think that matters too much. So when you're in the candy isle for next Halloween, whether you're throwing a party or passing out candy, just remember that your safe bets are most likely candy bars like Reese's, KitKat, Milky Way, and Snickers.
Happy Halloween!
