# Almond Joy (and other wonderful cheap candies) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016 "2016-09-15T17:03:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/1 "2016-09-15T17:03:26Z")
There are lots of cheap candies that I love – Snickers, M&Ms, Flake bars, Reese’s PB cups, and more – but Almond Joy is the only cheap candy I can think of that tastes like a gourmet confection… the others all taste like cheap candies (but good cheap candies). Are there any others? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/2 "2016-09-15T17:08:48Z")
I’m sorry but you are wrong. Almond Joys taste like death in a wrapper. Coconut _and_ almonds? You go too far, Hershey’s. If I had to pick, I would say something like a caramello. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/3 "2016-09-15T17:10:56Z")
Yeah, I get not everyone likes coconut (or coconut mixed with chocolate or almonds). For me, Almond Joy is sublime. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/4 "2016-09-15T17:12:04Z")
Not sure if I’ve had a caramello – I’ll have to try it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/5 "2016-09-15T17:14:37Z")
[dirty old man] “You want a Walnetto?”[/dom] ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/6 "2016-09-15T17:26:12Z")
If you can find them, [Bounty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_(chocolate_bar)) is the _ne plus ultra_ of candy bars (if you like coconut). It’s like Mounds, but light chocolate, and the coconut is more _ **there** _ than Mounds. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/7 "2016-09-15T17:27:24Z")
I would say that Dove chocolate is probably the cheap candy that gives more expensive brands a run for the money. I like it, but when I go out to buy Halloween candy “for the kids”, my heart belongs to: Reese’s PB cups (I love these more than premium PB/choc candy, even though I know they taste “cheap”. I love them.) Snickers Peanut M&M’s Almond Joy Pay Day In the non candy bar category, I like Kraft caramels, Sweettarts, Lifesaver gummies, and sour gummies. I am going to try to leave it alone this year, God help me. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/8 "2016-09-15T17:28:47Z")
I’m more into Butterfinger and Payday myself. Yeah, I know, you get the hard-candy tooth-shell from Butterfingers. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/9 "2016-09-15T17:33:25Z")
I hate caramel, and Almond Joy is not bad. They’re tasty. I have a candy dish on my desk and Mon-Thu it’s filled with mints. Fridays are Chocolate Fridays. (I used to have it filled with chocolate every day, but I had two co-workers who would clean me out before 10am. Do you think they offered to pony up? HA!) However, I do not share my Reese’s Cups. I will hand one out in an extreme chocolate emergency, but those are MINE. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/10 "2016-09-15T17:36:26Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > I’m more into Butterfinger and Payday myself. Yeah, I know, you get the hard-candy tooth-shell from Butterfingers. I was reading the wiki entry on corn flakes the other day (don’t ask) and it said that Butterfingers are made with corn flakes mixed with peanut butter. I did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/11 "2016-09-15T17:38:50Z")
I’ll see your Almond Joy and raise you a Zero bar. Meanwhile, _Petit Ecoliers_ aren’t wildly expensive, and they’re even French! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/12 "2016-09-15T17:46:53Z")
Do they still make Heath Bars? Toffee and chocolate is hard to beat. Also, Almond Roca. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/13 "2016-09-15T17:50:42Z")
I dont care for Almond Joy, but I do like a occasional Mounds. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/14 "2016-09-15T17:57:25Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I dont care for Almond Joy, but I do like a occasional Mounds. Yeah, Mounds is Almond Joy’s slightly classier cousin, though I do like an Almond Joy. On Halloween my kids get several fun -size Almond Joys every year and nobody likes em but me, so get em all. Yeah! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/15 "2016-09-15T17:58:23Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Yeah, Mounds is Almond Joy’s slightly classier cousin, though I do like an Almond Joy. > > On Halloween my kids get several fun -size Almond Joys every year and nobody likes em but me, so get em all. Yeah! The Chocolate on the Mounds seems pretty good, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/16 "2016-09-15T18:32:19Z")
When I was a kid, the local Sears store had a candy counter and my favorite was what they called “coconut haystacks”, which was chocolate-covered coconut. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/17 "2016-09-15T18:56:14Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Do they still make Heath Bars? Toffee and chocolate is hard to beat. Also, Almond Roca. Heath Bars. Yum. Next time try a SKOR bar. Dee-lightful. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/18 "2016-09-15T18:59:25Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > For me, Almond Joy is sublime. It actually works well with a bit of lime (or a few drops of lime juice), now that you mention it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/19 "2016-09-15T18:59:35Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > I was reading the wiki entry on corn flakes the other day (don’t ask) and it said that Butterfingers are made with corn flakes mixed with peanut butter. I did not know that. Aha! There’s a peanut regularity to my preferences! 🙂 Nor did I. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016/20 "2016-09-15T19:11:09Z")
Little Debbie’s Nutty Bars. Buy a whole box of them for less then $2. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almond-joy-and-other-wonderful-cheap-candies/766016.md?page=2)