In 1982 a pallet of chocolate Easter candy sat under a stockroom heater for a couple hours. The personnel office had a candy bowl of chocolate that never ran out. It was a very popular spot for over a month.
Not with me around. Gone in 60 seconds.
I have a candy dish on my desk this month. Currently popular are Werther’s Originals (wrapped) and some gummy ghosts I got at the grocery store. Next are the Hallowe’en jelly beans and the jelly pumpkins. The candy corn and candy pumpkins are so-so, and definitely just taste like sugar, corn syrup and food colouring. The molasses candies (wrapped) you only see at Hallowe’en? I’m the only one who’s tried those.
The Smarties (Canadian Smarties) and the M & Ms didn’t last long enough for a valid sample.
The overripe banana wasn’t touched at all.
It’s not my fault that I’m trying to quit smoking so I’ve got to have candies about, either.
Maybe I’ll keep the candy dish up through to the New Year, though. I’ll change to a different kind for November and again for December.
Muahhahahhahaha they all think they’re so healthy, but they aaaaaaaallll come to my candy dish!
The best part will be seeing who cums back for seconds!:eek:
You’re sick!
I wanna see who takes the firsts, never mind the seconds.
Would those be the sloppy type? :eek:
I am the keeper of the office candy bowl.
My only purchasing guidelines is I buy stuff I don’t eat myself. This keeps me from gorging myself silly.
The people here are generally good at resupplying the bowl. They know they partake and they see it as their responsibility to help keep it full. Of course, there are a couple of people who think the candy falls off a magical self-replenishing invisible tree (MSRIT), but fortunately the responsible ones outnumber those buffoons.
Whenever I feel like people are taking advantage of the MSRIT, I just let the bowl sit empty. When people make comments about it, I tell them that if they want candy, they gotta bring it. Since I don’t eat the stuff I buy, I can look them in the eye and say in complete truthfulness that I don’t eat any of the stuff, so I’m under no obligation to refill it.
Yet another advantage of using a dispenser. 
How about some sour patch kids?
The family went through a sour candy phase recently. Easily the most intense was sour Skittles. I don’t know if they come in candy-dish size packets though.
And for Hallowe’en you must get Gummy Body Parts.
As a beneficient teacher, I have a jar with candy always, for good grades and good behavior. But I have to keep it full of stuff I would never touch, or I’m doomed. The popular thing right now is Warheads – super sour things that send my middle schoolers into conniptions. Not very many people could handle eating more than a couple of those a day, probably. (Except my son – he of the lead tongue – I have to ration him.:rolleyes:)
Chocolate pudding.
Or orange peanuts.
Maybe both.
I used to fill mine with chocolate (Kisses, miniature Hershey’s etc) but it would be empty by 10am.
Now, Mon-Thu, I fill it with mints or Lifesavers. Fridays are chocolate Fridays, and I fill it with chocolate. The rationining seems to work…most times I have chocolate left at the end of the day.
When I was a receptionist, I’d keep a candy dish filled with all sorts of hard candies. Mainly it was for visitors and guests but the coworkers got wind and started coming by 2-3 times a day.
My boss loved the idea and when the dish was empty and I was out of candy, he started a “buy more candy” fund. Put a $5 in the dish. When everyone came for a piece of candy and saw the money in there, they went back to their desks and came back with various bills.
The only exception being the person making the most money (under the CEO and CFO) in the place…he’d take the most candy (usually a handful before he left for a client and a handful when he got back) but he either left nothing or just $.02. “I don’t eat much of it” he’d always say. snort
So, I started hiding the dish when I knew he was coming up. 
i have an m&m dispenser as well. it is the one where yellow m&m is in a recliner holding out the tv remote.
i would fill the m&m guy sporatically. that way it was a jackpot! kind of thing if the handle was pressed. the pres. of the company liked him so much that he would buy m&ms out of the candy machine, put them in the guy, and then take them out!
chocolate will always go quickly. your best bet is buy during sales and encourage your office mates to make you the penny bank. many people have dollars of pennies at their desks, these can be cashed in for candy.
hit the stores on halloween, or the day after and you can really clean up on small wrapped bundles of candy.
I have had a candy dish on my desk for about 15 years. It’s a great way to get people to do work you want. (“Hmm - if I sign that paperwork Mel is looking for and bring it by her office, I can score a krackel!!”)
For a while, I had a glass dish with the M&M’s and a bowl of wrapped candy. Until I worked in an office where one gentleman was the variety that Hazle is mentioning. I didn’t want to take the M&M’s away from the others, and I didn’t want to hurt him - so I started keeping a separate bowl that I would pull out for when he came around and hide the real one. Everyone but him knew that was his bowl.
Then CVS had a really cute candy dispenser and the problem was solved.
I also added hand sanitizer to that corner of my desk.
As to the OP, hard candy lasts longer.
Hard candy, all the way. Most of the time I have those disk shaped red & white peppermints (Bonus! Fresher breath!) but sometimes root beer barrels and sometimes butterscotch.
The candy that lasted the longest: Atomic Fireballs. A few people loved them, most never took a second.
(Pictures big bowl with a glop of unpackaged chocolate pudding in it)
“What the hell is that?”
“Chocolate Pudding. Help yourself!”
Butterscotch disks are my all-time favorite hard candy, so they don’t last long with me. Still, those or lemon drops probably last the longest in my office candy dish.
If someone in my office had a dish of Reese’s Cups on their desk I’d spend my entire day “visiting” them.