What candies do you like?

You left out so many good ones:Rocky Road (especially the hard to find Mint flavor), Butterfinger Crisp, Uno, Krackel, White Chocolate Kit-Kat, Peanut Patties (apparently only found in Texas), those peanut butter trees you only find at Christmas, etc.

100 grand, Milky Way Simply Caramel, Rolos, Ghiradelli Milk Chocolate Caramel. Are you sensing a theme here? Just about anything chocolate with caramel.

And then we move on to the fruity candy’s. I am 47 and my niece introduced me to Sour Patch Kids last summer. Where were those when I was a kid?

Malted milk balls. I actually prefer Whoppers with chocolate-flavored coating over Brach’s with real chocolate coating. The real chocolate on the latter seems to me to have a fruity taste which I find distracting.

So far, I like everything in the poll and everything that’s been mentioned in the thread. I don’t eat a lot of candy, but everything (not containing coconut) that has been mentioned, I’ve enjoyed at some point.
I voted for Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups because, while I go through stages of what sounds good, I’ve never turned down a RPBC. I’ve been not in the mood for almost every candy listed, but I’ve NEVER have turned down a Peanut Butter Cup.

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What about Idaho Spud? (“It’s a candy bar…It’s a tuber…It’s BOTH!”)

Oh, puhleeze! :rolleyes: “Get with the Kids…Get with the Kool Kids!”

I really don’t like candy. Yes, I am a mutant. And yes, this adds nothing to the thread.

I’m missing the “sweet=tasty” gene.

Put pretzels or chips on the list, and we’ll talk :smiley:

**Zagnuts **are very good, in a toasty-coconut sorta way. I’ll also second Coffee Crisp and Aero bars.

And I think there has been no mention of **Sweet Tarts **(?)

And finally, no love for **Smarties **, which are criminally underrated.
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Didn’t see it in the poll, but I admit to having a weakness for white nougat. In fact, I’m eating a piece as I’m typing this. Damn, that’s good stuff.

Oh, and liquorice. Preferably of the sweet variety, though I have nothing against salt liquorice as well.

They sound awesome, something I would really like. But I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen them in person (or I just haven’t noticed). I think they’re a victim of terrible marketing. Awful name and bland packaging. Shame, because they do sound pretty yummy.

Here’s how my votes (<==) rank among the sorted results after 113 voters:



View Poll Results: Select all the candies you enjoy.  

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups    81 71.68% <==
Snickers                      60 53.10% <==
M&Ms (plain)                  59 52.21% <==
M&Ms (peanut)                 57 50.44% <==
Heath                         54 47.79% <==
Kit Kat                       54 47.79% <==
Butterfinger                  52 46.02% <==
Twix (regular)                47 41.59% <==
Starburst                     45 39.82% 
Hershey bar (regular)         44 38.94% <==
Almond Joy                    43 38.05% <==
Milky Way                     42 37.17% 
3 Musketeers                  41 36.28% 
Junior Mints                  41 36.28% <==
Hershey's Kisses (or Hugs)    39 34.51% <==
Hershey bar (with almonds)    38 33.63% <==
Mounds                        36 31.86% <==
Skor                          36 31.86% 
Skittles                      35 30.97% 
Dove                          35 30.97% 
Payday                        34 30.09% <==
M&Ms (almond)                 31 27.43% <==
Hershey bar (dark chocolate)  29 25.66% 
Caramello                     29 25.66% <==
What about...?                29 25.66% 
Baby Ruth                     28 24.78% 
M&Ms (peanut butter)          27 23.89% 
Symphony                      21 18.58% 
Twix (peanut butter)          20 17.70% 
Mars Bar                      19 16.81% 
Whatchamacalit                18 15.93% 
Mr Goodbar                    17 15.04% 
Reese's Fast Break            16 14.16% 
5th Avenue                    13 11.50% 
Reese's Nutragious            12 10.62% 

Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 113. 


It ought to be easy to copy/paste into NotePad or similar text handler and replace my marks with yours, if that sort of thing lights up your life! :slight_smile:

Fun poll, and I may have to try some of those higher-ranked things I never have before. Just for trivia’s sake, according to M&M's - Wikipedia M&M’s and I arrived the same year!

Back when I was a kid I liked in general plain chocolate [kisses] M&Ms because they didnt get all melty in my pocket, and junior mints at movies.

Currently, if I even indulge in candy, I go expensive and hit up the co-op for these hand made honey mint patties dipped in dark unsweetened chocolate. I get maybe 3 or 4 a year.

My hubby would be happy with a bag of sugar and a spoon …

My favorite candy in the world is Russell Stover sugar-free dark chocolate with raspberry souffle centers.
Second favorite is sugar-free Reese’s mini-cups.

I’m surprised it took this many posts to say Jolly Ranchers. They’re my favorite.

I love all types of sweets, though. :smiley:

My sentiments exactly. (Although to be picky, it’s “Raisinets”.) At my supermarket you can also get chocolate-covered blueberries and cherries (not maraschino cherries), which are fantastic. Bridge mix is good too. Also Turtles.

When I was a kid I used to like Chunky, but they seem to have changed the recipe or something.

No love for Crunchy Frog or Spring Surprise??? :smiley:

Weird how we have only a few of those in the Netherlands. Must have something to do with licences or something, we have a company Mars that produces for the Netherlands.

Snickers
Milky Way
Mars Bar
M&Ms (plain)
M&Ms (peanut)
Twix (regular)
Dove
Kit Kat

Our most sold bars are, in addition to those mentioned above,

Bounty (with coconut);
Nuts (nougat and peanuts)
Balisto (never had it)
Lion (puffed rice, caramel and chocomel)
Bros (plain milk chocolate with airbubbles).

Many Dutch classics are peppermint candy. Like King Peppermint, chewable Mentos, and chocolate covered thin peppermint syrup After Eight.

And drop, liquorice, of course.
Me, I like jellybeans and Katjesdrop, (hard sweet liquorice).

As to a preceding poster speculating that the recipe of Chunky must have been changed: Yes indeedy.
There are a bunch of chocolate bars that had a very distinctive taste when I was growing up in the 1960s (Chunky I seem to recollect was made by the “Ward” company; another is/was Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews) that were then acquired by multinational conglomerate/decades-ago Third World baby formula atrocity perpetrator Nestle, so all the damn bars now taste like … Nestle’s chocolate.

I’ll eat a nibble or two of a lot of candies, but the only type that I never have (nor will!) turn down is Almond Roca. My son always gets me one can for Christmas, and one for Mother’s Day, and that’s my “allowance” for the year…

I’m also an occasional fan of Smarties, Tootsie Rolls, Whoppers, and most flavors of jelly beans.

Does anyone else remember when SweeTarts were called SunTarts for a while?