# What Halloween Candy are you stocking? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709 "2004-10-28T19:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lillith\_Fair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lillith\_Fair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lillith_Fair)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/41 "2004-10-31T00:31:30Z")
Snickers & KitKats. I only bought two bags. Every year I say I’ll remember how many kids came by. I think it was @20. ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/42 "2004-10-31T00:33:42Z")
Every year, I seem to hear or read an interview with a nutritionist, who suggests handing out fresh fruit in individual zip lock baggies, boxes of raisins, granola bars, or reading material. I have to wonder if these people actually remember being a kid, and the disappointment accompanying getting a “healthy alternative”, rather than delicious candy. I’ll be handing out mini Hershey bars (I stick with the classics). ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/43 "2004-10-31T04:00:01Z")
The entire state of Michigan is most assuredly not TOTing tonight, perhaps some communities are but none that I know of. I was so good this year, swore I wouldn’t buy any of my favorites and eat them all night like usual. I totally caved when bopping out to Kmart for a last minute costume adjustment tonight, came home with whoppers, snickers, reeses, hershey’s smores, milky ways and 3muskateers, uff da. The rest of the stash came from a new old fashioned type candy store that opened this summer, about 500 pieces of penny candy, 200 lollipops and a big ol’ barrel of the pink bubble gum you always see this time of year. We get a lot of kids 'round here. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/44 "2004-10-31T04:08:42Z")
Last year we went through twenty good sized bags of candy. We get about 250 kids here in huge roving packs. My first year I was woefully unprepared and went back to the store four times. I will not make that mistake again and have just about every candy known to man. My duty tomorrow afternoon is to salt away a secret stash that does not leave the house. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/45 "2004-10-31T04:23:46Z")
pennies. Just kidding. We don’t buy any. My son and I trick and treat. He gets about 100 usually. I check them all, take out not well wrapped ones, ones he doesn’t like, which leaves him about 15. We hand out the rest! ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/46 "2004-10-31T06:39:53Z")
I bought the mdium sized hersey’s, the hersey’s miniature, some fun sized Mr. Good Bars, Mounds, Almond Joy, Heath Bars, mini reeses cups, starburst pops, and a couple large bags of assorted candies, which includes tootsie rolls, nerds, sweet tarts, runts, smarties, and my weakness Bottlecaps! ---
**Author:** ![keturah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/47 "2004-10-31T07:13:45Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I’m in **Gainesville** , Shibb. Somehow I’ve got the idea you’re in Tallahassee. 😕 I’m in Gainesville, too. Except for **bigbadvoodoolou** (who has moved)I had no idea there was another hogtowne doper. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/48 "2004-10-31T12:43:03Z")
Well, in our neighborhood, we had trick-or-treating yesterday afternoon, in conjunction with a block party. I usually buy one bag of _good_ candy (read: chocolate) and a couple of bags of cheap crap (Smarties, SweetTarts); the cute little kids who are _supposed_ to be trick-or-treating get the good stuff. The 16-year-olds whose idea of a “costume” is grease in their hair get the crap; also, anyone who comes to my house more than once gets crap the second time around. Of course, I’m not as bad as _some people_. I have a friend who lives up the block who is a dental hygienist; she gives real candy to the cute little kids and sample size dental floss to the ones who shouldn’t be out in the first place 😃 Now, in all this slamming of kids who are too old going out anyway, I’ll stand in defense of older kids who dress up to take out younger sibs. Especially if they’re not _angling_ for candy, I’ll offer them some anyway. ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/49 "2004-10-31T18:36:55Z")
I live on campus at a college and we had this program called Safe ZOne so all the little munchins could come and trick-or-treat with us. I was helping to run it, but my suite still had candy to hand it. We gave away a snickers and milkway mix, an m&m mix, a hershey’s mix, a Willy Wonka mix, and whatever it was my roommate got in the middle as we ran out. I thought that dealing with the 100~ kids in my parents’ was bad. Try 800 to 1000 running around a dorm complex in costume. I got hit with WAY to many plastic weapons. Oh well, it was fun. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/50 "2004-10-31T22:34:03Z")
Easy to eat chocolate or choc/peanut butter combos for the little kids–Reese’s, Almond joy, Hersheys plain; for the older ones, Tootsie rolls, Tootsie pops, Dots. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/51 "2004-11-01T02:12:17Z")
Mini Hershey Bars and Milky Ways. I couldn’t find any bottlecaps, unfortunately. So far we have had one knock at the door, and I doubt we’ll get anymore. This is why we buy name-brand candy that we like to eat ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/52 "2004-11-01T02:40:46Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Too much serious stuff in the world, we need a meaningless poll. I was at a Target and Costco today and loaded up on candy. The neighborhood we’ve just moved into is supposed to get lots of trick-or-treaters. I love that. I’ll probably take the Shibblets out while Mrs. Shibb gives out treats, but I still love to overstock. Here’s what’s in our arsenal: > > [ul] > [li]Individual Twix[/li][li]Small Rolos[/li][li]Fun-sized Baby Ruths[/li][li]Individual Reese’s cups[/li][li]108 piece fun-sized mix of Snickers, Three Musketeers and Milk Ways[/li][li]Slightly smaller mixed bag of fun-sized Butterfingers, Nestle’s Crunch, Chocolate and Butterfingers.[/li][/ul] > > That oughta keep 'em fed for a while. It’s got to be about 10-20 lbs of chocolatey goodness. In addition to the above quoted, we also had some KitKats and Nerds that Mrs. Shibb had laid in. Officially it was a buttload of candy. Between 5:45 and 7:45, Mrs. Shibb handed out candy, one piece per kid. Then I got home with the Shibblets; Mrs. Shibb took a walk around to see the neighboring houses while Ms. A and I gave out candy. Mr. C also helped occasionally. Ms. A gave out 2 pieces per kid. About 8:15 pm or so I put away the pumpkins and turned off the front porch light. We had 4 pieces of candy left. Then 10 minutes later the doorbell rang. Ten kids, mostly older, on the porch. I told them I only had 4 pieces left so only the 4 smallest kids would get anything. That’s it, full out of candy. I’m officially impressed. Oh, and “Hi”, **Ravenous Lady**. We sat out on the front step with the candy. This way no one got by without something. A lot of cool houses in our neighborhood, especially the ones giving out jello shots, beers or punch to the parents. Woot! Best kids place was a house at the end of the street that set up a cotton candy machine and gave out bags of fresh made cotton candy. ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/53 "2004-11-01T03:01:10Z")
I am so ashamed of myself, but not enough to confess. I ate all 2 pounds of Milky Ways. By the time I saw the first trick or treater, I had about 8 left. I shut the door and hid and ate them. LOL, I’m a BAAADDDD girl. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/54 "2004-11-01T04:31:12Z")
**Ravenous Lady** , I might have done the same thing if I’d bought Junior Mints or York Peppermint patties. I am a mint freak. Well, I managed to unload a lot of the Tootsie Rolls, suckers and Dots, but only by giving out three to each kid. It’s not that they weren’t out and about; it’s that most of the people on my street weren’t giving out candy, or were gone or in hiding; and I can imagine it must have been discouraging for the kids and their parents to walk nearly an entire block before happening upon a lighted house with treats. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/55 "2004-11-01T15:53:44Z")
> [@keturah](#): > > I’m in Gainesville, too. Except for **bigbadvoodoolou** (who has moved)I had no idea there was another hogtowne doper. Hi, **keturah**! That makes three I know of: me, you, and **Johnny Bravo**. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709/56 "2004-11-01T18:33:22Z")
> [@Ravenous Lady](#): > > I am so ashamed of myself, but not enough to confess. I ate all 2 pounds of Milky Ways. By the time I saw the first trick or treater, I had about 8 left. > > I shut the door and hid and ate them. > > LOL, I’m a BAAADDDD girl. That’s funny! I wish I had thought to do that! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-halloween-candy-are-you-stocking/271709.md?page=2)