# What is your favorite way to eat REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510 "2012-05-30T04:10:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/1 "2012-05-30T04:10:07Z")
Subject says it all. Poll is coming. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/2 "2012-05-30T04:13:00Z")
Me?? I buy the king size on sale (has 4 peanut butter cups) and put them in the freezer. I only eat one cup per serving and love them straight out of the freezer. The chocolate has a crispy bite to it and for some reason, the peanut butter tastes stronger. At least that’s been my reaction since I was 9 years old. I also occasionally will take one out of the freezer and dice it up (about 10 pieces out of a cup). Makes a great topping for Vanilla ice cream. Mmm, Mmm, Good! Don’t do it often because of my waistline. I wouldn’t say Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups are my favorite candy in the world. That would be a Baby Ruth and Mounds is my 2nd favorite. But, Peanut Butter cups are a close 3rd in my life. What I eat depends on my mood at the time. They is all good!! I guarantee ya! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/3 "2012-05-30T05:52:39Z")
Off the shelf. I don’t eat many candies or candy bars, but I can’t stand them when they’re in the fridge or frozen. The chocolate gets a brittle, waxy texture to it that I don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/4 "2012-05-30T05:56:11Z")
Don’t eat them. Allergic to peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/5 "2012-05-30T11:09:27Z")
My choice was Other - Chopped up in an ice cream sundae. Otherwise, the peanut butter is just too dry. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/6 "2012-05-30T11:28:47Z")
It’s not my favorite candy, so I don’t get it very often, but I don’t have a preference. Frozen can be just as good as melting. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/7 "2012-05-30T12:27:39Z")
As directed on the packaging: I let them melt all over my naked body as I lie in the sun, then try to lick myself clean before the squirrels catch a whiff. I’ve been hospitalized twice. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/8 "2012-05-30T13:10:11Z")
Interesting that most people have responded refrigerator instead of freezer. I can’t tell much difference whether a Reece’s has been in the fridge or freezer. They don’t particularly seem any colder or harder in the freezer. I’m sure they are a little colder if you checked with a thermometer. Other candies with caramel (Snickers, Baby Ruth, Mars) would turn into a brick in the freezer. You’d break a tooth. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/9 "2012-05-30T20:07:53Z")
Has anyone ever noticed that if you close your eyes, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups taste almost exactly like halvah? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/10 "2012-05-30T20:25:14Z")
I keep the cups in the fridge, but don’t eat them straight out of the fridge. They are my post dinner dessert, but I take the cup out of the fridge just before dinner so that it has pretty much returned to room temperature by the time I eat it for dessert. I thought the poll question would be in what manner you ate the cup… I eat almost all the way around the circle, then chomp the remainder. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/11 "2012-05-30T20:31:01Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Other candies with caramel (Snickers, Baby Ruth, Mars) would turn into a brick in the freezer. You’d break a tooth. 😉 I used to buy frozen Milkshake bars (similar to a Milky Way), complete with a popsicle stick shoved into them right through the wrapper, from my high school snack bar. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/12 "2012-05-30T20:32:20Z")
I… I haven’t even considered eating them cold. I will rectify this situation this evening. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/13 "2012-05-30T20:38:24Z")
Other: my favorite way to eat them is in miniature form. The mini Reese’s peanut butter cup is the worlds most perfect candy edging out the full sized by just a bit with it’s superior peanut butter to chocolate ratio. I prefer them room temp, but cold is good too. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/14 "2012-05-30T21:18:29Z")
I nibble off all around the outside “ridges”, then when those are gone, I devour the center in one glorious bite. (Imagine a chipmunk with puffed cheeks.) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/15 "2012-05-30T21:34:18Z")
For some reason I thought you said “Reese’s Pieces.” The best way to eat those is obviously to sit across the room from a friend, each of you armed with a large bowl of Reese’s Pieces, a blowgun, and an open mouth. Eating Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups that way would be ridiculous, though. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/16 "2012-05-30T21:49:10Z")
I am not averse to the chocolate/peanut butter flavor combo, but Reese’s peanut butter filling has always been about one step above Elmer’s Paste to me in texture and consistency (yes, I remember tasting Elmer’s Paste all the way back in 1st grade). I’d rather buy a decent chocolate bar and dip it in a jar of (crunch, natch) peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/17 "2012-05-30T21:58:07Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > As directed on the packaging: I let them melt all over my naked body as I lie in the sun, then try to lick myself clean before the squirrels catch a whiff. > > I’ve been hospitalized twice. I hate when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/18 "2012-05-30T22:21:02Z")
Orally. As long as the chocolate isn’t actually melting I’m fine with it. Don’t need it chilled. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/19 "2012-05-30T22:30:31Z")
Off the shelf, or out of the fridge. I don’t freeze them. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510/20 "2012-05-30T23:23:34Z")
I don’t eat them often anymore, but as a youth I loved them right out of the freezer on a summer day after playing outside. As an adult, I still eat them frozen. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-way-to-eat-reeses-peanut-butter-cups/623510.md?page=2)