# What's your favorite Easter candy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357 "2011-03-12T00:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/21 "2011-03-13T19:36:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Now that we’re grown ups, we can splurge and get the good, solid chocolate bunnies instead of the cheap hollow ones you find in Easter baskets. 😃 Yes indeed. Dark chocolate ones, even. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/22 "2011-03-13T20:29:20Z")
Jelly beans, but not those fancy-flavored ones, like Skittle jelly beans or Jolly Rancher jelly beans. Good old-fashioned Brachs. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/23 "2011-03-18T18:45:47Z")
> [@Elysian](#): > > [These.](http://www.candywarehouse.com/marshmallowegg.html) > > Yes, I’m the only one who eats them. It’s hard to finish them all every year, but I do my best. I used to like those when I was really young but found them too sweet as I got older. Unfortunately, my parents … uh … the Easter Bunny didn’t realize this and kept giving me them rather than the chocolate ones I really liked. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/24 "2011-03-18T19:03:39Z")
I voted for the Mini Eggs, but I suspect I’d like the peanut butter eggs better if I ever encountered one. I’ve always disliked the filling in Cadbury Creme Eggs. More for my brother, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/25 "2011-03-21T17:38:34Z")
Other : [The Malteser Bunny](http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/analysis/mars-is-set-to-launch-the-maltesers-bunny/2063931.article). [Picture and in-depth analysis here](http://www.chocolatemission.net/2010/02/february-10th-easter-super-post-battle.html) ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/26 "2011-03-21T23:52:16Z")
I voted for peanut butter eggs. I am ancient enough to remember when the only variation of the Reese’s peanut butter cup arrived for a small window of time around Easter. There were no Reese’s peanut butter hearts for Valentines Day, pumpkins for Halloween or trees for Christmas–the only time they unleashed something aside from the basic two-pack was eggs for Easter. Goddamn, they were something special then, and I ate as many as I could before that window closed. Never been a fan of the Cadbury Cream Egg. My kid is hooked on the Cadbury Mini-Eggs, while my husband can’t get enough jellybeans. The Brach’s ones, as **Walkabout** mentioned. Nothing else will do. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/27 "2011-04-15T05:36:59Z")
Bumped as Easter approaches. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/28 "2011-04-23T23:32:07Z")
Bumped because Easter is tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/29 "2011-04-23T23:59:37Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Jelly beans. Easter is the one time of the year that they sell bags of the black ones. I luv the black ones best. The others are good too. > > The other candys are too sweet. > > As a kid, I liked the big chocolate rabbit. Best part of my Easter basket. I voted jelly beans too, but I will eat all of them but the black ones. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/30 "2011-04-24T00:01:05Z")
As for Cadbury creme eggs…I’ll happily bite them in half and then lick out the contents like an adder, but the chocolate shell? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/31 "2011-04-24T00:03:17Z")
mmmm, Easter. Tastiest holiday of the year, imo. (Eating a mini cadbury as we speak.) ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/32 "2011-04-24T00:19:13Z")
Reese peanut butter cups are the best candy ever created, so anything that is a form of a RPBC is the best. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/33 "2011-04-24T03:49:01Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Jelly beans. Easter is the one time of the year that they sell bags of the black ones. I luv the black ones best. The others are good too. > > The other candys are too sweet. > > As a kid, I liked the big chocolate rabbit. Best part of my Easter basket. I’ve never seen whole bags of black jelly beans but if I had I’d get them. My sisters didn’t like them but I did!😃 ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/34 "2011-04-24T03:53:12Z")
Will I get banned for wishing I could vote for really stale Peeps?? And now they have Easter Candy Corn!! yay!! Cadbury eggs gross me out like Egg McMuffin. It’s the big yellow eyeball. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/35 "2011-04-24T05:57:30Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Will I get banned for wishing I could vote for really stale Peeps?? Not at all. There’s no distinction between fresh and stale Peeps so go ahead and check Peeps if you so choose. ---
**Author:** ![bahia\_hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@bahia\_hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahia_hombre)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/36 "2011-04-24T06:10:42Z")
That’s an impressive list. I could really go for a sampler package… ---
**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:** [April 24, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/37 "2011-04-24T06:55:45Z")
I find pretty much all Easter candy to be utterly foul (especially Cadbury Creme eggs and Peeps), but the Reese’s Peanut butter egg works for me. I’m surprised that chocolate rabbit isn’t on the list. Worst disappointment as a child. You think you’re getting this giant block of chocolate, and it ends up being a hollow shell of Grade Z milk chocolate that tastes like it’s been sitting in the back of a warehouse since the 50s. It’s like the chocolate equivalent of the chewing gum you’d get in Topps baseball card packs. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/38 "2011-04-24T08:41:10Z")
I love reese’s, also love gourmet jellybeans. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/39 "2011-04-24T10:22:40Z")
We always got a basket that was one of the nice big bunnies, one of the eggs with a scene inside made of [sugarwork](http://www.sugareggs.com/), a handful of the little foil wrapped egg shaped chocolates, a couple handsfull of jelly beans, a [chocolate orange](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%27s_Chocolate_Orange), an assortment of chocolate covered candies [peanut butter, malted chocolate, marshmallow and fruit gels - but nothing with coconut for me, I have a sensitivity to palm/tropical/coconut] So to me Easter is a little bit of everything. I have to admit, I actually liked the cadbury creme eggs, but they are seriously way too much sugar, jaw wrenchingly sweet, so the rare easter candy I allow myself is a single chocolate marshmallow egg, a single pack of peeps, about a dozen jelly beans, about a dozen malted milk ball eggs and a sugar egg. They get nibbled on over about a month as treats. I don’t like diabetic candy, in general. There is only 1 diabetic chocolate that actually tastes like real candy, some Israeli brand that I only found once. [it has a picture of the mosaic of a woman on the wrapper. No idea of the brand, honestly. I would kill for a regular supply though. I think the reason it is palatable is they dont swap out the cocoa butter for a veggie substitute] ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357/40 "2011-04-24T10:54:11Z")
Well, perversely, you could consider the richly and strongly flavored “gourmet jellybeans” and Reese’s Peanut Butter diabetic simpatico. I only need a few “gourmet” jellybeans to satisfy a handful of the cheap’s itch. If anything I am forced to enjoy them as a single. Peanut butter is a pretty friendly diabetic carb… the sugars don’t help but they are released differently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-easter-candy/574357.md?page=3)