The absolute best when I was a kid? Squares of homemade pecan fudge. You'd never get it in your swag bag now, because it's not wrapped.
Anything marshmallow is pretty awful.
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And now we know why Delaney is polling outside the top 10. Candy corn? Really - your favorite??
Props for being honest, but nobody wants to hear that answer. Kinda sounds like his campaign.
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Well played, Senator Sanders. Though it will take a lot of paydays to finance your democratic-socialist utopia, and those who call 5th Avenue home are going to be the most vocal to protest against any of their taxes to increase to do so.
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One year for Halloween, back when my oldest was a kid, I handed out yogurt-covered raisins, regular raisins, and other allegedly healthy things. This went over about as well as one might expect, and I did not make that mistake again.
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One year for Halloween, back when my oldest was a kid, I handed out yogurt-covered raisins, regular raisins, and other allegedly healthy things. This went over about as well as one might expect, and I did not make that mistake again.
Look at Klobuchar coming through with Heath!
High quality product, not often the first brand to come to mind, but now that we think of it we sort of want it. Like the candidate herself, perhaps?
I was on the fence, but now she’s got my vote.
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I can't believe how bad all candy has gotten. Ever smaller portions (can the fun sizes get any smaller? Have they reached a point of no return?) I also noticed the absence of smarties. I can't believe smarties are too expensive to make. Forget about anything chocolate. Capitalism at its worse.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I find myself a little disappointed with Elizabeth Warren's answer. Mounds is by far my least favorite candy (I've never had another after trying my first one), and Good & Plenty is easily in my top three. So when I saw her answer I felt a little let down, or even a twinge of betrayal. Can I fully support someone with such different tastes? I really like her and want desperately to vote for her, but now there's just a hint of mistrust. (On the other hand, neither choice is what I would call a top-shelf candy, so maybe she's just more discerning than I am, and I certainly don't mind voting for someone that's smarter than me.)
Mayor Pete, on the other hand, nailed it for me. Nothing can beat peanut butter and chocolate, and apples, or any other actual food, have no place being included in Halloween.
I'm not saying these candy choices will decide my vote, but all else being equal...?
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@teejtee Don't worry, she'll change her view tomorrow.
Beg to differ, she got me with Good n Plenty. Loathsome things. Almond Joy would have inspired me more, but I appreciate her discernment
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The correct answer for best Halloween candy is a Butterfinger. (But I suspect I’m showing my age, since Butterfingers seem to be fading.) Reese’s peanut butter cups, and its variations, are a reasonable alternative, however. And the future President, Pete Buttigieg, is right about apples. You might as well hand out toothbrushes.
And if you want to have happy trick-or-treaters, splurge on the full-sized candy bars. It costs a little more, but it’s one night a year. And since we all know you’re going to sneak one for yourself, you might as well make it worth it.
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And one must not forget all the razor blades, too many real to be an urban legend hidden in the apples for the unsuspecting Halloween candy getter either. Really puts the trick where there should only be treat.
York Peppermint Patties for the win, Marshmallow Peeps for the loser.
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Nerds rule
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Sorry, this reads more like April Fool's Day.
It belongs at best in Shouts and Murmurs in The New Yorker.
At worst, or perhaps at best, not published
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How are they so cowardly that they don't want to offer their least favorite? American Politics is now officially pathetic.
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Where’s Bernie?
Very disappointing.
He just seems like he would know his way around a chocolate bar.
Maybe some of those Hershey’s Almond Kisses made by unionized workers in PA.
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Does anyone else remember when apples were notorious for people hiding razor blades in them? Anything that didn't have an unbroken wrapper went in the trash
@Smarty's Mom That was a myth. There wasn't a single actual case of a razor blade in Halloween candy. But it turned into a national craze. Ruined Halloween for a number of years.
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I am so disappointed that none of the candidates showed any awareness of the slave chocolate issue. No one suggested using free trade chocolate. The chocolate candy that was named is produced by manufacturers who avoided getting their candy labeled “slave chocolate” by promising more than two decades ago to stop using chocolate harvested by slaves - even child slaves.
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Fun article with lotsa smiles. I needed that. (P.S. - I'll give all of Joe Walsh's M&M rejects a new home. :) )
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Elizabeth Warren probably likes candy corn the most because it’s artificial and tolerable for a little awhile before you just get entirely sick of it.
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