Halloween Candy

my favorite candy bar.

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What is your favorite Halloween candy?  Let's be honest, even though we're adults, we all have our favorite Halloween Candy, and we tend to buy that on Halloween, just "in case" we don't give it all out, then we won't mind taking care of it.


When I was a kid back in the 70's, the variety of candy that was handed out was vastly different than it is today.  Red Hots, Good and Plenty, Mike and Ike, Tootsie Pops, and Hundred Thousand Dollar Bars populated our bags, in addition to McDonald's Trick or Treat Prizes and homemade popcorn balls and caramel apples  (Remember, this was a more innocent era.  Popcorn balls were still handed out, but I remember when and why we had to stop giving out homemade goodies for Halloween.)  When Dad was stationed in Ohio, our next door neighbors still made caramel apples with crushed peanuts - but she brought them around to the kids - and handed it off to the parents - during the afternoon of Halloween, so we would know who it came from.

My favorite Halloween candy back then was the little fun size Krackle bars.  In our family, nobody liked the Special Dark bars, and Dad used to hoard those.

When my own kids were little, during the 90's and early 00's the nature of Halloween Candies had changed.  More candy was chocolate based, and more people handed out coupons for free fries or other treats from the fast food restaurants in town.  The people in our neighborhood added a twist, and we'd get toothbrushes and toothpaste samples from the dentist, and passes to the gym from the personal trainer.  We gave out our own packs of non-candy treats.

A vivid memory I have is of my kids, all sitting on the living room floor and sorting their candy.  Our daughter traded away all of her chocolate, but she was a shrewd negotiator.  She ended up with the pencils, crayons, bubbles, and candy necklaces that her brothers scoffed at.

What we're giving our for Halloween this year!  Image: Amazon.

Even though I tend not to hand out candy, that doesn't mean our house isn't full of candy this time of year.  I have a jar full of candy corn that I snack on occasionally.  I also have my favorite candies: fun size Snickers bars and full size Dark Chocolate Coconut bars.  (think Mounds bars, but with the yummy twist of Dark Chocolate.)  And I wonder why I need to lose weight?

I usually pick up 2 bags of the fun size candy bars.  Why?  Because I like to bake Christmas cookies with them....

I'd really like to conduct a very unscientific poll right now.  Among the people who read this blog, WHAT is your favorite Halloween Candy?  Please put a note in the comments.  I'm really, really curious!