actually our favorite house is the one that gives out "tricks" instead of treats. We hold our breath every year to see what it is -- whole walnuts, sponges, plastic bags of sand and our most favorite -- raw brussel sprouts! Genius!! When my kids are old and gray, that is the house they will remember instead of all the bad candy.

actually our favorite house is the one that gives out "tricks" instead of treats. We hold our breath every year to see what it is -- whole walnuts, sponges, plastic bags of sand and our most favorite -- raw brussel sprouts! Genius!! When my kids are old and gray, that is the house they will remember instead of all the bad candy.

whoops -- sorry about the double post

Peanut M&Ms and Snickers are tied for first place in the chocolate category, with Rockets being the alltime favourite in the candy bit.

Anything Tootsie-related was always danger as was any of the licorice all-sorts. Neither my brother or I liked them, so it was always a mad dash at school the next day to find the sucker that would trade them for..well...anything else.

am i reading this right? why is Benzedrine listed? i'm sure some consider it candy, but what is this, a Hubert Selby novel?

also i feel that peanut BUTTER M&Ms are superior to all others.

Really? I've always preferred, as the young entrepreneurs on the subway might say, M&M Peanut, mainly because I like the crunch. Somebody needs to make an M&M Cashew.

My favorite was the potato chips sticks. Was that what they were called? Potato chip strings maybe? I don't remember, but I only ever saw them at Halloween, and they were the first thing I devoured.

Also anything Little Debbie -- I'm much more of a baked item person than a candy person.

SNICKERS! The manna of commercial candies. It's nature's perfect food, encompassing all the required food groups - chocolate, peanuts, and caramel. One could survive a nuclear winter with an adequate supply of Snickers (the name must be capitalized for proper respect).

Every year for the past 10 years we've purchased a nice sized bag of bite-sized Snickers for Halloween treats and every year for the past 10 years no kids have come by to collect them. There's a bag sitting in the pantry as I write this. Can you see me smiling???

reese's cups (top tier)

candy corn (bottomish tier), but I too used to be all about the nerds!

necco wafers.

my favorite part of halloween was sorting all of my candy afterwards, and then eating it all in a very calculating way.

Mmmm... Frozen Snickers at the Trancho home of yesteryear. I can almost see Casper climbing up his window/radiator ramp to catch a glimpse of it. And if I remember correctly, the Snickers were even neatly portioned into halves before the onset of the freezing process because (and the real reason may the subject of some debate here) by the time your canines and bicuspids finished knawing away like a pick axes at 1/2 a frozen Snickers your mandible had had just about enough.
Personally, the only American chocolate that I can appreciate is that that is melded in a choco-peanut butter combination. Peanut butter cups, Reeses pieces, Butterfinger bars. That's not to say that other candies don't bring on 80's nostalgia. I remember some candy contraption that included a white dip stick (which was also some candy manifestation) and 3 different colored/flavored sugars in contiguous envelopes. Eseentially, one would lick the stick to moisten it, then dip it in the different sugars and chow down. Smarties, however, were probably my first candy. I would unwrap them, sort them by color, and eat them at set intervals as pretend medicine when I was a toddler. And, come to think of it, I did that yesterday with Dimsum, too. Albeit this time I am The Mommy.

Reese's peanut butter cups are my favorite.
I can't eat anything chewy or hard right now as I had all my wisdom teeth removed last week...

Even American chocolate is yummy if you combine it with nuts of some sort -- peanut M&M, Hershey bar with almonds, Snickers, Baby Ruth. Nut Goodies -- the company headquarters was in Minneapolis, so I don't know if they were distributed nationwide -- have always been a favorite.

Swedish fish are not in the bottom tier. I lived on them as a kid.

Which, some to think of it, may explain a few things.

www.forgotten-ny.com

Always loved Baby Ruth bars, and more new age-y?, but Watchamacalits(sp?)

I'm a Snickers girl, with an affection for Three Musketeers and Mounds/Almond Joy. Pretty much anything with chocolate, I will eat. As a kid, I always traded out my Baby Ruths.

Although I agree with what's in the top tier/bottom tier, more or less, I do take issue with the system. Chocolate and non-chocolate should definitely be separate categories.

Exactly what kmkat said -- American chocolate is good as long as it's mixed with nuts, and I would include caramel as well. Also, Corie, genius idea about cashew M&Ms. Why have those not been done yet?? That list is totally bogus in so many ways. But then again, I still love a lot of so-called childish candy. It's hard to choose a favorite because sometimes I'm in the mood for chocolate and sometimes for brightly colored, chewy, fruity stuff. However, my all-time fave would have to be Peppermint Patties. Although I really do love Nerds.