Favorite Halloween Candy By State

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/17/2020 at 12:05 • Filed to: None

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Not sure why some states are black and some are orange. There’s no key.

Starburst for TX? I’m okay with that. Circus peanuts? I worry about you, New Hampshire.

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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:10

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In my view, Starburst, Twizzlers, Skittles and Hot Tomales all suck.

Reeses peanut butter cups are the best!!!

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:13

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Ohio big on “Blow” pops?

Story checks out.  Iowa should be updated to “Heisenberg Blue Rock Candy” though...

way2blu does a rev update > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:17

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This has been given me an idea for the scariest Halloween costume ever: show up saying “trick or treat” as mathematics. It’s sad, but lots of people are terrified of math.

It’d be interesting to see the ranking of different candies on an overall population basis as well. I’d guess either Reese’s Peanut Butter cups or Crunch Bars would be the top spot.

Urambo Tauro > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:19

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Using Google Trends, we determined which states were the most avid fans of each candy. We examined 50 different popular (and some infamously unpopular) candies, given us a range of candies that puts any grocery store shelf to shame.

Ok but how does this study differentiate favorite candy from favorite Halloween candy ?

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Urambo Tauro 10/17/2020 at 12:21

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Some of it is seasonal.  Those that claim to like Peeps at Easter probably hate them the other 11 months of the year.

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:22

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You already answered my question.  why the colors?

phenotyp > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:22

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Circus peanuts?

What. The. Fuck.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:23

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Utah is on brand, too.

Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Mitt Romney

Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:25

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I’m going to say that orange are ‘chocolate based’ while the black is ‘candy based’

Brickman > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:27

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Payday? WTF?!

Sour patch kids, kit kats, star bursts, skittles, dum dum pops are good Halloween candy.

Circus peanuts aren’ t for everyone, but I love em :D Did you know it’s actually banana flavor.

ttyymmnn > HammerheadFistpunch 10/17/2020 at 12:28

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No key in the link. 

ttyymmnn > Brickman 10/17/2020 at 12:31

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Because peanuts should taste like bananas? I haven’t had one of those in probably 40 years.

ttyymmnn > Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] 10/17/2020 at 12:31

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That makes good sense, but the colors should be reversed.

ttyymmnn > HammerheadFistpunch 10/17/2020 at 12:32

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Somebody else suggested that the orange candies are chocolate based, while the others are not. I think that is correct.

WRXforScience > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:33

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Halloween in TX can see temperatures well above 100F, so chocolates are always a risk. Nothing like going out after dark when temps are still in the triple digits and you curse your costume choices for how uncomfortable they are.

sony1492 > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:34

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WHERE IS ALMOND JOY?!

onlytwowheels > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:35

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I am not going say this is inaccurate, because I do not know how they arrived at these results, but there are other results that seem more likely.

Alabama: Hershey’s Mini Bars

Alaska: Twix

Arizona: Hot Tamales

Arkansas: Skittles

California: Skittles

Colorado: Twix

Connecticut: Milky Way

DC: Tootsie Pops

Delaware: Skittles

Florida: Skittles

Georgia: Jolly Ranchers

Hawaii: Skittles

Idaho: Candy Corn

Illinois: Kit Kat

Indiana: Hot Tamales

Iowa: Candy Corn

Kansas: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Kentucky: Swedish Fish

Louisiana: Lemonheads

Maine: Sour Patch Kids

Maryland: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Massachusetts: Butterfinger

Michigan: Starburst

Minnesota: Skittles

Mississippi: Snickers

Missouri: Milky Way

Montana: Dubble Bubble Gum

Nebraska: Salt Water Taffy

Nevada: Candy Corn

New Hampshire: Starburst

New Jersey: Tootsie Pops

New Mexico: Candy Corn

New York: Hot Tamales

North Carolina: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

North Dakota: Candy Corn

Ohio : M&M’s

Oklahoma: Dubble Bubble Gum

Oregon: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Pennsylvania: Hershey’s Mini Bars

Rhode Island: Twix

South Carolina: Skittles

South Dakota: Starburst

Tennessee: Tootsie Pops

Texas: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Utah: Jolly Ranchers

Vermont: M&M’s

Virginia: Hot Tamales

Washington: Salt Water Taffy

West Virginia: Blow Pops

Wisconsin: Starburst

Wyoming: Salt Water Taffy

ttyymmnn > WRXforScience 10/17/2020 at 12:35

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We’ve been in TX for 30 years, and I don’t think I remember any triple digit Halloweens. But mid 80s are pretty common. 

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:36

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I see that New Hampshire is into self-loathing, misery, and masochism.

ttyymmnn > sony1492 10/17/2020 at 12:37

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Feeling like a nut?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > phenotyp 10/17/2020 at 12:39

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If someone gave me circus peanuts I'd probably just walk away without even taking them.

Textured Soy Protein > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:56

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I’m worried about that whole corner of ME, NH & MA. We all knew they talk funny up there but those are some garbage-ass candy choices.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > phenotyp 10/17/2020 at 12:57

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Well stated.

Yeah, “Circus Peanuts in my treat bag means I’ll be back later for the “Trick” part!”

It’s a weird custom, actually— Society legitimizes extortion...

Textured Soy Protein > Textured Soy Protein 10/17/2020 at 12:58

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Also, fun fact, in Maryland where the favorite is Blow Pops, when I was in middle school, Blow Pops were so popular that kids would get their parents to buy them in bulk and sell them to other kids out their backpacks. And that was like 25 years ago. I'm old. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > WilliamsSW 10/17/2020 at 12:58

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Well, “sado-masochism”.

there’s a reason Jizzlane Maxwell ended up there, eh?

boredalways > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 12:59

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Airheads, for Florida [man]?!

The only state that is 100% accurate 

CB > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 13:02

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No Coffee Crisp?

phenotyp > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/17/2020 at 13:02

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I will say that I approve of VA and the Sour Patch Kids. Good standout, there.

Brickman > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 13:05

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Exactly, very strange, but good. I like banana flavor candy :P

DipodomysDeserti > WRXforScience 10/17/2020 at 13:12

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Where in Texas do you live? I live in the hottest city in the US, currently going through its hottest year on record, and there’s no chance it’ll be 100 on Halloween night, let alone well above 100, but we don’t have any humidity.  

We did just have our eleventh 100 degree day in October, so it very well could reach 100 during the day, which still feels nice after this hellish summer with insane heat and no rain.

There are cacti dying all over Phoenix to give you an idea of how brutal this summer has been. I’ve lived in the two hottest cities in the US my whole life and have never seen that happen. We’ve also had two massive desert wildfires which is fairly apocalyptic.

ttyymmnn > Textured Soy Protein 10/17/2020 at 13:12

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Cherry Blow Pops are awesome. 

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 13:14

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So should the colors used on election maps... At this point, it’s just sort of tradition to mislabel.

50ford500 > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 13:21

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Starburts are fine and all but really I prefer Skittles

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > way2blu does a rev update 10/17/2020 at 13:22

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I’d like to see a demographic breakdown. What does each generation like in each area?

Textured Soy Protein > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 13:30

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Blue Razz(berry) was the new hotness in the 90s and commanded premium prices over all the other Blow Pop flavors in the Blow Pops sold out of kids backpacks market. 

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/17/2020 at 13:34

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It’s always an empty threat these days.

It developed here, but came from elsewhere. Mostly driven by Celtic immigrants (Irish and Scottish, particularly), though it isn’t clear where some aspects came from. The custom as it exists today  is less than 100 years old.

smobgirl > onlytwowheels 10/17/2020 at 13:42

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I can’t understand why tootsie pops are winning any states in either of these surveys.

facw > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 13:56

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Using Google Trends, we determined which states were the most avid fans of each candy. We examined 50 different popular (and some infamously unpopular) candies, given us a range of candies that puts any grocery store shelf to shame. 

Need a little bit more info but it s ounds like this is just another one of these stupidly useless maps that doesn’t actually tell you anything. That is, I doubt it is actually showing the most popular candy in each state (and even if it were, you’d want to use sales data rather than Google Trends), but rather something like “the candy a state likes more disproportionately than other states”. I suspect an actual map of most purchased candies would only have a few top choices across the entire map (which admittedly isn’t very interesting, but neither is a map that claims to be a map of favorite candies and doesn’t tell you anything about that).

That is to say I think this is happening :

    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1845:_State_Word_Map

ranwhenparked > onlytwowheels 10/17/2020 at 14:02

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It makes sense that Delaware is Skittles, we mix them with cough syrup and AriZona iced tea

Cash Rewards > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 14:14

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Everyone outside minnesota is wrong

user314 > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 14:25

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I can only assume this is because Filthadelphia is skewing the results. 

ttyymmnn > facw 10/17/2020 at 14:25

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I would have to agree that their methodology is suspect, and the whole exercise is pointless. It does, however, generate clicks, and makes for a good conversation. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 14:35

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They called Indianans a bunch a dum dums. I never got the impression Kit Kat was the favorite in Hawaii. We do get the Japanese Kit Kats though. I personally can’t stop eating Smarties if you drop a bag in front of me, that shit is crack.

ttyymmnn > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 10/17/2020 at 14:42

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Original Sprees are my crack. I’ll eat the whole roll in one sitting. When I was younger, it was cherry Now & Laters. I would buy three packs of them and chain eat them till they were gone. I don’t think you can find them any more. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 14:49

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I used to like Nerds, the grape strawberry combo. Oh they still make them I guess:

https://www.thewholesalecandyshop.com/Now-and-Later-Changemaker-Cherry-24-box-p/352103.htm

Maxima Speed > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/17/2020 at 14:53

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My GF loves them year round. I wonder about her lol

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 15:33

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So t he weird states are once again showing how weird they are.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 15:40

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Everyone’s gots on circus peanuts. Personally I love em. As long as they aren’t stale. Which the almost always are. 

WRXforScience > DipodomysDeserti 10/17/2020 at 16:01

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So I looked it up and it turns out that the hottest Halloween was 90F here in North Texas (but the highest low temperatures was 78F). There were a string of years while I was growing up and still trick or treating where the tempe ratures were in the mid 80's during the evening (I thought I remembered it being 100F, but that was probably the “heat index” or me just misremembering).

I have pictures from a Halloween where all the face paint I had on from a costume ran down my neck thanks to all the sweat.

DipodomysDeserti > WRXforScience 10/17/2020 at 17:23

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Gotcha. Yeah, anything close to 80 in a Halloween costume is sweat city.

SmugAardvark > ttyymmnn 10/17/2020 at 18:15

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New Hampshire likes circus peanuts? Really? Wow, my birth state has let me down once again. At least they didn’t say Blow Pops like those suckers in Maryland and Tennessee .

Overall though, I’m disappointed that no state chose correctly. Swedish Fish are the best, and there’s nothing anyone can say that will change my mind.