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Post by ganews on Oct 20, 2018 8:28:12 GMT -5
From conversation with Wifemate, best to worst
mini candy bars: Mr. Goodbar, Krackle, Twix, Butterfinger, etc. Perfect.
mini Snickers; which are very good and only rank lower because you're mad not to have a full-size Snickers
mini Reese's peanut butter cup
mini M&M packet
York peppermint patty
mini Three Musketeers
Jolly Ranchers
Whoppers; should rank higher, but you're gonna want Whoppers is quantity
Tootsie Roll Pop
Ring Pop
mini box of Nerds
mini Kit-Kat Blow Pop eyeball jawbreakers
peanut butter bar; the ones with the black-striped cellophane
loose Starbursts, what only three? Milk Duds
Dum-dums loose Now n' Laters; what only three? Mary Jane; you only want one though
Tootsie roll
candy corn
dinosaur bones/candy cigarettes
giant Tootsie roll; one is okay but a big one is kind of gross
pumpkin-shaped candy corn
wax lips
those round taffy things in solid-colored wax paper
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Oct 20, 2018 8:52:04 GMT -5
"Oh, a 'fun size' candy bar? Tell me this: what's fun about eating less candy? Maybe if you gave me an entire bag of them it would be fun. The only fun I'm going to have with this thing is smearing it all over your door when I leave."
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Post by Liz n Dick on Oct 22, 2018 9:38:45 GMT -5
"Oh, a 'fun size' candy bar? Tell me this: what's fun about eating less candy? Maybe if you gave me an entire bag of them it would be fun. The only fun I'm going to have with this thing is smearing it all over your door when I leave." Yeah, Halloween candy depresses me. We were discussing what to buy way too much of for the one cluster of kids who stop at our house every year, and in considering which kind of leftover candy I most want to be eating a ton of, I finally voted to hand out something like Good & Plentys. Because I hate them, and won't eat them. But if we've got an enormous bag of, like, "fun size" chocolate bars, or small peanut butter cups, or, worst of all, those itty-bitty bags of M&Ms, I'm going to eat them, and I'm going to hate it. Because they're too small, and have too much wrapper on them, so they're a pain to get opened, and are often messy, and generate a mountain of trash, and there's just so LITTLE of them. Especially the M&Ms. Those miserly, tiny bags of M&Ms are an affront. I'd rather have no M&Ms than just, like, seven M&Ms. |
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Post by ganews on Oct 22, 2018 11:30:20 GMT -5
Liz n Dick said: Because they're too small, and have too much wrapper on them, so they're a pain to get opened, and are often messy, and generate a mountain of trash, and there's just so LITTLE of them. Especially the M&Ms. Those miserly, tiny bags of M&Ms are an affront. I'd rather have no M&Ms than just, like, seven M&Ms.[/quote] This is why I rated mini Snickers lower than the other mini candy bars in spite of it being objectively the best full-size candy bar.
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Post by Hachiman on Oct 22, 2018 20:47:22 GMT -5
Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, obviously. They're even better than the normal sized ones because the chocolate/peanut butter ratio is improved by miniaturization!
Also, no Laffy Taffy?
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 22, 2018 21:31:53 GMT -5
Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, obviously. They're even better than the normal sized ones because the chocolate/peanut butter ratio is improved by miniaturization! Also, no Laffy Taffy? I thought I was the only one that preferred Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups to their full-sized counterpart. The full-sized ones are always sweating oil when you open the package in a manner most unappetizing. |
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Post by Liz n Dick on Oct 23, 2018 9:38:44 GMT -5
I thought I was the only one that preferred Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups to their full-sized counterpart. The full-sized ones are always sweating oil when you open the package in a manner most unappetizing. You have to refrigerate the full-sized ones. When they're room temperature, they're soggy and oily and gross. When they're chilled, they're crisp and somewhat delicious. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 23, 2018 18:54:12 GMT -5
I thought I was the only one that preferred Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups to their full-sized counterpart. The full-sized ones are always sweating oil when you open the package in a manner most unappetizing. You have to refrigerate the full-sized ones. When they're room temperature, they're soggy and oily and gross. When they're chilled, they're crisp and somewhat delicious. Who buys any full-sized candy bar with the intention of eating them later? Aren't they the sort of food item one purchases and then immediately stuffs in their face? |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Oct 23, 2018 19:26:52 GMT -5
You have to refrigerate the full-sized ones. When they're room temperature, they're soggy and oily and gross. When they're chilled, they're crisp and somewhat delicious. Who buys any full-sized candy bar with the intention of eating them later? Aren't they the sort of food item one purchases and then immediately stuffs in their face? Sometimes you need to have self-control, such as with the 5 packs of Reese's cups I have in the fridge for later. When I get around to eating the 4 packs of cups, all 3 packs will be chilled and delicious. Sometimes I nibble the edges off of the cups in both packs, sometimes I just shove the entire pack into my mouth.
Wait, where did my peanut butter cups go? I had just put them in the fridge. Huh.
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 23, 2018 19:53:12 GMT -5
Who buys any full-sized candy bar with the intention of eating them later? Aren't they the sort of food item one purchases and then immediately stuffs in their face? Sometimes you need to have self-control, such as with the 5 packs of Reese's cups I have in the fridge for later. When I get around to eating the 4 packs of cups, all 3 packs will be chilled and delicious. Sometimes I nibble the edges off of the cups in both packs, sometimes I just shove the entire pack into my mouth.
Wait, where did my peanut butter cups go? I had just put them in the fridge. Huh.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups come in five packs now?! This is absolutely ludicrous! |
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Oct 23, 2018 22:17:34 GMT -5
From Best to Worst:
Candy Somebody Gives You Candy You Buy at 50% off The Day After Halloween Candy You Buy at Regular Price
. . . . . Candy Corn
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Post by Hachiman on Oct 24, 2018 20:02:17 GMT -5
Sometimes you need to have self-control, such as with the 5 packs of Reese's cups I have in the fridge for later. When I get around to eating the 4 packs of cups, all 3 packs will be chilled and delicious. Sometimes I nibble the edges off of the cups in both packs, sometimes I just shove the entire pack into my mouth.
Wait, where did my peanut butter cups go? I had just put them in the fridge. Huh.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups come in five packs now?! This is absolutely ludicrous! See, if I eat more than two of the big ones, I feel vaguely gross. There's just something about the oil in them. The little ones on the other hand? Watch them magically disappear! |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 25, 2018 15:39:37 GMT -5
The worst is when you come into work on the couple of days after Halloween thinking of the bounty of surplus candies that'll be piled in a bowl, but it's disproportionately the stuff you don't like.
In my case I don't like Skittles and frooot flavored candies.
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Post by Pastafarian on Oct 27, 2020 10:28:07 GMT -5
Wondering what people are doing for Halloween candy this year? There was a big outcry in Ontario when a public health person suggested kids not go trick or treating because of the pandemic, so people apparently still very much want their kids getting a bunch of garbage from complete strangers who may or may not wear masks or wash hands. We're leaning toward having candy (though not anticipating huge turnout) wearing a mask, and using kitchen tongs to place the candy in the kids bags.
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Post by Trurl on Oct 28, 2020 7:38:01 GMT -5
Wondering what people are doing for Halloween candy this year? There was a big outcry in Ontario when a public health person suggested kids not go trick or treating because of the pandemic, so people apparently still very much want their kids getting a bunch of garbage from complete strangers who may or may not wear masks or wash hands. We're leaning toward having candy (though not anticipating huge turnout) wearing a mask, and using kitchen tongs to place the candy in the kids bags. Since we literally got *no* kids last year we're not going to even bother getting any candy. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Oct 28, 2020 9:42:29 GMT -5
Wondering what people are doing for Halloween candy this year? There was a big outcry in Ontario when a public health person suggested kids not go trick or treating because of the pandemic, so people apparently still very much want their kids getting a bunch of garbage from complete strangers who may or may not wear masks or wash hands. We're leaning toward having candy (though not anticipating huge turnout) wearing a mask, and using kitchen tongs to place the candy in the kids bags. Since we literally got *no* kids last year we're not going to even bother getting any candy. I'm expecting very few, if any myself. Gonna get that candy though, because any not handed out needs to be dealt with by someone (me). |
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