The Morning Show with Mike & Susan

We got this list from BonAppetit Magazine

BEST….candy

1. Hershey’s Krackel. These are the elusive sultans of the Hershey’s Miniatures bag.   How does a bit of crisped rice so greatly enhance milk chocolate?  This candy proves that Snap and Pop have long been holding back their gifted brother.

2. Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin. While the flavor is identical to the classic cup, its gourd shape means there is something rare in your grasp.   Yum!

3. Take 5. In late 2004, candy innovation hit a peak when Hershey’s decided to combine the contents of almost every other candy bar in existence (chocolate, pretzels, caramel, peanuts, and peanut butter) into one crunchy, chewy, salty, sweet wonder-bar.  I’ll take six. *wink*

4. Pop Rocks. Here, candy and chemistry collide giving kids the sensation of swallowing sugary live fire crackers.  You’d be hard up to find much more fun in a 4″ packet.

5. Anything sour or hot (Warheads, Sour Patch Kids, Atomic Fireballs, Hot Tamales). Look, kids love adventure. And these sweets definitely put the “ow!” (and the fun) in Halloween.

6. Blue Razz Blow Pop. Blue raspberries do not exist outside of factories.   this candy has bubble gum inside!  The lollipop also turns your tongue blue, so it doubles as one of the world’s most affordable costumes.  

7. Whoppers. There are very rare instances when you bite into one of these malt balls and instead of their characteristic crunch, they deflate.  While this isolated “Whopper puddin’” is one of life’s greatest disappointments, the crunch is by and large one of its most satisfying sensations.

8. Snickers.  I’ve heard this is the world’s best-selling candy bar.  I endorse compounding this epidemic.

9. Candy Corn. No candy represents Halloween more than the classic tri-colored treat.

10. Anything full size. Halloween candy bars are usually scaled-down and given the hilarious misnomer, “fun size.”   For something to be truly fun size, it must be big enough to climb.

 

 

 

The worst!!

 

 

 

1. Candy Corn. This candy also made my list of The 10 Best Halloween Candies. But hear me out: The holiday’s superlative sweet will quickly turn against you if you dare consume more than five.  And you will. 

2. Circus Peanuts - It’s easy to think of these as the ultimate Halloween candy because they’re orange, they have a fun shape, and they were enjoyed by your grandparents’ grandparents’ grandparents. Do not be fooled. These aberrations are not even flavored as peanuts, but as bananas. The only similarity this candy has to peanuts is their shape–the empty shell that covers seedy roadhouse bar floors and supplies the manufacture of wallboard. This is pretty much how circus peanuts taste as well: like wallboard soaked in artificial banana flavoring. The only likely circus association is the bygone freak show,   And though they’ve stood the test of time, so have

Palmetto bugs. 

3. Raisins.  You may think you’re helping to neutralize widespread early-onset diabetes by handing out raisins on Halloween. But raisins are mostly sugar.  That, combined with their sticky, enamel-clinging consistency, and you’ve created a veritable fairground for bacteria.   Kids’ teeth will decay alongside your popularity. 

4. Smarties. These are on the worst list, not because kids don’t enjoy tiny discs of pure sugar, but because for every five pounds of candy a kid collects, two pounds will be Smarties.  Also, these days there are hundreds of YouTube videos of kids demonstrating how to “smoke Smarties” by crushing them up and inhaling the powder.  We cannot endorse this insanity.

5. Necco Wafers. Necco Wafers are like the Smarties of 1847, when the nation’s scientists were still figuring out fun and flavor.  They look like slivers of sidewalk chalk, but don’t taste quite as good.

6. Werther’s Original. The original butterscotch sucker is not to be confused with those legions of sad sack counterfeit Werther’s imitators.  Just kidding, there are none.  This is because candy manufacturers are interested in profit, and not some fallacious nostalgia to which adults feel little connection, let alone their kids.

7. Plain Hershey’s.  Kids might not care much for cacao percentage or bean origin, but they do care about boringness.

8. Dum Dum Pops.  Have you noticed that Dum Dum rhymes with humdrum?  Though these lollipops are the exact size and shape of Bob Barker’s microphone from when he hosted The Price Is Right, kids generally lost interest after his retirement.

9. Milk Duds. Consider it a red flag when a food item puts “dud” right in its name.

10. Tootsie Rolls.  Are these supposed to taste like chocolate!?  It’s trick or treat, not both.  Give me a candy I can use!