Current:Home > reviewsFrom Candy Corn to Kit Kats: The most popular (and hated) Halloween candy by state -Secure Horizon Growth
From Candy Corn to Kit Kats: The most popular (and hated) Halloween candy by state
View
Date:2025-04-13 14:06:49
With Halloween just a few weeks away, people will bring big scores of candy home to snack on or giveaway to trick-or-treaters.
A new ranking by CandyStore.com reveals what candies might be most popular in your state as well as the nation's most loved and hated candies.
Is your classic favorite candy ranked as one of the worst? Is your least liked candy actually a favorite in some states? Here is what the country had to say, according to Candy Store.
What is the most popular candy?
CandyStore.com has been delivering and distributing bulk orders of candy across the country since 2007. Using sales data for the time period before Halloween, the distributor determined which candy was the most popular with the winner being: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Here are the top 10 most popular candies in America, according to CandyStore.com:
- Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
- M&Ms
- Hot tamales
- Skittles
- Sour Patch Kids
- Starburst
- Hershey Kisses
- Candy Corn
- Hershey Mini Bars
- Snickers
Candy corn:The Halloween candy that divides a nation. Its original name? 'Chicken feed'
What is the 'worst' candy?
For the second year in a row, Circus Peanuts have reclaimed the throne as America’s “worst candy” after being replaced by candy corn four years ago. To determine the best and worst candies ever, Candy Store used rankings from multiple websites, as well as surveying over 15,000 customers on their favorite candies.
Candy Store then used a point system where a candy voted No. 1 received 10 points, No. 2 received nine points and so on.
Here are the rest of the 10 "worst" candies ever:
- Circus Peanuts
- Candy Corn
- Necco Wafers
- Peanut Butter Kisses
- Wax Cola Bottles
- Mary Janes
- Smarties
- Licorice
- Bit-O-Honey
- Tootsie Roll
What is the 'best' candy?
The best candy is also the most popular – Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Here are the top 10:
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
- M&Ms
- Snickers
- Hot Tamales
- Skittles
- Sour Patch Kids
- Hershey Bar
- Kit Kat
- Twix
- Butterfinger
Top three most popular candies in every state
Click on Candy Store's interactive map to view the top three candies your state loves.
veryGood! (894)
Related
- 'Survivor' 47 finale, part one recap: 2 players were sent home. Who's left in the game?
- USWNT vs. Costa Rica live updates: Time, how to stream Olympics send-off game tonight
- Glen Powell Returning to College at University of Texas at Austin
- Why a London man named Bushe is on a mission to turn his neighbors' hedges into art
- 'As foretold in the prophecy': Elon Musk and internet react as Tesla stock hits $420 all
- Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ wrapped at this Georgia hotel. Soon, it’ll be open for business
- Amazon Prime Day is an especially dangerous time for warehouse workers, Senate report says
- What Trump's choice of JD Vance as his VP running mate means for the Senate
- Apple iOS 18.2: What to know about top features, including Genmoji, AI updates
- 2nd Washington man pleads not guilty in 2022 attacks on Oregon electrical grids
Ranking
- Average rate on 30
- Last summer Boston was afflicted by rain. This year, there’s a heat emergency
- Innovatech Investment Education Foundation: Empowering Investors through Advanced Education and Technology
- Why vice presidential picks matter: significant moments in history and transfers of power
- Former longtime South Carolina congressman John Spratt dies at 82
- Dallas Mavericks' Kyrie Irving undergoes surgery on left hand
- Here's What Christina Hall Is Seeking in Josh Hall Divorce
- Rachel Lindsay Ordered to Pay Ex Bryan Abasolo $13,000 in Monthly Spousal Support
Recommendation
A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
Exploring the 403(b) Plan: Ascendancy Investment Education Foundation Insights
Have a Shop Girl Summer With Megan Thee Stallion’s Prime Day Deals as Low as $5.50
The stepped-up security around Trump is apparent, with agents walling him off from RNC crowds
Selena Gomez engaged to Benny Blanco after 1 year together: 'Forever begins now'
How Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillies Reprocessed Victorious After Quiet on Set
Aging bridges in 16 states will be improved or replaced with the help of $5B in federal funding
After reshaping Las Vegas, The Mirage to be reinvented as part of a massive Hard Rock makeover