It’s never too early to start buying Hallowe’en candy for giving out on October 31st. After all, the stores wouldn’t put the stuff out on the shelves if it wasn’t time to buy it, right?
Well, things are a little different in our house this fall. (Full Disclosure – I’m on a diet that eliminates all sugars and carbs so if I seem to be obsessing on this blog about candy and bread, you’ll understand why.) Last year Maclean’s magazine did a nationwide poll of people’s candy preference, and Kit Kat bars were the clear winner, followed by the bubbly chocolate goodness of Aero. Then the bronze winner – Mars bars.
This year the American polling firm Yougov asked 1000 kids aged 8 to 17 their candy favourites and Reese’s Pieces were the clear winner, although Kit Kat came number one for the older teens.
Overall among kids, Kit Kat was the number 2 choice.
But here’s where the two surveys were similar. Least popular picks included those little boxes of raisins, Werther’s Originals, candy corn, Molasses Kisses and Tootsie Rolls.
So, if you want to be the most popular house on the block come Hallowe’en, stick to the Reese’s and Kit Kats. And if you like pulling toilet paper out of your trees and shrubbery, give them candy corn and Molasses kisses.
