Remember that neighbor from your childhood who gave out such terriblecandy(or worse, boxes of raisins) that by fourth grade, you didn’t even bother with their house anymore and basically avoided eye contact from August through November? Don’t be that person. To ensure you’re giving out the good stuff or eating it on your own while you binge a bunch ofHalloween movies, we’ve carefully ranked all the best Halloween candy of 2022, from worst to best. You’re welcome.
The Best Halloween Candy of All Time, Super Scientifically Ranked from Trash to Tasty
Published Aug 20, 2022
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45.Strawberry Hard Candies
Congratulations. You trick-or-treated at the actual devil’s house and made it out alive.
44.Gum (specifically Dubble Bubble)
If you’re looking for saccharine-sweet flavor for seconds followed by disappointment, well, look no further.
43.Dots
It’s like they’re not eventrying得到我们的注意。我们几乎很抱歉我们羞辱that box of raisins.
42.Junior Mints
这些味道toothpaste-they做,所以起诉我们。They’d be marginally better if you didn’t actually need to brush the sugary scum from your teeth after.
41.Hot Tamales
Too spicy.
40.Lemonheads
Too sour.
39.3 Musketeers
Is it just us, or is this the chintziest of all the candy bars? Plain old nougat…it’s justmeh.
38.Payday
This would be ever so slightly better if it were enrobed in chocolate. It just feels a little sad.
37.Baby Ruth
Great baseball player? Yes. Great candy? Not so much. This one loses points for appearance and the fact that we had to Google what it’s even made of.
36.Crunch Bar
Tell us again, why did we need to ruin perfectly mediocre chocolate with surprise bits of mystery gravel?
34.Mr. Goodbar
He’s good, but not, like,amazing.
33.Blow Pops
Does anyone actuallylikethe plasticky chewing gum that lurks in the center of these things? We didn’t think so.
32.Bottle Caps
It’s all fun and games until you think you’re biting into a root beer bottle cap and it turns out to be anorangeone that tastes like medicine. We want treats, not tricks!
31.Sweetarts
Had we wanted to eat chalk for dessert, we would’ve done so when our kindergarten teacher wasn’t looking.
30.Snickers
Listen, these peanut-nougat bars are justfine, if settling for fine on the most sugary holiday of the year is your thing. But turn them intoSnickers dipand they’re actually worth something.
29.Caramel Apple Pops
We’d kinda sorta like thesefall-ified lollypops, if they didn’t threaten to rip our teeth clean from our mouth in one go. Eat at your own risk, folks.
28.Jolly Ranchers
It’s not that Jolly Ranchers are inherently bad (minus the grape ones, those are theworst); it’s just that we could all do so much better.
27.Hershey’s Chocolate
Like theMichael Bluthof the Halloween candy haul: Fine…but pretty boring compared to the rest of the family. (The one exception—and this is crucial—is if the neighbor is giving out full-size chocolate bars.)
26.Smarties
We’ll admit that these sugar tablets are really only good when eaten in threes or the entire roll shoved in your mouth at once.
24.Rolos
Sure, these caramel-chocolate bites are pretty inoffensive in the grand scheme of things. But they’re certainly not *Milk Duds.*
23.Tootsie Fruit Chews
These guys are a little fruity, a little waxy and taste like something our grandpa would keep in his pocket for “emergencies.” All things considered, we do have a soft spot for thevanillaones.
22.Original Tootsie Roll
See above. Slightly waxy, vaguely chocolaty and found in a grandparent’s jacket pocket, they’re a Halloween classic, and there’s nothin’ wrong with that.
21.Sprees
Nonbelievers will say they’re chalky and boring, but we must disagree. Plus, have you ever had thechewykind?
20.Sugar Babies
Just make sure you put yourdentiston speed dial before cracking open a box. Can you say “cavities?”
19.Starburst (reds, Yellows And Oranges)
We’ll never know how these flavors got to share a package with those delicious pink guys, but we suppose it could be worse. (See no. 45.)
18.Almond Joy
Real talk: We would prefer Almond Joys if they were made with milk chocolate and, well, zero almonds. (But alas,Bountybars aren’t sold in the United States.)
17.Trolli Sour Brite Crawlers
This is the only kind of worm we want to see in our Halloween candy, to be quite honest.
15.Air Heads
Getting a mystery flavor Air Head is like winning the Halloween candy lottery. (FYI, we still don’t know what flavor it is.)
14.Nerds
What the heck are Nerds? They’re tiny, crunchy bits of sugar that you can pour straight into your mouth. And that’s why we love ’em so.
13.M&m’s
Listen, we’ll trade you six green M&M’s for three red ones. We know all the colors taste the exact same.Or do they?
12.Milk Duds
What’s the opposite of a dud? A victory? Yeah, they should rename these to that…or maybe not, but you get the idea.
11.Twizzlers
Strawberry Twizzlers are in a whole other class from regular licorice. And that, friends, is a very, very good thing.
10.Kit Kat
Break us off a piece ofthat.Or just, like, give us a whole one. We don’t actually want to share with anybody.
9.Reese’s Fast Break
Finding one of these in your Halloween candy bag is like finding anall-marshmallow box of Lucky Charms—a diamond in the rough, if you will.
8.Hershey’s Cookies And Cream
We don’t even care that it’s not “real white chocolate” or even chocolate at all. Haters, stay back.
7.Starburst (pinks)
We would do unspeakable things to get our hands on pink Starbursts and pink Starbursts only. Good thing they make bags full of just the good stuff, so we don’t have to.
6.Candy Corn
Is it the most polarizing of all the Halloween candy? Perhaps. Do we love it more than the holiday itself? Forever and ever.
5.Butterfinger
If you didn’t get one of these hopelessly stuck in your molars, did Halloween really even happen? (Apologies to dentists all over the world.)
4.Sour Patch Kids
Would we coat our lives in the sugary dust that settles at the bottom of the bag? Let’s just say the answer isn’t no.
3.Reese’s Take 5
We appreciate how hard they’re trying with five different flavors in one bar. And to be honest, we’ll eat anything that involves pretzels,peanut butterandcaramel.
2.Twix
This crunchy cookie/gooey caramel situation is universally satisfying—the Tom Hanks of candies, if you will.
1.Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Salty, sweet and color-coordinated to the holiday. Disagree? Come at us. (Oh, and thepumpkin-shaped ones are even better.) There’s simply no denying that this is the best Halloween candy of all time.
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