Leftover Halloween candy—it’s either a hidden treasure or a week-long mistake waiting to happen. Due to my new obsession with Amazon Fresh, I haven’t walked into a supermarket in a few weeks. I managed to miss the Halloween hype and failed to stock up on the good stuff. Inspired by Mike Monteiro’s recent e-newsletter, here’s my take on sorting the Kinda Good Stuff and WTF Stuff from this year’s bowl.
Kinda Good Stuff
- My top pick in this year’s Halloween stash are the fun-sized Almond Joys. These happen to be one-bite and it’s probably one of the few one-bite candies I can tolerate. My stash had 4 Almond Joys and none made it to Halloween.
- The big, single Reese’s peanut butter cup has my respect and I’m happy to report that there are quite a few sitting in the bowl. I have the smaller peanut butter cups too but I seem to have a problem with these. Is it the extra paper packaging? You don’t get the extra paper packaging on the Christmas versions…or do you? I don’t remember now.
- Reese’s also threw in a clump of peanut butter-covered chocolate in a wrapper bedazzled with a jack-o-lantern so I guess this is OK. It’s the same stuff as the peanut butter cup but it’s…clumpy. I’m gonna call this a factory mistake that they decided to market. And yeah, I’ll eat it.
- The mini Hershey bars. I understand this is controversial because Hershey chocolate is not to die for…but dipping one of these in peanut butter is GOOD. We can argue about variations of peanut butter later.
WTF Stuff
- I have too many Jolly Rancher lollipops. Jolly Ranchers in their good ol’ rectangular form worked just fine. Incorporating a stick into the mix just brings on chaos. Factory mistake and definitely not jolly.
- I have a ton of tiny Kit Kats…a.k.a. bite-sized sadness. Visualize breaking a big bar down into 4 pieces. Now break those pieces in half. WHY.
- The two-inch long sliver of red Twizzler can GTFO. I’m not excited about this whatsoever.
- I don’t understand how 4 gummy bears can be enjoyable. What do you do with 4? This is barely a snack.
Also: The fun-sized Snickers are fantastic and are my absolute favorite. I usually shove those bad boys in the freezer. It’s a respectable size and you can inhale 2 without feeling terrible about yourself. The mini one-bite size is absolutely ridiculous. That’s definitely a factory mistake that was forced upon us. Anyway…I don’t have any Snickers.
Ghiradelli is marketed heavily for Christmas and I think they need to hit the Halloween market. They do a “Fall assortment” but that’s not good enough for me. I want to see some Ghiradelli Ghouls. I’d also embrace some orange-foiled Hershey almond kisses. They could work nicely with Thanksgiving. Just saying.
What did your Halloween stash look like this year?
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