Candy poll.

[Metalhead]

This kinda goes hand in hand with the Halloween poll I posted a couple of days ago.

Candy - we all know it's bad for us, but most of us love it anyway.

My personal favorite candy is salted black licorice.

 

[LadyS]

Reese's for me. Which reminds me I need to get some for the trick-or-treaters...

 

[GypsyMoth]

You missed ice cream.

It is my Achille's heel...

 

[Metalhead]

You missed ice cream.

It is my Achille's heel...

True, but how many people hand out ice cream to trick or treaters on Halloween? It would get all the other candy in the bucket sticky over the course of the night.

 

[Progster]

Chocolate wins hands down in that poll. But not just any chocolate - dark chocolate with 70% or 80% cocoa.

 

[Metalhead]

Chocolate wins hands down in that poll. But not just any chocolate - dark chocolate with 70% or 80% cocoa.

I am with you there when it comes to chocolate. Hershey's chocolate sucks!

 

[Progster]

I am with you there when it comes to chocolate. Hershey's chocolate sucks!

I've never tried Hershey's, but my limited experience with American candy is that it's way too sweet for my taste. I tried Reese's once; really didn't like it.

 

[GypsyMoth]

I've never tried Hershey's, but my limited experience with American candy is that it's way too sweet for my taste. I tried Reese's once; really didn't like it.

Reese's didn't always taste as they do now. When I was a kid, it was less sweet, more peanut buttery, and the peanut butter filling was smoother. i used to eat all the filling out, which would leave a chocolate ring to play with. (Today I find that gross, but that what's kids do.) Today the chocolate doesn't hold together as well. I tried doing the chocolate ring a couple of years ago and it just crumbled. Plus, it's super waxy. All Hershey's chocolate leaves this waxy film in the mouth that's, well, gross. And the peanut butter is now...I don't know how to describe it...very bumpy and crumbly, as if it were dried and reconstituted?

What's much better than this are Buckeye Balls. In case you're unfamiliar, it's peanut butter -- as real as you want it to be peanut butter -- blended with confectionary sugar and scooped up with a melon scoop into a ball the diameter of a quarter. Stick a toothpick in it for handling and then dip the peanut butter ball into homemade melted chocolate and set on wax paper to dry. De-lish.

 

[Aspychata]

I like semi-sweet chocolate, dark chocolate, bittersweet chocolate, milk chocolate, salted carmel chocolate. I don't discriminate, l like carob too.
If l make a ganache, l like to add expresso coffee to it.

Sorry chocolate, l prefer coffee ice cream.

 

[Rodafina]

 

[MyLifeAsAnAspie]

I like 85% or 90% chocolate. But I eat it very sparingly. I believe sugar is a dangerous food additive.

 

[Luca]

Everything except licorice... sorry!
I'm not that crazy for candy in general but I do eat it when I feel like I need some sugar. I prefer fruity candy over chocolate.

Most sweet things, including pastries, make me feel kind of sick, but I have a drawer full of Starbursts and Skittles and sour gummies that I eat when I'm feeling really drowsy and need something sugary.

I do eat a lot of candy on Halloween though, especially since I usually have a Halloween party, and I don't get a whole lot of trick-or-treaters. Lol

 

[Sherlock77]

I'm not a candy guy much, am I the only one?

But where is the Bratwurst poll? One of biggest guilty pleasures, a sausage with sauerkraut and mustard, and that's all I need

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

There are two favorites of mine.
Sanders sea salt caramels covered in dark chocolate
Fanny Mae Trinidads, dark chocolate fudge covered in white chocolate with coconut.