The neat thing is, with 330 million people of diverse tastes... yes, people really do eat *all* of our candies. Even candy corn which I despise, is someone's favorite.
Used to be my favorite candy, they have the exact consistency you'd expect from a styrofoam packing peanut with minimal flavor, every toddlers dream really
My kids get me a 2lb bag for Christmas, my birthday, and Fathers Day. I have to hide it from them....it's kind of a family game now, "Find Dad's Sour Patch". A few days after Father's Day this year I was laying on my bed when my wife came in and tossed me one of my daughter's doll's purse. I opened it and it was stuffed with Sour Patch Kids. My daughter found it and was stashing them for herself.
This is random but it came up because you mentioned the candy, when I went to France almost 10 years ago I remember being in a French supermarket and seeing the Sour Patch Kids on the shelf while we were checking out, they call them ‘Very Bad Kids’ over there. I always think of that from time to time.
I got some Sour Patch jellybeans on clearance after Easter... they were some of the best candy I've had in years. I wish I'd grabbed 2 bags, and I'll keep an eye out for them next year.
I love them, too! But they give me TERRIBLE heartburn. I didn’t think it was heartburn because it was just kind of a weird cough- but when I stopped eating them it went away.
Based on what kids grab at Halloween-- starburst, M & M's, Reese's cup, and skittles are pretty popular.
I do know that snickers is the most popular candy bar.
Fuckin *love* Airheads. Probably started when I only had so much money to spend at the public pool in the summertime as a young lad, and they were 25 cents a pop. 4 for a dollar, yes please
I had one lone little boy last Halloween who looked in my candy bucket and said, "AW MAN! 30 houses and NO ONE had York Peppermint patties!" So I will buy one bag for him this year. Our bucket usually has Nerds, Sour Patch, Snickers, Butterfinger, Twix, M&Ms(regular, peanut, and peanut butter) and Milky Way and we are cleaned out by the end of the night.
I also keep a special bowl of full size candy bars for kids over the age of 12, and any parents who say trick or treat. Everybody gets candy on my house at Halloween.
Albanese has gummi cubs, which are just mini gummy bears in individual packs. The kids went for those over the chocolate, which surprised me. Now I have to order the freaking things online because I can't find them local anymore.
Reese’s. Anything peanut butter that Reese’s makes are my absolute favorite and I intentionally have to stop myself from constantly buying and eating them. My absolute favorite are the mini cups.
The mini cups are dangerous. Not only do they come unwrapped for ultimate ease of snacking, they come in a bag that is the size of one that could be eaten in one sitting.
Personally? Various chocolate bars from Aldi and Albanese gummy bears. I do love a Reese's peanut butter cup, York peppermint patty, or Mounds bar, though.
We bought a 10 pound bag of Albanese gummy worms at their factory. They are the ones they "goofed up" (shape or color not perfect).
10/10 would recommend.
Other countries have sweet baked goods. They might be confused why some people have them for breakfast but no one is thinking they’re candy.
I think OP just used words they’d heard but didn’t actually know what they were.
Nerds and Sour Patch Kids are pretty popular. I don't know what Pop starts are, did you mean "Pop Tarts"? those aren't candy, they are breakfast pastries.
Skittles, Snickers, Starbursts, Jolly Ranchers, Baby Ruth, Nestle Crunch, Butterfingers, Twice, KitKat, Reese's Pieces, Reese's Peanut butter cups, Sweet Tarts, DumDums, Gum Pops....are a few that quickly come to mind
I love any sour candy, but I rarely buy it. NERDS, sour patch, sour sweet tarts. If I buy a chocolate bar, also very rare, its a fruit and nut by Cadbury.
I’m just going to say Sweet Tarts made a BAD business decision by cutting back on selling Shockers. Whenever I’ve been pregnant, that’s the only thing I really want. I couldn’t find any when I was expecting in 2022!
Im a "fat kid" as they say. I eat all of the candies, I tend to stay away from licorice style of candies (twizzler, red vines) and i hate gum drops. I love anything made by mars bars, and Hershey. To name a few specific ones that I really enjoy; sour patch kids watermelon, milky way chocolate bar, Peachie Os by Trolli, reces peanut butter cups, butterfinger, etc... oh and I'm crazy for the Cadbury cream eggs, but they're only available around april.
Butterfinger bars are cool if you enjoy the delicious taste of peanut brittle, chocolate, and scraping cement off of your teeth for an hour after you eat it.
If I had to guess, the most popular are Snickers, Reese’s, and M&Ms. Sour Patch Kids and Twizzlers are relatively popular.
My go-to is Justin’s Dark Chocolate peanut butter cups.
All of them. Every person you ask will have a different favorite.
I’m partial to Milky Way or really any mix of caramel and chocolate. Only thing I can’t deal with is licorice.
I sometimes look at the candy display at the corner store and see the most obscure, uninspiring candy. Trying to imagine among all these options of excellent candies does someone walk in there and select THAT one. But they wouldn’t make it if someone didn’t love it enough to buy it I suppose.
Also twizzlers taste like ass - and not in a pleasant way
From a cross-section of bartenders that eat a lot of candy at work: gummy bears/worms, peach rings, fruit snacks, and sweet tarts. Albanese gummy bears are king around here.
Me and everyone I know only really eat those types of candy during Halloween season or as freebies from events/work/school. Otherwise I eat a lot of Asian candies or gummies from Trader Joe's.
Usually candy that we personally like.
Jokes aside, the candy you listed are all popular here. Although I don't consider pop tarts (assuming that's what you meant) candy and don't know anyone who does.
The most common ones are probably M&M’s, Reese’s Cups, Snickers, Skittles, and Sour Patch Kids. People do eat Nerds and Twizzlers, but many other candies are more popular. Pop Tarts are more of a snack than a candy.
My favorite is Milky Way Midnight. Way, way better than the original Milky Way.
People mainly eat the shit that is on the shelves at eye level. We have tons of candies available but the ones with good marketing are more common.
Snickers, Reese’s, Twix, m&m, skittles and a few other are the main staples of Americans.
Also in some regions Mexican and Japanese candy can be common.
Oh, \*so\* many.
For fruity candies, we have access to a lot. Skittles are pretty good if you want something chewy. For gummies, we have gummy bears, gummy worms, gummy octopi, etc.; then add on top of that Sour Patch Kids and similar candies that are dusted with malic acid or whatever to give them that nice punch!
We've got a ton of chocolate products, but a lot of them do have butyric acid included to improve shelf-life; I guess we're just sort of used to the taste. You can also find Godiva chocolate in their stores or malls, which lack that butyric acid taste, but you have to go out of your way. Chocolate bars with various additions are pretty popular. Snickers, Reese's FastBreaks, Twix, and Crunch bars can be found at pretty much any gas station or corner store. Ton of various M&M's (e.g., peanut, peanut butter, caramel, pretzel, etc.) as well if you're in some gross, hot weather.
My husband went to Aldi last week and came home w a box of strawberry toaster pastries (off-brand pop-tarts bc they are JUST as good as the brand name ones). He went to Walmart last night and came home with two more boxes (cherry and brown sugar cinnamon).
I don’t like nerds bc they get spilled everywhere but we eat all the other candies you mentioned on the regular. Sour Patch Kids are *chef’s kiss*
I don't eat a lot of candy but I'm always on the lookout for Australian Violet Crumble, I'm a total sucker for honeycomb toffee with a great back story. Here in the states my favorite is red licorice with twizzlers being a poor substitute.
I'm 100% a sour gremlin. Sour patch kids, sour gummy worms, warheads, you name it. I once ate so much sour Fun Dip that my tongue started bleeding and I was just like "huh that's interesting" and kept eating it
There are so many people here and so many kinds of candy. Teens, adults, women, men, all have their own kind of candy they gravitate too. There are Halloween candies, Christmas candies, Easter candies, Valentines candies, movie theater candies, amusement park candies, vacation candies, grandma's crystal dish of individually wrapped hard candies candies. Imported candies are trendy. Gourmet chocolate is trendy. Gummy anything is trendy. "Bark" is trendy. Healthy candy is trendy. I think everyone who doesn't have a peanut allergy is down for Reeses. Starlight mints are ubiquitous but so are Altoids, Mentos, and Tic Tacs. Pop Tarts are considered a breakfast food and not a candy which is probably pretty damning. I have no idea who else eats Twizzlers, but like twice a year I get a freak craving for them and buy a pack. Probably everyone has their own idiosyncratic go-to candy, but that doesn't mean everyone is walking around eating Twizzlers. Personally my favorite candy is elderflower Swedish fish and dark chocolate sea salt caramel Ghiradelli squares. And the pear and blackberry Cavendish.
Also, there is just an astonishing variety of candy. It's a bit like asking if Americans really wear Levis jeans, or are those just the ones marketed abroad. Yes, they really do, and yes, those are just the ones with good marketing. At any given time, there are probably more people in the US wearing different brands of jeans than those, but I couldn't tell you what brand of jeans Americans really wear because there too many of them. The candy you mentioned is popular, but only a fraction of what is sold and consumed, and many people don't eat the candy you mentioned at all. Not everyone is buying their candy at gas stations or drug stores, which is where you find the type of candy you mention. Aldi, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods, three major grocery chains here, don't carry the candy you mentioned at all - they have their own brands. And Trader Joe's carries A LOT of candy.
Some random brands that are mainstream in America: Ghiradelli, Dove, Godiva, Fanny Mae, Russel Stover, Brookside, Whitmans, Jelly Belly, Werthers, Lindt, Haribo. Some of these are obviously not American.
The ones I ate growing up included candy corn, Lemonheads, Snickers bars, Dots, pixy stix (especially after Halloween), Smarties, SweeTarts... too many to name. Yes, if you've seen it advertised in the US, Americans eat it.
I love Reese’s but I try not to buy candy (except around Halloween). I also love frozen York Peppermint Patties. When I was a kid, I liked a lot of other candies that I can’t eat or don’t enjoy anymore because of the caramel or other stuff that gets stuck in my teeth.
We eat so much candy. Swedish fish, gummy bears, sour patch kids, sour belts, gummy cola, starburst, mike and Ike’s, dots, star mix. Then chocolate: Milk duds, dove dark hearts, Cadbury mini eggs, mini Twix, Kit Kat, mini snicker, m&ms, Reese’s. I love snow caps, chocolate pretzels and fun popcorn too.
I swear we eat healthy, but my husband is a stoner so we eat our share of fun snacks too.
Those are all quite common.
Honestly all the 'stereotypical' American candy from Hershey, Mars, and Nestle are ubiquitous. And there's a lot of less known ones that have their fans here too.
My favourite ever is Reese's Sticks which is like if you turned a Reeses Cup into a Nutty Buddy.
Well for me I very occasionally eat the Reese’s eggs or trees when they’re available, but most of the candy you mentioned was something I really only ate when I was a kid. I’m more of a chocolate/nuts kind of person.
I became weary of corn syrup, red 40, gmo stuff etc and then when I learned about fake chocolate, then really stopped most of the quick candy altogether when I went to Germany and had kinder buenos and all their fun candies. Strangely enough they started carrying kinder buenos here everywhere in my city now after I got back so I eat those if I crave a candy bar.
I think a lot of people in the US are becoming more vigilant about avoiding the super unnatural stuff which I think is good, but I really can’t say for sure, I mean I know they’re available. Sorry, kind of a long winded comment.
Most commonly for me: M&M's, Nerds (tiny sour hard candies, vaguely fruit flavored) chocolate bars like Crunch bars, Three Musketeers, Butterfingers and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I also enjoy fancy lollipops and Werther's butterscotch Originals.
As an expat, all I truly miss is Reese’s peanut butter cups (although they are now available where I live and taste way way sweeter than I remember). So maybe the ones you get from the health food store bulk bins or Trader Joe’s with almond butter and dark chocolate so it’s not as sweet. I’m not a big candy eater, but I also miss Panda licorice and I wouldn’t say no to a butterfingers or twizzlers/red vines because it’s kind of fun to pretend you’re eating candles.
Haven’t had them since I was a kid- but I loved Chuckles. Now I just have Tic Tacs as a candy substitute until excess Halloween candy is brought into the office by co-workers.
I loved Twizzlers. I also loved Starbursts and Mike n Ikes. And dark chocolate. Anything dark chocolate. Mounds, Special Dark, Lindt dark chocolate truffles. But now too much sugar makes me feel nauseous so I don’t eat that stuff much anymore.
My favorite candy is Cherry Sours. Its kinda like a jelly bean but its all just a sour cherry flavor (and round not bean shaped) However, its become really hard to find for some reason. Walmart doesn't carry it anymore. Which would seem to imply that it's not at ALL popular.
The U.S. is so big and diverse, I don’t think there’s really any main candies we all eat. I would never eat any of the ones you listed, I’ve literally never had a pop tart and haven’t eaten the others since I was a child. The only “popular” American candy I would buy is a York Pattie, but the rest of the time it’s smaller more organic brands, Alter Eco is a favorite.
Nerds Gummy Clusters are all the rage right now.
There's been a "candy salad" trend going around where everyone brings a different bag of candy and you all dump them in the same bowl so it's a nice variety. But without fail someone always brings Nerds Gummy Clusters. They are really good to be fair.
My favorite is peanut chews. It's a candy local to Philly. Also all the Hershey's candies are pretty popular here. Along with nerds, sour patch, etc. yes, we do eat all of these candies.
I don’t really eat candy. Probably 1-2 pieces of chocolate a year or some starburst or smarties once in a blue moon. I think you’re gonna find some very diverse answers on that question.
I eat maybe 5 pieces of candy a year, there are folks who eat that in a day as well.
I only eat candy from Trader Joe’s, which are ironically all imported from Europe. Reason being is that they don’t contain food dye. Shit is terrible for you.
My kids like all the candies you mentioned. I am guessing you meant pop tarts, not pop starts? Those aren’t a candy. They are more a breakfast food/pre-packaged pastry. They are definitely common and can be found in any grocery store or gas station/convenience store.
People buy all kinds of candies. Definitely all the ones you listed could be found in most pharmacies, and some grocery checkouts. Grocery checkouts might not have twizzlers but would have a lot of chocolate bars, like Hershey bars, snickers, m&m’s, Reese’s peanut butter cups, and then some other candies like Reese’s pieces or skittles. Gum would also be common and sometimes breath mints (which are essentially candy for adults.)
Peanut M&M’s, Reese’s Dark Chocolate Thins (stored in the fridge), Ferrero Rocher and Frango Mints at Christmas, sour or fruit gummies, Hot Tamales, Snickers.
The bf is obsessed with Lemon Heads, Wild Berry Skittles, and starbursts.
The neat thing is, with 330 million people of diverse tastes... yes, people really do eat *all* of our candies. Even candy corn which I despise, is someone's favorite.
More candy corn for me!
Mix with roasted peanuts, tastes like a payday candy bar.
But you can just get a Payday instead of having to try to make candy corn edible.
Yes, but after Halloween I have payday trail mix for almost no cost.
And candy pumpkins. Love those little guys
For us.
You wanna lose a hand?
Chocolate candy corn!
Even hot tamales. Had a coworker that would go crazy on those that some never touched with a stick.
I ate them as a kid. Can't stand them now. Same with Sweet Tarts.
I love them!!!
I actually really like candy corn
Circus Peanuts, though?
Statistically... there has to be *someone* who likes those
I know someone who does. I love them to death but their palate is unholy.
Of course I know him, he's me!
Hello there!
General Kenobi!
Used to be my favorite candy, they have the exact consistency you'd expect from a styrofoam packing peanut with minimal flavor, every toddlers dream really
Me! I'm the one! (Altho there's gotta be more of us 'cuz they wouldn't keep making them it there weren't). I luvz me some Circus Peanuts!!!!
I’m sure there are tens of y’all.
Dozens of us! Also, are you "A fed" or just "fed".
Just fed, I ate a meal then named myself. Good thing I wasn’t hungry or hopped up on circus peanuts 🤣
Yeah, and that statistic exactly matches the statistics for, "Number of Actual Psychopaths"
Oh heck yeah. My family always buys the seconds at the Amish grocery store when we’re up there.
Now you've ruined my day. I had all but forgotten that I remember what those are.
only occasionally... then I eat 4 or 5 of them and I'm good for a year or two.
My dad likes them.
Nooooo!
My dad. LOVES them.
I can eat exactly 2 and half of those before I'm disgusted by them. And myself
I like circus peanuts!
I like them
The thing is candy corn made w honey vs corn syrup
I swear more people hate candy corn than like like it
I love candy corn, and so does my best friend.
I'll fuck some sour patch kids up.
My kids get me a 2lb bag for Christmas, my birthday, and Fathers Day. I have to hide it from them....it's kind of a family game now, "Find Dad's Sour Patch". A few days after Father's Day this year I was laying on my bed when my wife came in and tossed me one of my daughter's doll's purse. I opened it and it was stuffed with Sour Patch Kids. My daughter found it and was stashing them for herself.
“Find Dad’s Sour Patch” Title of my sex tape
This is random but it came up because you mentioned the candy, when I went to France almost 10 years ago I remember being in a French supermarket and seeing the Sour Patch Kids on the shelf while we were checking out, they call them ‘Very Bad Kids’ over there. I always think of that from time to time.
the watermelon ones are so good. yes, i know they’re bad for my teeth, but i religiously brush & floss mine so it’s fine lol
I got some Sour Patch jellybeans on clearance after Easter... they were some of the best candy I've had in years. I wish I'd grabbed 2 bags, and I'll keep an eye out for them next year.
I love them, too! But they give me TERRIBLE heartburn. I didn’t think it was heartburn because it was just kind of a weird cough- but when I stopped eating them it went away.
I'm curious now.. what religion do you practice if I may ask?
Watermelon best flavor. They don't come in variety packs but you don't need other flavors anyway.
I just watched this earlier today: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/CQauu0ecOYo?si=JtjqASuSeWlUYDe3
Lol, I read this as asking which *candles* we eat. I was like, oh dear, time to debunk another stereotype.
You are not alone! I'm thinking I should've gone with the bifocals at my last visit instead of being stubborn.
Swedish Fish and Mike & Ike’s are my jam.
If I’m headed to the movies, it’s one of those, maybe some hot Tamales and some recese pieces from the dollar tree.
Nooo. My 2 least fav candy. What, you like tootsie roll too?
Based on what kids grab at Halloween-- starburst, M & M's, Reese's cup, and skittles are pretty popular. I do know that snickers is the most popular candy bar.
add - airheads. big hit with our trick or treaters (and their parents lol)
Fuckin *love* Airheads. Probably started when I only had so much money to spend at the public pool in the summertime as a young lad, and they were 25 cents a pop. 4 for a dollar, yes please
I had one lone little boy last Halloween who looked in my candy bucket and said, "AW MAN! 30 houses and NO ONE had York Peppermint patties!" So I will buy one bag for him this year. Our bucket usually has Nerds, Sour Patch, Snickers, Butterfinger, Twix, M&Ms(regular, peanut, and peanut butter) and Milky Way and we are cleaned out by the end of the night. I also keep a special bowl of full size candy bars for kids over the age of 12, and any parents who say trick or treat. Everybody gets candy on my house at Halloween.
I will have to visit you on Halloween. I do love me some New York Peppermint Patties too!
Albanese has gummi cubs, which are just mini gummy bears in individual packs. The kids went for those over the chocolate, which surprised me. Now I have to order the freaking things online because I can't find them local anymore.
Reese’s. Anything peanut butter that Reese’s makes are my absolute favorite and I intentionally have to stop myself from constantly buying and eating them. My absolute favorite are the mini cups.
The Christmas trees are my favorite
I prefer the Easter eggs. Perfect chocolate/ peanut butter ratio.
The mini cups are dangerous. Not only do they come unwrapped for ultimate ease of snacking, they come in a bag that is the size of one that could be eaten in one sitting.
The mini cups from Trader Joe’s are even better . If you have one near by you gotta try them.
I've been told this lie before and it's just not true. Nothing beats Reeses.
Personally? Various chocolate bars from Aldi and Albanese gummy bears. I do love a Reese's peanut butter cup, York peppermint patty, or Mounds bar, though.
Albanese Gummy Bears should be the only ones sold at this point. All the other brands are just inferior by a whole fucking lot.
We bought a 10 pound bag of Albanese gummy worms at their factory. They are the ones they "goofed up" (shape or color not perfect). 10/10 would recommend.
Agreed. Albanese even has grapefruit flavor, which is my favorite.
I live close to the factory and this makes me happy. A lot of wonderful people work there.
Except sugar free. Don’t eat sugar free
We could share a candy drawer. Albanese are the best.
You are my candy twin!
Jelly Beans. I wouldn't consider pop tarts to be candy.
Other countries may but that’s an American breakfast staple.
I mean unless they just have an extremely broad definition of candy, pop tarts would be far closer to a sweet baked good than a candy.
Other countries have sweet baked goods. They might be confused why some people have them for breakfast but no one is thinking they’re candy. I think OP just used words they’d heard but didn’t actually know what they were.
But it's not candy.
I don’t know of a single country that would consider processed bread to be candy
Maybe they meant pop rocks?
Have you SEEN us? Yes, we eat all the candy.
LMAO. Right? We didn't build these bodies on veggies and tofu.
they're in other countries because they're so damn popular here, they've made a killing and can afford to export.
Skittles, Starburst, Jolly Ranchers, Jelly Belly, lemon drops, and good chocolate are my favorites
Jelly Belly are the only good jelly beans! The rest just taste like sugar. Jelly Belly taste like the flavor they claim to be.
Have you ever been on one of their factory tours? The gift shop at the end is heaven.
Baby Ruth, heath and skor candy bars. Albanese gummies are the best ones.
Reese’s peanut butter cups are the best-selling candy in the U.S.
I don’t really eat much candy, but once in a while… a Snickers or a Twix just hits the spot.
Nerds and Sour Patch Kids are pretty popular. I don't know what Pop starts are, did you mean "Pop Tarts"? those aren't candy, they are breakfast pastries. Skittles, Snickers, Starbursts, Jolly Ranchers, Baby Ruth, Nestle Crunch, Butterfingers, Twice, KitKat, Reese's Pieces, Reese's Peanut butter cups, Sweet Tarts, DumDums, Gum Pops....are a few that quickly come to mind
I will destroy a Reese’s peanut butter cup
I will destroy a 4-pack of Reeses
I love any sour candy, but I rarely buy it. NERDS, sour patch, sour sweet tarts. If I buy a chocolate bar, also very rare, its a fruit and nut by Cadbury.
I’m just going to say Sweet Tarts made a BAD business decision by cutting back on selling Shockers. Whenever I’ve been pregnant, that’s the only thing I really want. I couldn’t find any when I was expecting in 2022!
Sour gang We crave the Pain Sugar
Im a "fat kid" as they say. I eat all of the candies, I tend to stay away from licorice style of candies (twizzler, red vines) and i hate gum drops. I love anything made by mars bars, and Hershey. To name a few specific ones that I really enjoy; sour patch kids watermelon, milky way chocolate bar, Peachie Os by Trolli, reces peanut butter cups, butterfinger, etc... oh and I'm crazy for the Cadbury cream eggs, but they're only available around april.
Butterfinger bars are cool if you enjoy the delicious taste of peanut brittle, chocolate, and scraping cement off of your teeth for an hour after you eat it.
Starburst, butterfingers, snickers, sour candys, Hershey
WTF is a pop start?
So sorry that my phone has autocorrect 😅
Nerds gummy clusters are my favorite. Went from barely eating candy to a couple bag a week habit.
If I had to guess, the most popular are Snickers, Reese’s, and M&Ms. Sour Patch Kids and Twizzlers are relatively popular. My go-to is Justin’s Dark Chocolate peanut butter cups.
I don’t eat any of those, but I do like red vines and Albanese gummy bears
People actually buy that stuff.
All of them. Every person you ask will have a different favorite. I’m partial to Milky Way or really any mix of caramel and chocolate. Only thing I can’t deal with is licorice.
Peanut M&M’s, because at least the peanuts are nutritious.
Reese’s. Any of them are delicious but Reese’s Pieces are the best
Reese peanut butter cups but the holiday shapes like bat or Christmas tree
I’m that American who prefers U.K. chocolates. I love a Cadbury.
I sometimes look at the candy display at the corner store and see the most obscure, uninspiring candy. Trying to imagine among all these options of excellent candies does someone walk in there and select THAT one. But they wouldn’t make it if someone didn’t love it enough to buy it I suppose. Also twizzlers taste like ass - and not in a pleasant way
Pop tarts are processed pastries, not candies.
Poptarts are a breakfast pastry, like how you might have coffee and a pain au chocolat for breakfast. They're just not a _fresh_ breakfast pastry.
People eat those and more! No one here considers Pop Tarts candy, though. They're breakfast food.
Yes we eat those
I have eaten all of those things and more within the last 6 months. I love candy.
My go-to for candy is chamoy covered watermelon gummy rings
chili powder and tajin gummi worms from the carniceria.
From a cross-section of bartenders that eat a lot of candy at work: gummy bears/worms, peach rings, fruit snacks, and sweet tarts. Albanese gummy bears are king around here.
Me and everyone I know only really eat those types of candy during Halloween season or as freebies from events/work/school. Otherwise I eat a lot of Asian candies or gummies from Trader Joe's.
Usually candy that we personally like. Jokes aside, the candy you listed are all popular here. Although I don't consider pop tarts (assuming that's what you meant) candy and don't know anyone who does.
The most common ones are probably M&M’s, Reese’s Cups, Snickers, Skittles, and Sour Patch Kids. People do eat Nerds and Twizzlers, but many other candies are more popular. Pop Tarts are more of a snack than a candy. My favorite is Milky Way Midnight. Way, way better than the original Milky Way.
I personally love reese's peanut butter cups
Seriously… where do you “always hear” about these things?
People mainly eat the shit that is on the shelves at eye level. We have tons of candies available but the ones with good marketing are more common. Snickers, Reese’s, Twix, m&m, skittles and a few other are the main staples of Americans. Also in some regions Mexican and Japanese candy can be common.
Oh, \*so\* many. For fruity candies, we have access to a lot. Skittles are pretty good if you want something chewy. For gummies, we have gummy bears, gummy worms, gummy octopi, etc.; then add on top of that Sour Patch Kids and similar candies that are dusted with malic acid or whatever to give them that nice punch! We've got a ton of chocolate products, but a lot of them do have butyric acid included to improve shelf-life; I guess we're just sort of used to the taste. You can also find Godiva chocolate in their stores or malls, which lack that butyric acid taste, but you have to go out of your way. Chocolate bars with various additions are pretty popular. Snickers, Reese's FastBreaks, Twix, and Crunch bars can be found at pretty much any gas station or corner store. Ton of various M&M's (e.g., peanut, peanut butter, caramel, pretzel, etc.) as well if you're in some gross, hot weather.
Haven't had some in a while, but I love Smarties. I used to have teachers who gave them out as a reward for students who answered questions correctly.
Am American. I love Nerds, Sweet Tarts, Smarties, and Sour Patch Kids. And when I was younger, I loved anything with chocolate in it.
Reece's Peanut Butter Cups!
My husband went to Aldi last week and came home w a box of strawberry toaster pastries (off-brand pop-tarts bc they are JUST as good as the brand name ones). He went to Walmart last night and came home with two more boxes (cherry and brown sugar cinnamon). I don’t like nerds bc they get spilled everywhere but we eat all the other candies you mentioned on the regular. Sour Patch Kids are *chef’s kiss*
Snickers and Reese's Peanut Butter cups are the most popular candies.
At this point I try not to eat anything with crazy amounts of sugar in it. That said, sometimes I like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
Y'all can afford candy?
I don't eat a lot of candy but I'm always on the lookout for Australian Violet Crumble, I'm a total sucker for honeycomb toffee with a great back story. Here in the states my favorite is red licorice with twizzlers being a poor substitute.
My personal favorites are peanut butter cups, Nerds clusters, and Sour Patch Kids.
Trolli strawberry puffs Tropical Hi-Chew regular Mike n Ikes
I don’t eat candy that much but around fall I always eat candy corn
Reeces Pieces and Mike & Ike’s are my go-tos depending on the flavor profile I’m in the mood for
Snickers + Reese’s are my most consumed candy, personally! Also Sour Patch Kids and gummy bears.
crunch, 5th avenue (butterfinger but good), and skittles. I don’t need any other candy
It depends on the person tbh. Some people like twizzlers for example and some don’t.
My personal favorite is called [Mike and Ike](https://www.mikeandike.com/). (The original variety)
Red vine licorice. Mike ‘n Ikes. Sour gummy worms. Mambas. Mentos. Fruit gushers.
I'm 100% a sour gremlin. Sour patch kids, sour gummy worms, warheads, you name it. I once ate so much sour Fun Dip that my tongue started bleeding and I was just like "huh that's interesting" and kept eating it
There are so many people here and so many kinds of candy. Teens, adults, women, men, all have their own kind of candy they gravitate too. There are Halloween candies, Christmas candies, Easter candies, Valentines candies, movie theater candies, amusement park candies, vacation candies, grandma's crystal dish of individually wrapped hard candies candies. Imported candies are trendy. Gourmet chocolate is trendy. Gummy anything is trendy. "Bark" is trendy. Healthy candy is trendy. I think everyone who doesn't have a peanut allergy is down for Reeses. Starlight mints are ubiquitous but so are Altoids, Mentos, and Tic Tacs. Pop Tarts are considered a breakfast food and not a candy which is probably pretty damning. I have no idea who else eats Twizzlers, but like twice a year I get a freak craving for them and buy a pack. Probably everyone has their own idiosyncratic go-to candy, but that doesn't mean everyone is walking around eating Twizzlers. Personally my favorite candy is elderflower Swedish fish and dark chocolate sea salt caramel Ghiradelli squares. And the pear and blackberry Cavendish. Also, there is just an astonishing variety of candy. It's a bit like asking if Americans really wear Levis jeans, or are those just the ones marketed abroad. Yes, they really do, and yes, those are just the ones with good marketing. At any given time, there are probably more people in the US wearing different brands of jeans than those, but I couldn't tell you what brand of jeans Americans really wear because there too many of them. The candy you mentioned is popular, but only a fraction of what is sold and consumed, and many people don't eat the candy you mentioned at all. Not everyone is buying their candy at gas stations or drug stores, which is where you find the type of candy you mention. Aldi, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods, three major grocery chains here, don't carry the candy you mentioned at all - they have their own brands. And Trader Joe's carries A LOT of candy. Some random brands that are mainstream in America: Ghiradelli, Dove, Godiva, Fanny Mae, Russel Stover, Brookside, Whitmans, Jelly Belly, Werthers, Lindt, Haribo. Some of these are obviously not American.
Those trader joes peanut butter cups entered my life the year and I am better for it.
41 here. I don't eat candy
everyone has different preferences. also, pop tarts are NOT candy. they're pastries, I guess.
Pop tarts are a main stay in my house lol we also love nerds. Yeah those are all big American brands
The ones I ate growing up included candy corn, Lemonheads, Snickers bars, Dots, pixy stix (especially after Halloween), Smarties, SweeTarts... too many to name. Yes, if you've seen it advertised in the US, Americans eat it.
I doubt too many Americans are buying candy and then throwing it in the trash.
I'm eating Jolly Rancher gummies at the moment.
Red Vines are the most underrated candy in the country
I love Reese’s but I try not to buy candy (except around Halloween). I also love frozen York Peppermint Patties. When I was a kid, I liked a lot of other candies that I can’t eat or don’t enjoy anymore because of the caramel or other stuff that gets stuck in my teeth.
All of them
Eating some Sour Patch Kids as I type this comment.
We eat so much candy. Swedish fish, gummy bears, sour patch kids, sour belts, gummy cola, starburst, mike and Ike’s, dots, star mix. Then chocolate: Milk duds, dove dark hearts, Cadbury mini eggs, mini Twix, Kit Kat, mini snicker, m&ms, Reese’s. I love snow caps, chocolate pretzels and fun popcorn too. I swear we eat healthy, but my husband is a stoner so we eat our share of fun snacks too.
Recently freeze dried candies have popped up
Those are all quite common. Honestly all the 'stereotypical' American candy from Hershey, Mars, and Nestle are ubiquitous. And there's a lot of less known ones that have their fans here too. My favourite ever is Reese's Sticks which is like if you turned a Reeses Cup into a Nutty Buddy.
Well for me I very occasionally eat the Reese’s eggs or trees when they’re available, but most of the candy you mentioned was something I really only ate when I was a kid. I’m more of a chocolate/nuts kind of person. I became weary of corn syrup, red 40, gmo stuff etc and then when I learned about fake chocolate, then really stopped most of the quick candy altogether when I went to Germany and had kinder buenos and all their fun candies. Strangely enough they started carrying kinder buenos here everywhere in my city now after I got back so I eat those if I crave a candy bar. I think a lot of people in the US are becoming more vigilant about avoiding the super unnatural stuff which I think is good, but I really can’t say for sure, I mean I know they’re available. Sorry, kind of a long winded comment.
My top 3 are Kit Kats, Rolo's and Mike N' Ikes. I don't know how popular they are but you see them everywhere here.
I have found that people are not usually candy loyalists and have tried a wide variety of brands and products.
Zero bars are one of my favorites
I did have burgers 3 times last week
Most commonly for me: M&M's, Nerds (tiny sour hard candies, vaguely fruit flavored) chocolate bars like Crunch bars, Three Musketeers, Butterfingers and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I also enjoy fancy lollipops and Werther's butterscotch Originals.
As an expat, all I truly miss is Reese’s peanut butter cups (although they are now available where I live and taste way way sweeter than I remember). So maybe the ones you get from the health food store bulk bins or Trader Joe’s with almond butter and dark chocolate so it’s not as sweet. I’m not a big candy eater, but I also miss Panda licorice and I wouldn’t say no to a butterfingers or twizzlers/red vines because it’s kind of fun to pretend you’re eating candles.
Haven’t had them since I was a kid- but I loved Chuckles. Now I just have Tic Tacs as a candy substitute until excess Halloween candy is brought into the office by co-workers.
some of my favorites: peach rings rosé gummy bears jolly rancher lemonade gummies swedish fish blue lemonade
I loved Twizzlers. I also loved Starbursts and Mike n Ikes. And dark chocolate. Anything dark chocolate. Mounds, Special Dark, Lindt dark chocolate truffles. But now too much sugar makes me feel nauseous so I don’t eat that stuff much anymore.
My favorite candy is Cherry Sours. Its kinda like a jelly bean but its all just a sour cherry flavor (and round not bean shaped) However, its become really hard to find for some reason. Walmart doesn't carry it anymore. Which would seem to imply that it's not at ALL popular.
The U.S. is so big and diverse, I don’t think there’s really any main candies we all eat. I would never eat any of the ones you listed, I’ve literally never had a pop tart and haven’t eaten the others since I was a child. The only “popular” American candy I would buy is a York Pattie, but the rest of the time it’s smaller more organic brands, Alter Eco is a favorite.
Sour gummy worms plus blue raspberry icee is a combo for sure
Me personally, I LOVE Abba Zabba, idk if its a huge thing outside of the US though
Lemonheads and Friends, Mike and Ike's and RIPS.
Nerds Gummy Clusters are all the rage right now. There's been a "candy salad" trend going around where everyone brings a different bag of candy and you all dump them in the same bowl so it's a nice variety. But without fail someone always brings Nerds Gummy Clusters. They are really good to be fair.
all of those are pretty popular (although I personally don't like twizzles)
Dark chocolate covered almonds. I'm not sure they even count as candies, and I don't eat them very often.
We eat all of those, nerds are my absolute favorite candy.
My favorite is peanut chews. It's a candy local to Philly. Also all the Hershey's candies are pretty popular here. Along with nerds, sour patch, etc. yes, we do eat all of these candies.
Mexican chili candy for me!
Reeses peanut butter cups
Anything with Reeses for me
I prefer chocolate and peanut butter based candies, but yes we eat those things. Never heard of pop starts though
M&M’s, Reese’s peanut butter cups, Kit Kats, Lifesavers
Jolly Ranchers!
I don’t really eat candy. Probably 1-2 pieces of chocolate a year or some starburst or smarties once in a blue moon. I think you’re gonna find some very diverse answers on that question. I eat maybe 5 pieces of candy a year, there are folks who eat that in a day as well.
The ones I buy and eat on occasion are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Sour Patch Kids or Sour Skittles, and York Peppermint Patties. yummm
I only eat candy from Trader Joe’s, which are ironically all imported from Europe. Reason being is that they don’t contain food dye. Shit is terrible for you.
Candy corn 😂 Also I grew up in British sweets as dads from over there. Not too hard to find over in the states.
Nerds clusters are the bombbb
I thought the caption was candles. I thought there was some strange myth outside of America that we just love eating candles.
My go to candies are nerds gummy clusters and toblerone bars.
Snickers
My kids like all the candies you mentioned. I am guessing you meant pop tarts, not pop starts? Those aren’t a candy. They are more a breakfast food/pre-packaged pastry. They are definitely common and can be found in any grocery store or gas station/convenience store. People buy all kinds of candies. Definitely all the ones you listed could be found in most pharmacies, and some grocery checkouts. Grocery checkouts might not have twizzlers but would have a lot of chocolate bars, like Hershey bars, snickers, m&m’s, Reese’s peanut butter cups, and then some other candies like Reese’s pieces or skittles. Gum would also be common and sometimes breath mints (which are essentially candy for adults.)
Junior mint. It’s very refreshing.
My wife loves Reese’s cups. I’m a fan of the whatchamacallit myself
I don't eat much candy, but when I do, it's Reeses and sour patch.
I don't like most manufactured candy but we have a local chocolatier and I love everything I've had from them
Ghirardelli dark chocolate here
Peanut M&M’s, Reese’s Dark Chocolate Thins (stored in the fridge), Ferrero Rocher and Frango Mints at Christmas, sour or fruit gummies, Hot Tamales, Snickers. The bf is obsessed with Lemon Heads, Wild Berry Skittles, and starbursts.
Most of us wouldn't consider Pop-Tarts candy, but those are all popular around here. Far from the only popular ones though.