By Alice Yee
Don’t lose your peanut butter cups over this list! These are the candies haunting trick-or-treat bags nationwide:
It looks like our top spot-getter this year from newsweek.com goes to Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which have been popular since 1928 (making them about 97 years old)! The chocolates have continued to prove that they’re the ‘unifying indulgence’, like Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar taking over North and South Carolina, while Snickers runs through Nevada and California.
The classic licorice rivalries are ever-fierce: States like New York, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio display their loyalties to Twizzlers as western states like Arizona, Idaho, and Montana dominate with Red Vine devotees.
Trolli gummies are also making themselves known across Texas, Georgia, and Rhode Island, as their chewy counterpart Laffy Taffy rules in Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska. Meanwhile, we can see Cadbury scoring top marks over at Hawaii, and the crown going to Nerds up in Alaska.
It’s so special seeing each state having its own distinct candy identity. No matter where your candy loyalties lie, one thing’s for sure: Halloween’s biggest treat is how it brings us all together in one sweet celebration. Happy candy hunting!