(I’m not counting fancy candy, like something you might find at Godiva, or anything organic from the farmer’s market. It’s time for a new candy bar that you can find in every car dealership or motel, every trick-or-treat pumpkin, every supermarket checkout aisle. “Hershey’s Kisses are boring, but Birthday Cake Hershey’s Kisses? Sign me up!” It’s a cute idea, but this mix-and-matching of familiar favorites leads to abominations like Swedish Fish Oreos. It’s the latter, new/old category that the internet holds in lovingly viral regard. Here are the 10 highest selling candy bars, as of 2015:
Even Twix, which is obviously the king of vending machine candies (George Costanza knows what’s up), goes back to the 1960s. The old includes Butterfinger (introduced in 1923), M&M’s (1941), and Snickers (1930) while the new versions of old consist of Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cup (2014), M&M’s Minis (1996), and Snickers Peanut Butter (2011). Those candies can, generally speaking, be sorted into two categories: old, and new versions of old. I later went to the greatest store ever, Party City, and discovered Reese’s Pieces Crunch Mounds and Toblerone. I grandfathered M&Ms in), here’s what I saw at the supermarket: Hershey’s Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Creme Ferrero Rocher Turtles York Peppermint Pattie Kit Kat Kit Kat Minis Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Snickers Snickers Peanut Butter Twix multiple varieties of M&Ms Milky Way Almond Joy 3 Musketeers Pay Day Butterfinger and Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cup.
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With the Geraldine’s treat still on my mind, two things became immediately clear: 1) Peanut Butter M&Ms sound terrible, and 2) it’s time for a new candy bar.ĭiscounting gum, which isn’t anything except a quick distraction, and everything else that isn’t a candy bar (Jolly Ranchers, Sour Patch Kids, Skittles, etc. I’ve always taken the sweets for granted - candy is as ubiquitous an impulse buy as soap opera magazines - but never really considered the plethora of options. Later that night, I stopped by a grocery store (God, is there anything more depressing than going to the grocery after eating a delicious meal at a restaurant?), and for the first time in years, I looked at the candy choices near the register.
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I’m not sure how portable the “candy” bar would be on Halloween, but it’s worth looking into. It’s both crunchy and chewy - a brûléed exterior working in combination with the chewy pork center.
I gotta admit, pig face is better than any Take 5 I’ve ever had. I stopped by Geraldine’s - located inside Hotel Van Zandt right off boozy Rainey Street - and had what executive chef Stephen Bonin calls “fun in its appearance… resembling a candy bar, but tastes familiar with a nostalgic twist.” I might love the former I know I’ll be disappointed by the latter. I’d much rather take a risk on something “weird,” like the face of a pig, than eat a Mr. But even I must admit I was intrigued when I heard about the Pig Face Candy Bar at Geraldine’s in Austin, Texas. If I’m going to slowly kill myself with sugar, I’m going to do it with baked goods and ice cream, thank you very much. I’ve literally never seen my father buy a Kit Kat, let alone eat one, and my mother would occasionally put a mini Snickers in the freezer, but that’s about it. Then I started to crash (thankfully not literally).Ĭandy isn’t part of my DNA. So, I bought a Twix - it was a good decision for about 10 minutes. My last actual candy bar was about two years ago, when I needed a pick-me-up during a long drive through an endless stretch of Texas and the nearest kolache place was 55 miles away. It’s one of life’s richest ironies: once you’re old enough to get something whenever you want it - be it fast food, candy, or drugs (all equally harmful) - that’s exactly when you stop wanting it. When was the last time you actively craved a candy bar? Now, I’m not asking when the last time you ate a candy bar was, or how much you hated yourself after, but the day, month, and year when you thought to yourself, “I’m in the mood for a candy bar.” It was probably when you were a kid.
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