Guess What’s the Favorite Halloween Candy in Illinois?

With Halloween just days away, the researchers at CandyStore.com have delved into eight years of data to determine each state’s favorite kind of candy.

Illinois has a good one — the Kit Kat. And the second- and third-place finishers, Sour Patch Kids and M&M’s, are perfectly respectable as well.

What’s mind-boggling is that the favorite candy of no less than five states — Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Rhode Island and South Carolina — is candy corn. Candy corn! Candy corn’s the worst.

Candystore.com came up with each state’s favorite kinds of candy by examining candy sales from 2007 through 2015 in the three months before Halloween.

“Since we sell candy to all 50 states (and Canada), it was easy for us to see a state-by-state breakdown of candy trends and top orders,” the site said. “And we have relationships with all the major candy companies, so they helped us verify as well. Based on this analysis, we determined the Halloween bestsellers that people all over the country love to use in Halloween crafts and treats and give out to trick-or-treaters.”

But this was more than just crunching numbers. Candystore.com also provided a (somewhat tenuous) reason for why Illinoisans prefer the Kit Kat.

“Before Springfield became the capital of Illinois, it had two, Kaskaskia and Vandalia,” the site explained. “The Prairie State also loves a candy with two sides, Kit Kat bars. In our study, it’s estimated they consumed over 1.6 million Kit Kats.”

Could be. But why are the people of Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Rhode Island and South Carolina so cuckoo for candy corn? Candystore.com doesn’t really say. It does claim candy corn is the most popular Halloween candy in America. Somehow.

So time’s running out. You know what the trick-or-treaters of Illinois want. Now give it to them.

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