Seasonal & Holidays
Halloween Candy Throwdown Poll: Candy Corn Versus Everything Else
Candy corn has been around since the 1880s. Is it getting stale, or is it still what trick or treaters want in their Halloween buckets?
ACROSS AMERICA — Here’s a Halloween candy throwdown for you: Should candy corn ever end up in a trick-or-treater’s bucket?
Candy corn is high-octane sugar. It’s a mixture of sugar, corn syrup, vanilla flavor, marshmallow coloring, artificial coloring and fondant melted together. Candy corn was invented in the 1880s. That’s a long time to maintain a reputation as a “Halloween favorite.”
But is it, really? A survey last year by the, surprise, oral care platform Byte found that 1 in 3 Americans hate candy corn, a little more than 1 in 5 love it. Everyone else was indifferent.
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What do the kids trick-or-treating in your neighborhood want in their candy bags? Candy corn? A Butterfinger, Milky Way or Snickers? Kit Kats or Twix? Skittles, Sour Patch Kids or M&Ms? Or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups? Or do they want something else? A different edible treat, or even a small toy?
Just fill out our informal, just-for-fun survey. Defend your choice. This is a throwdown, after all. (And don’t be scared: We won’t collect your email address.)
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THIS POLL CLOSED ON WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18.
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