50 Halloween Candies, Ranked in Order of Deliciousness

Heather Hogan —
Oct 27, 2014
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There are two kinds of Halloween monsters: The fake kind of monster that is just a person wearing a spooky costume, dancing to Elvira, sipping on cocktails called like “Mr. Hyde’s Potion” or “Witches Brew” or something, and the real kind of monster that hands out candy corn to trick-or-treaters. Candy corn tastes like the middle of a venn diagram where one side is ear wax and the other side is butt. Candy corn is the troll bogey-flavored Bean in a box of Bertie Bott’s. Candy corn is to candy what the space between toes is to the human body. Yet, despite its awfulness, candy corn remains one of the best-selling Halloween “treats” year after year. This madness has to stop! We must be part of the solution!

You can start by familiarizing yourself with this irrefutable list of 50 excellent Halloween candies, ranked in order of deliciousness.


1. Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

2. Full-Size Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

3. Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins

4. Starburst

5. Sour Patch Kids

6. Kit-Kat

7.Haribo Gummy Bears

8. Plain M&M’s

9. Skittles

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10. Snickers

11. Jelly Belly Fun Packs

12. Nerds

13. Gobstoppers

14. Sprees

15. Nestle Crunch

16. Twizzlers

17. Milky Way

18. Butterfinger

19. Twix

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20. Ring Pops

21. Chewy SweetTarts

22. SweetTarts

23. Red Vines

24. Baby Ruth

25. Rainblow Pops

26. Peanut M&M’s

27. Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Minis

28. Jolly Ranchers

29. Sour Skittles

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30. War Heads

31. Laffy Taffy

32. Now & Laters

33. Almond Joy

34. Lemonheads

35. Red Hots

36. Heath bars

37. Cow Tails

38. Cadbury Scream Egg

39. Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Minis

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40. Bazooka Joe Bubblegum

41. Life Savers

42. Smarties

43. Milk Duds

44. Junior Mints

45. York Peppermint Patty

46. Sugar Babies

47. Tootsie Fruit Rolls

48. Good and Plenty

49. Peanut Butter Kisses

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50. Candy Corn


Thoughts? Feelings? Incorrect defenses of of terrible, terrible candy corn?

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Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York City with her wife, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She’s a member of the Television Critics Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Twitter and Instagram.

Heather Hogan has written 1718 articles for us.

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