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Dum Dums so fitting for Florida

Look at that bougie shit down in Texas.

Op, you should add “uniquely” to the post title. That word in the title on the infographic is important. This is not showing the most popular Halloween candy, it’s showing candy that is much more popular there than the national average.

As an example, let’s say tootsie rolls are the 30th most popular candy in the us. But in the state of Stateland, it’s the 10th most popular, which makes it Stateland’s biggest deviation from the national popularity. This makes it Stateland’s most uniquely popular candy because it is much more popular there relative to the overall us. Snickers is actually the most popular in Stateland, but tootsie rolls show up on the chart as the state’s most uniquely popular Halloween candy.

Wtf is Texas secretly bougie or something?

Why Florida gotta do themselves like that?

Now, I do like candy corn, but if that's the favorite candy in your whole state, there's something wrong with your state

A while back, I looked at a list of the most-widely-sold candy bars in the US, and it blew my mind how old they were.

Like, yes, they've seen formulas revised, and they aren't quite the same thing, but I'd have thought that the advent of technology would let people come up with new and interesting bars. Very few consumer products are as elderly as a lot of these and still selling widely.

I did a table with a list a while back -- the majority of popular bars are at least 70 years old. I don't want to do up a whole table right now, but let me pick a random one: Snickers.

Now, I've got nothing against Snickers. I like it. But Snickers hit the market in 1930. It's 93 years old. That means that in 93 years, we haven't been able to come up with anything sufficiently-better to displace it. That amazes me. In that period, we've seen radical changes to our diet and to technology. The refrigerator became widely deployed in the US, the freezer, the microwave. Automats came and went. Vending machines showed up. Year-round availability of many foods became the norm in grocery stores as transportation and storage capability improved. But the candy bar has remained surprisingly unchanging.

I once found Twizzlers in a german supermarket for a lot of money. I bought it out of curiosity.

Do you really like that stuff? I found it disgusting and threw it away.

There's no way this is accurate.

I grew up trick or treating in Texas. Never once did I get Fererro Rocher shit in my pillow sack.

I did get home made beef jerky on occasion. Spicy was always a disappointment, because my stomach can't handle much capsacin. I don't mean I don't like spicy stuff, I mean too much capsacin leads to ulceration and vomiting blood.

gotta be something in the water down in FL

Georgia is my wife's fault for singlehandedly skewing the average.

God dammit oklahoma, why you always gotta make me ashamed to live here? We really are just the worst at everything.

Man. I. Tired. I kept reading it as Halloween candles and got so confused.

Oh wow, look at Texas getting all bougie.

Ferrero Rocher are candies? These are chocolate. It's a weird definition of candy to include them.

Anyway, the best candies for Halloween are Brussels sprouts.

Florida is Dum-Dums?! I love it.

I'm surprised people actually like candy corn

Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi: are you ok?

(it's a rhetorical question, I know you're not)

So Alaska gives out Hi-Chews? As in the ones you find at convenience stores in Japan? (ハイチュウ)

From Texas, never heard of Ferrero Rocher, but after looking up the company and seeing images of their candies, yeah. Yeah, I've seen a ton of those. My grandparents always have a box of them.

What the fuck is wrong with Maine, New York, California, and Nevada?

At least Texas has good taste in something.

I don't see 100 Grand bars anywhere on this map and I am calling Bullshit

Twizzlers are fucking disgusting

Wtf is this East Coast West coast Twizzlers v Red Vines?