Best Candy

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

This thread is the opposite of the 'Worst Candy' thread. I figured we needed one since Halloween and Samhain are coming up!

What's the best candy?

[mamselle]

Anything with dark chocolate.

M.

[clean]

Is fudge candy?

My preferences are mostly in the M&M Mars company... Milky Way, M&Ms, Twix are best.

I also like Heath Bars.  Zero bars are also good. 

[Parasaurolophus]

Is fudge candy?

My preferences are mostly in the M&M Mars company... Milky Way, M&Ms, Twix are best.

I also like Heath Bars.  Zero bars are also good.

I wouldn't count dfudge. Or chocolate bars, American terminology notwithstanding.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Is fudge candy?

My preferences are mostly in the M&M Mars company... Milky Way, M&Ms, Twix are best.

I also like Heath Bars.  Zero bars are also good.

I'd consider it to be a candy. Do you mean the kind of fudge you'd get at the beach, when on vacation with the folks? That was the best.

[Parasaurolophus]

For me it's Smartied (the commonwealth kind,  not what goes by that name in the States) and chocolate easter eggs (the cheap kind in snowflake foil wrap, not the fancy kind).

[Liquidambar]

Anything with dark chocolate.

M.

Indeed.  In the good-but-not-super-high-end category, one of my favorites is Ritter Sport dark chocolate with marzipan.  I have an emergency bar I'm saving for a bad day.

[mamselle]

Yes. Ritter counts in my book. I like the one that is chock-a-block solid with hazelnuts, as well as the marzipan.

Also any other marzipan if the almond/sweet balance is right.

If we're talking brands, Godiva, Lindt, and Ghirardelli dark chocolates are good.

Hersey and Dove have too much paraffin in them.

Cote d'Or dark chocolates are good, too....and there are a bunch of other brands I've gotten outre-mer whose names I don't recall but whose tastes I most definitely do.

M.

[cascade]

For Halloween in particular (an inexpensive bulk purchase):

I like those "100 Grand" bars.

Snickers, Milky Way, and Twix are classics.

Butterfingers stick to your teeth but I still love them.

Also little caramels.

I guess that didn't narrow it down too much.

[sinenomine]

Reese's and Snickers.

[onthefringe]

I have what my family feels are absurdly high standards for candy. At the hershey's level really the only things I'll consistently eat are twix and mounds. But I'm totally fine with a lot of mid-level dark chocolates that mamselle and others mentioned, with a particular liking for the ritter marzipan, and a current obsession with ghirardelli salted caramel (the one with actual chunks of salt). World market irregularly carries a dark chocolate mint kit kat that I like (might be made for the asian market?) Trader Joes is a good source of affordable candy that I'll eat.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

I have what my family feels are absurdly high standards for candy. At the hershey's level really the only things I'll consistently eat are twix and mounds. But I'm totally fine with a lot of mid-level dark chocolates that mamselle and others mentioned, with a particular liking for the ritter marzipan, and a current obsession with ghirardelli salted caramel (the one with actual chunks of salt). World market irregularly carries a dark chocolate mint kit kat that I like (might be made for the asian market?) Trader Joes is a good source of affordable candy that I'll eat.

Those dark chocolate mint Kit Kats are good.

[Harlow2]

Trader Joe's jelly beans are pretty good.

[apl68]

Peanut butter cups.

[mamselle]

Peanut butter cups.

Ooohh, dark chocolate PB cups (at TJoe's).....swoon.

Sadly, can't do the PB anymore.

Hence no more Buckeyes* when visiting Ohio, anymore, either.

Comme disait Merce,《le grand sigh》...

M.

*the equivalent: PB fudge sphere dipped 3/4 in dark chocolate with the "eye" showing.