Favorite Halloween candy by state: What your trick-or-treater will tote home
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We have some questions for you folks in North Dakota and Indiana. ?
Parents in the Northeast should expect to find lots of sour Halloween candy when scavenging through their little trick-or-treaters’ bags. Parents on the West Coast are in better luck if they are chocoholics. And it should be no huge surprise that families in North Dakota appreciate the body-warming properties of their favorite Halloween candy, Hot Tamales.
This sweet information comes from CandyStore.com, which just released an interactive map of the best-selling Halloween candy in each of the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia!) based on 10 years of data.
Source: CandyStore.com.
Here’s how families around the country like to satisfy their Halloween candy sugar craving:
Alabama: Candy corn
Alaska: Twix
Arizona: Snickers
Arkansas: Jolly Ranchers
California: M&Ms
Colorado: Milky Way
Connecticut: Almond Joy
D.C.: M&Ms
Delaware: Lifesavers
Florida: Skittles
Georgia: Swedish Fish
Hawaii: Skittles
Idaho: Candy Corn
Illinois: Sour Patch Kids
Indiana: Hot Tamales
Iowa: Reese’s
Kansas: Reese’s
Kentucky: Tootsie Pops
Louisiana: Lemonhead
Maine: Sour Patch Kids
Maryland: Milky Way
Massachusetts: Sour Patch Kids
Michigan: Candy Corn
Minnesota: Tootsie Pops
Mississippi: 3 Musketeers
Missouri: Milky Way
Montana: Double Bubble
Nebraska: Sour Patch Kids
Nevada: Hershey’s Kisses
New Hampshire: Snickers
New Jersey: Skittles
New Mexico: Candy Corn
New York: Sour Patch Kids
North Carolina: M&Ms
North Dakota: Hot Tamales
Ohio: Blow Pops
Oklahoma: Snickers
Oregon: Reese’s
Pennsylvania: M&Ms
Rhode Island: Candy Corn
South Carolina: Candy Corn
South Dakota: Starbursts
Tennessee: Tootsie Pops
Texas: Starbursts
Utah: Jolly Ranchers
Vermont: Milky Way
Virginia: Snickers
Washington: Tootsie Pops
West Virginia: Double Bubble
Wisconsin: Starbursts
Wyoming: Reese’s
With shoppers preparing to drop an estimated $2.7 billion on Halloween candy, that sure buys a lot of M&Ms and Starbursts—so just be sure to limit yourself during those late-night raids of your kid’s trick-or-treating loot. ?
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