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      Ah, the old folks home of America is finally getting hip for the youngsters by putting their hard candy on sticks.

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    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.

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    Why Florida gotta do themselves like that?

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

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      This survey is based on candy bought, not favorite candy. MatPat made a video on why the reason candy corn is a favorite is because it is cheap in terms of per pound basis. If the task for people is buy 1 pound of candy, the answer is hot tamales and candy corn. Cheap candy.

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        Just supports the idea that something’s wrong down there. Candy’s not free, but it ain’t expensive, either. If all your entire state can afford is candy corn…?

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          Be honest, if you are at the store and see 1lb for $10 and another box of 1lb for $5 more, you save $5 and buy the cheap one

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              Parents can be out of touch. I had someone buy sour punch straws thinking kids liked them

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                My parents bought and gave out those red and orange peanut butter chew candies that are horrible and disgusting and that no kid likes. Worse, they bought a huge amount at once and kept giving out what remained year after year.

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    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.

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      Densely populated areas buy the cheapest candy.

      The size/price ratio probably beats most other candies.

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      Never buy stuff from the american section. Shit is expensive as hell and not for human consumption.

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        Are Twizzlers and Red Vines not the same thing?? They look exactly the same but they don’t sell Red Vines in my part of the world so I legit always thought they were the same.

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          Red vines are a single stick, hollow, delicious and the way red licorice is meant to taste. Using them as a straw is pretty much peak life.

          Twizzlers are smooth, rubbery, taste like plastic, likely are made of it, and instead of one stick, are small whips wrapped together to form a long one. No straw functionality, but the individual whips are a good size for strangling a mouse.

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      Whereas I’m in the U.S. and I love European salty licorice (especially Dutch dubbel zout licorice). Almost no one here can stand licorice. When I tell them I like the salty kind, they stare at me in horror. When I tell them it’s salted with ammonia salts, they look like they want to scream.

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      My local supermarket has flaming hot cheetos, but they are 8.50€. They can’t be that good.

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      I’ve lived in GA my entire life and literally nobody has ever handed out trolli gummies.

      They all just go for those mixed bags that Hershey’s puts out that end up in the Halloween sections of every grocery store.

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    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.

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    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.

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      Surely the same is true for m&ms or Reeses cups?

      I thought candy was just generic term for all sweets/chocolatey items in the US to be honest. Is it not?

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      Pretty soon, the kids won’t have to worry about eating Brussels sprouts, because the Brussels sprouts will be eating them!

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      I mean this very sincerely and not as a joke. Just a friendly suggestion. You may want to get your eyes checked.

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          Good for you! I totally used to confuse “i” with “l” before getting my glasses. I was also shocked by how you can see individual leaves in a tree’s foliage with glasses. Before that they just looked like one uniform green thing to me.

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            I found out that I needed glasses while I was looking for a street.

            Me: “Everyone keep an eye out for Willow Ave.”

            Friend: “It’s right there. Next left.”

            Me: “You can read that sign already?”

            Friend 2: “You can’t? Why the fuck are you the one driving?”

            I got glasses the next week.

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