Everyone has their favorite candy, but what do people who eat for a living think about the booty in your trick-or-treat bag?
The experts at Thrillist have ranked the 30 best — and worst — Halloween candies, as only foodies could.
Coming out on top, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. “Not only is it the greatest candy out there, it’s also one of the greatest snacks, period, the perfect alchemy of peanut butter and chocolate,” the site exalts. The site’s experts conclude, “there’s no way to go wrong eating a Reese’s.”
Coming in second place were Twix. The cookie candy didn’t make a recent ranking of each state’s favorite sweets, but Thrillist is sold. “The ratios between the three main components are simply perfect, striking a balance that makes the intense sugar rush completely worth it.”
Snickers came in third, called “the heartiest of all candy bars: nougat, caramel, nuts, and chocolate represent pretty much every food group.”
Fourth place belonged to KitKats, with the writers gushing, “milk chocolate and sugary wafers are way better than a tiny tuna on rye…”
Butterfinger rounded out the top five: “[W]hen you bite it, the little flakes pop off and melt on your tongue like butter produced by a chocolate cow.”
Farther down the list, however, the knives came out.
Milky Ways (#23) were slammed as “like Caramello on a budget” that “fight it out for bottom-of-the-bag dominance with 3 Musketeers.”
Dead last? Smarties. “Does anyone like Smarties?” Thrillists experts ask. “They taste dusty” and “are likely the least exciting candy to unwrap after a long night of trick-or-treating.”