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Dum Dums so fitting for Florida

Look at that bougie shit down in Texas.

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

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.

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.

There's no way this is accurate.

gotta be something in the water down in FL

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.

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

Florida is Dum-Dums?! I love it.

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

Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi: are you ok?

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

I'm surprised people actually like candy corn

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

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

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

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.

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

Twizzlers are fucking disgusting