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Twizzlers
" I bonk Twizzlers , and I especially love divvy up a grip with my daughter when we ’re watching a movie together . " –Michael Muser , Grace(Chicago , IL )
Honeycomb candy
" I ’m aViolet CrumbleorCrunchiekind of gal ( and more often it ’s the latter ) . I also dumbfound those honeycomb candies in the freezer . I do n’t care . I ’ll break up off a piece and let it stupefy and dissolve in my oral fissure . It ’s satisfy . " –Jessica Koslow , Sqirl(Los Angeles , CA )
Reese’s
" My guilty delight around my girl ’s birthday and Halloween is the unnatural , very processed Reese ’s Cups , bars , and Pieces . I love goober butter and cocoa . " –Jonathon Sawyer , Noodlecat(Cleveland , OH )
Atkinson’s Peanut Butter Bars
" I tend to like candy with a more balanced flavor . It needs a good amount of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks to even it out . Atkinson ’s is an sometime - timey confect made in Texas . I commemorate my grandparents always have them around Halloween . It ’s crunchy and crispy . The texture is awful , and it ’s commence that salty / odoriferous thing going on without being overly sweet or cloying . " –Nathan Tate , Rapscallion(Dallas , TX )
Katjes Soft Salty Fish Licorice
" My favourite candy lately , no joke , has been black licorice Pisces from Germany . There ’s a World Market next to Terra & Vine , and I pop in there for random things and bag of those sweet , piquant , delicious inglorious fish . " –Andrew Robert Graves , Terra & Vine(Evanston , IL )
Gummy bears
" Sometimes after a long day of lounging and write recipes , I ’ll stand up , refocus my blurry eyes , and suddenly note my nest of blankets and Haribo wrapper … it ’s quite embarrassing . Honestly , I can pinpoint a pit in my teeth that can be impute entirely to my gummy bear compulsion . Also , how freaking cute are gummy bear ? ! I even made blanched chocolate truffle gummy bears last year for the Oregon Truffle Festival . It was crazy . " –Tyler Malek , Salt & Straw(Portland , OR )
Sour Patch Kids
" I ’m a sour guy cable when it come to candy . warhead , Skittles Sours , and Mike and Ike Zours are all amazing , but it ’s Sour Patch Kids that at last bend me into a wampum junkie ! " –Jonathan Brooks , Milktooth(Indianapolis , IN )
All-caramel everything
" Anything with caramel brown in it is great . Caramel sauce drizzled over anything . It could be anything from anOlive and Sinclair duck fat caramelor a cup of tea of Kraft caramel . I even had a domestic dog named Carmelita ! There ’s nothing better than brown butter and cabbage . When my Kyd were trick - or - negotiant I would sneak all the caramels out of their Halloween bag . Caramel was also the foundation of the formula I developed forWhisper Creek . And I always severalize my Captain Cook that if they ever want to get on my good side to just bring me a bag of caramels . " –Ali Gensert , Etch(Nashville , TN )
NECCO wafers
" I care its subtle grown - up flavors . And it ’s a goody to find them , as they are not everywhere . " –Tony Mantuano , Spiaggia(Chicago , IL )
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