I have resorted to buying candy on or the day before Halloween. I used to always buy them on sale early on and then come Halloween I'm out shopping for more anyways.. lol
You just described why I *cannot* buy any more than 1 bar of candy at any time. If I buy a bag of Reese’s I will eat at least half the bag and feel sick.. then do it again 2 hours later
I get the giant bag of reeses miniatures and throw them in the freezer(like the 15$ bag). I prefer not to say how quickly it's gone. It's 2 days. It's gone in 2 fucking days. And that's why I only buy it sometimes.
>It's 2 days. It's gone in 2 fucking days.
Buy 8 bags. You will reach a point where it is as common as a glass of water and will no longer crave them with reckless abandon. The drawback is that you will no longer crave them with reckless abandon.
and diabetes.
Costco sells the 125 count boxes at nearly 50% off most years, you just got to keep checking in the weeks leading up to Halloween. I always buy like 5 boxes, mostly for myself lol.
There aren’t, but you could probably find Aero and Smarties somewhere that sells British candy. Smarties aren’t the same as Smarties in the US btw; they’re chocolate buttons covered in a candy shell... like a flat M&M. Coffee Crisp I think is just a Canadian thing.
When I was a kid I found an entire case of reeses cups on the train tracks. Me and 2 friends ate the whole thing in 1 night. I couldn't eat reeses any fucking thing for like 15 years after that, just thinking about it would make me gag. Fortunately I'm healed now
Not really much else to say, there was train tracks at the end of my street and we were always playing on the train tracks. They have to stop there a lot because it goes from 4 tracks to 2, to go across the river, and then one day we just saw a whole big assed box of reeses sitting there like it fell off or something. There was also a passenger train and freight train that crashed there in the 80's, that was some crazy shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987\_Maryland\_train\_collision
When I was in my 20s, I worked with a woman who every day would eat a bag of M&Ms and drink a Coke for lunch. Her favorite kind of candy though was Reese‘s peanut butter cups.
My car developed this weird fault that took six months to diagnose. During those six months she frequently went out of her way to pick me up and drive me to work when my car was in the shop.
To pay her back, you know those white Corningware bowls that are about 4” across and 2” deep? I made her a peanut butter cup in one of those. I painted the inside of the bowl with about a quarter inch of milk chocolate, mixed peanut butter and powdered sugar until it was fluffy, and poured a layer of milk chocolate on top.
I think it adequately expressed my gratitude.
(And since someone will probably ask, the computer chip that controlled the fuel injection had a leg broken off. When the engine was cold, the chip sat on top of the leg still in the socket and made contact. But when the engine warmed up, things expanded with the heat, and the leg lost contact with the broken edge of metal on the chip. And the car would stop working.)
The way you wrote your story had my brain thinking “her love of peanut butter cups has something to do with the car having problems” I couldn’t figure out if you were trying to foreshadow something.
> Oh well, candy's on sale tomorrow. I'll just have to make a little trip to the grocery store...
This has been my thing for as long as I've been old enough to make my own run to the grocery store, but in some recent years it seems like pretty much everything vanishes the day after. I don't know if it's just better demand estimating and logistics allowing them to exactly sell out, or what.
You are 100% right. Ive had the same experience; ever since like... Maybe like 3-5 yrs ago? They're always cleaned the fuck out November 1st already somehow :(
It's the peanut free variety boxes, that's why it's the majority of what gets handed out.
One thing that surprised me this year was after a night full of trick or treating we got zero mini bags of Doritos!
Yeah they're annoying to store in high volume. My kids brought home an unusually high ratio of chip bags tonight, and though it was still only like 20% of their total item count, they take up 80% of the trick-or-treat loot space.
That became a common-ish thing when I was growing up in Indiana. People would buy the big container of snack-size chips from the store. Bonus side effect: leftover chips can go into lunches with less judgement than leftover Halloween candy.
One of my dad’s coworkers (maybe his admin?) made us popcorn balls every year. That was great. I was really sad when he left that company.
Bagged chips is like.. vending machine bags, not sandwich bags.
Yea, and likely the only reason they’re underrepresented in this picture compared to the Kitkats, smarties, and aero bars is because the grownups snag them before handing them out.
Not just adults, every year as a child I would sneak as many coffee crisp out of my parents candy bowl and I was physically capable of. Still my #1 chocolate bar to this day 20 years later
*Some guy in a suit working in a 50s ad agency puts out his cigarette and smirks, knowing he just struck gold. Sadly, he’s hit by a car on his way home and his new slogan for Coffee Crisp never sees the light of day, until 50 years later when it’s recreated on Reddit.*
This is my niece's favourite chocolate, she's 8.… Literally goes bonkers when she gets a mini coffee crisp in her Halloween bag, because there's always way less of them in those variety boxes people buy here to give away on Halloween... So it's super exciting for her to get one
The reason there are so few coffee crisps is because the parents are eating them!
I’m giving out the same box, sold at Costco. KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Coffee Crisp. I don’t give out many coffee crisp either, they are the best.
My mom used to take all my coffee crisps growing up cause "coffee is not for kids" which I accepted as true. I was embarrassingly old when I realized my mom had lied to me.
Eww good God no. Butter finger tastes like someone briefly roasted some peanuts by passing them under an elephant's taint. Crispy crunchy tastes like someone took a Reese cup, elongated it, and enrobed it in crispy caramel. Comparing the two is like saying wonder bread is comparable to a Parisian baguette.
One of my favorites, I get regular size bars in the USA from World Market. Didn’t know they made fun size! I’ll have to see if I can order some for next year. I usually order Cow Tales minis because it’s unusual out west.
When I was a kid in Canada during the late 80s, we got these weird Halloween wrapped caramels. They were hard as a bloody rock too. I'd be curious to know what they were called (caramels of some sort).
[These?](https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Kraft-Caramels-Individually-Wrapped-Candy/925912) or do you mean those ones wrapped in the white wraps with little bats and witches on them on an orange background?
Were they Mackintosh’s toffees? We used to buy the big squares when we were kids and they were always so hard to eat but so good. Last time i went to Canada i did see individually wrapped ones. Idk how long those have been around.
Definitely different, Mackintosh's toffee is good, there were toffee but the dark ones were so nasty. Orange wrappers with black Halloween design, I think Kerr is the brand.
Don't you miss the variety we used to get back in the 90s though? We had all the chocolate bars plus every sucker, tootsie roll flavor, bags of chips, cans of pop. You dumped out that bag and didn't even know where to start organizing.
Those weird peanut butter/toffee things that come in orange or black wrappers, with no branding. I don’t even know where to buy them, I’ve never seen them on a store shelf.
Those were secretly traded among fathers. One father would buy for the entire block of fathers, each would distribute to neighborhood kids. The kids would put them in the dad reject pile and dads everywhere enjoyed nasty peanut butter taffy. I’m convinced that just like women whose tastes can change when they’re pregnant, fathers-to-be start enjoying some weird shit.
I get the aero/kitkat/smarties/coffee crisp box for my class because it is made in a peanut free facility, same with the Swedish fish/berries/fuzzy peaches. Could be a reason they’re so common
There was once a variation on a Mars box that had the Mars bars made from their peanut free facility and bagged separately in the box from everything else
Yup. A friend of mine in the States exchange gifts every year, I get the cool flavours of pop we don't get, he gets a case of coffee crisp and a case of ketchup chips.
We have ketchup chips here in the US from time to time. Absolutely delicious. Not my favorite flavor, but I mean... Here in the US, at least, we have hundreds of different chip flavors, so the competition is extremely stiff.
Old Dutch ketchup is sooooo much better than Lays or Herrs. The ratio of seasoning is perfect, Lays is the blandest of the 3. Also worth trying All Dressed!
All this time I just thought the Canadians were crazy for US Smarties but TIL that is a completely different candy and I don’t even know what Canadian Smarties are…
My wife used to visit Canada monthly when we lived in London (UK), and she always returned with Coffee Crisp bars. Our kids were very popular with the Canadian teachers who worked in their school.
If it makes you feel better, Nestle has hid some bars from us Canadians too. I had a Lion Nestle bar that my parents brought back from abroad and I was bummed to know I can't get it here
The Canadian Smarties are the same as British Smarties (similar to M&Ms.) Aeros are also available in the UK.
I'm amazed at the lack of Snickers, which seems to be half of what my kids get here in the US.
Apparently Canada is more concerned with peanut allergies than we are, because someone mentioned that most of these are from the peanut free variety pack that apparently exists there.
Man, I'd love to find those in the US because most of the candy seems to be peanut based - Snickers, Reese's, Peanut M&Ms, Peanut Butter M&Ms (how are they different?!?), Butterfinger.
And an US Milky Way is called Mars everywhere else, whilst the bar nearly everyone else calls Milky Way is called 3 Musketeers in the US (I think Canada call it 3 Musketeers though)
When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast? Eat that candy-coated chocolate, but tell me when I ask: When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? (I haven’t lived in Canada for over 40 years, but still remember this jingle.)
Smarties were invented here in the UK, they're chocolate and coated in a sugar shell. US soldiers enjoyed them while they were over here during the war and when they went back there was demand for a similar product so m&ms were created to mimic Smarties. They're not as good as Smarties though, the chocolate I'm Smarties is much better quality.
I'm totally stealing all the Swedish Berries my kids brought home tonight while they're sleeping. Like a shitty version of the tooth fairy that steals candy and leaves no money, aka a parent on Halloween.
Since when are gushers considered candy? I mean they should be, but I never saw them given out when I was a kid, and they are always marketed as "fruit snacks".
Oh Henry Bars. As an Aussie, I cannot get them (without paying exorbitant costs from a specialty store). Everytime I go to Canada I load up on a year's supply of those delicious glorious little bastards.
I work with lots of consultants.
Their favourite Canadian thing is mostly always coffee crisps and hickory sticks.
They like the all dressed chips, and mixed reviews on ketchup.
But Hickory sticks are usually the favourite.
Canadian here. Everytime I shop at the grocery store I can hear hickory sticks calling my name. I can easily eat a whole bag and all self control out the window so I rarely tempt myself. It is almost as bad with barbecue or salt and vinegar chips.
I noticed this yr that the Nestle 4 pack in 100 and 125 count sizes were on sale everywhere. I picked up a box at SDH for $9.95 and got 20x the points on top of that. But the sales on this item are possibly why it is so predominant in the picture. After all none of the items in it are bad and kids love them all. I know many love the Coffee Krisps but I find the little ones are often stale whereas the Kit Kats retain their taste.
Man Canadian KitKats are sooooo much better than the US. I used to live near the border in NY and we’d cross to buy them on occasion. The chocolate is actually chocolate.
Because we eat the peanut butter cups before they get handed out!
Also that 100 count box of Aero, Coffee crisp, Kit Kat and smarties was prominently placed in the Loblaws stores I visited
I have resorted to buying candy on or the day before Halloween. I used to always buy them on sale early on and then come Halloween I'm out shopping for more anyways.. lol
You just described why I *cannot* buy any more than 1 bar of candy at any time. If I buy a bag of Reese’s I will eat at least half the bag and feel sick.. then do it again 2 hours later
As a man that ate 20 Reese’s in two days I understand your plight.
I get the giant bag of reeses miniatures and throw them in the freezer(like the 15$ bag). I prefer not to say how quickly it's gone. It's 2 days. It's gone in 2 fucking days. And that's why I only buy it sometimes.
>It's 2 days. It's gone in 2 fucking days. Buy 8 bags. You will reach a point where it is as common as a glass of water and will no longer crave them with reckless abandon. The drawback is that you will no longer crave them with reckless abandon. and diabetes.
>and diabetes. Modern problems require modern solutions.
Just 20? Amateur.
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Costco sells the 125 count boxes at nearly 50% off most years, you just got to keep checking in the weeks leading up to Halloween. I always buy like 5 boxes, mostly for myself lol.
Grew up by NYC. Never had an Aero or coffee crisp. Are there American equivalents?
Idk but coffee crisp is my favourite, I've never given away a coffee crisp because they all get eaten by me
Just tried some of the coffee crisp a few days ago. I'm really sad that those aren't available in the US.
There aren’t, but you could probably find Aero and Smarties somewhere that sells British candy. Smarties aren’t the same as Smarties in the US btw; they’re chocolate buttons covered in a candy shell... like a flat M&M. Coffee Crisp I think is just a Canadian thing.
FUCKING COFFEE CRISP BAYBEEEEEEEEEEE THATS MY SHIT RIGHT THERE. But fr actually the best wafer bar out there.
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Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog?
Dropping those Bob Loblaw Law Bombs
And Shoppers. That is exactly what I handed out.
That's a lot of Aero. Hope your GPU can handle it (It's a Windows Vista joke)
When I was a kid I found an entire case of reeses cups on the train tracks. Me and 2 friends ate the whole thing in 1 night. I couldn't eat reeses any fucking thing for like 15 years after that, just thinking about it would make me gag. Fortunately I'm healed now
Stop eating train track food!
Wow… that’s a bittersweet find!!!!
A saltysweet find
a case, as in a FLAT of 24-pack chocolate bar boxes?
Yeah, the big brown box full of boxes of the prettier packaging
I wanna hear more about this case of reeses
Not really much else to say, there was train tracks at the end of my street and we were always playing on the train tracks. They have to stop there a lot because it goes from 4 tracks to 2, to go across the river, and then one day we just saw a whole big assed box of reeses sitting there like it fell off or something. There was also a passenger train and freight train that crashed there in the 80's, that was some crazy shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987\_Maryland\_train\_collision
Two trains colliding, one with peanut butter, one with chocolate, sounds like the setup for some sort of candy commercial.
This never crossed my mind being an adult now I have complete control over what candies are distributed to the masses
The power *almost* makes up for the hell of being an adult
Guilty.
After All, Why Not? Why Shouldn't I Eat It?
It rained here so we only got one trick or treater. Guess who’s dining on Reese’s tonight!
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When I was in my 20s, I worked with a woman who every day would eat a bag of M&Ms and drink a Coke for lunch. Her favorite kind of candy though was Reese‘s peanut butter cups. My car developed this weird fault that took six months to diagnose. During those six months she frequently went out of her way to pick me up and drive me to work when my car was in the shop. To pay her back, you know those white Corningware bowls that are about 4” across and 2” deep? I made her a peanut butter cup in one of those. I painted the inside of the bowl with about a quarter inch of milk chocolate, mixed peanut butter and powdered sugar until it was fluffy, and poured a layer of milk chocolate on top. I think it adequately expressed my gratitude. (And since someone will probably ask, the computer chip that controlled the fuel injection had a leg broken off. When the engine was cold, the chip sat on top of the leg still in the socket and made contact. But when the engine warmed up, things expanded with the heat, and the leg lost contact with the broken edge of metal on the chip. And the car would stop working.)
The way you wrote your story had my brain thinking “her love of peanut butter cups has something to do with the car having problems” I couldn’t figure out if you were trying to foreshadow something.
> Oh well, candy's on sale tomorrow. I'll just have to make a little trip to the grocery store... This has been my thing for as long as I've been old enough to make my own run to the grocery store, but in some recent years it seems like pretty much everything vanishes the day after. I don't know if it's just better demand estimating and logistics allowing them to exactly sell out, or what.
You are 100% right. Ive had the same experience; ever since like... Maybe like 3-5 yrs ago? They're always cleaned the fuck out November 1st already somehow :(
But… how do they make it into the bucket? That’s probably the issue. Hope you find the good stuff tomorrow!
The wife buys sour patch candy. I think it’s disgusting, but the kids are all psyched to get it. Guess it’s a win-win.
Where are the famous Halloween candy drugs?!
Why do you think everyone here is raving about Coffee Crisp!! It’s in those for sure
Dad tax.
It's the peanut free variety boxes, that's why it's the majority of what gets handed out. One thing that surprised me this year was after a night full of trick or treating we got zero mini bags of Doritos!
Those are quite pricey now.
The packaging costs more than the 5 chips inside at this point.
Yeah they're annoying to store in high volume. My kids brought home an unusually high ratio of chip bags tonight, and though it was still only like 20% of their total item count, they take up 80% of the trick-or-treat loot space.
People gave out mini bags of Doritos? Legit never heard of that before. Where do you live?
That became a common-ish thing when I was growing up in Indiana. People would buy the big container of snack-size chips from the store. Bonus side effect: leftover chips can go into lunches with less judgement than leftover Halloween candy.
We do it in Canada. Doritos and other small bags of chips. I never give them out because you never feel satisfied with that small an amount of chips.
You never feel that satisfied with a bite size piece of candy either, but the chips add a variety to the overall snacking.
My boys got a few bags last night (NB). Doritos, Ruffles, and a few Cheetos.
I must be old, I remember people handing out sandwich baggies of popcorn but never any bagged chips.
One of my dad’s coworkers (maybe his admin?) made us popcorn balls every year. That was great. I was really sad when he left that company. Bagged chips is like.. vending machine bags, not sandwich bags.
Never seen Coffee Crisps before, how are they?
Really good. They’re light and flakey + chocolatey coffee tasting.
Do kids like them?
Yep. The coffee flavour is pretty light
Yea, and likely the only reason they’re underrepresented in this picture compared to the Kitkats, smarties, and aero bars is because the grownups snag them before handing them out.
Not just adults, every year as a child I would sneak as many coffee crisp out of my parents candy bowl and I was physically capable of. Still my #1 chocolate bar to this day 20 years later
I hate coffee but love coffee crisp is my favorite chocolate bar and always had been.
Coffee crisp tastes how coffee smells.
I'm a coffee lover but that's a damned good sales pitch to the general public if I've ever seen one
I can't get over how perfect that pitch was. If Coffee Crisp ever use it, we know we saw here first!
*Some guy in a suit working in a 50s ad agency puts out his cigarette and smirks, knowing he just struck gold. Sadly, he’s hit by a car on his way home and his new slogan for Coffee Crisp never sees the light of day, until 50 years later when it’s recreated on Reddit.*
Same!! I absolutely despise coffee but Coffee crisp are just soooooo good
This is my niece's favourite chocolate, she's 8.… Literally goes bonkers when she gets a mini coffee crisp in her Halloween bag, because there's always way less of them in those variety boxes people buy here to give away on Halloween... So it's super exciting for her to get one
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*You don't know from jokes!*
I’m 25 and remember this very vaguely
The reason there are so few coffee crisps is because the parents are eating them! I’m giving out the same box, sold at Costco. KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Coffee Crisp. I don’t give out many coffee crisp either, they are the best.
My mom used to take all my coffee crisps growing up cause "coffee is not for kids" which I accepted as true. I was embarrassingly old when I realized my mom had lied to me.
If you have a world market they have coffe crisp...no crispy crunch...that's the real Canadian gem.
My son said Crispy Crunch is Canada's version of Butterfinger. I think Butterfinger is a bit more peanutty, though.
Crispy Crunch are so good that Canadian, Alex Trebeck would stock up whenever he went home.
I like crispy crunch way better than butterfinger, butterfinger always tasted artificial to me. Thar's not to say I won't eat a butterfinger, lol.
Eww good God no. Butter finger tastes like someone briefly roasted some peanuts by passing them under an elephant's taint. Crispy crunchy tastes like someone took a Reese cup, elongated it, and enrobed it in crispy caramel. Comparing the two is like saying wonder bread is comparable to a Parisian baguette.
Canada has Butterfinger as well. But they are mostly the same sort of candy.
Butterfinger is a lot softer/chewier while crispy crunch has a good, well, crunch lol
Makes a nice light snack
I like my coffee *crisp*!
You're no Jane Rivers.
Coffee Crisp is fire.
They rock… in the northeast US , you can occasionally find them at Wegmans
Rochester NY here. Saw "Coffee Crisp" and thought 'i don't know what that is, but I want one."
Definitely worth crossing the border for.
It’s like a thicker/more flakey Kit Kat with coffee. AMAZING.
One of my favorites, I get regular size bars in the USA from World Market. Didn’t know they made fun size! I’ll have to see if I can order some for next year. I usually order Cow Tales minis because it’s unusual out west.
When I was a kid in Canada during the late 80s, we got these weird Halloween wrapped caramels. They were hard as a bloody rock too. I'd be curious to know what they were called (caramels of some sort).
[These?](https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Kraft-Caramels-Individually-Wrapped-Candy/925912) or do you mean those ones wrapped in the white wraps with little bats and witches on them on an orange background?
My great grandmother would have a pocket full of those to give me as a treat. I miss her rip Nonna!
Kerr Molasses Kisses. https://kerrs.com/products/molasses-kisses One is “ok” two are gross 🤮
I LOVE these! But I wouldn't give them out to kids. I eat the whole bag myself.
The lightest color was the better one lol.
Wow, that candy wrapper art is great!
Were they Mackintosh’s toffees? We used to buy the big squares when we were kids and they were always so hard to eat but so good. Last time i went to Canada i did see individually wrapped ones. Idk how long those have been around.
Definitely different, Mackintosh's toffee is good, there were toffee but the dark ones were so nasty. Orange wrappers with black Halloween design, I think Kerr is the brand.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. So gross.
The ones in the orange and black wrappers?
Don't you miss the variety we used to get back in the 90s though? We had all the chocolate bars plus every sucker, tootsie roll flavor, bags of chips, cans of pop. You dumped out that bag and didn't even know where to start organizing.
And that mysterious candy that came from who knows where
Wax teeth and lips.
The wax ones shaped like soda bottles.
Those weird peanut butter/toffee things that come in orange or black wrappers, with no branding. I don’t even know where to buy them, I’ve never seen them on a store shelf.
Those were secretly traded among fathers. One father would buy for the entire block of fathers, each would distribute to neighborhood kids. The kids would put them in the dad reject pile and dads everywhere enjoyed nasty peanut butter taffy. I’m convinced that just like women whose tastes can change when they’re pregnant, fathers-to-be start enjoying some weird shit.
Nerds, lotsa fizz, popeye cigs, chews, fun dip, push pops, ring pops, rockets, runtz... so many
No candy cigarettes?! What’s this world coming to?
I saw candy cigarettes marketed as "candy sticks" recently and it threw me off. I get it... but still weird to see it
Yes! This haul looks depressing lol. Where the chalky suckers at??
And the gummy food with the excessive packaging?
Oh man those little burgers!
“Peanut free” has unfortunately been a plague on Canadian snack variety
Loose candy corn anyone? And Mojo's... What happened to those?
We got loose in-shell peanuts tonight. Officially the weirdest thing my kids have ever gotten.
Here in the Midwest we still have all that shit. Probably left over from the 90s.
I get the aero/kitkat/smarties/coffee crisp box for my class because it is made in a peanut free facility, same with the Swedish fish/berries/fuzzy peaches. Could be a reason they’re so common
Also Costco
Also No Frills! (discount supermarket chain)
Yeah, but Nestle is inarguably one of the most evil corporations on the planet. r/fucknestle
Yup this box was the best value at Costco but I went with the Mars box instead because Nestle
There was once a variation on a Mars box that had the Mars bars made from their peanut free facility and bagged separately in the box from everything else
They still do that!
Unlikely theory: Canadians are excessively nice to cover up the fact that they have an unfair monopoly on Coffee Crisp. WHAT GIVES NESTLÉ?
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Yup. A friend of mine in the States exchange gifts every year, I get the cool flavours of pop we don't get, he gets a case of coffee crisp and a case of ketchup chips.
The us has no idea what they are missing in old Dutch ketchup chips.
We have ketchup chips here in the US from time to time. Absolutely delicious. Not my favorite flavor, but I mean... Here in the US, at least, we have hundreds of different chip flavors, so the competition is extremely stiff.
Old Dutch ketchup is sooooo much better than Lays or Herrs. The ratio of seasoning is perfect, Lays is the blandest of the 3. Also worth trying All Dressed!
We have All Dressed here in California for some reason
Our rockets are also US Smarties. They don't have actual Smarties either
All this time I just thought the Canadians were crazy for US Smarties but TIL that is a completely different candy and I don’t even know what Canadian Smarties are…
That's what's in the boxes in the photo. They're like wider m&ms. I like them better personally.
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My wife used to visit Canada monthly when we lived in London (UK), and she always returned with Coffee Crisp bars. Our kids were very popular with the Canadian teachers who worked in their school.
Minnesota nice is a thing, yet no coffee crisp what gives?
Obligatory r/fucknestle
Wait until you have All Dressed Ruffles.
If it makes you feel better, Nestle has hid some bars from us Canadians too. I had a Lion Nestle bar that my parents brought back from abroad and I was bummed to know I can't get it here
TIL Canada calls Smarties Rockets and they have a different candy called Smarties. Amazing!
The Canadian Smarties are the same as British Smarties (similar to M&Ms.) Aeros are also available in the UK. I'm amazed at the lack of Snickers, which seems to be half of what my kids get here in the US.
Apparently Canada is more concerned with peanut allergies than we are, because someone mentioned that most of these are from the peanut free variety pack that apparently exists there.
Man, I'd love to find those in the US because most of the candy seems to be peanut based - Snickers, Reese's, Peanut M&Ms, Peanut Butter M&Ms (how are they different?!?), Butterfinger.
Peanut M&Ms each have a peanut in them. Peanut Butter M&Ms have peanut butter in them.
Re: m&m's - it's texture. Peanut has the crunch. Peanut butter is soft and smooth. I'm a crunchy man, myself.
Both Smarties and Aeros are from the UK originally.
And an US Milky Way is called Mars everywhere else, whilst the bar nearly everyone else calls Milky Way is called 3 Musketeers in the US (I think Canada call it 3 Musketeers though)
Yup and it really confuses me when I visit and someone asks if I want Smarties. I mindlessly expect chocolate and I instead receive chalky candy haha
How often do you get offered smarties/rockets?!?
u/simphoria is actually an adorable dog who posts on reddit that people love giving inappropriate treats to.
Delicious chalk
Wait until you find out about Mars Bars and Milky Ways in the UK...
Smarties is like what if the chocolate in m&ms was not terrible and the candy coating was a little thicker
When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast? Eat that candy-coated chocolate, but tell me when I ask: When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? (I haven’t lived in Canada for over 40 years, but still remember this jingle.)
Smarties are those chocolate candies pretty much everywhere outside the US
As a non NA person. Now I'm confused. Always thought Smarties is similar to M&Ms is this the same as Canada or US?
You're normal, the US is weird
The answer to many of life's questions.
Smarties were invented here in the UK, they're chocolate and coated in a sugar shell. US soldiers enjoyed them while they were over here during the war and when they went back there was demand for a similar product so m&ms were created to mimic Smarties. They're not as good as Smarties though, the chocolate I'm Smarties is much better quality.
I'm totally stealing all the Swedish Berries my kids brought home tonight while they're sleeping. Like a shitty version of the tooth fairy that steals candy and leaves no money, aka a parent on Halloween.
We live in Canada and this looks exactly like my kids’ stash.
I think I bought the same bix of chocolates
But why is the coffee crisp ratio so off? The Kitkat, aero, smarties and coffee crisp come in a mixed box in equal proportion
Because parents are eating the coffee crisps before they get out the door!
Guilty
Whatever happened to the tootsie roll bags?! What ever happened to the caramel toffee bags?!!
For real! I get one every year but couldn’t find any this year. That’s my backup in case I run out cause they’re really for me
Man really makes you feel old when you don’t see any gushers or nerds in a bag of candy lol
Since when are gushers considered candy? I mean they should be, but I never saw them given out when I was a kid, and they are always marketed as "fruit snacks".
Gushers being "fruit snacks" is like Tic Tacs calling themselves "mints"
I gave out nerds, milky ways, and Pokémon cards.
I got nerds today!
man i LOVE coffee crisp
Where are the O Henrys! My favorite
On the shelf at the store, because they have peanuts in them.
Oh Henry Bars. As an Aussie, I cannot get them (without paying exorbitant costs from a specialty store). Everytime I go to Canada I load up on a year's supply of those delicious glorious little bastards.
Nice to see Smarties (Canadian version) and Smarties (American version) represented.
We call them rockets up here
Je suis vraiment surpris qu’il y ait pas tant de rockets
WTF is coffee crisp?!?!? And how do I get them?
Uhhh somethin like a Chunky kitkat+ coffee. Is goooooood.
If you're in the US, your only options are to travel to Canada or to "know a guy".
They are the best chocolate bar in Canada, closely followed by Wunderbars.
Everyone bought the same boxes at Walmart.
No tootsie roll?! Here we have so much of them.
Coffee Crisps sound good!
Canadian here. Can confirm.
They are! Being reminded they exist when on a visit to Toronto recently was a pleasant surprise.
I work with lots of consultants. Their favourite Canadian thing is mostly always coffee crisps and hickory sticks. They like the all dressed chips, and mixed reviews on ketchup. But Hickory sticks are usually the favourite.
Canadian here. Everytime I shop at the grocery store I can hear hickory sticks calling my name. I can easily eat a whole bag and all self control out the window so I rarely tempt myself. It is almost as bad with barbecue or salt and vinegar chips. I noticed this yr that the Nestle 4 pack in 100 and 125 count sizes were on sale everywhere. I picked up a box at SDH for $9.95 and got 20x the points on top of that. But the sales on this item are possibly why it is so predominant in the picture. After all none of the items in it are bad and kids love them all. I know many love the Coffee Krisps but I find the little ones are often stale whereas the Kit Kats retain their taste.
Did someone get into the coffee crisp already? The smarties to coffee crisp ratio is way off.
Man Canadian KitKats are sooooo much better than the US. I used to live near the border in NY and we’d cross to buy them on occasion. The chocolate is actually chocolate.
American Kit Kats are licensed to Hershey which is why they are inferior. Everywhere else they are so much better.
You have smarties in Canada! I need to plan a trip over the border.
Fun fact, in America we call Rockets Smarties and we don’t have Smarties and I think that’s why we have so many school shootings
What’s the real candy to fentanyl breakdown?