U.S. Candy Consumption Statistics + What's Your Favorite Candy?
Mar 18, 2022 | 9:44 am
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U.S. Candy Consumption Statistics + What's Your Favorite Candy?
From today's NumLock News
Megan Poinski, Food Dive
We Deserved Treats
Last year saw the sale of $36.9 billion worth of candy in the United States, according to the National Confectioners Association, with 98.4 percent of households buying candy. Every kind of candy saw an increase in sales, with chocolate growing 9.2 percent, non-chocolate candy rising 14.5 percent, and seasonal candy chocolate bunnies, coins, Santas and turkeys were up 13.5 percent year over year. Halloween was the biggest driver for seasonal candy last year, with Halloween chocolate up 50 percent year over year and non-chocolate up 25.8 percent, fueled in no small part thanks to the vastly larger Halloween compared to 2020s meagre observation.Megan Poinski, Food Dive
Mar 18, 2022 | 11:24 am
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Random trivia: "Candy season" runs from Halloween to Easter (Halloween candy, Christmas candy, Valentine's candy, Easter candy)...after that there are no candy focused holidays until Halloween rolls around again.
Mar 18, 2022 | 12:54 pm
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These are my words to live by for the last 25 years. I always buy half priced holiday candy and from Halloween through Easter it is a bonanza---I am out scouring the morning after the holiday. . I have to really stock up at Easter to get me through the long candy desert for the next 6 months. I try to pace myself and sometimes run across a wayward bag of kit kats from Halloween in July and it is like hitting a jackpot. Right now I am working down the VD candy with Easter coming up. I have a problem
Mar 18, 2022 | 1:32 pm
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These are my words to live by for the last 25 years. I always buy half priced holiday candy and from Halloween through Easter it is a bonanza---I am out scouring the morning after the holiday. . I have to really stock up at Easter to get me through the long candy desert for the next 6 months. I try to pace myself and sometimes run across a wayward bag of kit kats from Halloween in July and it is like hitting a jackpot. Right now I am working down the VD candy with Easter coming up. I have a problem
Mar 18, 2022 | 2:10 pm
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Do you have Big Lots or Ollies? I often spot holiday candy on Ollies shelves long past, months past the specific holiday. Its not half off or (gasp) 75% off like the week after Valentines Day, but its at least 25% lower than the ticketed price. How good it is after that long is not a question I can answer. I buy only fresh chocolate for my wife and will fill a box with post holiday 50% off candy for my grandkids. And I never touch the stuff myself.
Mar 18, 2022 | 3:20 pm
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If you want Lindt truffles, PM me with what you typically pay for them after holidays, and I may be able to hook you up in April. I'll be near their factory outlet and pondered stopping. If the cost there, plus shipping, is less than what you would pay, I'll load up with them and ship them to you.
Mar 18, 2022 | 4:09 pm
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In no particular order:
Milky Way Midnight
Junior Mints (They can be very refreshing.
)Dark-chocolate honeycomb sponge. (Nuts.com sells an excellent version in one-pound bags.)
Mar 18, 2022 | 5:07 pm
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‘Dark chocolate honeycomb sponge’ might be one of the most pleasant 4 word candy description I’ve never heard of. Lol
I do love that good high cocoa chocolate in a high quality chocolate bar, but my Patties are my every day candy.
I do love that good high cocoa chocolate in a high quality chocolate bar, but my Patties are my every day candy.
Mar 18, 2022 | 7:47 pm
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Mar 18, 2022 | 10:23 pm
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Butterfingers
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others but these are preferred - I eat other sugar so it’s actually rare for me to eat Candy. I still have Halloween Candy.
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others but these are preferred - I eat other sugar so it’s actually rare for me to eat Candy. I still have Halloween Candy.
Mar 19, 2022 | 6:15 am
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Given how some shopping programs were rewarding $4 for two Baby Ruth bars (and the fact that they were $1.39 and Buy 2 Get 2 Free at my local grocery store) may have contributed to it.
Mar 19, 2022 | 8:38 am
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Am American, but love Icelandic Licorice. https://topiceland.com/collections/licorice-products
Opal is both earthy and salty, and really is a bit of a head-scratcher at first. But grew to love it.
Opal is both earthy and salty, and really is a bit of a head-scratcher at first. But grew to love it.