Stories About Your Favorite Halloween Candy 

Everybody knows that Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were invented when a chocolate truck and a peanut butter truck collided with each other. Let's honour the memory of those brave first responders.

You should do weird history on the flavor of blue raspberry

Thank you for actually acknowledging that candy corn truly is a “favorite” candy among enough people to justify its inclusion in this video

Timestamp: Candy Corn: 0:35 Tootsie Pop: 1:38 Snickers: 3:57 Hershey's Kisses 5:04 Sour Patch Kids: 7:07 Hot Tamales: 8:43 M&M's: 10:14 Skittles: 12:01 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: 13:04 Favourite line: "M&M's, melts in your mouth. Not in your hands." "While that slogan may sound cute and somewhat, dirty... "

Wilbur is still around and well known to the people of Pennsylvania. The individually labeled Wilbur Chocolate candies are really just for promotional purposes, the real focus of the company is bulk orders of ingredient products for Cargill. BUT Wilbur Buds are still produced using the old recipe and remain far superior to Hershey Kisses (the dark chocolate ones are amazing) Source: I used to work for the company in Lititz PA

The star on the wrapper getting you a free Tootsie Roll may not have been a real thing but a local corner store would honor it when kids came in and asked as he knew that we'd then proceed to lay out some "allowance" for other treats as well. This was back when Tootsie Rolls cost a few pennies or a nickel for two, BTW.

I visited the Hershey’s factory in Oakdale CA with my mother in law decades ago. The tour guide said the employees are free to eat as much chocolate as they like while on shift. Apparently after about two weeks, they stop.

Wilbur Buds are still being made in Lititz, PA. They were a special treat when I was a kid. They are so much better than Kisses.

My favorites are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (of course) and I love Snickers.

You can still find Wilbur Buds. The Vermont Country Store sells them. Until this video I didn't know what the heck they were.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are my ultimate favorite.

If you're from Central Pennsylvania you definitely know what a Wilbur bud is

Une summer when I was a kid and reeeeally bored, I counted the licks. It took 376 to reach the tootsie roll. Too remove the rest of he hard candy shell would have taken many more, so I believe the 2000 lick figure was based on complete removal. Once I reached the roll, I considered my job complete, crunched the rest, and moved on with the rest of my summer. 😉

I love hot tamales and sour patch kids, but Reese’s and Twix really put me in the holiday spirit.

I used to take the starred tootsie pop wrappers in to the convenience store and got a free pop......at least for a while. I think I was still able to do this after I was an adult (I graduated high school in 1988), I just don't remember what year the promotion stopped.

A lot of comments about the narrator. Geez, can't the guy have a break once in awhile? I mean, yeah, ok, I did double check what channel I was watching, but she does fine and it didn't deter my interest in the topic as much as an AI narrator. Very interesting video and I learned a lot about the origins of the candy I've enjoyed throughout my life. 👍

Three Musketeers bars were my favourite as a kid. Just between you, me, and the internet, however, I have a soft spot for those rock-hard molasses toffees in Generic Halloween Paper wrappers. They're terrible, but somehow taste like nostalgia. Picking a favourite candy is a bit like trying to pick a favourite book-- you've got to narrow that down by genre. Favourite hard candy? Favourite gummies? Favourite chocolate?

As a PA native, I grew up with Wilbur Buds

My grandmother always gave out candy corn on Halloween 🎃. 😀👍🎃

Candy corn with salted peanuts is the bee’s knees! I can’t believe other people know about this!

Wilbur Buds are better than Hershey Kisses. If you visit Lititz, PA, you can probably try them there.

Big fan of the Twix bar or maybe a cookies and cream Hershey’s myself. But can we all agree as far as the best Reese’s goes, The Easter eggs are perfect!

3:20 when I was a kid at the Texaco down the street the old guy who ran it would give ya a free tootsie pop if you got a shooting star wrapper, man I miss those days when you did get scared on Halloween you got a mix of homemade treats and store bought when some smart aliks would actually say TRICK when you'd say trick or treat

Back in the 60's, we were able to turn in the wrapper with the star for another Tootsie pop.

"One piece per kid." That's a suggestion, not a rule... right?

A+ video! It is interesting how bulletproof these candies are, no one really wants to get rid of M&Ms or Snickers.

Reeses cups and Hersheys miniatures we're the best on Halloween. They only accounted for %10 of your bag but you'll never forget it.

That owl gets more licks outta the Tootsie Pop than me.

Snickers are indeed so filling and satisfying, I love them… candy corn on the other hand, not so much 😂

Dark chocolate (semi-sweet) Wilbur Buds are my favorite candy. I actually traveled to Lititz, PA earlier in the summer to buy them from the factory store since my local shop stopped carrying them. They are still around and they are fantastic.

People who give out candy corn during Halloween should be pilloried on the nearest town square.

For the Tootsiepop, my research showed between 2000 to 2300 licks, not using a machine. As far as Wilbur buds, as others stated, if you live in PA they're pretty common.

9 billion pieces of candy corn produced. 9 million pieces thrown in the trash after Halloween. 😂

I'm sure that's the reason they built licking machines. Totally. The "indian and the star" thing was honored at our local shop when I was growing up.

Halloween candy sold in stores today seems a lot less varied today than in the 1960's. I remember peanut butter taffy wrapped in black and orange wax paper, and (gone forever) those black and orange pea-sized balls in square cellophane packets. The black ones were licorice, and the orange ones were orange-flavored. I also liked Red-Hots and Boston Baked Beans, and people actually used to hand out boxes of them and full-sized candy bars, too. I hated BB Bats, and knew a boy who loved them. We gladly traded my BB Bats for his chocolate candy. My seasonal candy of choice (from what little the stores offer today) is Snickers, Baby Ruths, Pay Days, peanut butter cups, or just plain Hershey bars. Even when I was little, I found candy corn and Harvest Mello-cremes pretty to look at - but too damned sweet!

I just can't get enough of M&Ms.

Missing the old narrator in this one. She did fine, but it feels like I clicked on a buzzfeed video or something. The guy has such a unique voice. Any way. I never heard of a Tootsie pop “willy Wonkaesque prize.” Word for word I was told “ you take the wrapper ‘to the store’ (never mentioning what store) and you get a free tootsie pop.” Lol

That 5% for $25 million means that Hershey valued them around $500 million in 1956 or $5 trillion in 2022

Wilbur buds still exist though. But I think you can only find them in Pennsylvania.

Sourpatch kids cereal was terrible, I really wanted them to be good😂, I saw them at the supermarket full price and 2 weeks later they were being sold at the discount bulk store for 89 cents each

Wilbur buds are my wife's favorite chocolate. The Wilbur factory is still running, where they have an attached store and museum. You can even watch the chocolate being made! We have had our fill of Wilbur Buds and Kisses, and in our opinion Buds taste far better then Kisses, and are well worth the slightly higher cost. Definitely an overstatement to say nobody has heard of Wilbur Buds!

History of Lasagna?

You forgot KitKat bars. Everyone went for the KitKat bars in the bowl.

I'd love to see a video on the Planters peanuts mascot and timeline

when I grew up if you got a star indian wrapper you took it back to the ice cream truck or sporting event concession stand and got another free tootsie pop, saying this is just a rumor is misleading, I hope other people growing up in the 80s/90s got to enjoy this 'rumor' as well as I did.

I do not care how old I get, eating candy and dressing up will always be fun to me. Reese cups are awesome 🍫🥜🧡

Had no idea Sourpatch Kids were created in my province in Canada! 🇨🇦

In my hometown the tootsie pop star thing was so big that my local candy store allowed anyone who brought in a star wrapper to get a free sucker but you had to blind draw it from a bucket. I got a LOT of free candy because of it lol

My favorite candy as a kid was Warheads. The pain of the sour shocks your mind. Need to wake up? Grab a blue. 😆

Best candy bar: 5th Avenue. It's kind of similar to a Butterfinger, but infinitely better.

I went to buy candy today and it's ALL GONE! The shelves are covered in Christmas cards and snow globes. It's October 26 people, come on!!!

As I've gotten older and my teeth are going soft, 3 Musketeers is a safe bet.

Reese's Cups are the GOAT

Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar in the next video.

channel quickly became on of my favs

Love this channel and you should do one on the doomed fast food chain Rax.

There's an old story that the name "Kiss" came from the noise that the chocolate made as it came out of the tube.

13:13 :as I munch on my Reese's Peanut Butter Bar: You're goddamn right.

Narrator is just fine, no disrespect, i just like that narrator guy. he makes half the fun of these greatly produced videos for me. anways, nothing but love for this channel

Peanut butter cups use to be my favorite, until I became allergic to peanuts due to an autoimmune disease. They need to make a peanut free version with one of the alternative nut butters. Like the soy, or sunflower seed butters. 🙏

I remember getting lots of candy from trick or treating. My favorites are usually the fun sized chocolate candy.

The narrator does a great job but the previous one made it more engaging. Could we get him back please? Love the channel!

When I was a kid, my favorite things to get in my grocery bag on Halloween night were Reese's Cups, Reese's Pieces, SweetTarts, Charm's Blow Pops, and 3 Musketeers.

reduced the bar to prevent overeating...haha lol ok we'll go with that

My favourite Hallowe'en sweet is Rockets, known in the US as Smarties, because in Canada Smarties( the original Rowntree's sweet) is still around, tho' owned by Nestle now.

Surprised you didn't bring up the classic "You've got chocolate in my peanut butter",..."You've got peanut butter in my chocolate!" commercials when you were highlighting the Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.

As a kid in hawaii if we found the Indian and the star we could bring it to the store and get a free tootsie pop. Like the free soda under the caps😊 boy do i miss those days

I love Hershey’s Kisses🍫

HOW MANY LICKS ??? Now I am going to have to investigate this for myself... Wish me luck lolzzzz.

Snickers and peanut butter cups are my most favorite along with a few other candy bars out there.

Wasn't the court supposed to take Wilbur's Buds's side since they came before Hershey's Kisses? And does this have anything to do with copyright was not being taken seriously back then?

M&Ms should come in a bag mixed with skittles called M'Skittles

Just wanted to say how much I really enjoy Weird History Food! ❤️❤️❤️ I love the main channel too but I just really dig everything having to do with food! 😂😂😂

2:15 The idea that college grant money is EVER used for anything actually productive is the biggest joke of this video ahahaha

Okay, but it has to be the mini Reese Cups. If its normal sized, or shaped like a pumpkin, I'm not eating it.

Wilbur Buds were fantastic…I am from Pennsylvania and I actually have bought and eaten them!

That sour patch kids cereal was awesome.

New lady's voice is okay. Just seems like I'm watching a different show...

I had a neighbor who had a dog named Skittles

Reese's peanut butter cups, toosie pops and flavored toosie rolls have always been some of my favorite Halloween candy. US smarties are called rockets in Canada and they're my least favorite candy people hand out for Halloween. Canada has british smarties made by Nestlé, they're like m&ms but have a sweet candy shell and they're a popular Halloween candy alongside m&m's. We also have different chocolate bars, like Nestlé crunch (made by ferraro in the usa), Cadbury crunchie and Nestlé coffee crisp (sold only in Canada). Canada has better chocolate than the USA, because like European chocolate it has more cocoa and fat, making it creamier, less grainy and not as sweet compared to American chocolate. Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃👻😈 🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛️🦇🐺🍬🍫🍭🍪

That's one of my favorite Halloween candles along with the Hershey's miniatures.

HP Reese used to be a factory worker who is able to take care of 16 kids and his wife and himself. Oh my my how times have changed. I don't think that's physically possible today and who the heck has 16 kids. At most usually see 6 or 7 siblings these days. The American dream was very strong back then

The Tootsie roll pop star was honored at my local gas station. You would get another one.

"patch kids" is just another word for kindergarten

In the 80s and 90s tootsie roll would send you free candy "you paid postage " if you had enough of the star wrappers..

Twix is my faverite halloween candy could you do a Twix one :D

I was a big fan of Snickers, Sweet Tarts, Junior Mints, Reese's, and Pixie Stix. The INE that I hated and would always trade? Necco Wafers, of course.

Thanks for this! 🍬 #WeirdHistoryFood #Halloween #Candy

Popular quote at Rocky Horror Picture Show: "Skittles, Taste the Rainbow!!!"

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Yummy!!!

Raisin clusters sounds really appealing ngl.

Oh man, Reeses are by far the GREATEST, but only one candy can beat em, white chocolate Reeses.

He sounds perpetually sarcastic!

😳16 KID?! That's a lot of months to feed.😳

With candy corn there is no middle ground. You either love it or hate it.

I remember some of these Halloween candles from unwrapped.

Mike & Ike have been my go to for movie candy for so long now they're also my adult kids' go to for movies.

4:50 "to prevent overeating" riiiiight, I'm sure it has nothing to do with cost saving measures to make up for diminishing sales after the global financial crisis that started the year prior.

As someone who grew up five minutes outside of Lititz, PA, I assure you we have heard of Wilbur Buds.

I used to live in Lititz, PA where Wilbur Chocolate is manufactured. Wilbur Buds are The Best. Milton Hershey got his start working for Wilbur Chocolates. Hershey Chocolate doesn't hold a candle to the rich, melty, creamy Wilbur's chocolates. My father-in-law, a local physician who retired to Moravian Manor Retirement home in Lititz, was often picked up by staff on their way to work, his walker bag carrying a couple of bags of Wilbur Buds. Anyone can order Wilbur's Chocolates online. Note: Lititz, PA was the template for Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. As a child our son used to love to visit all Mr. Rogers' favorite haunts.