Popular candy around the Halloween season

By Addison Kadera

Staff Writer

Though trick or treating started in the early 1930s, trick or treating with candy didn’t become well known until the 1950s.

When trick or treating first started, kids were handed homemade goodies like cookies or popcorn balls. Because of World War ll people had been rationing sugar. When that ended in the 1950s, lots of candy manufacturers started promoting pre-wrapped candy as a convenient, safe, and affordable treat for trick-or-treating.

Pretty soon those candies took over as the standard making commercial candy the expected treat by the 1970s.

Over the decades many different types of candy have been created and loved. At LMS, students voted on their favorite candy to receive during Halloween, and here are the results.

The most popular candy in school is Sour Patch Kids. 289 students at LMS chose this candy as their favorite. In the 1970s, Frank Galatolie created the candy that would become Sour Patch Kids.

The Twix candy bar follows in second place with 248 students choosing this bar. Twix were made in the United Kingdom in 1967 and then introduced to the United States in 1979.

Then in third place with 210 people choosing it is Skittles. Skittles were invented in 1974.

KitKats are in fourth place with 189 people choosing this candy. Kit Kats were invented in 1935.

Which leaves Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in fifth place. 178 people chose this candy as their favorite. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were made by Harry Burnett Reese, a former employee of the Hershey Chocolate Company. He founded the H.B. Reese Candy Company in 1923 and invented the peanut butter cups in 1928.

No matter which one is your favorite, the Halloween season will be filled will all types of candy.