Halloween Candy, But Not For Trick Or Treaters

I've been thinking a lot about this lately, but there are really two categories of Halloween candy. There are those candies that are themed for Halloween, and those candies that you're likely to receive on Halloween.  There are a few candies that cross both lines, but there are many that don't. These gummies (my latest Halloween candy review) for example are very Halloween themed, but I don't think I've ever seen or received a gummy like this for Halloween ever. I'll be honest, if it was between these and a peanut butter cup, I'd probably prefer to get the peanut butter cup, even though it's not Halloween themed at all.

Check out my latest Halloween review, that you probably won't get trick or treating.

Still Creepiest

 Every year I post this commercial around Halloween, and I'll continue to do so until someone makes a commercial that's even creepier.

Happy Halloween!

 The only thing more terrifying than a well decorated cookie, is a poorly decorated cookie being baked.

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The Violence Of Popcorn

 

I’ve just been doing a doodle to celebrate National popcorn day (see above) and while doing a little research I made a horrifying discovery. Popcorn might be the most violent and disturbing snack in the world. While it’s very tasty, and one of the most versatile sacks out there, it has a very violent birth and destruction. It even looks like it’s in totally agony when it’s sitting in a bowl. After looking at close up pictures of popcorn, and then drawing my doodle, I was a little horrified.

I guess while it’s corn it’s not that violent a life, although I know almost nothing about the harvest and production of popcorn. Come to think of it, a tour of a popcorn farm and factory might be fun. I’ll be sure to put that on my list of future adventures. The thing about popcorn is the first thing people do to it is put it in a really hot environment until it explodes. However popcorn is designed not to explode all the way.

Instead, popcorn is designed to almost pause in time, at that moment after exploding, but before it splits apart into millions of pieces. This is likely why I feel like popcorn looks like it’s in agony. It looks like the slow motion close up on a villains face during the climax of an action movie. Twisted in a way that looks impossible. Then, after you’ve frozen your popcorn in the middle of a large explosion, you often pour hot oil (or sometimes molten sugar) on it. It’s final demise is when it’ finally crushed in your mouth.

If I was to ever write a movie about the life of a kernel of popcorn, people would find it super disturbing. It would be interesting to make that movie as the people likely to be watching it would actually be eating popcorn at the time.

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A Kinder To Remember

I don't think I'll ever forget this Kinder Egg commercial, it will haunt me till the day I die.

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I Don't Understand Candy Making

According to this commercial, in order to put an almond into a Hershey's Kiss, the predatory regular Hershey's Kiss must stalk his almond prey.

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Happy Halloween!

I hope all you ghouls  and ghost get more treats than tricks.

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Candy Critic Quick List - Top 5 Best Halloween Themed Candies We've Reviewed On Candy Critic

Scream Egg

It's all the goodness of a Cadbury Creme Egg, with a scream.

Check out the review here.

Koala “Halloween”

Fun Japanese cookies with a Halloween theme.

Check out the review here.

Chocolate Caramel Pumpkins

A high class chocolate treat in the shape of a pumpkin.

Check out the review here.

Gummy Pumpkins

Sure they're not actually pumpkin flavoured (they're orange), but they still look cool.

Check out the review here.

Hershey's “Candy Corn”

This is a chocolate bar that shouldn't have worked, but it did.

Check out the review here.

Bonus, the worst Halloween candy we've ever reviewed:

Peeps “Marshmallow Tombstones”

Seriously, they're just grey blobs.

Check out the review here.

And check out all of our Halloween reviews here.

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Candy In The Media Halloween Edition - A Scary Short Film That Has Nothing To Do With Skittles... Or Does It

This is a creepy short film, but the part that made me most tense was the idea that I was constantly trying to figure out how they would incorporate Skittles into it.

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Candy In The Creepy Media - Tips/Warnings For All You Trick Or Treaters

This is why I don't trick or treat anymore.

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Candy In The Media

If you're an anally retentive foodie, some of the scenes in this video will disturb you.

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Candy In The Media

This is likely the creepiest Snickers commercial ever.

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A Halloween Cookbook Candy Thing

These recipes look so good, it's scary.

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A Candy Critic Shirt Thing

If Gummy Bears Could Dream Shirt by candycritic
Make your own custom tshirts online at Zazzle

Gummy bears have a tough life, I'm sure some dream of better things.

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Candy In The Media

The anticipation of this video actually made me a little sick.

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A Scary Candy Cookie Thing

This Alien cookie jar might be a good way to keep your kids hands out of the candy jar.

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A Christmas/Halloween Cookie Thing

These gingerbread men are scary.

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Candy In The Media - Awesome Retro Cereals Part 3

I ain't afraid of no crunchy marshmallow ghosts.

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This Week In Candy

Halloween is coming, and it's one of the most important holidays on the candy calendar.  Have you picked out a costume yet?  I'm thinking this year I may go as an annoying tourist.  I've been traveling a lot lately and I have a great deal of experience with them.

Make sure to check out "Snack Facts" this week on our Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter Feeds.  Last week we started our daily Halloween fact countdown.  So far we've learned such facts as there's never been a case of random candy poisoning on Halloween, and candy corn used to be called chicken feed.  Sign up to any of our feeds to find out more Halloween facts this week, and other random snack facts in the future.

Finally, this week we're posting 3 Halloween candy review, instead of just our single Monday update.  Sign up to any of our social media feeds to keep up with all of this week's Halloween reviews.  Today's review is a real "screme"... Click here to check it out.

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Classic/Creative Candy Advertisement

If a horror movie ever depicted the "inner child", this would be it.

I found this ad here.

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